Images of Alaska's North Slope |
Photo essays from Barrow Alaska about umiaq skin boats, bowhead whaling, cold weather, tundra, local birds (snowy owls), animals (caribou), ANWR and NPR-A. |
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The " Midnight Sun "  over the Arctic Ocean at Barrow on June 21st, 2003
| October 10, 2007 | *NEW* | Whaling Fall 2007 |
| October 10, 2007 | *NEW* | Dumpster Art! |
| August 2, 2006 | |
Parachuting near Point Barrow |
| March 5, 2006 | |
Okpik, the Snowy Owl |
| January 31, 2006 | |
Barrow at -40F |
| January 27, 2006 | |
Weird Ice |
| September 16, 2005 | |
Barrow -- Fall 2005 |
| August 2, 2004 | Umiaq skin boats in Barrow | |
| April 21, 2004 | |
An editorial on ANWR (Updated Jan 2007) |
| May 23, 2003 | |
Images of Whaling in Barrow !!    |
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Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) over Barrow on February 22nd, 2006
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Weather information links for locations on or near the North Slope |
|   | Barrow |   | (The northern most point in Alaska) |
|   | Wainwright |   | (90 miles southwest of Barrow) |
|   | Point Lay |   | (west of Wainwright) |
|   | Lisburne |   | (Radar site west of Point Lay, near Point Hope) |
|   | Point Hope |   | (Western Chukchi Sea coast) |
|   | Kotzebue |   | (south of Point Hope) |
|   | Nuiqsut |   | (south east of Barrow, western edge of The Oil Patch) |
|   | Kuparuk |   | (east of Nuiqsut, second largest oil field) |
|   | Deadhorse |   | (Prudhoe Bay, largest oil field in the US) |
|   | Kaktovik |   | (Barter Island Long Range Radar Site, in ANWR) |
|   | Anuktvuk |   | (South of Barrow, in the Brooks Range) |
|   | Fairbanks |   | (500 miles south, on the other side of the Brooks Range) |
Links to other sites about the North Slope |
|   | Rob Omstead's Blog, with pictures of Barrow. |   |
|   | King Eider Hotel, with lots of photos. |   |
|   | Web page of the North Slope Borough. |   |
|   | KBRW, Public radio on the North Slope. |   |
|   | The Arctic Slope Regional Corporation. |   |
|   | North Slope Borough coastal zone management site. |   |
|   | Eben Hopson Jr. memorial archive site. |   |
Links To Other Things I Do |
|   | Unix/Linux Computer Programming |   |
|   | Programs to graph lm_sensor data |   |
|   | Graphs of lm_sensor data |   |
|   | Tutorial on Quantization Noise in Digital Imaging |   |
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