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- Evidence Piling Up for Coastal Migration Route
A few summers ago, archaeologist Joanne McSporran saw a sharp black rock in a pile of gravel pulled from the seafloor off British Columbia
- The Alaska-Siberia Telegraph | Geophysical Institute
The plan for the Alaska-Siberia Telegraph was originated by Perry McDonough Collins, while undertaking a commercial venture in the Amur Valley of Siberia Collins envisioned an intercontinental telegraph link from California, north through British Columbia, across Russian America to Siberia, via the Bering Strait, and across Siberia to Europe
- Meet graduate student researcher Sebin John - Geophysical Institute
Graduate student researchers are the future of science and an integral part of our Geophysical Institute family So let’s meet some of them Here’s Sebin John from the GI’s Seismology and Geodesy Research Group His advisor is research professor Mike West, director of the Alaska Earthquake Center Q: Where are you from? Tell us about that place
- Red Aurora | Geophysical Institute
Early on the morning of December 19, 1980, a blood-red auroral arc suddenly appeared in the skies over British Columbia, Yukon Territory and Alaska
- Where the Oils Going---and Why | Geophysical Institute
The current begins with the heavy precipitation in British Columbia and southeastern Alaska As the freshwater runoff discharges into the sea, the effect of the earth's rotation turns it to the right It flows northward along Southeast's coast, gathering more fresh water as it goes
- The thin line between Alaska and Canada | Geophysical Institute
Marked by metal cones and a clear-cut swath 20 feet wide, Alaska’s border with Canada is one of the great feats of wilderness surveying
- Growing California Glaciers and Carbon Calculations
To get a perspective on the size of Mt Shasta’s glaciers, an Alaska scientist at the meeting figured all the ice on Mt Shasta equals about what Alaska’s Columbia Glacier calves into the ocean every two or three days
- American robins not heading north quite yet | Geophysical Institute
Oliver’s research is part of a NASA project headed by Columbia professor and Toolik Field Station regular Natalie Boelman Researchers are trying to learn how a warmer world affects bears, caribou, wolves, songbirds, and other animals One of Oliver’s major questions is how robins are adjusting to earlier springs
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