FISH BIOGEOGRAPHY IN THE BERING GLACIER REGION, ALASKA

102nd Annual Meeting of the Cordilleran Section, GSA, 81st Annual Meeting of the Pacific Section, AAPG, and the Western Regional Meeting of the Alaska Section, SPE (8–10 May 2006)
Paper No. 27-8

Presentation Time: 4:00 PM-4:20 PM

FISH BIOGEOGRAPHY IN THE BERING GLACIER REGION, ALASKA
WEIGNER, Heidi L., Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alaska Anchorage, 3211 Providence Dr, Anchorage, AK 99508, anhlw@uaa.alaska.edu Bering Glacier has been receding from its Holocene maximum since the beginning of the 20th century, leaving behind proglacial lakes and streams in its wake. We have investigated the species composition of freshwater fishes in these new lakes and stream, and found that they have already been colonized by threespine stickleback, prickly sculpin, slimy sculpin, coho salmon, dolly varden, surf smelt, starry flounder, Pacific Staghorn sculpin and sockeye salmon. The distribution of these fishes does not appear to depend on water chemistry, perhaps due to the youth of the landscape.
102nd Annual Meeting of the Cordilleran Section, GSA, 81st Annual Meeting of the Pacific Section, AAPG, and the Western Regional Meeting of the Alaska Section, SPE (8–10 May 2006) General Information for this Meeting

Session No. 27 GSA: Bering Glacier to Glacier Bay—From Tectonics to Ice: Session in Honor of Austin Post Anchorage Hilton Hotel: Lupine 1:15 PM-5:00 PM, Tuesday, 9 May 2006 Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 38, No. 5, p. 73
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