...Watch Team noted the ice is intact and looks stronger than the ice upriver from Fort Yukon," said National Weather Service hydrologist Ed Plumb from his office in Fairbanks.That means there is potential for the breakup front - or the boundary between ice...
...experienced below-normal April temperatures. But the most critical factor is the weather in the next few weeks, said hydrologist Scott Lindsey, and atmospheric models that predicted April's cold are giving mixed signals for May."We don't have...
...glacial or subglacial lake basin to the point where the ice dam holding it back is forced aside.National Weather Service hydrologist Aaron Jacobs said glacial retreat means Suicide Basin is no longer being filled with ice. When the basin fills, it now...
...environment and human society. A working group of internationally renowned glaciologists, climate scientists, meteorologists, hydrologists, physicists, chemists and other scientists came together at the Vatican for two days in April 2011 to present scientific...
...with the City manager, two representatives from the State's Department of Environmental Conservation, a forest level hydrologist and engineer, and other interested partners to better understand the problem, and to find a solution.Initial test results...
...transportation infrastructure to the best of our professional ability, while maximizing available funds.AK DOT&PF engineers and hydrologists thoroughly inspected the existing culverts to determine their course of action. A few property owners, who would be affected...
...designers estimated that water under the bridge would flow at 18,500 cubic feet per second. During the summer of 2011, USGS hydrologists measured water flows exceeding 85,000 cfs. DOT&PF received funding in the fall of 2011 to begin the design phase of...
...Many Alaskans are growing concerned that record-breaking snow could lead to record-breaking floods," Murkowski said.Hydrologist Scott Lindsey, however, said Anchorage residents should not have to worry unless the temperature suddenly zooms upward...
...to FEMA. Pernula said several streams, including Gold Creek, need a more detailed analysis and he suggested they hire a hydrologist to go through and verify the report."We should not be endorsing something that puts people in harm's way," said Commissioner...
...fortunate to live in a place where we have more options for securing clean, palatable water than we even know. I'm not a hydrologist, but I'm sure most of our country envy the panoply of water resources with which we are blessed. Let's focus on this...
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