Highlander report, 1983
For Rita O’Clair’s Alpine Ecology class, UAJ In the predigital dark ages, before University of Alaska Juneau became UAS, I…
1983 update 2024 | Richard Carstensen | 24 pages
Grab bag
This is the ‘miscellaneous’ section in Media for stuff that doesn’t quite pigeonhole into more definable formats such as books or videos.These are generally less formal productions—sometimes snippets from other documents—as opposed to ‘finished’ reports for print or digital publication. Also in this section are digital versions of sign content for ten 3-panel sign arrays at trailheads throughout the CBJ.
In this section
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
Bushwacker’s difficulty rating
The d-scale Many readers react initially with amusement to this ranking, but it’s one of the more useful measures of…
2023 | Richard Carstensen | 2 pages
Mountain zones
Chapter in Summit to sea Preparing for the Goatlandia class coming up, June, 2023, seems high time I got this…
2023 | Richard Carstensen | 12 pages
Summary manual: 1992-93 workshops
Five districts, Northern & Central Lingít Aaní In the early years of Discovery Southeast (actually named Discovery Foundation back then),…
1993, digitized 2012, uploaded 2023 | Richard Carstensen & Greg Streveler | 88 pages
Xunaa Ḵáawu: Why do we live here?
‘Syllabus’ for a course at Hoonah, 2014-15 Seems high time I got this and several other ‘scoping’ documents out there…
2014: updates 2023 | Richard Carstensen | 66 pages
T’aaḵú X̱’aka.aan: mouth of the great Taku
Perfect location (except in an ice storm) In 2012, L’eeneidí historian Liana Wallace sent me a high-res scan of Waggoner…
2022 | Richard Carstensen | 22 pages
Mammals of Lingít Aaní
Resources from Discovery’s early days In winter 2021-22, we’re pulling together materials for our Nature Studies naturalists, for units on…
2022 | Richard Carstensen | 23 pages
Albatross retraced
If Harriman had been serious About 120 years ago the steamer Albatross conducted watershed surveys, interviews and salmon distribution studies…
2019; updated 2023 | Richard Carstensen | 60 pages
Auke Bay School-UAS historical series
History from the air Georeferencing old and recent vertical air photos in ArcMap makes it easy to export exactly scaled-&-aligned…
2021 | Richard Carstensen | 9 pages
Nature near the schools 1991 Auke Bay powerpoint.
Materials from the Eisenhower Math and Science series In October, 1990, with Cathy Pohl and Gretchen Bishop, I gave a…
1991 | Carstensen, Pohl, Bishop | workshop materials
Nature near the schools: Sayéik (Gastineau) Elementary. 1991
Materials from the Eisenhower Math and Science series In March, 1991, with Discovery director Cinda Stanek and naturalist Cathy Pohl,…
1991 | Richard Carstensen | 22 pages
Sayéik historical series
History from the air Georeferencing old and recent vertical air photos in ArcMap makes it easy to export exactly scaled-&-aligned…
2021 | Richard Carstensen | 8 pages
L’ux̱, murky water (H-word River)
Journal for my favorite glacial valley A scoping document and collection of journals from 40 years of visits to what…
2020 | Richard Carstensen | 62 pages
“Ecosystem:” a rant
A plea for semantic reassessment Sifting through journals and course manuals recently, I came upon this one-page 2018 attack on…
2020 | Richard Carstensen | 1 page
Nature near the schools 1991: Mendenhall River powerpoint.
Materials 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 materials
Nature near the schools 1991: Glacier-Floyd powerpoints.
Materials from the Eisenhower Math and Science series In October, 1990, with Discovery director Cinda Stanek and naturalist Steve Merli,…
1990 | Carstensen, Stanek, Merli | workshop materials
Cemetery mapping, 1990-2017
College-level field mapping in elementary school Probably the most ambitious project undertaken in my pilot Nature Studies program at Harborview,…
2018 | Richard Carstensen | 46 pages
Nature near schools: 1990-93
Overview & supplementary materials In addition to school site descriptions for Juneau School District and others throughout northern Lingít Aaní,…
1990-91 | Carstensen, Streveler & Pohl | 20 pages
Birds & plane safety
Beginning in late 2001, on contract with Airport EIS consultants SWCA, Bob Armstrong and I spent a full year surveying…
2004 | Richard Carstensen & Bob Armstrong | 14 pages