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(Courtesy Cindi Lagoudakis) A geologist who has studied Southeast Alaska’s rocks and minerals for decades is creating a new geologic map of the region. That map could have a wide range of ...
“The Juneau Flood Dashboard provides a new way to visualize flood inundation maps,” said Eran Hood, a hydrologist and UAS ...
Many Southeast Alaska towns are strung along narrow strips ... City and Borough of Juneau officials commissioned a new map of landslide hazard areas. The 2020 map placed roughly half of downtown ...
But the maps were not detailed enough to show the ... Typically, in the fall at least one NOAA survey ship plies the waters of Southeast Alaska. They move north with better summer weather.
KETCHIKAN, Alaska (AP) — Federal agencies have completed the first high-resolution mapping of a fast-moving underwater tectonic fault that extends from Vancouver Island, Canada, to southeast Alaska.
according to a new online map that provides key facts about mineral prospects stretching from the treeless Aleutian Islands to the frigid Brooks Range to rain-soaked Southeast Alaska. All hardrock ...
There has been very little reporting on federal legislation that would greatly impact Southeast Alaska. Sponsored by ... 1889 becomes law, the map of public ownership will dramatically change.
But in parts of Alaska, maps of the hazards remain controversial. By Austyn Gaffney Photographs by Christopher Miller Austyn Gaffney traveled to southeast Alaska to talk to residents, officials ...
(Map courtesy of USFS) Timber sales in Southeast Alaska’s Tongass National Forest often spark conflict between environmental groups, the timber industry, and the U.S. Forest Service. Timber ...