Scoping & journals for Eeyák’w (Amalga-EVC)
Natural and cultural history of Amalga meadows and Tool T’eik (Peterson Creek) In 2007, moving into a 4-year interpretive signage…
2025 | Richard Carstensen | 117 page pdf
Post-glacial rebound (isostacy)
The starting point for understanding coastal landforms and vegetative communities in northern Southeast Alaska is a question: Is this beach rising relative to sea level, and if so, how fast?
Panorama of uplifted landforms at False Outer Point, Douglas Island.
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Discovery staff ‘out-the-road’
Exploring Eeyák’w, small rapid (Amalga Salt Chuck) On December 2nd & 3rd, a dozen naturalists gathered for review and planning.…
East-Heart decomposure
Metamorphosis of roadkill on a threatened peatland My last slideshow on Taashuyee-Chookan.aani (M-word Wetlands) was inspired by the first northbound…
2024 | Richard Carstensen | 16-minute slideshow
Accretion on Taashuyee (Mendenhall wetlands)
Vegetation-&-rebound study for Southeast Alaska Land Trust (SEALT) In 2003, Discovery Southeast mapped tidal and supratidal habitats on the Refuge…
2004, update 2023 | Richard Carstensen | 39 pages
Bishop & Streveler 1987 Gustavus ditches
Dan and Greg and the water table Quite the dynamic duo! Lingít Aaní’s senior hydrologist teamed with Sít’ Eeti Geeyí’s…
1987 | Bishop & Streveler | 45 pages
Bishop 1989 Haines Airport phase-2
Return to the Nexus Between 1988 and 1989, Environaid made a total of 8 visits to Sawmill Wetland. Initial work…
1989 | Bishop, Bishop & Carstensen | 47 pages
Bishop 1989 Haines Airport phase-1
Proposed Haines Airport reconstruction In October, 1988 and January, 1989, I joined Dan and his daughter Gretchen Bishop for a…
1989 | Bishop, Bishop & Carstensen | 47 pages
Shaanáx̱ Tlein, (Lemon Creek watershed)
Tides, toads & topography: Natural & cultural history of big valley In 2003 I had the privilege of directing a…
2003 | Alder House students | 27 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
Discovery naturalists at Asx̱’ée
Cybertracking the ‘power outlet’ On July 29th, 2022, 14 Discovery naturalists and their 3 visiting instructors gathered on tidal sand…
2022 | Richard Carstensen | 23 page journal excerpt & pageflippers
Natural & cultural history of Asx̱’ée
Exhuming an early slideshow Back in 2011, preparing for a Charter School/Goldbelt Heritage overnight expedition to Methodist Camp,’out-the-road,’ I created…
2010: uploaded 2022 | Richard Carstensen | 16 minute slideshow
Bishop, Armstrong & Carstensen 1987 Juneau Airport
Environmental analysis of lower Jordan Creek From March through July, 1987, I assisted Dan Bishop and Bob Armstrong with an…
1987 | Bishop, Armstrong & Carstensen | 40 pages
American Wetlands Month features Taashuyee
Our frontyard wetlands in StoryMaps For several years I’ve been wanting to dive into ArcGIS StoryMaps, cartography for one and…
2021 | USFWS | ArcGIS StoryMap
1995 Student guide to Outer Point
Take a hike … Exploring a favorite Juneau trail In the inaugural year of Dzantik’i Héeni Middle School, an ambitious…
1995 | Students of Dzantik'i Héeni | 19 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
History and future of the Refuge
Rebound, succession, fish&wildlife, and aviation on our frontyard wetlands In 2011, Jeff Sauer at Juneau Audubon asked for a presentation…
2011 | Richard Carstensen | 36-minute slideshow
Outer Point Raven’s-eye
Kaalahéenak’u, inside a person’s mouth (Peterson Creek) For Clan Conference in autumn, 2015, I prepared a 7-minute animation exploring the…
2015 | Richard Carstensen | 7-minute slideshow
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
Tsaa T’ei Héen (Admiralty Cove)
‘Lost village’ of Áak’w Kwáan Every Tlingit Kwáan in Southeast Alaska has at least one ‘lost village,’ known in oral history…
2018 | Richard Carstensen | 33 pages
Áak’w & T’aakú Aaní: the natural history of resilience
Presentation for Evening at Egan On November 9th, 2018, I gave the second in a series of 4 lectures for…
Nov, 2018 | Richard Carstensen | 36 minutes