There’s camping, then there’s Alaska back-country, grizzly bear scientific research camping. That’s how WSU Ph.D. student Joy Erlenbach has spent the past three summers, and where she is right now. “We get dropped off in the middle of Katmai National Park by a float plane, then we’re on our own for a month,” Erlenbach said […]
WSU graduate student Joy Erlenbach is spending her summer in Alaska’s Katmai National Park on a bear research project. Read her account of the work she’s doing.
Each year at this time thousands of tourists embark on cruises along Alaska stunning coastal waters. If they are lucky, the tourists experience dry weather, relatively calm seas, and breathtaking vistas. In some places the ships can get up close and personal to dramatic scenes of glaciers “calving” ice that breaks off and falls into […]