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2011 spring newsletter: Geology and life

Connections between the living and non-living world Feature article on response of flora and fauna to geologic landforms and bedrock…

Spring 2011 | Richard Carstensen | 12 pages

Greater Chilkat Watershed: a living atlas

Biogeography of Lingít Aaní’s most diverse transboundary watershed 20260502: In early winter, 2019, a coalition of Deishú (Haines)-based organizations invited…

2026 | Carstensen, with residents of the Greater Chilkat | 202 pages

1986 Adamus surveys in the Valley

Early-morning birdsong & veg-structure surveys In spring and early summer of ’86, until birdsong tapered off, Koren Bosworth and I…

1986 | Richard Carstensen | 20 pages

Tongass logging and research

[…] 2009. The first decade of that span was devoted to Landmark Trees, documenting our finest tall-tree spruce stands. Then in […]

2025 | Richard Carstensen | 6 pages of sidebars from Nature of SE AK

Our glacier’s accumulation area

What we can’t see from Visitor Center I’m told by interpretive staff that visitors are often surprised to learn from…

2025 | Richard Carstensen | 90 second slideshow

Icemargin lake virtual flyover

Glacial topography on 2023 LiDAR terrain model We recently received a new LiDAR dataset commissioned by USGS, that just barely…

2025 | Richard Carstensen | 1 minute slideshow

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

Disco to Ford’s Terror, 1994

All in the timing   In days before accurate tide tables, this place would indeed have gotten your attention. The…

1996 | Richard Carstensen | 10 pages

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

Roads of ‘Northeast Chich’

Slideshows: Xunaa Káawu Each summer, I try to get over to Hoonah to help my wife Cathy with her research…

2021: 2019 | Richard Carstensen | Slideshows, 8- & 4 minutes

A naturalist’s look at Southeast Alaska

Core text for early Discovery teacher workshops In 1992 and 93, Gustavus naturalist Greg Streveler and I visited 5 communities…

1993 | Greg Streveler & Richard Carstensen | 16 pages

American road trips

An appreciation of 7 good books My father Edwin died in June, 2016 at age 96, in Rochester, New York.…

2016: Update, July, 2020 | Richard Carstensen | 13 pages

Seasonal re-photography

[…] a stake for tripod relocation, or make a sketch including landmarks for precision replication. Don Lawrence always wrote the millimeter […]

2020 | Richard Carstensen | 3.5 minute video & 63-page pdf