Landslide initiation thresholds in data-sparse regions: application to landslide early warning criteria in Sitka, Alaska, USA by A. I. Patton, A. I. Patton, L. V. Luna, L. V. Luna, L. V. Luna, J. J. Roering, A. Jacobs, O. Korup, O. Korup, B. B. Mirus

“…We evaluate 136 statistical models trained on a precipitation dataset with five landslide-triggering precipitation events recorded near Sitka, Alaska, USA, as well as <span class="inline-formula"><i>&gt;</i></span> 6000 d of non-triggering rainfall (2002–2020). …”
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Depredating sperm whales in the Gulf of Alaska: local habitat use and long distance movements across putative population boundaries by JM Straley, GS Schorr, AM Thode, J Calambokidis, CR Lunsford, EM Chenoweth, VM O’Connell, RD Andrews

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Fourteen polymorphic microsatellite markers for the widespread Labrador tea (Rhododendron groenlandicum) by Matthew L. Sheik, Kitty L. LaBounty, Erika Mitchell, Emily L. Gillespie

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A Virtual Necropsy: Applications of 3D Scanning for Marine Mammal Pathology and Education by Ellen M. Chenoweth, Josh Houston, Kathy Burek Huntington, Jan M. Straley

“…On 14 March 2021, a dead female adult humpback whale was reported stranded on an uninhabited island 15 miles west of Sitka, Alaska. The whale was three-dimensionally scanned using light detection and ranging (LiDAR) and photogrammetry before, during, and at multiple time points after a necropsy, including full decomposition 17 days later (NOAA Fisheries permit 18786-01). …”
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WeatherChimes: An Open IoT Weather Station and Data Sonification System by Winnie Woo, William Richards, John Selker, Chet Udell

“…We describe the application of WeatherChimes in an undergraduate Honors College classroom and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) education workshop series in Sitka Alaska, which was used to not only teach about environmental sensors, but to explore how different aspects of our environment are interrelated (e.g. temperature and humidity) through sonification.…”
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Large-scale impacts of sea star wasting disease (SSWD) on intertidal sea stars and implications for recovery. by C Melissa Miner, Jennifer L Burnaford, Richard F Ambrose, Liam Antrim, Heath Bohlmann, Carol A Blanchette, John M Engle, Steven C Fradkin, Rani Gaddam, Christopher D G Harley, Benjamin G Miner, Steven N Murray, Jayson R Smith, Stephen G Whitaker, Peter T Raimondi

“…We analyzed nearly two decades of data from a coordinated monitoring effort at 88 sites ranging from southern British Columbia to San Diego, California along with 2 sites near Sitka, Alaska to better understand the effects of sea star wasting disease (SSWD) on the keystone intertidal predator, Pisaster ochraceus. …”
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Estimation of lidar-based gridded DEM uncertainty with varying terrain roughness and point density by Luyen K. Bui, Craig L. Glennie

“…The proposed approach is tested with two lidar datasets measured in Waikoloa, Hawaii, and Sitka, Alaska. Triangulated irregular network (TIN) interpolation is chosen as the representative gridding approach. …”
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