Abandoned Cold War Radar Stations in Alaska
Dec 8, 2010 · On windy, cold nights a few decades ago, men in darkened rooms north of the Arctic Circle spent their evenings watching radar screens.
Ghost towns scattered across Alaska map | Geophysical Institute
Oct 13, 2016 · There are at least 100 abandoned settlements in Alaska. That's the number Beth Mikow figured as she wrote her master's thesis for UAF in 2010. Mikow, who now works for …
Ghost ship artifacts emerge in museum | Geophysical Institute
Mar 24, 2016 · The captain and crew abandoned the ship, which carried furs from Canadian trappers and a variety of other cargo. Following the ice's capture of the Baychimo, the captain …
Bus 142 to embark on final journey | Geophysical Institute
Oct 28, 2021 · Over the years, the abandoned bus hosted hunters, trappers and wanderers who happened upon the rain-and-bear resistant shelter just north of Denali National Park and …
Bitter weather may have wiped out reindeer | Geophysical Institute
Jan 7, 2010 · Biologist Dave Klein first stepped on the island in 1957, 13 years after the Coast Guard had abandoned it. Klein, 82, now a professor emeritus for the University of Alaska …
Giant Chinese Dam May Cause Earth to Move | Geophysical Institute
Nov 10, 1999 · As the water rises, it will drown more than 1,400 rural towns and villages abandoned earlier by government decree. The water rising behind the dam will power 26 huge …
Rezone abandoned school land unilaterally? - cyburbia.org
Sep 21, 2016 · In my city we have an abandoned school that is still owned by the county school board. The land it sits on is zoned Residential. A concerned group of citizens would rather it …
When Reindeer Paradise Turned to Purgatory - Geophysical Institute
Nov 13, 2003 · During World War II, while trying to stock a remote island in the Bering Sea with an emergency food source, the U.S.
Oil Boreholes Hold the Permafrost Record of Alaska's North Slope
Max Brewer was 26 years old when he began measuring temperatures in abandoned oil-well boreholes on Alaska's north slope in 1950.
The Coldest Place in North America | Geophysical Institute
On January 23, 1971, weather observers at Prospect Creek, a pipeline camp 25 miles southeast of Bettles, recorded Alaska's all-time low of 80 below zero. The temperature at Snag was …