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The Alaska porcupine's winter in slow-motion
Jessy Coltrane and the subject of her doctoral research, the porcupine.
Photo courtesy of Jessy Coltrane.
While running through Bicentennial Park in Anchorage, biologist Jessy Coltrane spotted a porcupine in a birch tree. On her runs on days following, she saw it again and again, in good weather and bad. Over time, she knew which Alaska creature she
wanted to study.
Geophysical Institute T-shirts for sale through Operations Office
Show your GI pride! Purchase a Geophysical Institute T-shirt. The Operations Office is currently selling shirts with the GI logo. Extra large shirts are available for $15 and double extra large shirts are available for $16. Contact Debbie Coxon at 907-474-7411 to make your purchase.
Alaska Science Forum: The Alaska porcupine's winter in slow-motion
By Ned Rozell
While running through Bicentennial Park in Anchorage, biologist Jessy Coltrane spotted a porcupine in a birch tree. On her runs on days following, she saw it again and again, in good weather and bad. Over time, she knew which Alaska creature she wanted to study.
The State of the State, 1906
Alfred Brooks in Alaska around 1899.
Photo courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey archives.
Alfred Brooks was a geologist who traveled thousands of miles in Alaska and left his name on the state’s northernmost mountain range. Twenty years before his death in 1924, he also left behind a summary of what Alaska was like over a century ago, when “large areas (were) still practically
unexplored.”
To see what Brooks had to say about the Alaska of 1906, I pulled a copy of his Geography and Geology of Alaska: A Summary of Existing Knowledge from a shelf of rare books in a Fairbanks library.
Alaska Science Forum: Once again, news of the world from San Francisco
By Ned Rozell
SAN FRANCISCO — For the thirteenth straight year, I’m happy to be spending one week of December here, at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, where more than 15,000 scientists gather for a week to discuss the latest news of the world.
Here are a few items from the first two days:
Alaska Science Forum: The State of the State, 1906
By Ned Rozell
Alfred Brooks was a geologist who traveled thousands of miles in Alaska and left his name on the state’s northernmost mountain range. Twenty years before his death in 1924, he also left behind a summary of what Alaska was like over a century ago, when “large areas (were) still practically unexplored.”
Recipe for a cold snap
Ice fog envelops the control tower at Fairbanks International Airport during a cold snap in November 2011.
Photo by Ned Rozell.
For many Alaskans, January 1989 is a month that still numbs the mind, because of the cold snap that gripped much of the state for two weeks. In Fairbanks, fan belts under the hoods of cars snapped like pretzels; the ice fog was thick and smothering, and the city came as close as it ever comes to a halt, with many people opting to stay home after their vehicles succumbed to the monster cold.
Design Services offers AGU specials
Supporting the Geophysical Institute's hefty presence at the American Geophysical Union 2011 Fall Meeting, Design Services is offering the following special rates for poster printing:
Bring or upload posters by November 8 and rates will be $132 for a 4'x6' or $105 for a 3'x5' for poster printing. Other dimensions will be 15 percent off.
GI 2011 Thanksgiving potluck
Come one, come all, to the GI Thanksgiving potluck! Please bring your favorite dish to share with your co-workers and friends on Tuesday, November 15. Lunch will be served in the IARC lobby and desserts will be in the GI Globe Room. So, dust off your cookbooks, sharpen up your knives, drag out the pots and pans and create that favorite recipe to share with the folks you work with.
