Austere medicine redefined: testing the ATC-EST’s capabilities at Northern Edge 23-1

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Austere medicine redefined: testing the ATC-EST’s capabilities at Northern Edge 23-1

JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska —  Northern Edge 23-1, a U.S. Indo-Pacific Command sponsored, Headquarters Pacific Air Forces (PACAF) led, multilateral, joint field training exercise, kicked off at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson on May 4, 2023. This exercise provided the opportunity to test the capabilities of the Air Transportable Clinic-Establish (ATC-EST), a health service support device designed […]

Listening to the Heartbeat of Alaska

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Listening to the Heartbeat of Alaska

[dropcap]A[/dropcap]cross Alaska and a sliver of western Canada, 280 seismic stations silently do their jobs. Hidden in dark holes drilled into rock in boreal forest, northern tundra and mountaintops, the instruments wait patiently for the next tremor. The EarthScope Transportable Array of seismic monitors is now embedded across Alaska and Canada, adding 196 new stations […]