Seward, a town of wood frame buildings and native iconography, is surrounded by tall, ice-capped mountains. The town is built on the fan delta and alluvium of the glacially-fed Resurrection River. An ice-free port, Seward distributes freight and tourists into the taiga forests, townships, and wild interior via the Alaskan Railway. In 1964, a 9.3 … Continue reading Resurrection Bay, Alaska
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The Great Pause
Geologic events sometimes disrupt the ecologic landscape. Volcanoes explode and bury river valleys with mudslides. Earthquakes rearrange entire coastlines with tsunamis. Meteor impacts cause mass extinctions. Post-event, the affected environment reaches a new state of equilibrium. We're in the midst of a human disruption, a virus-driven pandemic, that has mostly shut down the human world. … Continue reading The Great Pause