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	Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve - Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve (U.S. National Park Service)
		Glacier Bay's story is one of dynamic change in the wake of dramatic glacial movements.
		Glacier Bay is a globally significant marine and terrestrial wilderness sanctuary.
		Glacier Bay is a powerful place that also inspires cultural expression in the scientist, the artist, the resident, the traveler, and those who make their livelihood from the sea.
	www.nps.gov /glba (485 words)

	Glacier Bay National Park travel guide - Wikitravel
		Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve [1] is a United States National Park and a UNESCO World Heritage Site that is located in the Panhandle of the state of Alaska.
		Glacier Bay is blanketed by a mosaic of plant life, from a few pioneer species in recently exposed areas to intricately balanced climax communities in coastal and alpine regions.
		Glacier Bay Lodge (Mid-May to mid-September), Ph: (888) 229-8687, [16].
	wikitravel.org /en/Glacier_Bay_National_Park (2867 words)

	GLACIER BAY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Glacier Bay waters boast 2 of the baleen whales, the minke and humpback, and 1 toothed whale, the orca.
		Glacier Bay humpbacks have been observed working singly or in pairs to cast a "net" of bubbles about their prey and then harvesting the hapless creatures -- probably shrimp and other slower-moving organisms -- caught in their airy illusion.
		The chaotic rock-and-rubble aftermath of a glacial romp is deficient in nitrogen.
	www.alaskanet.com /Tourism/parks/Glacier/index.html (2393 words)

	Glacier Bay National Park Information Page
		Glacier Bay became a National Monument on 25 Feb 1925, and was established as a national park and preserve on 02 Dec 1980.
		The Glacier Bay watershed is a vast tract of land and water delimited to the east and north by the Chilkat and Takinsha Ranges, to the northwest by the high crest of the Fairweather Range, and to the west by the peaks and ridges forming the eastern margin of the Brady Glacier.
		Glacier Bay humpbacks have been observed working singly or in pairs to cast a "net" of bubbles about their prey and then harvesting the hapless creatures, probably shrimp and other slower moving organisms, caught in their airy illusion.
	www.glacier.bay.national-park.com /info.htm (10564 words)

	PBS: The Living Edens: Glacier Bay: Ice, Ice Baby
		John Hopkins Glacier calves such volumes of ice that it is seldom possible to approach its ice cliffs closer than about two miles.
		Glacial retreat continues today on the bay's east and southwest sides, but on its west side, several glaciers are advancing.
		The Glacier Bay region's extreme topography indicates a landscape driven by immense energies, which derive from the area's position astride the active suture between the North American and Pacific plates.
	www.pbs.org /edens/glacierbay/ice.html (1046 words)

	Glacier Bay - Science Article
		A glacier (119K Quicktime movie) is a dynamic system consisting of snow, ice and often rock debris, that transports material from higher elevations, where snow accumulates, to lower elevations, where snow and ice melt.
		Many of the glacier terminus positions mapped by Field and his colleagues are shown on the map of Glacier Bay (120K) prepared by the National Park Service.
		The once enormous Muir Glacier, located in what is now Muir Inlet (1.2MB Quicktime movie) in the East Arm of Glacier Bay, was named for John Muir, the famous naturalist and explorer who visited Glacier Bay in the late 19th century.
	glacier-bay.gsfc.nasa.gov /glacierbay.script.html (1351 words)

	ALASKA'S GLACIERS
		Glacier Bay is a collection of fjords and inlets, home to 16 active tidewater glaciers, all five species of Pacific Salmon and 25 percent of the total number of bird species in all North America.
		Hubbard Glacier is the longest tidewater glacier in Alaska extending 76 miles from its source on Mt. Logan in the Yukon.
		The smaller Turner Glacier adjacent to Hubbard is overshadowed by its neighbour.
	www.susanmilne.com /glacier/glacier.htm (1253 words)

	Glacier Bay Catamarans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Glacier Bay's twin hulls are each shaped more like a sailboat, (with a pronounced "V"), rather than the broad, flatter bottom typically associated with higher speed monohulls.
		David was the design engineer for the inboard and outboard Glacier Bay 34's, but he says he was only "peripherally involved" in the modification to the sterndrive configuration that differentiates the "Columbia".
		Glacier Bay's 34 Columbia is wired with two 30-amp AC circuits, and the shorepower cables connect to terminals protected with screw-on covers on the face of the entertainment center (or bait center) console.
	www.glacierbaycats.com /press_norwesting.html (2811 words)

	Glacier Bay ECS DARPA Project - Final Report
		Under a co-operative funding grant from DARPA (administered through Calstart), Glacier Bay began the work of applying the high-efficiency cooling technologies, which Glacier Bay had previously applied to the marine industry, to the development of a system that would fulfill this need.
		By designing the Glacier Bay ECS as the first 100% hermetically sealed vehicle environmental control system, the refrigerant leaks, moisture contamination, brush wear and belt adjustments which plague existing systems would be eliminated entirely.
		Performance testing of the Glacier Bay ECS was conducted in two phases - Phase 1 for the air conditioning portion of the system and Phase 2 for the heating portion of the system.
	www.glacierbay.com /Darphtm.asp (2450 words)

	Glacier Bay National Park
		Glacier Bay National Park is located in southeast Alaska, approximately 60 air miles west of the state capital of Juneau.
		Glacier Bay National Park now encompasses over 3 million acres, and is often referred to as one of the Crown Jewels of the National Park system.
		Glacier Bay Lodge and Tours is located at Bartlett cove and is home to the visitor center and departure point for day boat tours to Glacier Bay National Park.
	www.alaskatravel.com /parks/glacier-bay.html (353 words)

	Glacier Bay Ecosystem - Scientific Research in the Glacier Bay Region (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Not only did their voluminous and influential writings solidify the Bay's reputation as a laboratory of the first rank, but one among them - geologist Lawrence Martin - was instrumental in alerting the young ecologist William S. Cooper from the University of Minnesota to the research opportunities in the Bay.
		Concern for the endangered humpback whale in the late 70s in the former National Monument (now designated Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve) initiated a shift in NPS attention from terrestrial to marine problems, a trend which was accelerated by persistent resurgence of the issue of commercial fishing in the park.
		Holocene Glacier Fluctuations in Muir and Tarr Inlets.
	www.inforain.org /alaska/glabaycd/CATALOG/htm/currentr.htm (2756 words)

	Glacier Bay National Park: Glaciers
		The Margerie Glacier is an excellent example of a tide-water glacier -- that is, a glacier that extends into a body of water.
		This is because the ice in the glacier absorbs shorter red and green wavelengths.
		At 2 miles wide, the Grand Pacific is the widest of the tidewater glaciers in Glacier Bay.
	www.lcss.net /glacierbay/Glacier_Bay_glaciers.htm (385 words)

	Glacier Bay National Park
		Located 45-miles west of Juneau, Alaska, Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve is a wonderland of glaciers, mountains, marine and coastal wildlife and unspoiled natural beauty.
		The Glacier Bay Lodge is nestled between the Spruce trees of Bartlett Cove.
		The Margerie and Grand Pacific are two of 16 tidewater glaciers, 30 alpine glaciers and numerous unnamed glaciers that encompass Glacier Bay National Park.
	www.visitglacierbay.com (373 words)

	Glacier Bay Sea Kayaks - Tides In Glacier Bay
		The single most important element of kayaking in Glacier Bay is knowing at any given moment what the tides are doing.
		From the AM low, the water will flow into Glacier Bay for approximately 6 hours, then reverse and flow out of the bay for the next 6 hours until the PM low is reached.
		If you would like to examine tide charts for the area prior to your arrival in Glacier Bay, go to this tide predictions page for tide-tables of the Glacier Bay area.
	www.glacierbayseakayaks.com /tides.html (389 words)

	Glacier Bay National Park Glacier Cruise Glacier Bay Alaska Flights
		Apart from the world's largest concentration of Tidewater Glacier, Glacier Bay is a natural habitat for a variety of Marine Wildlife such as Orca Whales, Porpoises, Sea Otters, Seals as well as Bald Eagles and Bears.
		Glacier Bay National Park was completely covered by ice just 200 years ago.
		The “Y” shaped body of Glacier Bay includes 16 huge tidewater glaciers - with 12 of them are active and calve icebergs thundering into the bay.
	www.goalaskatours.com /nationalpark_glacierbay.html (336 words)

	Glacier Bay Alaska and the Community of Gustavus
		The problem at Glacier Bay and throughout Southeast Alaska is compounded by the fact that mammals in general have not had enough time since the Wisconsinan Ice Age wound down to recolonize the land.
		Alas, Glacier Bay is lacking in the Amphibian department, due to the climate no doubt, with but a handful of frogs and toads.
		Activities include Glacier Cruises, Whale Watching, Flightseeing, sport fishing, and accommodations in the Glacier Bay Lodge, as well as various other activities and attractions in Gustavus, the Gateway to Glacier Bay National Park.
	www.glacierbay.org (2407 words)

	Glacier Bay
		Margerie Glacier is the white wall of ice in the center of the picture.
		When I rejoined Alice on the deck where she was watching the glacier, she nodded to the man next to her and said he was the ship’s naturalist.
		On the way out of Glacier Bay we passed the Oosterdam, which is a Holland America ship that was even larger than the Veendam.
	education.calumet.purdue.edu /vockell/alaska/GlacierBay.htm (502 words)

	NPS: Nature & Science» Geology Resources Division (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Many of the glaciers in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve are exhibiting drastic retreat, mostly caused by climate change.
		The Ecological Society of America originally lobbied for Glacier Bay to be set aside as a natural laboratory for studies of glaciology and associated biological and physical processes.
		When Glacier Bay National Monument was designated in 1925, the enabling legislation included an explicit recognition of the area’s value in providing "a unique opportunity for the scientific study of glacial behavior and of resulting movements and development of flora and fauna and of certain valuable relics of ancient interglacial forests…".
	www2.nature.nps.gov /grd/parks/glba/index.htm (1160 words)

	GORP - Glacier Bay National Park (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A journey up its arms is a profound regression through the life cycle of a new land, from maturing Sitka-spruce forests replete with grizzlies and wolves to thin-skinned tundra to the algae, lichens, and mosses that gain purchase on land exposed at a glacier's maw, the first beginnings of organic soil.
		Glacier Bay stands at farthest possible remove from the tiresome clamor of the modern world.
		Glacier Bay's waters are arguably the finest sea-kayaking grounds in the world.
	gorp.away.com /gorp/resource/us_national_park/ak_glaci.htm (893 words)

	Glacier Bay National Park programs at the Alaska Science Center - Biological Science Office
		Genetic structure of coho salmon in the Glacier Bay area, Alaska.
		The Glacier Bay closures are providing the first major opportunity to evaluate MPAs in the North Pacific.
		For example, our data have revealed that Glacier Bay halibut do not necessarily migrate to the open Pacific Ocean as much as had been thought and appear to have fairly limited home ranges within the Bay.
	www.absc.usgs.gov /glba/glba_prog.htm (748 words)

	Glacier Bay - Introduction
		For her studies of Glacier Bay, Dr. Hall obtained material from colleagues and from historical collections including explorers' hand-drawn maps of these glaciers from as far back as 1794.
		Because tidewater glaciers (Java Applet) follow their own cycles of advance and retreat, their movement cannot be directly tied to short-term climate.
		However, the non-tidewater glaciers (Java Applet) of Glacier Bay, which have shown some evidence of retreat over the last 40 years or so, most likely can be tied to regional climate change.
	glacier-bay.gsfc.nasa.gov /glacierbay.story.html (668 words)

	Glacier Bay National Park pictures - US National Parks stock photos, fine art prints by QTL
		Glacier Bay is a vast Y-shaped fjord on the Southeast coast of Alaska, sheltered from the ocean by the Fairweather range.
		Despite the wet weather, huge tides and currents, ice-cold waters, we came to appreciate why the Bay is considered by many to be among the finest sea-kayaking grounds in the world.
		In June 2006, I was graciously invited by Dayton Duncan to spend a few days in the Bay on Mike's Negro boat "The Kahsteen", with the crew of Florentine film.
	www.terragalleria.com /parks/np.glacier-bay.html (491 words)

	A Complete Guide to Gustavus and Glacier Bay in Southeast Alaska
		The entrance to the park along with the Glacier Bay Ranger Station headquarters and official Glacier Bay Lodge (the Park's only licensced concessionaire), is located in beautiful Bartlett Cove- just 9 or so miles from Gustavus central.
		Glacier Bay boating choices for tours into the bay and surrounding area including Icy Straits and Excursion inlet.
		Touring choices include Bay Boat tours, Private charters, and the largest and most luxurious of the vessels entering the bay- the major cruiselines.
	www.gustavus.com (971 words)

	Glacier Bay
		The Muir Glacier was a tidewater glacier and a major attraction for cruise ships in the 1930's.
		The glacial run-off is vast at Muir glacier on this gray afternoon.
		It was preserved when covered by glacial silt as a new glacier cut off the top before receding.
	www.stanford.edu /~sharpc/glacier_bay.htm (938 words)

	Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve - Areaparks.com
		The marine wilderness of Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve provides opportunities for adventure, a living laboratory for observing the ebb and flow of glaciers, and a chance to study life as it returns in the wake of retreating ice.
		Amidst majestic scenery, Glacier Bay offers us now, and for all time, a connection to a powerful and wild landscape.
		These diverse land and seascapes host a mosaic of plant communities ranging from pioneer species in areas recently exposed by receding glaciers, to climax communities in older coastal and alpine ecosystems.
	glacierbay.areaparks.com (198 words)

	Glacier Bay National Park: Sights
		Glacier Bay is part of the temperate rainforest of the Pacific Northwest.
		Gustavus (population 450) is the nearest town in the Glacier Bay area.
		Only 2 cruise ships a day are allowed into the bay in order to minimize disruption to the enormous amount of marine life.
	www.lcss.net /glacierbay/Glacier_Bay_sights.htm (486 words)

	Hidden Glacier Bay - Alaska Whale Watching, Sea Kayaking, Glacier Hiking, Small-Ship Expedition Cruising
		At Reid Glacier, with its bluest of blue ice, we kayak ashore to hike onto the ice and learn about curious "ice worms" and the ebb and flow of glaciers.
		The glaciers calve and eagles soar as we drift in this breathtaking inlet.
		In Tarr Inlet, where the Grand Pacific and Margerie glaciers cascade into the water, we paddle along a sheer cliff with a kittiwake and puffin rookery, and in front of Margerie Glacier, with its 250-foot-high icewall.
	www.wildernesstravel.com /itins/glacier.html (757 words)

	Alaska's Glacier Bay Country Inn - Gustavus Alaska Fishing Vacation Lodge & Adventure Tours
		For fifteen years the Glacier Bay Country Inn in Gustavus has served as both guide and gateway to the Alaska fly out flyfishing, trophy halibut fishing, and wildlife tours found only in the Alaska Inside Passage.
		When they purchased the Alaska lodges-Glacier Bay Country Inn in 1995, the Marchbanks’ family knew they wanted to create an intimate Alaska fly fishing lodge and Alaska fly out fishingtrips for their guests, an alternative to the industrial strength Alaska tours they saw in many commercial Alaska saltwater fishing lodges.
		From the details of every meal served from their 4-Star kitchen to the building of the Alaska lodges with lumber from their own sawmill, the Marchbanks carefully oversee every aspect of the day-to-day Alaska tour operations of the Glacier Bay Country Inn Alaska saltwater fishing destination near the Alaska Inside Passage.
	www.glacierbayalaska.com (582 words)

	ALASKA - Glacier Bay - photos of Alaska on Worldisround
		GLACIER BAY It was one of the most fascinating experiences in Alaska!
		I had always visualized a 'glacier to be a big, boring, white chunk of ice.
		Here, massive glaciers stretch from the ice-draped St. Elias and Fairweather mountain ranges to sit at the end of majestic fjords.
	www.worldisround.com /articles/11261/index.html (195 words)

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