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
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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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)
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
2001 winter newsletter: Bite marks and bathtub rings
A clue-reading toolkit for Southeast naturalists My feature article for Discoveries developed what had become a mantra among our naturalists:…
Amalga flight
Low-elevation views of the Amalga Salt Chuck and the Eagle Valley Center, under renovation in spring, 2017. amalgaflight from Discovery…
2017 | Richard Carstensen | 3 minutes
New tools for old naturalists
The 21st-century cartographer New tools for old naturalists In March, 2015, I gave a fireside presentation at the Mendenhall Visitor…
2015 | Richard Carstensen | 31 minutes
Teacher walk, Wigeon Ponds, West Refuge
Discovery naturalists Steve Merli, John Hudson and Richard Carstensen walked from end Mendenhall Peninsula Road to Industrial Boulevard with staff…
2018 | Richard Carstensen | 4:21 minutes
Cowee walk video
20160526 Quadcopter video of Ch’eet’ Taayi, murrelet fat (Cowee Creek) over uplift meadow and blooming wildflowers. Cathy Pohl, Steve Merli…
2016 | Richard Carstensen | 2:42
Sesquicentennial slideshow
For the sesquicentennial year of the 1867 Alaska Purchase, Juneau-Douglas City Museum asked me to create 3 banners showing 150…
2017 | Richard Carstensen | 28 minutes
Asx’ée (Eagle Beach) maps & historical series
I created an early version of this compilation while still living at the Scout camp at Asx’ée, twisted tree (Eagle River),…
2020 | Richard Carstensen | 38 pages