Millions of Alaska birds nest on rocky emerald islands seen by few people other than ship captains. One of the funkiest of these creatures is the crested auklet, which looks like a bassist in a punk band and smells like a tangerine. These hand-size birds have intrigued Hector Douglas for years. He just wrote a […]
“If only animals could talk,” said Veronica Padula, a UAA graduate student researching seabird decline in the Aleutian Islands, “then they could tell us what’s wrong with them.” Instead, Padula and ecology professor Douglas Causey must take the long path to an answer—research that involves lengthy and stormy boat treks through the Aleutian archipelago right […]
KODIAK, Alaska — The crew of Coast Guard Cutter Alex Haley returned to Kodiak Wednesday following a successful 68-day deployment patrolling more than 12,000 miles throughout the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands. Alex Haley, known as the “Bulldog of the Bering,” departed Kodiak in July and spent the last two months conducting operations in the Bering […]
An earthquake measuring a magnitude 7.9 struck the western Aleutians, early Monday afternoon at 12:53 pm, triggering Tsunami warnings throughout the immediate area from Nikolski to Attu and a tsunami evaluation for all other coastal areas in the state and beyond. The earthquake was generated at a depth of 66.8 miles according to the Earthquake Hazard Program at […]