Species & Ecosystems

If you're looking for general information about species we're studying, please view our archive of Wildlife Posts. These are quarterly research updates we've been producing since 2002.

Our Wildlife Posts include information on otters, abalone, eelgrass, sandpipers, scoters, harbor seals, and much more.

Coming soon we'll have pages devoted to each of the major species in our study area. In the meantime, you can scan the list below to see if we have any content about a species you're interested in.

Just click on the species name and you'll get a new page showing any found items.

• Plants (0)
• Phytoplankton (0)
• Algae (5)
• Red algae (0)
• Green algae (0)
• Brown algae (0)
• Japanese seaweed (Sargassum muticum) (5)
• Grasses (0)
• Eelgrass (Zostera marina) (3)
• Japanese Eelgrass (Zostera japonicum) (0)
• Spartina cordgrasses (0)
• Animals (7)
• Zooplankton (0)
• Invertebrates (20)
• Goeduck clams (0)
• Newcomb's littorine snail (2)
• Northern abalone (8)
• Olympia oyster (2)
• Sea cucumbers (0)
• Urchins (2)
• Green urchin (1)
• Red urchin (2)
• Purple urchin (0)
• Birds (2)
• Aleutian Canada Goose (2)
• Gulls (1)
• American Golden Plover (2)
• Ancient Murelet (2)
• Bald Eagle (4)
• Caspian Turn (2)
• Cassin's Auklet (2)
• Common Loon (3)
• Common Murre (3)
• Cormorants (3)
• Brandt's Cormorant (2)
• Double-crested Cormorant (2)
• Pelagic Cormorant (2)
• Dunlin (0)
• Forster's Tern (2)
• Great Blue Heron (2)
• Long-billed Curlew (2)
• Long-tailed duck (1)
• Marbled Murelet (18)
• Red-necked Phalarope (1)
• Pelican, Brown (3)
• Peregrine Falcon (2)
• Purple Martin (0)
• Rhinoceros Auklet (2)
• Scoters (6)
• Black Scoter (9)
• Surf Scoter (16)
• White-winged Scoter (10)
• Short-billed Dowitcher (2)
• Tufted Puffin (2)
• Western Grebe (5)
• Western Sandpiper (6)
• Fishes (4)
• Bluntnose Six Gill Shark (0)
• Bull trout (2)
• Salmon (30)
• Rockfish and other bottomfish (29)
• Forage fish (3)
• Anchovies (1)
• Eulachon (2)
• Pacific herring (12)
• Sand lance (2)
• Sardines (0)
• Surf smelt (0)
• Pacific cod (2)
• Pacific hake (2)
• Shortspine Thornyhead (2)
• Spineynose sculpin (0)
• Walleye pollock (3)
• Other marine fishes (2)
• Mammals (1)
• Mustelids (0)
• Mink (0)
• River Otter (6)
• Sea Otter (6)
• Pinnipeds (2)
• Cetaceans (0)
• Baleen Whales (0)
• Gray Whale (12)
• Humpback Whale (2)
• Minke Whale (0)
• Toothed Whales (0)
• Dall's Porpoise (3)
• Harbor Porpoise (12)
• Killer Whale (Orca) (54)
• Offshore Killer Whale (7)
• Resident Killer Whale (31)
• Transient Killer Whale (12)
• Pacific White-sided Dolphin (3)
• Otariids (0)
• California Sea Lion (5)
• Fur Seal (0)
• Steller Sea Lion (eastern population) (4)
• True Seals (0)
• Elephant Seal (5)
• Harbor Seal (14)
• Reptiles (1)
• Pacific leatherback sea turtle (2)
• << undetermined >> (0)