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 and López labs floated the Chena River
April 2026: Congratulations to MS Student Maris Goodwin on the successful defense of her thesis!
July 2025: Congratulations to MS student Sydney Almgren on her successful thesis defense!
Members of the Glass Lab after the 2025 summer lab float on the Chena River.
Check out this short video highlighting our new Pacific Sleeper Shark project, filmed and produced by Rose Darymple!
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.
Recent Publications
Trends in Aquatic Environmental DNA Research in Alaska is now published in Ecology and Evolution
june 30, 2026
A chromosome-level reference genome for Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii) from the Bering Sea is now published in GigaByte
May 22, 2026
Biogeographic structure and mitonuclear discordance reveal cryptic diversity in Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii) is now published in Ecology and Evolution.
November 21, 2025
In the Press
