Flying flood fringes
How did the flood behave away from our river corridor? During the August 13th outburst flood a TFR (temporary flight…
2025 | Sean Neilson & Richard Carstensen | 2-minute slideshow
20,000 years of icework, and its expression on the land
At Juneau, marine sediments dating to 13,000 BP have been found at 750 feet above sea level. Considering world sea level was more than 300 feet lower at that time, this represents more than 1000 feet of land depression under heavy ice.
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Student booklet for Mendenhall River
A guide to the natural and cultural history of our backyard glacial river. Another in the series of student written…
1997, update 2025 | ALDER House with Andy Romanoff | 18 pages
Our glacier’s accumulation area
What we can’t see from Visitor Center I’m told by interpretive staff that visitors are often surprised to learn from…
2025 | Richard Carstensen | 90 second slideshow
Icemargin lake virtual flyover
Glacial topography on 2023 LiDAR terrain model We recently received a new LiDAR dataset commissioned by USGS, that just barely…
2025 | Richard Carstensen | 1 minute slideshow
Sít’ Eetí Shaanáx historical series
History from the air Georeferencing old and recent vertical air photos in ArcMap makes it easy to export exactly scaled-&-aligned…
2021 | Richard Carstensen | 15 pages
Mendenhall River School historical series
History from the air Georeferencing old and recent vertical air photos in ArcMap makes it easy to export exactly scaled-&-aligned…
2021 | Richard Carstensen | 18 pages
LiDAR for The Notch
Terminal moraine at Glacier Bay In July, 2024, Koren Bosworth brought 4 of us to her home on the outwash…
2025 | Richard Carstensen | 90-second video
Discovery off-trail
Tracking & navigation workshop, upper Áak’w Táak (M-word Valley) Discovery Southeast has a strong relationship with the Forest Service’s Glacier…
2024 (& 2017) | Richard Carstensen | 4- & 2-minute slideshows, 17MB journal
Disco to Ford’s Terror, 1994
All in the timing In days before accurate tide tables, this place would indeed have gotten your attention. The…
1996 | Richard Carstensen | 10 pages
Bay&Valley day: marine&glacial landforms
Morning: In the morning we visited coastal sites at Aanchg̱altsóow, nexus town (Auke Rec) and K’aan Héenak’u, porpoise little bay…
2022 | Richard Carstensen | Landforms class archives
The Cruise: landforms of T’aaḵú Aaní
On Sunday Sept-11 we motored 53 miles southeast from Áak’w into T’aakú Aaní, exploring landforms from the water. In Avenza,…
2022 | Richard Carstensen | geopdfs for T’aaḵú cruise
Second SEALT-Discovery walk
Traversing the 2014 wetlands conservation parcel On July 16th, about 25 bushwackers assembled in the parking area at end of…
2022 | Richard Carstensen | 11 minute slideshow
First encounters
Áak’w & T’aaḵú country in 1794 Back in 2010, when first collaborating with Goldbelt Heritage, I began to mine the archives…
2011 updated 2021 | Richard Carstensen | 36-minute slideshow
Pocket wildlands: forests and ponds of Áak’w Táak
Fifty friends on backloop moraines On a sunny July 17th, 2021, Discovery Southeast and the Southeast Alaska Land Trust hosted…
2021 | Richard Carstensen | 8 minute slideshow
SEALT & Discovery Southeast groupwalk
Touring lands on Back Loop Road Discovery Southeast and the Southeast Alaska Land Trust (SEALT) have similar missions. Discovery works…
L’ux̱, murky water (H-word River)
Journal for my favorite glacial valley A scoping document and collection of journals from 40 years of visits to what…
2020 | Richard Carstensen | 62 pages
Nature near the schools: Landforms
Powerpoint & script for Discovery Nature Studies I didn’t come to geology by natural inclination. I was gently nudged by…
1990 | Richard Carstensen | powerpoint & script
Nature near the schools 1991: Mendenhall River powerpoint.
Materials from the Eisenhower Math and Science series In February, 1991, with Gustavus master-naturalist Greg Streveler, Discovery director Cinda Stanek…
1991 | Carstensen, Streveler, Stanek & Merli | workshop materials
Glacial & cultural history of northern Lingít Aaní
A fireside presentation My talk at the Visitor Center in February, 2020 explored the past 20,000 years of glaciation and…
2020 | Richard Carstensen | 27 minutes
Kaxdigoowu Héen (Montana Creek): presentation for SEAL Trust
Slideshow in two parts Kaxdigoowu Héen, going back clearwater has been one of my favorite places since I first explored…
2019 | Richard Carstensen & John Hudson | slide show in 2 parts: 38 & 22 minutes