After winter solstice, we are heading to spring! We gain daylight 2-3 minutes a day now!! I took 3hour 47 minuets of daylight from my office (just USB small CCD). It makes super short 1min length. You will enjoy it.

Our comic illustrator “Mr. Yuichi Inada (http://www.puppet-labo.com)in Japanese ” did great job to finish his art work!! Now how to distribute this one?? If somebody want to see before then, You can click following link and let me know your comment!

Tunnelman Return

We start working project”P” for remote communities in AK as well as world. It’s nice to make visual contents instead of too much text! I will show illustrations once I ready.

This is what I explain our permafrost monitoring station.

Snow machine trip… this is important part of this program…

I had a great time with people from Copper River area. Wrangell Institute for Science and Environment set up public lecture at the visitor center at Wrangell-St Elias National Park.

It was a miracle day! I was looking for 1 1/2″ pipe at middle of forrest near Glennallen. Snow was deep as my knee and snow hidden tussock made me fall several times. Daylight was short.
I was walking around 1-2 mile random (no map with me) at the 1985 borehole site. The main porpoise of this is re measured permafrost temperature and compared with 1985 and 2009!
The way back to the read (because getting dark), I found it! Great things, I can measure it, bad news is it taking several hours to measure (already dark!).
Anyway… it was wonderful day!

When I start using GIS (Geographical Information System), I thought this is useful interface but difficult to use in public… But not anymore! Google Maps and Google Earth (sometimes Google Mars!) is amazingly develop today and almost everybody using this in the laptop, cell phone as well as car navigation system! Here is draft version of our network. Enjoy travel around the world.

(It may take longer time (>1 min) to display sites, please be patient!)

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Google Map

Google Earth

Tunnel man 2058 is finishing draft version in English. If some of you would like to see and give me a comments, I will show test version today! Please let me know by e-mail (kyoshikawa@alaska.edu)

Last several weeks, I try to organize and prepare data for available everybody. Some of the profile is beautiful, some is not complete… Hope we can have all beautiful until next year!

Here is one of the nice one from Wainwright. It smooth and nice trumpet curve.

Also we keep update frost tube data!

I visit Homer not work at this time! I had a lucky to see beautiful sunrise this morning. I remember that Brad Washborn always mentioned best snapshot was the shifting weather (e.g. approaching low pressure!).

twilight for Homer spit

Gale warning at Cook inlet!

Seward HWY is not great condition, air temperature rising +5dC. We see many avalanche, some of them over the rail way.

Permafrost scientist from Argentina, Dario, send me beautiful pictures for our project “P”! These pictures are near Aconcagua (highest mountain in South America), Dario took climb up or fly. Permafrost is located upper debris deposit (rock glacier).