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Visit to glacier begins with wildlife encounter

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on Jul 16, 2021   Featured, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

Visit to glacier begins with wildlife encounter

LA PEROUSE GLACIER — During our first lunch at a blue-gravel campsite near this Alaska glacier named after a French explorer, scientist Ben Gaglioti and I had a visitor. As we sat on bleached slabs of wood, I held in my left hand a rectangular cracker with peanut butter smeared on top. We heard a […]

‘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 […]



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