NOME, Alaska — U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy (WAGB 20) and embarked science teams completed the first two phases of the icebreaker’s 2024 Arctic Fall deployment Sunday and continue operations offshore of western and northern Alaska. Healy’s crew and the science teams conducted multiple scientific and seafloor mapping missions, which resulted in the discovery […]
For years, scientists have wondered why North America’s highest mountain is not a volcano. All the ingredients for volcanic activity lurk deep beneath Denali, which sits above where one planetary plate grinds past another. Recently, while looking for something else, researchers found a reservoir of what might be magma, 7 miles beneath the muskeg of […]
Mount Edgecumbe volcano in Southeast Alaska has become the latest addition to the Alaska Volcano Observatory’s ground-based monitoring network. An observatory team in early September installed three seismic and Global Navigation Satellite System stations on the reawakened volcano and upgraded the only existing station in the vicinity, a temporary one on nearby Crater Ridge. “This […]
The first volcano scientists of an international team deposited on a Southeast Alaska island by helicopter Sunday quickly learned they had an unwanted presence to contend with. A grizzly. And this one wouldn’t move from its position about 100 yards from the beach site where the scientists and their instruments were gathered. “We were just […]