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ALT Three mountain goats sheltering beneath an overhang of snow exhibiting a fracture line of a glide avalanche. Exposed alpine terrain can be seen above and below the overhang due to a previous avalanche removing snow cover. Photo credit: Kevin White, University of Alaska Southeast/University of Victoria; Used with Permission.
ALT Six mountain goats foraging after avalanche exposed alpine terrain (near top of image). Three mountain goats sheltering beneath an overhang of snow caused by avalanche (right of image). Black and white arrows point to mountain goats. Photo credit: Kevin White, University of Alaska Southeast/University of Victoria; Used with Permission.
ALT Conceptual diagram of the suite of observing activities currently supported by the Alaska Arctic Observatory and Knowledge Hub (AAOKH). Each observer provides regular narrative observations (and photos) of sea ice or ocean conditions (depending on season), weather, wildlife, travel (on ice or ocean) conditions, flooding, or erosion, building on the regular narrative observations of the seasonal ice zone established by the Seasonal Ice Zone Observing Network (SIZONet) (Eicken et al. 2014). Some communities also have special K-12 education and outreach events and specialized observing protocols for ocean measurements (temperature, salinity, productivity), sea ice thickness and snow depth to assess travel hazards and break-up processes (e.g., Mahoney et al. 2021), and mapping/measuring ice thickness on snowmachine trails used by whaling crews on the landfast ice (Druckenmiller et al. 2013).
