A Cessna 185 zigzagged a tight back-and-forth pattern along Alaska’s southern coast earlier this summer, the pilot intent on his mission to measure the ocean’s response to summer glacier melt. Alaska State Climatologist Martin Stuefer gazed down from the belly of the plane via a hyperspectral imaging camera he had mounted there. Stuefer, the director […]
Researchers at Brown have shown the first direct evidence for a massive geologic uplift of the entire Aleutian Island archipelago driven by a rotation of the Pacific tectonic plate. PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — New research by Brown University geologists confirms that the Aleutian Islands, the archipelago stretching from Alaska to Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, experienced […]
The tiny flying green annoyances seemed to be in greater numbers than usual this year in late May and early June. They wouldn’t leave me alone. I even found one sitting on the edge of a toothbrush-holding coffee cup at our house. One day, they persisted in collecting on my four-wheeler’s windshield as I […]
A new study by the AWI shows that marine heatwaves have been taking a greater toll on the Arctic Ocean in recent decades and that there is an urgent need for further research In recent years, marine heatwaves have been taking an ever-greater toll on the world’s oceans and their ecosystems. Amplified by increasing […]