Citywalk geopdfs
2023 aerial and surficial geology for the Blackwell tour To kick off our 2024 summer of Blackwell walks, here’s a…
2024 | Richard Carstensen | two geopdfs, 11 and 19 MB
Two scales of geopdfs for Dzantik’i Héeni watershed.
Dzantik’i Héeni, flounder at the base of the creek (Gold Creek)
Our (formerly) unnoticed front yard
In 2015, Cathy Pohl did a little bird study of the Gold Creek delta, with an eye (and ear) to what changes we might expect with construction of the proposed Sea Walk outside Egan Expressway. All kinds of cool stuff going on out there! Because we’ve been so cut off from our waterfront by traffic, few of us downtown residents recreated on little flounder creek.
That changed suddenly in 2018 when the Sea Walk opened. Now, our marine ‘front yard’ beckons as invitingly as our goaty ‘back yard.’ What a cool place to live!
Even in the sleet of December, Dzantik’i Héeni rewards investigation. Check out this 7-minute slide show about a walk with Discovery staff.
I prepared a high-resolution version of this map to bring on interpretive walks led by Mike Blackwell and Cathy Connor for Friends of the Juneau Douglas City Museum.
In this section
Goats at 500 feet
Anglehorn’s band On January 2nd, 2024, we still had very little snow. The series of record-breaking-but-quickly-melted blizzards everyone now (March)…
2024 | Richard Carstensen | 70-second video
Winter-billy range (and a calendar)
Where do mature males go when rut has ended? Soon after we began near-daily observations of mountain goats in autumn,…
2024 | Richard Carstensen | 12 minute slideshow
Dodging nature’s tantrums
Visualization tools for ‘gravity-events’ What do snow avalanches, mudslides and glacial outburst floods have in common? I guess they’re all…
2023 | Richard Carstensen | 50-second video; pdf downloads
Bishop 1985 Nettle(Behrends) avalanche
Oblique aerials after the last big one In a binder of slides and negatives that Brita Bishop lent me, I…
1985 | Dan Bishop | 7 pages
Goatlandia: early winter 2023
Motioncam at 600 feet In mid-December, 2022, 9 of us Discovery naturalists bushwhacked up into mountain goat winter range to…
2023 | Richard Carstensen | 3 minute slideshow
Dipper hunting caddisflies
Hinyiklʼeix̱i, dancer in the water November 18, 2022 I love dippers but have had little luck filming them in their…
2022 | Richard Carstensen | 3 minute video
Escape to ‘beautiful face’
Outdoors with teachers Yadaa.at Kalé means beautifully adorned face, of slopes rising northeast from the highschool named for them (JDH).…
Mass wasting finale
In class—our penultimate Wednesday—we reviewed Bay&Valley day, and then transitioned to the concluding Saturday field trip focusing on ‘serious-stuff-coming-downhill.’ For…
2022 | Richard Carstensen | Landforms class archives
Spring avalanches
Snowslides and critters Last year around this time I posted video and thoughts about the relationship of critters to avalanches—both…
Downhill disturbance
Avalanche and wildlife It’s hard to think long about mountain goats—especially here on the precipitous coast—without wondering how they deal…
2022 | Richard Carstensen | 3 minute slideshow
2022 avalanches
Snowslide cartography When weather clears and risk-level drops, I’ve been trying to keep up with this winter’s avalanches by flying…
Avalanche mapping
Releases in Nettleslide (Behrends path) & Last Chance Goatwatching in winter leads inevitably to fascination with avalanches. Yesterday, Feb 12,…
2022 | Richard Carstensen |
Happy ‘goating’ in 2022!
Wrapping up the 2021 Jánwu journal January 1st, 2022: Most radio commentators appear quite ready to bid good riddance to…
Autumn Goatlandia
Rainforest rut Last fall I described elements of rutting season in mountain goats, but did not attempt a comprehensive review.…
2021 | Richard Carstensen | 9 minute slideshow
Cusp of summer and fall
Insights from tele-views of Jánwu What an amazing place we live in! From afar, scoping in valley bottom, or up…
2021 | Richard Carstensen | 7 minute slideshow
Stereogoatlandia
3D perspectives on Janwú’s home My mountain goat observations dating back to 2015 fill 3 enormous journals. During that time…
2021 | Richard Carstensen | 15 pages of excerpts
Dust-bath grouse&goats
Hooters & janwú at 80 degrees On an afternoon hike to Granite Basin, got another chance to test the new…
2021 | Richard Carstensen | 90 second slideshow
Teachers’ outings, 2021
Year-3: Estuaries & steep places Two kinds of landforms & habitats have consumed my attention this winter and spring—estuaries and…
2021 | Richard Carstensen | 60 page journal & course manual
Dzisk’w liu kaadi: little owl snowslide
Avalanches in Goatlandia Yesterday (20210304), avalanches were triggered above the Thane Road runout on Snowslide Creek. Several folks posted impressive…
2021 | Richard Carstensen | 80-second slideshow