The Bar-Tailed Godwit stops in Kachemak Bay on its migration north from New Zealand to the Yukon Delta. The return journey, from Western Alaska to New Zealand, is the longest non-stop migration of any animal.

Barnacles are one of the planet's oldest animals. This sessile crustacean affixes itself to rocks, docks, boats and marine mammals with its own fast-curing secretion.

Just as plankton refers to organisms in the water column that are not strong enough to move against the currents or tides, aerial plankton is a way of describing organisms in the air that are moved around by thermal updrafts, winds, and atmospheric circulation patters like the jet stream

German botanist Georg Wilhelm Steller explored coastal Alaska in the 18th century, and was the first non-native to document six species, including the Steller's Jay and the now extinct Steller's Sea Cow.