Alaska Science Forum: Flying for science (and the occasional sled dog)
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Homer NewsAlaska Science Forum: Flying for science (and the occasional sled dog)homernews.comA Cessna 185 zigzagged a tight back-and-forth pattern along Alaska’s southern coast earlier this summer, the pilot intent on his mission to measure the ocean’s response to summer glacier melt. Alaska State Climatologist Martin Stuefer gazed down from the belly of the plane via a hyperspectral imaging camera he had mounted there.
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