After its historic 1968 campus protests, Columbia earned a critical title: the “activist Ivy.” As Columbia became the epicenter of pro-Palestinian protests last spring, garnering attention from news ...
Their study focused on Alaska’s Columbia Glacier, which flows into Prince William Sound and is one of the state’s fastest-retreating glaciers. The researchers reviewed a catalog of about 16,000 seismic events from two dozen Alaska glaciers, including Columbia.
The Columbia Glacier is one of Alaska's better known tidewater glaciers, both from the standpoint of tourist attraction and the model it provides for scientific investigation. In 1973 it became the object of close scientific scrutiny. In Alaska, some 50 to 60 glaciers calve into the sea, but exhibit such diversified behavior that they have baffled glaciologists for decades. For instance, some ...
Records taken at Fairbanks indicate that this unusual aurora actually began the night before the launching of the shuttle Columbia. An unusually large magnetic storm, the type of event that causes extensive red auroras, showed its signature at Fairbanks at about 3:00 am local time, Saturday morning, April 11.
At the same time, a ridge of high pressure built northward over British Columbia and the Alaska Panhandle, setting up a pattern that steered warmer air from the south into much of mainland Alaska. As a result, temperatures climbed above average across much of mainland Alaska early in the month, although the Arctic Coast remained cold.
For comparison, that's right ahead of the Columbia in area drained and right after it in discharge. (The Columbia River also needs Canada to gain its rank; its source is in British Columbia.) Two Yukon tributaries also make the list. The Porcupine ranks 20th in drainage area, and the Tanana is number 16 for average discharge.