I never truly know someplace until I see it. Seeing pictures, I get the idea of the place but it is not the experience of the place. You see pictures of the Grand Canyon, Eiffel Tower, Barrier Reef, [insert place here], and you see the landscape, composition and colors. It is not until I behold […]
Animal life played a fun component in our Alaskan trip. We went to the Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward which was very much like the Monterey Bay Aquarium. I could see native fish, birds, and mammals that I otherwise would have not seen in the wild. Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center is a nonprofit organization dedicated
As I flew into Alaska, I took in a sharp breath at the expanse and beauty that I saw from my airplane window. As I surveyed the shoreline, the giant ice blocks floating in the ocean surprised me since I had never seen frozen sea water before. Driving to the hotel, I couldn’t catch my
Our aurora lecture this morning, courtesy of the Geophysical Institute, focused on the magnetic field in generating the sky event. There is a lot of research bring done on the aurora, and where better than it to be done than northern Alaska? We visited the Institute for Arctic Biology, Large Animal Research Center. It, like
We visited Poker Flats Research Range which is part of the geophysical institute (university of Alaska, Fairbanks). Here, they set off rockets for weather and atmospheric research. Our lecturer, Don Hampton, an optics guy, was very thorough in his description of their research function. He had a 1950s version and a current day version of
