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April 26, 2019
Warm spring may result in gentle breakup
Following the warmest March Alaskans have ever felt, forecasters are predicting a mellow transition from ice to water for most big rivers in the state. Things don’t always go that way during spring breakup, when chunks of river ice freed from the cold grip of winter can lock up in river bends and back up water into communities.
September 21, 2018
Kerala Floods – Rescue and Rehabilitation using Information Technology and Social Media
The south Indian state of Kerala used a new model of rescue and rehabilitation during worst floods of the century.
September 27, 2017
Inundation Investigations
It’s not often that you get to see mallards swimming amongst the trees in the bosque, or find fish swimming in the litterfall tubs…
September 21, 2017
Hurricanes and far north sea ice
Hurricanes don’t happen in Alaska because those storms are tropical by nature, but typhoons (another word for hurricanes) sometimes track north into the Bering Sea…
