Denali Education Center
Location - Nenana River (McKinley Village)
The McKinley Village ALISON site was at the Denali Education Center (formerly the Denali Foundation) on the Nenana River at Mile 231 Parks Highway. The 10-acre (4-hectare) Denali Education Center campus lies on the southern bank of the river and looks across to the eastern edge of Denali National Park. Located at 63.656°N, 148.835°W, this was the first ALISON site to be put on river ice.
The frozen Nenana River seen from the Parks Highway at ~10:30 am, 16 January 2006.
The ALISON study site was a short distance downstream, beyond the point where the river
disappears around the bend. The dark patch in the lower right quadrant is open water.
The Denali Education Center site is located on the Nenana River (blue astrid).
People
The McKinley Village/Denali Education Center study site was run by Nan Eagleson. She has lived and worked in the Denali area for over 20 years and has been the chief naturalist and head instructor for the Denali Education Center (formerly the Denali Foundation) for 7 years. She guides birding trips for Wilderness Birding Adventures in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and her academic background is in biology.
Nan was assisted by Willie Karidis, who has been the Executive Director of the DEC since 1992. Willie has done many things since arriving in Alaska in 1981: carpenter, elementary school teacher in Fairbanks, filmmaker, miner and restaurant manager.
Willie Karidis cleans a sheep's head at the Denali Education Center.
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Project Details
ALISON
Alaska Lake Ice and Snow Observatory Network
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