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Go tell it on a mountain: Sitka gets new tool in landslide warning effort

by Ari Snider | Dec 2, 2019 | Local News, Syndicated

This summer a team of researchers climbed the mountains above Sitka and installed the state’s newest high-elevation weather station. Now, the information it collects is available to the public. Read More

Four years after deadly landslides, Sitka has a warning system

by Robert Woolsey, KCAW | Aug 17, 2019 | Local News, Syndicated

Four years after a cluster of landslides -- one of them deadly -- struck the community, Sitka has a landslide warning system. Although it’s still a prototype, the system combines relatively simple sensor technology with the power of human social networks. Nothing quite like it has ever been done before. Read More

Research team scouts locations for Sitka landslide warning system

by Robert Woolsey, KCAW | May 10, 2019 | Local News, Syndicated

A research team from the University of Oregon and the Rand Corporation was in Sitka recently (the week of April 29) to scout locations on the mountain slopes for sensors, and to build the social network that will rely on them. Read More

Sitka science fellow studies whale sounds

by Anne Brice, KCAW | Mar 25, 2013 | Local News, Syndicated

The Sitka Sound Science Center has a new fellow in town for its scientist-in-residency program. Alison Stimpert studies the sounds that animals make. It’s a field called bio-acoustics. Read More