Mar 6, 2019
February is not a normal time of year for coastal storms to be flooding western Alaska. With another year of record low sea ice extents in the Bering Sea (NSIDC, 2019), however, the coast remains vulnerable to low-pressure systems moving across the ocean. On February...
Aug 3, 2018
In July 2018, the Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Coastal Hazards Program conducted coastal surveys at Kotzebue and Deering, Alaska to inform the elevation data used to create color-indexed flood communication maps. While surveying in Kotzebue,...
May 15, 2018
Northwest Alaska is no stranger to large fall storms. From October until the sea ice arrives, the region experiences multiple coastal storms each year that heavily impact the region leading to inundation and coastal erosion. In September 2017, UAF deployed beach...
Nov 20, 2017
The 2017 fall storm season is already underway. Two storms impacted communities on the western coast in October, and extended storm activity impacted the Bering Straits and Norton Sound in early November. Storms that regularly occur during the fall season are...
Oct 1, 2017
Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys and Anchorage National Weather Service (NWS) staff travelled to Tununak to re-install a water level sensor that was damaged in winter of 2015. The iGage is a satellite-telemetered ultrasonic sensor developed at...
Sep 1, 2017
The summer of 2017 was used to install tide staffs at communities throughout western Alaska. The Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys worked collaboratively with local tribes and cities, as well as Alaska Sea Grant, University of Alaska Fairbanks,...
