{"id":9816,"date":"2023-12-21T18:04:49","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T22:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zobi.alcowep.com\/bourtagshdrevxnls658739\/going-the-extra-500-miles-for-alaskan-river-ice\/"},"modified":"2023-12-21T18:04:49","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T22:04:49","slug":"going-the-extra-500-miles-for-alaskan-river-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zobi.alcowep.com\/bourtagshdrevxnls658739\/going-the-extra-500-miles-for-alaskan-river-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"Going the Extra 500 miles for Alaskan River Ice"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Fresh Eyes on Ice science team from the University of Alaska Fairbanks stop in the Alaska Native village of Shageluk on a community and citizen science journey of 550 mile by snow mobile.<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Teachers and students in remote Alaskan villages have become vital NASA climate researchers. These special volunteers are so important that last year, climate scientists took an epic 550 mile snowmobile journey to collaborate with them! You can learn all about it in a\u00a0new video\u00a0from the\u00a0Fresh Eyes on Ice project<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The researchers stopped at several remote Alaskan villages, where teachers and students at the local schools already understood why this work was so crucial. When you drive over ice-covered rivers every day\u2014as many Alaskan residents do\u2014tracking ice thickness is no joke. Neither is climate change.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe knew that climate change was happening around us.\u201d explains Joyanne Hamilton, a teacher whose students worked with the team. \u201cOur elders here in Shageluk were talking about changes that were happening\u2026.the data they\u2019re gathering is ultimately important to the tribe.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The new video features Hamilton, her students, and Fresh Eyes on Ice researchers Dr. Chris Arp, Allen Bondurant and Sarah Clement. It follows their journey along the Innoko, Kukokwim and Yukon Rivers and the Iditarod Sled Dog Trail.<\/p>\n

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Fresh Eyes on Ice science team from the University of Alaska Fairbanks stop in the Alaska Native village of Shageluk on a community and citizen science journey of 550 mile by snow mobile.<\/div>\n
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Do you live in Alaska or elsewhere in North America where ice forms? All you need to help out is a smartphone and\u00a0NASA\u2019s GLOBE Observer Landcover app<\/a>.\u00a0Your photos will be used in near-real time by river forecasters to help predict spring ice jam flooding, and by scientists to understand how ice timing and extent is changing.\u00a0Join Fresh Eyes on Ice here<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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