Spring Field Work

Last November, we set up a couple of field sites in south central Alaska. Part of this process involved standing some antennas along the coast, but with the spring thaw, those antennas have begun to sink into the wet ground, so Andrew and I took a trip to right them back up again. One of our field sites is Nanwalek, Alaska, which is a beautiful Alutiiq village in lower Cook Inlet.


The only way to get there from across the bay is by plane...a little plane that costs about $100 round trip.


It's amazing, really. There is a string of villages along the coast each with thier own 'airport' where people find shelter as they meet the plane to pick up the mail, see what random packages have been sent over on the plane, send things out, or catch the plane themselves.


The trip was a success and didn't take much time at all. We left with antennas intact. Although we will return on Mother's Day to spend a few days calibrating our instruments and giving some oceanography demonstrations at the village school. It should be fun.

No trip to the Homer, Alaska, area is ever complete without seeing a bald eagle, or two, or twenty.