An Alaskan seal.Credit: SeaTops / imageBROKER / Shutterstock Alaska, a rapidly changing realm, will never cease to amaze Rick Thoman, a veteran climate scientist at the Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy — even after ayear of broken heat recordsandunprecedented losses of ice. ...
which is twice the size of Texas and one-fifth of the area of the entire United States. Yet the population of Alaska is only 700,000, of which 290,000 live in Anchorage (not in the capital, Juneau). It was hard to get a handle on the size of this state. It is just so big. ...
2 of 4 Seal of Alaska 3 of 4 Alaska: state bird 4 of 4 Alaska: state flower Capital: Juneau Population1: (2020) 733,391; (2023 est.) 733,406 Governor: Michael J. Dunleavy (Republican) Date Of Admission: January 3, 1959 U.S. Senators: Lisa Murkowski (Republican) Daniel...
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Kurland’s office in Juneau is charged with overseeing conservation and recovery programs for marine mammals around the state and its waters and helping guide all the federal agencies that issue permits or carry out actions that could affect those that are threatened or ...
I have come to realize that Alaska, supposedly an American state like any other, is in fact a separate country with a separate culture and behavioral rules. Announcing statehood cannot erase a frontier culture, even after nearly 50 years. Stuff happens in Alaska that simply wouldn't be allowe...
Full size image Table 2 Summary of monazite petrochronology data Full size table Sample 12GC002-44.9 is a leucogranite orthogenesis composed of biotite, K-feldspar, quartz, apatite, and sodic plagioclase. Monazite crystals from this sample are 100–200 μm in diameter (Fig.6b). Monazite Y map...
Also, I’m ignoring the current state of the world in this update. I’m tired. Addition update:We got our solar panels installed and I will never not geek out about them (okay, maybe in the winter when they don’t actually produce anything, but hopefully we’ll be living on energy ...
This seal ensures that the artwork you are purchasing is authentic. “Alaska Grown”– The Alaska Grown program markets fruits, vegetables, meats, and aquaculture that were grown in Alaska to help support the state’s agricultural industry. As more and more residents, visitors, chefs, and ...
The incumbent Democrat might not get much of a leg up from the state’s top-four, ranked-choice voting system this time around.