The Glass Lab

Fisheries | Genomics | Sustainability

Research in The Glass Lab at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences combines genomic sequencing with environmental datasets to address topics spanning the fields of fisheries, evolutionary biology and ecology.

We use genomic tools to answer questions such as resilience to climate change, response to anthropogenic stressors, and spatiotemporal patterns of biodiversity.

Members of The Glass Lab in the newly renovated lab space!

Left to Right: Aksiin Storer, Jessica Glass, Julian Pender, Sydney Almgren, Maris Goodwin.

Members of the Glass and López labs received awards for their talks and posters at the Alaska Chapter of the American Fisheries Society Meeting in Seward, AK in March 2024!

Left to right: Isabelle Nicolier (undergrad), Sydney Almgren (MS student), Dr. Jessica Glass (above) Maris Goodwin (MS student), Maggie Harings (MS student), Lillian Nelson (undergrad).

The Glass and Lopéz Labs celebrating the end of the semester!

Left to Right: Dr. Andrés López, Habiba Moshfeka, Amy Whitney, Maris Goodwin, Dr. Jessica Glass, Sydney Almgren, Maggie Harings, Logan Ito.

UAF undergraduate Franchezca Correa (left) and former lab manager Amy Whitney (right) collect water samples for environmental DNA at the NOAA/UAF Kasitsna Bay Lab during Summer 2023.

The Herring Team! UAF BLaST undergraduate scholar Logan Ito, MS Student Sydney Almgren, and URSA undergraduate scholar Isabelle Nicolier pose with fish.

Undergraduate Isabelle Nicolier (second from right) received the Dean’s Choice Award at the UAF Undergraduate Research and Creativity Day on April 6, 2023.

Left to Right: Jessica Glass, Sydney Almgren (MS Student and Isabelle’s mentor), Isabelle, Nanuq.

 Recent Publications

November 1, 2023

This work was funded by NSF and the Australian Research Council.

The untapped potential of seascape genomics in the North Pacific is now published in Frontiers in Conservation Science.

September 13, 2023

This work was funded by the NSF Research Coordination Network, Evolution in Changing Seas.

April 3, 2023.

This work was led by collaborator Dr. Ann Mc Cartney.