As Alaska faces an increased risk of spring breakup flooding this year, scientists are asking residents to share photos documenting major rivers’ progress from ice to water.
This week, the group’swas active with photos of fresh snow on river ice, ice chunks floating in melted spots and pops of glacier-blue water around solid ice.
Fish and Wildlife Service in Galena on the Yukon River, said that she’s always a little anxious this time of year. “The act of doing real science has a benefit,” Spellman said. “It makes them feel like agents of change in their communities.” “It’s been super helpful for the kids to understand that they can actually track the data and make valid predictions rather than just kind of guessing,” she said.
“The ice and water are slamming against each other, and one big piece will push another big piece up on the beach and then sometimes it’ll roll over and flush down, and sometimes it’ll come on up and get up on land,” Hubbard said. “It’s just one of those things in nature that you hope that everybody gets to see at least once.”
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