Initial reports show minor damage to both ships (KETCHIKAN, Alaska) – Today at 4:25 a.m., the M/V Kennicott collided with the M/V Hubbard while docking in Ketchikan. AMHS is conducting a thorough damage assessment, and initial reports describe minimal damage to the Hubbard, while the Kennicott suffered a damaged sponson and window. The U.S. Coast […]
Alaska shipyards keep money in state, supporting Alaska jobs & economy (ANCHORAGE, Alaska) – The M/V Hubbard and M/V Tustumena will get much needed capital improvements in 2022 with the awards going to two Alaska shipyards. The M/V Hubbard, one of the two Alaska Class Ferries, will have crew quarters constructed to enable AMHS to […]
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 […]
The forces shaping Alaska never sleep, especially near Yakutat. I visited the fishing town of about 800 people and many dogs a few years back. My assignment was to write about scientists studying Hubbard Glacier, which slammed the door on Russell Fiord in summer 2002, creating the largest glacier-dammed lake in the world for a […]