A new study in the journal Science aims to improve marine conservation efforts by identifying the busiest migration corridors and critical habitats of the oceans’ largest species. Whales, porpoises, polar bears, seabirds and seals are among the megafauna who play crucial roles in Arctic waters and those beyond, supporting fragile food webs, diverse ecosystems and subsistence lifeways. […]
A new flood preparedness website for Juneau residents is now live. The Juneau Glacial Flood Dashboard was developed by the University of Alaska Southeast and the Alaska Climate Adaptation Science Center. The first-of-its-kind, publicly accessible website shares interactive flood inundation maps and provides valuable flood forecasting information for the Mendenhall Valley under different glacial lake outburst flood […]
One by one, curious mountaineers emerged from yellow tents and turned their ears to the midnight soundscape — of fast crackles and rippling trickles, of many notes of water — atop the south Gabriel Icefall of C’ulc’ena’ Łuu’ (Gulkana Glacier). The nine Girls* On Ice Alaska participants watched and listened as the moraines changed before them. Puddles, […]