Sarah Traiger is a Ph.D. student at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. She spends her summers at the Kasitsna Bay Laboratory in Kachemak Bay, Alaska, studying the effects of melting glaciers on kelp forests. Her research involves determining the effects of changes in salinity and sedimentation rates on succession in kelp forests and tracking dispersal and survival of the kelps’ microscopic stages. In summer 2016, Sarah will use molecular techniques to investigate how glacial discharge limits the dispersal of bull kelp.