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The operators of Pleistocene Park have raised more than $100,000 in a crowdfunding effort to bring bison and yaks to eastern Russia. The creators think the animals will help convert tundra to ancient grasslands that will slow global warming.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427101849/http://blogs.agu.org/thefield/2017/04/14/pleistocene-park-experiment-adventure/" class="more">Read More <span class="more-arrow">>></span></a></p> <br class="clearfloat"/> </div> <div class="post entry" id="post-84557"> <p class="date"> 7 April 2017 </p> <h3 class="posttitle"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427101849/http://blogs.agu.org/thefield/2017/04/07/life-returning-island-destroyed-eruption/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Life returning to island destroyed by eruption"> Life returning to island destroyed by eruption </a></h3> <p>Nine years after it erupted, Kasatochi Island is just beginning to resemble its neighbors.</p> <p>Kasatochi is a speck in the middle of the Aleutian chain between Dutch Harbor and Adak, about 75 miles east of the latter. The volcanic island had no modern history of erupting until August 2008. In a few days that summer, the island changed from the lush green home of a quarter million seabirds to a gray pile of ash.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427101849/http://blogs.agu.org/thefield/2017/04/07/life-returning-island-destroyed-eruption/" class="more">Read More <span class="more-arrow">>></span></a></p> <br class="clearfloat"/> </div> <div class="post entry" id="post-84184"> <p class="date"> 31 March 2017 </p> <h3 class="posttitle"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427101849/http://blogs.agu.org/thefield/2017/03/31/winter-cyclist-blazes-1800-mile-trail/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Winter cyclist blazes an 1,800-mile trail"> Winter cyclist blazes an 1,800-mile trail </a></h3> <p>On a sunny afternoon in Nome, Jeff Oatley stepped off his fat bike. That day, for the first time since before the Super Bowl, he had nowhere to ride tomorrow. On March 7, Oatley, with his wife Heather Best (who rode a few hundred miles of choice trail with him), finished a winter bicycle ride from Skagway to Nome.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427101849/http://blogs.agu.org/thefield/2017/03/31/winter-cyclist-blazes-1800-mile-trail/" class="more">Read More <span class="more-arrow">>></span></a></p> <br class="clearfloat"/> </div> <div class="post entry" id="post-83838"> <p class="date"> 24 March 2017 </p> <h3 class="posttitle"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427101849/http://blogs.agu.org/thefield/2017/03/24/squirrels-somehow-predict-seed-bonanza/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Squirrels somehow predict seed bonanza"> Squirrels somehow predict seed bonanza </a></h3> <p>How can female squirrels predict a good food supply before it exists?</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427101849/http://blogs.agu.org/thefield/2017/03/24/squirrels-somehow-predict-seed-bonanza/" class="more">Read More <span class="more-arrow">>></span></a></p> <br class="clearfloat"/> </div> <div class="post entry" id="post-83349"> <p class="date"> 10 March 2017 </p> <h3 class="posttitle"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427101849/http://blogs.agu.org/thefield/2017/03/10/far-north-mallards-thriving-edge/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Far-north mallards thriving on the edge"> Far-north mallards thriving on the edge </a></h3> <p>With dogs’ breath fogging the 30-below zero air at their knees, 71 Iditarod mushers steamed their way down the frozen Chena River in Fairbanks on March 6. Upstream, just a few miles behind them, 500 ducks were surviving in a one-mile stretch of open water.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427101849/http://blogs.agu.org/thefield/2017/03/10/far-north-mallards-thriving-edge/" class="more">Read More <span class="more-arrow">>></span></a></p> <br class="clearfloat"/> </div> <div class="post entry" id="post-83116"> <p class="date"> 3 March 2017 </p> <h3 class="posttitle"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427101849/http://blogs.agu.org/thefield/2017/03/03/far-north-lake-trout-living-mystery/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Far-north lake trout living in mystery"> Far-north lake trout living in mystery </a></h3> <p>In early March up on the frozen Arctic Coastal Plain, as the wind sculpts snow into drifts, it’s hard to tell northern lakes from surrounding tundra. But lurking deep beneath that flat white world are toothy predators as long as your arm.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427101849/http://blogs.agu.org/thefield/2017/03/03/far-north-lake-trout-living-mystery/" class="more">Read More <span class="more-arrow">>></span></a></p> <br class="clearfloat"/> </div> <div class="post entry" id="post-82720"> <p class="date"> 17 February 2017 </p> <h3 class="posttitle"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427101849/http://blogs.agu.org/thefield/2017/02/17/cold-war-inspired-first-launch-poker-flat/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Cold War inspired first launch from Poker Flat"> Cold War inspired first launch from Poker Flat </a></h3> <p>When they launch, the four rockets now pointed northward from Poker Flat Research Range will add to the 345 that have arced over northern Alaska during the past 48 years. Recently, Chuck Deehr remembered number one.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427101849/http://blogs.agu.org/thefield/2017/02/17/cold-war-inspired-first-launch-poker-flat/" class="more">Read More <span class="more-arrow">>></span></a></p> <br class="clearfloat"/> </div> <div class="post entry" id="post-82490"> <p class="date"> 10 February 2017 </p> <h3 class="posttitle"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427101849/http://blogs.agu.org/thefield/2017/02/10/tropical-nights-alaskas-future/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to More tropical nights in Alaska’s future?"> More tropical nights in Alaska’s future? </a></h3> <p>By the end of this century, Alaskans may be enjoying tropical evening breezes for about a week each year. That’s an increase from the almost zero such nights we currently savor.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427101849/http://blogs.agu.org/thefield/2017/02/10/tropical-nights-alaskas-future/" class="more">Read More <span class="more-arrow">>></span></a></p> <br class="clearfloat"/> </div> <div class="post entry" id="post-82158"> <p class="date"> 3 February 2017 </p> <h3 class="posttitle"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427101849/http://blogs.agu.org/thefield/2017/02/03/lack-sea-ice-lower-48-weather/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Lack of sea ice and Lower 48 weather"> Lack of sea ice and Lower 48 weather </a></h3> <p>Unless you are now eating muktuk in Savoogna, it’s hard to pinpoint the effects of less sea ice floating on the northern oceans. But some researchers say the northern ocean — now absorbing so much more heat and reflecting so much less — is affecting weather far from the Arctic.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427101849/http://blogs.agu.org/thefield/2017/02/03/lack-sea-ice-lower-48-weather/" class="more">Read More <span class="more-arrow">>></span></a></p> <br class="clearfloat"/> </div> <div class="post entry" id="post-81930"> <p class="date"> 27 January 2017 </p> <h3 class="posttitle"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427101849/http://blogs.agu.org/thefield/2017/01/27/sleuthing-site-century-old-earthquake/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Sleuthing the site of a century-old earthquake"> Sleuthing the site of a century-old earthquake </a></h3> <p>The second-largest earthquake on the planet in 1904 happened somewhere in Alaska. It could have been St. Michael, Rampart, Fairbanks, Coldfoot or a place called Sunrise on the Kenai Peninsula. People felt the magnitude 7.3 at each place.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427101849/http://blogs.agu.org/thefield/2017/01/27/sleuthing-site-century-old-earthquake/" class="more">Read More <span class="more-arrow">>></span></a></p> <br class="clearfloat"/> </div> <div class="post entry" id="post-81614"> <p class="date"> 19 January 2017 </p> <h3 class="posttitle"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427101849/http://blogs.agu.org/thefield/2017/01/19/open-letter-deep-interior-cold/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to An open letter to deep Interior cold"> An open letter to deep Interior cold </a></h3> <p>But here you are, back in Fairbanks, far from the dulling effects of the (relatively) warm ocean. There’s no buffer between us and the Neptune-like top of the winter world but a mountain range, skimpy boreal forest and tundra plants covered with snow. And in you came.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427101849/http://blogs.agu.org/thefield/2017/01/19/open-letter-deep-interior-cold/" class="more">Read More <span class="more-arrow">>></span></a></p> <br class="clearfloat"/> </div> <div class="post entry" id="post-81563"> <p class="date"> 18 January 2017 </p> <h3 class="posttitle"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427101849/http://blogs.agu.org/landslideblog/2017/01/18/mount-sulzer-avalanches-2/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to The Mount Sulzer avalanches: the amazing video"> The Mount Sulzer avalanches: the amazing video </a></h3> <p>The fourth of the Mount Sulzer avalanches, which occurred in August 2016, was captured in a remarkable video by Luke Wassink, a National Park Ranger</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427101849/http://blogs.agu.org/landslideblog/2017/01/18/mount-sulzer-avalanches-2/" class="more">Read More <span class="more-arrow">>></span></a></p> <br class="clearfloat"/> </div> <div class="post entry" id="post-81533"> <p class="date"> 17 January 2017 </p> <h3 class="posttitle"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427101849/http://blogs.agu.org/landslideblog/2017/01/17/mount-sulzer-1/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Mount Sulzer – a series of dramatic, and extremely large, debris and ice avalanches"> Mount Sulzer – a series of dramatic, and extremely large, debris and ice avalanches </a></h3> <p>Over the last three years a series of dramatic, and extremely large, debris and ice avalanches have occurred on Mount Sulzer in Alaska</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427101849/http://blogs.agu.org/landslideblog/2017/01/17/mount-sulzer-1/" class="more">Read More <span class="more-arrow">>></span></a></p> <br class="clearfloat"/> </div> <div class="post entry" id="post-81314"> <p class="date"> 5 January 2017 </p> <h3 class="posttitle"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427101849/http://blogs.agu.org/thefield/2017/01/05/bringing-world-standstill/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Bringing the world to a standstill"> Bringing the world to a standstill </a></h3> <p>During an eruption that lasted three days in 1912, a vibrant landscape became the gray badlands known as the Valley of 10,000 Smokes.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427101849/http://blogs.agu.org/thefield/2017/01/05/bringing-world-standstill/" class="more">Read More <span class="more-arrow">>></span></a></p> <br class="clearfloat"/> </div> <div class="post entry" id="post-80863"> <p class="date"> 15 December 2016 </p> <h3 class="posttitle"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427101849/http://blogs.agu.org/thefield/2016/12/15/tales-frozen-water-san-francisco/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Tales of frozen water, from San Francisco"> Tales of frozen water, from San Francisco </a></h3> <p>Dozens of the 22,000 scientists gathering here for the week are talking about ice, mostly about how much of it is disappearing, and how quickly that is happening.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427101849/http://blogs.agu.org/thefield/2016/12/15/tales-frozen-water-san-francisco/" class="more">Read More <span class="more-arrow">>></span></a></p> <br class="clearfloat"/> </div> <div class="post entry" id="post-80682"> <p class="date"> 9 December 2016 </p> <h3 class="posttitle"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427101849/http://blogs.agu.org/thefield/2016/12/09/alaska-yukon-lynx/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to To Alaska and then some for Yukon lynx"> To Alaska and then some for Yukon lynx </a></h3> <p>“My wife saw a lynx out there, sitting next to the chicken coop like a lion, twitching its tail and looking at the chickens and ducks,” said Ralph Lohse, who lives with his wife Linda on property between the Edgerton Highway and the Tonsina River. They watched the lynx for 40 minutes, until it leapt to webbing on top of a chicken coop.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427101849/http://blogs.agu.org/thefield/2016/12/09/alaska-yukon-lynx/" class="more">Read More <span class="more-arrow">>></span></a></p> <br class="clearfloat"/> </div> <div class="post entry" id="post-80641"> <p class="date"> 7 December 2016 </p> <h3 class="posttitle"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427101849/http://blogs.agu.org/landslideblog/2016/12/07/icy-bay-landslide/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to The Icy Bay landslide in Alaska: a nice video describing the link with glacial melting"> The Icy Bay landslide in Alaska: a nice video describing the link with glacial melting </a></h3> <p>. The Icy Bay landslide in Alaska A very nice video has been posted on Youtube describing the link between the giant Icy Bay landslide in Alaska in 2015 (this landslide is also variously known as the Taan Fjord landslide and the Tyndall Glacier landslide), which is the largest known recent landslide in North America, and the melting of the adjacent glacier. The video features Dr Michael Loso, physical scientist …</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427101849/http://blogs.agu.org/landslideblog/2016/12/07/icy-bay-landslide/" class="more">Read More <span class="more-arrow">>></span></a></p> <br class="clearfloat"/> </div> <div class="post entry" id="post-80579"> <p class="date"> 2 December 2016 </p> <h3 class="posttitle"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427101849/http://blogs.agu.org/thefield/2016/12/02/opposite-end-earth/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to To the opposite end of the Earth"> To the opposite end of the Earth </a></h3> <p>Joanna Young does not seem to fear change very much. The spunky redhead first came to Fairbanks from Egypt, where her parents were teaching English and running a school. Raised in Toronto, she knew what cold was. But this was January 2010, a colder-than-average month. The temperature bottomed out at minus 41 F as she arrived.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427101849/http://blogs.agu.org/thefield/2016/12/02/opposite-end-earth/" class="more">Read More <span class="more-arrow">>></span></a></p> <br class="clearfloat"/> </div> <div class="post entry" id="post-80028"> <p class="date"> 11 November 2016 </p> <h3 class="posttitle"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427101849/http://blogs.agu.org/thefield/2016/11/11/visit-one-earths-great-canyons/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to A visit to one of Earth’s great canyons"> A visit to one of Earth’s great canyons </a></h3> <p>Zhemchug Canyon is 20 percent longer and deeper than Grand Canyon and is a t-shaped cut in the sea floor beneath the gray waters of the Bering Sea. On a Greenpeace-sponsored expedition, Michelle Ridgway, a marine ecologist and consultant from Juneau, descended into the canyon alone in a tiny submarine.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427101849/http://blogs.agu.org/thefield/2016/11/11/visit-one-earths-great-canyons/" class="more">Read More <span class="more-arrow">>></span></a></p> <br class="clearfloat"/> </div> <div class="post entry" id="post-80010"> <p class="date"> 10 November 2016 </p> <h3 class="posttitle"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427101849/http://blogs.agu.org/landslideblog/2016/11/10/planet-labs-lamplugh/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Planet Labs satellite image of the Lamplugh Glacier landslide"> Planet Labs satellite image of the Lamplugh Glacier landslide </a></h3> <p>Planet Labs have collected a very high quality satellite image of the Lamplugh Glacier / Glacier Bay landslide in Alaska last June</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427101849/http://blogs.agu.org/landslideblog/2016/11/10/planet-labs-lamplugh/" class="more">Read More <span class="more-arrow">>></span></a></p> <br class="clearfloat"/> </div> <div class="navigation"> <div class="alignleft"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427101849/http://blogs.agu.org/blog/tag/alaska/page/2/">← Previous Entries</a></div> <div class="alignright"></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="sidebar"> <div class="social"> <span class="connect-name">Connect with AGU:</span> <span class="icons"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427101849/http://www.youtube.com/user/AGUvideos" target="_blank"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427101849im_/http://blogs.agu.org/wp-content/themes/agu-buddypress/images/social-rev/youtube.png" width="25" height="25" alt="YouTube"/></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427101849/http://www.facebook.com/AmericanGeophysicalUnion?ref=ts" target="_blank"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427101849im_/http://blogs.agu.org/wp-content/themes/agu-buddypress/images/social-rev/facebook.png" width="25" height="25" alt="Facebook"/></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427101849/http://twitter.com/theAGU" target="_blank"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427101849im_/http://blogs.agu.org/wp-content/themes/agu-buddypress/images/social-rev/twitter.png" width="25" height="25" alt="Twitter"/></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427101849/http://blogs.agu.org/feed" target="_blank"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170427101849im_/http://blogs.agu.org/wp-content/themes/agu-buddypress/images/social-rev/rssfeed.png" width="25" height="25" alt="RSS Feed"/></a> </span> <br class="clearfloat"/> </div>   <div id="text-2" class="widget widget_text"><h3 class="widgettitle">Welcome!</h3> <div class="textwidget">This is a community of Earth and space science blogs, hosted by the American Geophysical Union.</div> </div><div id="text-7" class="widget widget_text"> <div class="textwidget"><h4><strong><font color="#122F5E">Ideas and opinions expressed on this site are those of the authors and commenters alone. 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