October 21, at 10:21am Alaskans can practice earthquake safety JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — The Shakeout is an international Drop, Cover, Hold On drill that is conducted every year to help people in earthquake vulnerable areas practice the proper earthquake safety action. This year the Great Alaska Shakeout will be held on October 21, at […]
DENALI PARK, Alaska – The management of Denali National Park and Preserve has determined that there is adequate snow cover for the use of snowmobiles for traditional activities in all areas of the 1980 park additions. Riders are reminded that all lands within the former Mount McKinley National Park on both the north and […]
DENALI PARK, Alaska –Denali National Park and Preserve management has determined there is no longer adequate snow cover for the use of snowmobiles for traditional activities in most areas of the 1980 additions to Denali National Park and Preserve (Denali). Effective immediately, the Southwest Preserve to the North Fork of the Eldridge Glacier […]
This is the last year for Operation IceBridge, NASA’s most comprehensive airborne survey of ice change. Since the launch of its first Arctic campaign in spring 2009, IceBridge has enabled discoveries ranging from water aquifers hidden within snow in southeast Greenland, to the first map indicating where the base of the massive Greenland Ice […]