by Jacquelyn Overbeck | Dec 22, 2022 | Alaska Water Level Watch News
Extratropical Typhoon Merbok transited the Bering Sea impacting 40 Alaska Native communities and more than 1,300 miles of coastline. Visit this site to see the story about the post-storm data collection effort that was immediately coordinated to provide documentation...
by Jacquelyn Overbeck | May 11, 2022 | Alaska Water Level Watch News
The Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys works with Alaska Water Level Watch partners to maintain photos and resources on historical floods in western Alaska. These resources are the only insights into how high past floods reached in and around...
by Jacquelyn Overbeck | Oct 25, 2021 | Alaska Water Level Watch News
Early in spring of 2021, the community of Kwgillingok experienced coastal flooding from a high tide (see https://www.kyuk.org/post/kwigillingok-experiences-severe-tidal-flooding). Although Kwigillingok has had coastal flooding in the past (see...
by Jacquelyn Overbeck | Jul 21, 2020 | Alaska Water Level Watch News
The Alaska Mapping Executive Committee (AMEC)—a coordinated working group amongst federal agencies as well as the State of Alaska—recently released a strategy to map the coast of Alaska over the next 10 years. The strategy primarily addresses improvements to...
by Jacquelyn Overbeck | Apr 21, 2020 | Alaska Water Level Watch News
Southeast Alaska Model Release/Update The VDatum 4.0.1 release on October 28, 2019 includes support for transformations involving the tidal datums of southeast Alaska (SE AK): local mean sea level (LMSL), mean lower low water (MLLW), mean high water (MHW), mean higher...