The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System Facilitates Shrub Establishment in Northern Alaska

The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System: A Systems Engineering Case Study

The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) was constructed between 1974 and 1977 in response to the 1973 oil crisis. It conveys oil from Prudhoe Bay in northern Alaska to the port of Valdez in the southeast, a distance of over 800 miles (1,300 km). Building the pipeline system meant dealing with a multiplicity of complex design and management decisions that involved engineering, environmental, pol...

Major solutes, metals, and alkylated aromatic compounds in high-latitude maritime snowpacks near the trans-Alaska pipeline terminal, Valdez, Alaska

The chemical constituents within a snowpack can provide information about the atmosphere through which the snow was deposited. Valdez is located in south-central Alaska and has a high-latitude maritime climate, with annual snowfall typically exceeding 8 m within the city limits. Valdez is also the termination point of the trans-Alaska pipeline system, where tankers are loaded with crude oil fro...

No-till Forage Establishment in Alaska

We established experiments on farmers’ fields at four locations in southcentral Alaska and two locations in interior Alaska. The southcentral Alaska sites were near Anchor Point (59 ̊45'N, 151 ̊39'W) on Edna Anderson’s farm, near Sterling (60 ̊32'N, 150 ̊39'W) on Paul Rumley’s farm, at Point Mackenzie (61 ̊24'N, 150 ̊04'W) on the Trytten Farm, and at Palmer (61 ̊39'N, 150 ̊04'W) on Peter Scorup’s farm ...

Ocean Warming and Freshening in the Northern Gulf of Alaska

This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography at ODU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in CCPO Publications by an authorized administrator of ODU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Repository Citation Royer, Thomas C. and Grosch, Chester E., "Ocean Warming and Freshening in the...

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