
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 pagesDiscoverySoutheast.org
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.
All in the timing In days before accurate tide tables, this place would indeed have gotten your attention. The…
1996 | Richard Carstensen | 10 pagesMorning: 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 archivesOn 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 cruiseTraversing the 2014 wetlands conservation parcel On July 16th, about 25 bushwackers assembled in the parking area at end of…
2022 | Richard Carstensen | 11 minute slideshowÁak’w & T’aakú country in 1794 Back in 2010, when first collaborating with Goldbelt Heritage, I began to mine the…
2011 updated 2021 | Richard Carstensen | 36-minute slideshowFifty friends on backloop moraines On a sunny July 17th, 2021, Discovery Southeast and the Southeast Alaska Land Trust hosted…
2021 | Richard Carstensen | 8 minute slideshowTouring lands on Back Loop Road Discovery Southeast and the Southeast Alaska Land Trust (SEALT) have similar missions. Discovery works…
Journal for my favorite glacial valley A scoping document and collection of journals from 40 years of visits to what…
2020 | Richard Carstensen | 62 pagesPowerpoint & script for Discovery Nature Studies I didn’t come to geology by natural inclination. I was gently nudged by…
1990 | Richard Carstensen | powerpoint & scriptMaterials 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 materialsA fireside presentation My talk at the Visitor Center in February, 2020 explored the past 20,000 years of glaciation and…
2020 | Richard Carstensen | 27 minutesSlideshow 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 minutesIn 2011 and 2012, I helped survey proposed hydro facilities at Sweetheart Lake and estuary, about 40 air-miles south of…
2011&12 | Richard Carstensen | 25 page excerptHeart and edge: Biogeographic provinces of Southeast Alaska An atlas-in-progress for the 22 provinces of Lingít and Haida Aaní. This…
2020 (draft) | Richard Carstensen | 26 page excerptDiscovery Southeast celebrates 4 decades of research and education at Áak’w Táak, inland from little lake (Mendenhall Valley) glacierdiscovery from…
2017 | Richard Carstensen | 27 minutesAerial views of post-glacial succession. Combines UAV perspectives with high-res orthophotography plus forest profile views in the LiDAR point cloud.…
2017 | Richard Carstensen | 20 minutesOn receipt of the new DSM (digital surface model) from IfSAR missions at 5-meter pixel resolution, it became possible to…
2018 | Richard Carstensen | 1 pageFor the sesquicentennial year of the 1867 Alaska Purchase, Juneau-Douglas City Museum asked me to create 3 banners showing 150…
2017 | Richard Carstensen | 28 minutesThe Herbert and neighboring Eagle Glaciers advanced and receded synchronously with the much better known Mendenhall. Reaching their termini has…
A Discovery Guide for the independent traveler who wishes to visit the Mendenhall Glacier by bus and foot. Inspired by…
2009 | Richard Carstensen | 2 pages, 3 MB