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Return to Crash Site is Emotional, Healing

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on Sep 12, 2020 Featured, North Slope/Northwest Alaska, The Arctic and Alaska Science

Ben Jones recently returned to the tundra site of a plane crash that in May took the life of the pilot, and left Jones bloodied and broken. Jones is a do-it-all scientist with the Institute of Northern Engineering at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He is inventive and opportunistic, pursuing curiosities of northern Alaska […]

Teshekpuk Lake Observatory a special place

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on Apr 24, 2014 The Arctic and Alaska Science

TESHEKPUK LAKE — Suspended in glass on the oil stove, the coffee leans south, as if the giant lake has a gravitational pull. Though Ben Jones has leveled this cabin before, he sees a useful function in the current slope, caused by thawed permafrost. Any snow blown in during the long winter will drain through […]