ANCHORAGE – The Anchorage Police Department will be holding three public Community Crime trainings to educate residents how to find crime data for their area. Community Crime Map, formerly RAIDS Online, allows residents to monitor crime in their area, receive emails with updated data, and track crime trends. “The department takes pride that so much […]
(ANCHORAGE, Alaska) – The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities (ADOT&PF) announced Nicholas Mastrodicasa has been awarded the US Geological Survey’s Henry Gannett Award. This national award recognizes distinguished contributions to the topographic mapping of the United States. Mr. Mastrodicasa has been involved with efforts to map Alaska since 2006. As manager for the […]
An international team led by glaciologists from the University of Colorado Boulder and Trent University in Ontario, Canada has completed the first mapping of virtually all of the world’s glaciers — including their locations and sizes — allowing for calculations of their volumes and ongoing contributions to global sea rise as the world warms. The […]