EarthScope’s Transportable Array now Spans Alaska, the Last Frontier

By Cheryl Dybas | NSF, Perle Dorr | IRIS on Oct 13, 2017   Featured, North Slope/Northwest Alaska, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

Seismic station A19K, it’s called, and it’s now at the edge of an abandoned airstrip far above the Arctic Circle. The nearest population center is 127 miles northeast in Utqiaġvik (formerly known as Barrow), the northernmost city in the United States. What a way to celebrate Earth Science Week, Oct. 8-14, 2017. The seismic station […]