Southern Alaska showing location of lakes in photographs below
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Beaver on floats, primary means of transport
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Al & Scott assemble weather station, Long Lake, Copper R basin
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Feng Sheng christens an automated sediment sampler
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River bluffs, Copper River basin
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Hummocky, channelled drift, Chugach Mountains
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Rock glacier, Chugach Mountains
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Scott & Feng Sheng in airplane
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Gralying Lake with abundant evidence for Holocene glacier activity, false colore IR air photo
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Glacier-fed Greyling Lake; target for 2005 coring
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Holocene moraines, Greyling Lake
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Young drift intersecting upper Greyling Lake
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Prominent Holocene (?) loop moraines near Greyling Lake
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Sunset at Tonsina Lake Lodge
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Goat Lake (upper left) with Harting Icefield outlet, false colore IR air photo
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Goat Lake, Kenai Mountains; low saddle at top left was overtopped by late Holocene ice from on outlet of the Harding Icefield
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Saddle above camp, Goat Lake
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Outlet glacier with prominent left lateral moraine, saddle above Goat Lake
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Scott, Feng Shen & Al examine recent ice-scour along saddle above Goat Lake
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Holocene debris along right lateral at saddle above Goat Lake
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Kasey & Erin point to current direction in former outflow channel above Goat Lake
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Kasey, Erin & Al with outlet glacier in background
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Crevassed surface of Harding Icefield outlet
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Black bear, Goat Lake
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Goat Lake camp
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Kasey, Al, Erin & Tom
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Tephra & buried soil in test pit at Goat Lake
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Al, Scott, and Tom hammering core into Goat Lake, 50 m water depth
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Lunch break, Goat Lake
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The crew, Goat Lake
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Shuttling gear from Goat Lake to Upper Russian Lake
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Tom tries a pair on for size
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Redoubt Volcano, Alaska Peninsula
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Crescent Lake with Holocene debris-flow fan from Redoubt Volcano damming lake in foreground
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Tundra swans, Crescent Lake
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Kasey deploys acoustic profiling instrument while Erin, Kristi & Al look on, Crescent Lake
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Profiling subbottom stratigraphy, Crescent Lake
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Darrell reviews images of subbottom stratigraphy, Crescent Lake (photo by Kristi Wallace)
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Kasey & Tom compare surface cores, Crescent Lake
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Erin & Tom sample sediment from surface core, Crescent Lake
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Kristi & others celebrate successful coring operation, Crescent Lake
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Al tries out tow net, Crescent Lake
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Plover nest
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Late glacial moraine emerging from tributary valley above camp, Crescent Lake
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Tom cheers as he approaches top of steep tributary valley
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Tributary discharges from base of Holocene moraine
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View back to Crescent Lake; Al stands on Holocene left lateral moraine; its pair at right
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Sharp-crested Holocene moraine above Crescent Lake
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Modern glacier with moraine from last few decades at lower left, above Crescent Lake
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Cascade Lake (upper left) fed by Cascade Glacer lower center, false color IR air photo
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Landing at Cascade Lake, Ahklun Mountains
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Preparing to core Cascade Lake
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Tom & Kasey working the hammer lines while Erin monitors progress on core-head cable, Cascade Lake
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Morning fog at camp, Cascade Lake
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Smoky midnight sunset over Cascade Lake
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Panorama, Cascade Lake
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Erin & Kasey assemble sediment traps to deploy at Cascade Lake
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Sediment trap with temperature logger
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Erin takes a close look at the surface sediment
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Laminated lake mud, Cascade Lake
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Hiking up to cirque glacier above Cascade Lake
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Lupine
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Poppies
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Tom approaches bare-ice face of cirque glacier above Cascade Lake
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Holocene moraines at spill-over below cirque threshold
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Fresh debris flow near Cascade Lake
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Cascade Glacier, Ahklun Mountains
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Cascade Glacier photo station; moraine at right edge was formed since 1970
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Monument at photo station, Cascade Glacier
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Arolik Lake
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Weather station behind beach ridge at southern shore, Arolik Lake
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Al adjusting weather station with storm approaching from Kuskokwim Bay, Arolik Lake
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Retrieving mooring deployed during 2003, Arolik Lake
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Raising sediment traps deployed the previous summer, Arolik Lake
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Lysimeter installed near Arolik Lake
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Al with surface core taken with CU corer, Arolik Lake
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Cirques, Ahklun Mountains
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Late Wisconsin kames & outwash near Arolik Lake
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Late Wisconsin outwash marked by braided channels and incised by Holocene floodplain, Ahklun Mountains
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Scalloped scarp separating Late Wisconsin outwash and Holocene floodplain, Ahklun Mountains
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Tarns, Ahklun Mountains
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Ice thrusted (?) Late Wisconsin moraine, Ahklun Mountains
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Togiak tuya, Ahklun Mountains
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Meanders, Weary River near Dillingham
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