1997 Leatherman tool magazine advertisement with a whale story by Joe Craig (died 2013), a longtime commercial fisherman out of Elfin Cove. #alaskahistory #alaska

In 1987, Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek visited Anchorage for some public appearances and a contestant search. Photo by longtime Anchorage Times photographer Alice Puster. #alaskahistory #alaska #anchoragehistory

New #earthquake detected:
M 5.3 - 39 km NNW of Attu Station, #Alaska
2025/04/02, 16:26:39 UTC
GPS: 53.1550, 172.8830
Depth: 40.000 km
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/at00su3n0f
Check for #Tsunami warning: http://www.tsunami.gov/

A cross fox (a color variant of the red fox) and her silver fox kit (a melanistic form of the red fox) in a field near Fairbanks, Alaska, taken in mid-May. The father was also a silver fox.

More of my wildlife photos: https://photos.lwpetersen.com/Galleries/Alaska-Photos/Wildlife

“I never, ever thought that I would ever see the day, in my lifetime, that Tlingits could return to the Homeland,” says local resident Jeff Skaflestad in the opening of the film, “Sanctuary for the Future.” But in 2016, thanks to many years’ work and a collaboration between the National Park Service and the Hoonah Indian Association—the tribal government of the Huna Tlingit clans—Xunaa Shuká Hít marked a momentous homecoming.

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/03/xunaa-shuka-hit-glacier-bay/

#Alaska #architecture #Indigenous
#wood

6:00AM: 38F, mostly cloudy.

The clouds are just a tease. 'Twill be sunny today and tomorrow, leading up to a very soggy weekend indeed.

I'm a great fan of The Great British Baking Show and every time I use or hear the word "soggy" I think of "soggy bottoms." iykyk

John is heading out for a couple days fishing before a gale sweeps in Fri/Sat. 17 ft. seas fit for neither man nor beast. (Well, maybe sea monsters.)

Dena'ina jokes about how useful moose are at predicting the weather. "His tail is wet when it'll rain." "Moose falls over when the earth will quake." From 1991 Collected Writings of Peter Kalifornsky, one of my very favorite Alaska books. #alaskahistory #akwx #alaska

UAF Cooperative Extension is hosting a webinar at Noon AKDT Thursday and I’ll be not only talking about how Alaska’s environment is changing, but how that plays out in our lives and how to better understand the interplay between long term change and short term extremes. Register at:
https://bit.ly/ThomanClimate

@EBecker @Climatologist49

August 1991 Spin magazine article. They sent a reporter to Anchorage to see if he could find the "soul of rock'n'roll." The best part is when he falls for a tourist prank at the Birdhouse bar. #alaskahistory #anchoragehistory #alaska

On April 1, 1974, Porky Bickar of Sitka faked the eruption of Mount Edgecumbe with burning tires, tricking residents & Coast Guard, a required annual post. More on the greatest Alaska Fools joke in Alaska history in my 2020 article: https://adn.com/alaska-life/2020/04/06/the-story-of-porkys-rising-alaskas-greatest-ever-april-fools-day-prank/ #alaskahistory #alaska

A few favorite non-glacier photos from the Worthington Glacier area near Valdez, Alaska. The landscape here is full of motion and texture — and if you look closely, there are a lot of small, surprising details tucked into the cracks and edges of the terrain.

More info and hikes here:
https://www.lwpetersen.com/alaska-guide/worthington-glacier-hikes/

6:00AM: 37F, extremely clear.

As in, not a cloud in the sky.

BUT, it looks like rain will arrive by the weekend. YAY! Reeealllllly getting tired of sunny days.

In other Alaska news, PFD application season ended yesterday. April 1st is the day I have at least 2 or 3 folks come in asking to file and I have to say it's too late. Eek! (However, you had 3 months people!)

Nothing like free $ to get people riled up.

New #earthquake detected:
M 5.2 - 62 km ESE of Egegik, #Alaska
2025/04/01, 04:04:36 UTC
GPS: 58.0950, -156.3406
Depth: 10.500 km
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/ak02546kb91j

Saint Innocent of #Alaska, who died OTD in 1879, was the first Orthodox bishop and archbishop in the Americas, and finally the Metropolitan of Moscow and all Russia https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/alaska/southeast/?s=mb #travel #history

1979 Avon cosmetics magazine advertisement that suggests a woman "30 miles from Fairbanks" drives a one-horse sleigh to get around yet is a successful Avon saleswoman. #alaskahistory #alaska

A very demure, circa 1990 "Alaska All the Time" T-shirt. Via ebay, not my listing (https://www.ebay.com/itm/356726749947?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=nyy75fqnq6w&sssrc=2047675&ssuid=laaBxFPgS0G&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY). #alaskahistory #alaska

Rally in my town this week with a local group organizing #CBJuneau #Alaska #HandsOff #Resisters

Kinematic Evolution Of A Large Paraglacial Landslide In The Barry Arm Fjord Of Alaska
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JF007119 <-- shared paper
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https://doi.org/10.5066/P9EUCGJQ <-- shared technical article
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https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalogMaps/mapping/ows/5fff561ed34e592d8671ee85?service=wms&request=getcapabilities&version=1.3.0 <-- shared web mapping service
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #massmovement #landslide #engineeringgeology #remotesensing #sitespecific #LiDAR #iFSAR #paraglacial #kinematics #mapping #monitoring #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #fedscience #risk #hazard #glacier #retreat #climatechange #Alaska #BarryArm #fjord #hazardassessment #tsunami #wave #BarryGlacier #change #sensors #fieldwork #surveillance #melting #permafrost #Whittier #geophysics #geology #Alaska #geomorphometry #deglaciating
@USGS

1967 Northwest Airlines, Alaska Menu - Postcard
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#NorthwestAirlines #Alaska #Menu #Postcard #Aviation #Avgeek #Ephemera

April 1992, hundreds of UAF students protested school disrepair, budget cuts by legislature/Gov Wally Hickel, & tuition increases by UA Board of Regents. Students burned an effigy of Hickel & seized Butrovich Building for a sleep-in. Learn more (https://www.adn.com/alaska-life/2025/03/30/burn-him-down-a-history-of-effigy-burning-protests-in-alaska/). #alaska