Richard Carstensen’s Posts on JuneauNature
Just spent 3 days fine-tuning RD Miller’s wonderful 1972 surficial geology map for Juneau. I expanded it all the way north to the Cowee-Davies watersheds. Some of the more esoteric subtypes have been collapsed into broader landform categories. On the other hand, we now have the ability to more accurately draw unit borders from the…
September 20, 2015. Throughout 2014 and the first half of 2015, I (RC) was preoccupied with wetland surveys throughout the CBJ, and other distractions such as learning how to fly my own video surveys and stitched mosaics from low-elevation still photos from a UAV (un-personed aerial vehicle, ie drone.) One consequence is that Juneaunature has…
RC: Major progress today in 2 areas I’ve long wanted to explore on juneaunature. Embedded video from my quadcopter, out in the Amalga parkland, and an embedded map of the CBJ showing high-detail watersheds and bedrock geology. Enjoy! Hopefully, these will just be the tip of the iceberg–mere samplers of the kind of stuff we’ll…
With the 2015 Clan Conference coming up in late October, we’ve added a Carstensen essay on how places get their names. The theme of this year’s conference is Haa saaxú, haa latseení, our names, our strength. On our site, we’ve devoted a page of the Culture section to Naming places. Check it out!