South of Donnelly Dome at midnight, Jim Brader pushed open the pickup door. He turned on his headlamp and pointed a wind gauge into a gale that sounded like a freight train.
By McKernan, J Cameron This paper describes the evolution of a medium-sized dry hold fishing vessel into a larger refrigerated salt water (RSW) tanked hold fishing vessel over a period of several years. The changes were driven by economics and shaped by regulations.
In Katharina Billups' Lewes lab, a graduate student peers into a microscope and sorts out tiny specks -- little grains of sediment that look like seashells.
High in the Himalayas, a Kent company's technology guides the first commercial jet flight through a twisting valley into a new airport. The same system could someday ease crowding at U.S. airports.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The search for a crewman missing after a commerical fishing boat capsized south of the Alaska Peninsula, killing two men and injuring another, was called off Thursday night, the Coast Guard said.
A new El Nino pattern is prompting climatologists to predict a warmer than usual winter for Alaska. John Papineau is a climate specialist in the Anchorage office of the National Weather Service.
The 800-mile trans-Alaska pipeline was closed down today after operators lost communications amid rainy weather to remote valves that close in the event of a spill.
