Download or read book Fiords of Prince William Sound Alaska written by Ernest F. Bean and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fiords Of Prince William Sound Alaska written by Anonymous and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautifully illustrated book explores the unparalleled beauty of Prince William Sound, Alaska. It includes vivid descriptions and fascinating historical and geographical facts about this breathtaking natural wonder. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Exploring Alaska s Prince William Sound Its Fiords Islands Glaciers and Wildlife written by Neil C. Johannsen and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Exploring Alaska s Western Prince William Sound written by David Wm. Miller and published by Wilderness Images. This book was released on 2024-02-29 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embark on an unforgettable adventure with Exploring Alaska's Western Prince William Sound. This 320 page guidebook is your key to unlocking the wonders and hidden gems along the Sound’s scenic shores. Surrounded by the majestic Chugach National Forest and the Nellie Juan–College Fiord Wilderness Study Area, the western Sound also embodies 10 Alaska State Marine Parks and Recreation Sites and their spectacular landscapes. This guidebook is a must-have for boaters, kayakers and outdoor adventurers. Perfect for trip planning and on-site navigation, the book includes 163 regional and local maps, and dozens of photographs. Part I of the guidebook delves into the Sound’s captivating natural and human history. Part II serves as a marine travel guide, featuring destinations and travel tips with detailed descriptions of hundreds of anchorages, camping locations, and landing beaches suited for small boat mariners, ocean kayakers, and weekend campers.
Download or read book The Exchange of Water Between Prince William Sound and the Gulf of Alaska written by George Michael Schmidt and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prince William Sound is a complex fjord-type estuarine system bordering the northern Gulf of Alaska. This study is an analysis of exchange between Prince William Sound and the Gulf of Alaska. Warm, high salinity deep water appears outside the Sound during summer and early autumn. Exchange between this ocean water and fjord water is a combination of deep and intermediate advective intrusions plus deep diffusive mixing. Intermediate exchange appears to be an annual phenomenon occurring throughout the summer. During this season, medium scale parcels of ocean water centered on temperature and NO maxima appear in the intermediate depth fjord water. Deep advective exchange also occurs as a regular annual event through the late summer and early autumn. Deep diffusive exchange probably occurs throughout the year, being more evident during the winter in the absence of advective intrusions.
Download or read book Macrobenthos from Three Fjords in Western Prince William Sound Alaska written by Charles Morris Hoskin and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This cruise report presents the results of a comparison of the benthos between three fjords in different phases of glacial retreat in the Port Nellie Juan area of western Prince William Sound.
Download or read book Some Features of Glaciers and Glaciation in College Fiord Prince William Sound Alaska written by Lawrence Martin and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Wild Promise written by Debbie S. Miller and published by Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2018 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist in Nature The 2.1 million acres (equivalent to Yellowstone National Park) of the wilderness study area are coming under increasing threat by resource development Essays of personal explorations of the region by an award-winning writer are accompanied by dramatic images from an award-winning photographer The wilderness study area is home to the largest concentration of tidewater glaciers in America and hosts a vast diversity of terrestrial and aquatic mammals, birds, and fish It's been said that "a picture is worth a thousand words," and nowhere is that more true than on the pages ofA Wild Promise: Prince William Sound. The images of photographer Hugh Rose show you what this region holds--and what will be lost without protection from future resource development. Alongside Hugh's images are eloquent essays covering the natural and cultural history, people, and fragility of this region by noted Alaskan writer Debbie Miller. Alaska's famed Prince William Sound includes more than 3,000 shore land miles of bays, coves, and deep fjords topped by the ice-capped peaks of the Chugach Mountains. More than 1 million tourists visit the region annually, and small family-owned fishing boats, ecotourism, oyster farms, and guide services provide sustainable livelihoods for year-round Alaskan residents. Many Americans first came to know of Prince William Sound through the Exxon Valdez oil spill of 1989--a catastrophe with lingering long-term effects, such the collapse of the once abundant herring population, a critical fish in the marine food chain. InA Wild Promise, readers travel alongside Hugh and Debbie as they hike and kayak from Columbia Glacier to College Fiord, exploring the Nellie Juan-College Fjord Wilderness Study Area, a region set aside for study in 1980, to be followed--it was hoped--by permanent protection from Congress. After almost four decades of being in limbo as a designated wilderness study area, the fate of this spectacular, wild place is now in our hands. Its protection is a gift we can offer generations to come--a promiseof wilderness, beauty, and natural diversity that we can, indeed, keep.
Download or read book A Stern and Rock bound Coast written by Linda A. Cook and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Exploring Alaska s Kenai Fjords written by David Wm. Miller and published by Wilderness Images. This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring Alaska’s Kenai Fjords is an ideal planning guide for small boat mariners, ocean kayakers, and weekend beachcombers. This 2013 update includes 40 maps, annotated with easy-to-follow symbols and notes, and detailed narrative describing the Kenai Fjords National Park, Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge Sites, Alaska State Marine and Recreational Parks and Kachemak Bay State and Wilderness Parks. Also includes color photographs and vintage drawings illustrating the history, glaciers, wildlife, and ever-changing seascapes of one of America's most diverse and rugged coastlines.
Download or read book Estuarine Conditions and Water Exchange in Fjords of Prince William Sound Alaska written by Shelton M. Gay and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation addresses spatial variation in physical properties of small fjords in Prince William Sound (PWS), Alaska between 1994 and 1997 and circulation and water exchange in 2007 and 2008 at Simpson Bay, a small subarctic fjord located in eastern PWS. Ancillary weather data were also collected at Simpson in both years. Principal component (PC) analysis is used to quantify variance in freshwater content (FWC) and temperature among sites and regression analysis is used to compare mean FWCs with watershed to fjord basin area ratios (WSR), watershed areas and maximum elevations. The results show that the principal components explaining > 90% of the variance in FWC occur in two statistical modes that respectively indicate total freshwater input from all sources and the vertical distribution from mixing, advection and in certain cases internal waves. The spatial variation of temperature is more complex due to local differences in solar heating combined with cooling effects of alpine runoff and subsurface water advected from tidewater glacial fjords. In 1994, this type of advection influenced the hydrography in western PWS possibly as far south as N. Elrington Pass, and in 1996 and 1997, fjords influenced by glacial advection again exhibit atypically high FWC values due to subsurface freshening. The currents at Simpson Bay reveal a complex flow structure forced by tides interacting with bathymetry and moderated by stratification, tidal volume flux, internal waves and winds. Baroclinic currents form the principal mechanism forcing exchange, shown by both an imbalance in tidal volume transports and highly coherent low frequency variations in nearsurface T/S properties. Surface exchange by both winds and currents are also inferred by low to high frequency oscillations in the T/S wavelet spectra, and internal waves are evident from fluctuations in both the pycnocline depths during tide cycles and by vertical oscillations of moored temperatures. Vertical diffusivity and the efficiency of work performed by mixing from internal waves in comparison to available tidal energy indicate that deep diffusivity exceeds the available tidal energy on O (10 to 100). As such, changes in deep density in both basins over time cannot be alone due to vertical mixing and must come from advection of subsurface water from outside the fjord, and possibly submarine ground water discharge in the northern basin. The electronic version of this dissertation is accessible from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/151961
Download or read book A Brief History of Prince William Sound Alaska written by Jim Lethcoe and published by . This book was released on 1990-11-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Prince William Sound Alaska written by Jim Lethcoe and published by Todd Publications. This book was released on 1994-03-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Some Features of Glaciers and Glaciation written by Lawrence Martin and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prince William Sound written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text, numerous colour photographs and maps provide a portrait of all aspects of the past and present of this wilderness area located in southcentral Alaska near Anchorage.
Download or read book The Nature and Origin of Fiords written by John Walter Gregory and published by London : J. Murray. This book was released on 1913 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fjords written by James P.M. Syvitski and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fjords are both an interface and a buffer between glaciated continents and the oceans. They exhibit a very wide range in environmental conditions, both in dynamics and geography. Some are truly wonders of the world with their dizzying mountain slopes rising sharply from the ocean edge. Others represent some of the harshest conditions on earth, with hurricane winds, extremes in temperature, and catastrophic earth and ice movements. Fjords are unique estuaries and represent a large portion of the earth's coastal zone. Yet they are not very well known, given the increasing population and food pressures, and their present industrial and strategic importance. Temperate zone estuaries have had many more years of intense study, with multiyear data available. Most fjords have not been impacted by man but, if history repeats itself, that condition will not last long. Fjords present some unique environmental problems, such as their usually slow flushing time, a feature common to many silled environments. Thus there is presently a need for management guidelines, which can only be based on a thorough knowledge of the way fjords work. Fjords are, in many respects, perfect natural oceanographic and geologic lab oratories. Source inputs are easily identified and their resulting gradients are well developed. Throughout this book, we emphasize the potential of modeling pro cesses in fjords, with comparisons to other estuary, lake, shelf and slope, and open ocean environments.
