Anchorage

Location - Eastchester Lake

The Anchorage ALISON site was on Eastchester Lagoon between Minnesota Drive and Spenard Road. Only 1.2 miles southwest of the old City Hall in downtown, Eastchester Lagoon is located at 61.204°N, 149.907°W.

Eastchester Lagoon, 24 January 2006 - looking back along the line of wooden stakes towards downtown Anchorage, which lies just beyond the trees in the distance.

Looking west across Eastchester Lagoon towards Minnesota Drive.

A satellite image of a portions of Anchorage containing Westchester Lagoon (large ice covered area in the middle of the image) and Eastchester Lagoon (acress the road from Westchester Lagoon). Notice that there is creek emptying into Eastchester Lagoon and this has created an open water area. The gray and white region in the upper left corner of the image is Knik Arm with some ice along its shore.

People

The Anchorage study site was run by Craig Kasemodel and his 7th grade students at Central Middle School for Science. Craig has been at Central Middle School since autumn 2004. Originally from Wisconsin, he is a wildlife biologist by training. Craig has conducted bird surveys and studied moose habitat along the Yukon and Innoko rivers, and lived with the brown bears of SW Alaska conducting habitat and human disturbance studies. In Montana, he worked with Bighorn Sheep conducting population ecology and habitat selection studies for several years along the Missouri River.

Craig (far right) and some of his students and colleagues set up their ALISON site.

Data

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