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Alaska National Guard Immediate Aerial Survey Reduces Earthquake Havoc

By Maj. John Callahan and Tech. Sgt. N. Alicia Goldberger | 176th Wing Public Affairs on Dec 2, 2018 Featured, Southcentral, State

Aircrew of a 211th Rescue Squadron HC-130J Combat King II and Pararescuemen of the 212th Rescue Squadron survey the damage of a 7.0-magnitude earthquake that struck Southcentral Alaska Nov. 30. The 176th Wing Guardsmen surveyed Anchorage, Wasilla, Palmer, Whittier, Seward, Valdez and Homer. JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — In the cold and dark early-morning hours […]

Southwestern Alaska Glaciers Rapidly Disappearing

By Andrea Medeiros | USFWS on Feb 5, 2015 Featured, The Arctic and Alaska Science

Researchers from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Northern Arizona University recently reported in the Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management that 10 of 109 glaciers of the Ahklun Mountains that were originally mapped by the U.S Geological Survey in the 1970s had completely disappeared. The research team had conducted an aerial survey […]