A Cessna 185 zigzagged a tight back-and-forth pattern along Alaska’s southern coast earlier this summer, the pilot intent on his mission to measure the ocean's response to summer glacier melt.
The tiny flying green annoyances seemed to be in greater numbers than usual this year in late May and early June.
I walked around outside our Two Rivers home early one morning, as I sometimes do. It was mid-May and we — that’s my wife, Julie, and me — were about ready to head to work.
Note: This Alaska Science Forum “time capsule” article was originally published on May 1, 1976. While employed at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute, John M.
UTQIAĠVIK, ALASKA — Colorful sticky notes and creased agendas fluttered to the floor as 40 or so people grabbed phones and rushed to the long series of windows.
