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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
Messages in a Raven Rattle | Geophysical Institute Recently I had the chance to spend an afternoon in the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, home of a splendid collection of Pacific Northwest Native art It's a place worth a pilgrimage The spectacular building, designed by Canada's famous architect Arthur Erickson, echoes themes borrowed from a Haida longhouse; it's constructed so that one gallery is tall enough to
The Shuttle Red Aurora | Geophysical Institute By glowing red on Sunday night, April 12, 1981, the heavens over the United States displayed their pleasure with the successful flight of the shuttle Columbia Perhaps because Columbia was up that night, more Americans than usual looked up at the sky and saw the red aurora that covered much of the nation, even as far south as Texas
Boulders, Braids, and J Harlan Bretz | Geophysical Institute One such break in earthly monotony appears in Cataclysms on the Columbia, a book sent by a geologist who knows my fondness for reading about catastrophe, and who also understands that my readings in popular geology should extend beyond books by the estimable John McPhee Written by two geologists and a professor of English, Cataclysms on the Columbia describes the great outburst floods that
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
Exporting Water | Geophysical Institute Suppose that there were a means to collect a part of the rainfall from a portion of southeast Alaska or British Columbia the size of the Queen Charlotte Islands, about 4,000 square miles Considering the huge rainfall in these areas, it might be feasible to collect four feet of the annual rainfall without it even being missed
Ranking Rivers | Geophysical Institute For comparison, that's right ahead of the Columbia in area drained and right after it in discharge (The Columbia River also needs Canada to gain its rank; its source is in British Columbia ) Two Yukon tributaries also make the list The Porcupine ranks 20th in drainage area, and the Tanana is number 16 for average discharge
Avalanches, Landslides, Good For Some | Geophysical Institute University of British Columbia researcher Roger Ramcharita followed radio-tagged grizzly bears' spring wanderings in the Columbia Mountains While avalanche tracks made up only 10 percent of Ramcharita's study area, bears spent 40 percent of their time there eating avalanche-lily roots and other early-blooming plants
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
February 1979 Eclipse | Geophysical Institute The same is true of the Fairbanks area, where sunrise will be about 7 28 a m Residents of British Columbia and southeastern Alaska should begin observing at sunrise At Ketchikan the maximum coverage of the sun will be at 6:30 a m Pacific Standard time, and about ten minutes later at Whitehorse