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:…
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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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
2003 summer newsletter Risen Valleys
Wildlands ‘out the road’ In our Summer 2003 newsletter you’ll find an article by then-Discovery naturalist Kathy Hocker on the…
Summer 2003 | Kathy Hocker | 10 pages
Repeat photography summary report
Documenting change through repeat photography in Southeast Alaska Carefully framed retakes of historical photographs documenting vegetation and landform change in…
2005: 2nd ed, 2013 | Richard Carstensen, Kathy Hocker | 39 pages
Cowee-Davies brochure
Four-fold brochure created for the CBJ Natural History Project describes sea-level change, habitats, fish, wildlife and human history of Cowee…
2010 | Richard Carstensen | 2 pages
Wildlife “out the road”
Report to the Southeast Alaska Land Trust on habitats and wildlife use of glacially-rebounding valleys from 25 to 28-mile Glacier…
2003 | Richard Carstensen & Kathy Hocker | 35 pages
Reading Southeast Alaska’s landscape
How bedrock foundations, glaciers, rivers and sea shape the land How bedrock influences the shape of mountains and coastal landforms.…
2013 | Cathy Connor|Richard Carstensen | 28 pages