Ghost towns scattered across Alaska map | Geophysical Institute
Oct 13, 2016 · There are at least 100 abandoned settlements in Alaska. That's the number Beth Mikow figured as she wrote her master's thesis for UAF in 2010. Mikow, who now works for …
Abandoned Cold War Radar Stations in Alaska
Dec 8, 2010 · On windy, cold nights a few decades ago, men in darkened rooms north of the Arctic Circle spent their evenings watching radar screens.
Ghost ship artifacts emerge in museum | Geophysical Institute
Mar 24, 2016 · The captain and crew abandoned the ship, which carried furs from Canadian trappers and a variety of other cargo. Following the ice's capture of the Baychimo, the captain …
Alaska continues to change, fast | Geophysical Institute
Dec 5, 2024 · High sea-surface and warm river temperatures are one factor in the decline of Yukon River Chinook and chum salmon to the point where fish camps are abandoned. The …
Rock redwoods in Sutton, stone bird tracks in Denali | Geophysical ...
Feb 10, 2011 · A few years ago, Chris Williams found a big tree on the grounds of an abandoned coal mine in Sutton, Alaska. It was six feet in diameter, stood more than 110 feet above the …
Bus 142 to embark on final journey | Geophysical Institute
Oct 28, 2021 · Over the years, the abandoned bus hosted hunters, trappers and wanderers who happened upon the rain-and-bear resistant shelter just north of Denali National Park and …
The Coldest Place in North America | Geophysical Institute
On January 23, 1971, weather observers at Prospect Creek, a pipeline camp 25 miles southeast of Bettles, recorded Alaska's all-time low of 80 below zero. The temperature at Snag was …
Bitter weather may have wiped out reindeer | Geophysical Institute
Jan 7, 2010 · Biologist Dave Klein first stepped on the island in 1957, 13 years after the Coast Guard had abandoned it. Klein, 82, now a professor emeritus for the University of Alaska …
Rezone abandoned school land unilaterally? - cyburbia.org
Sep 21, 2016 · In my city we have an abandoned school that is still owned by the county school board. The land it sits on is zoned Residential. A concerned group of citizens would rather it …
Oil Boreholes Hold the Permafrost Record of Alaska's North Slope
Max Brewer was 26 years old when he began measuring temperatures in abandoned oil-well boreholes on Alaska's north slope in 1950.