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Malaspina Glacier Gets Up and Goes

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on Feb 26, 2021   Featured, General News, Southeast Alaska, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

Malaspina Glacier Gets Up and Goes

  Glaciologist Martin Truffer changed his team’s plan the other day. He and a crew of other scientists were about to travel to Malaspina Glacier — near the elbow of Alaska where Southeast Alaska hinges onto the mainland — but the glacier has wrecked his campsite. “Mark Fahenstock [another team member] looked at velocities of […]

‘Ghost Forest’ Got Run Over by a Glacier

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on Feb 19, 2021   Featured, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

‘Ghost Forest’ Got Run Over by a Glacier

As a few scientists hiked a path between the ice towers of a Southeast Alaska glacier and crashing ocean waves in 2016, they topped a ridge and saw massive tree trunks poking from gravel ahead. The dead, sheared-off rainforest stems pointed toward the ocean like skeletal fingers. In this “ghost forest,” not visible to fisherman […]

Coast Guard Rescues Three from Boats Stuck in Ice, near Hole in the Wall Glacier

By 17th District online newsroom on Oct 29, 2020   At Sea, Featured, General News, Southeast Alaska  

Coast Guard Rescues Three from Boats Stuck in Ice, near Hole in the Wall Glacier

  KODIAK, Alaska — The Coast Guard rescued three jet boaters Sunday whose boats had become stuck in ice, approximately five miles northeast of Hole in the Wall Glacier on the Taku River.  An Air Station Sitka MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew hoisted  all three boaters at about 8 p.m. from jet boats that were stuck […]

Study to Investigate Melting Malaspina Glacier, Potential New Bay

By Kelly Eagan | Geophysical Institute on Sep 20, 2020   Featured, Science/Education, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

Study to Investigate Melting Malaspina Glacier, Potential New Bay

  The rapidly melting Malaspina Glacier in southeastern Alaska’s Wrangell-St. Elias National Park could create a new ocean bay, one feature in what may be the largest landscape transformation underway in the United States. To better understand these changes, the National Science Foundation recently awarded researchers from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and two partner […]

NOAA Bathymetric Data Helps Scientists More Accurately Model Tsunami Risk Within Barry Arm

By NOAA Office of Coast Survey on Sep 15, 2020   Featured, Science/Education, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

NOAA Bathymetric Data Helps Scientists More Accurately Model Tsunami Risk Within Barry Arm

  In May of 2020, local geologists identified a steep, unstable slope that has the potential to become a tsunami-generating landslide in Barry Arm, a glacial fjord 60 miles east of Anchorage, Alaska. With documented cases of tsunami-generating landslides in Alaska including Lituya Bay in 1958 and Taan Fjord in 2015, this new hazard immediately caught the attention of […]

Glaciologist dies in Greenland crevasse

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on Aug 21, 2020   Science/Education, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

Glaciologist dies in Greenland crevasse

  Konrad Steffen, 68, died Aug. 8, 2020, when he fell into a meltwater-filled crevasse on the Greenland ice sheet. The glaciologist never worked in Alaska, but Steffen’s work influenced a scientist here, his countryman Martin Truffer. Truffer was born in Switzerland, as was Steffen. Truffer, a professor who studies glaciers at the Geophysical Institute […]

June 12th, 1916

By Alaska Native News on Jun 12, 2020   This Day in Alaskan History  

June 12th, 1916

Potential Landslide Threatens Large Tsunami in PWS, Geologists Say

By Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys on May 22, 2020   Featured, Science/Education, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

Potential Landslide Threatens Large Tsunami in PWS, Geologists Say

  (Anchorage) — The threat of a large and potentially dangerous tsunami is looming in Prince William Sound, where an increasingly likely landslide could generate a wave with devastating effects on fishermen and recreationalists using the area, the state’s top geologist said. Steve Masterman, director of the Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys (DGGS) said […]

Northern News from a Massive Conference

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on Jan 16, 2020   Featured, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

Northern News from a Massive Conference

  For the 20th straight year, in December 2019 I carried a notebook into the halls of the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union. Most of those years the conference was in San Francisco (as it was this year). Back in 1999, when one billion fewer people lived on Earth, the 5,000 scientists who […]

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