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Alaska Current Events

Arctic Ocean Map

Researchers at the University of New Hampshire and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have data suggesting that the foot of the continental slope off Alaska is more than 100 nautical miles farther out than previously assumed. If this is correct it could give the United States exclusive claim to additional valuable energy and mineral resources on and below the sea floor.

“A University of Colorado at Boulder study indicates meltwater periodically overwhelms the interior drainpipes of Alaska’s Kennicott Glacier and causes it to lurch forward, similar to processes that may help explain the acceleration of glaciers observed recently on the Greenland ice sheet that are contributing to global sea rise.” Quoted from the NASA news release.

NOAA Image

Sea surface temperatures are important determinants of hurricane formation and the data is valuable for a variety of studies. NOAA has a website where you can view sea surface temperature maps for US Atlantic, US Pacific, North Atlantic, South Atlantic, Equatorial Pacific, Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of California, Gulf of Alaska, Great Lakes, Hawaii, Bering Strait, Global and many more.

University of Washington scientists have found clear evidence that a 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Alaska during 2002 triggered five tremor bursts on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. The same earthquake sloshed lakes as far away as Louisiana and muddied wells as far away as Pennsylvania.