REACHUp Photos
| 2018 Final Site Visits: Gambell and Savoonga, September 2018 |
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An old boat frame leans against a fishrack in Gambell. |
A whale bone and old boat frame rest in the foreground of the |
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Waves crash against the rocky shores of Savoonga. Photo: Yuri Bult-Ito. |
The Savoonga cemetary is shrouded in mist. Photo: Yuri Bult-Ito. |
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Educators Mark Vachvake of Elim and Richard Waghiyi of Savoonga work together on a place-based science lesson activity at a professional development workshop held in Unalakleet, Alaska. Photo: Yuri Bult-Ito. |
Burkher Ivanoff describes the intricacies of boating safely in a skiff on the Unalakleet
River. Photo: Yuri Bult-Ito. |
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Camp attendees work on a warm-up activity. Photo Yuri Bult-Ito. |
Abby demonstrates how she makes aqutak (traditional "ice cream"). Photo: Yuri Bult-Ito. |
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Attendees measure the wolverine pelts before making cuts to sew. Photo: Yuri Bult-Ito. |
A warm up activity requires camp-attendees' undivided attention. Photo: Yuri Bult-Ito. |
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Students learn from seabird scientist Alexis Will about |
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The foothills of the Seward Peninsula Mountains are the |
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A fish rack, fish net and bouys on the beach in front of the |
Seagulls pick at a seal carcass on the melting Bering Sea ice. |
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Caribou hide & seal meat dry in the May sun on a meat drying rack. |
Solar panels capture the May sun in newer housing |
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Teller School sits on the Port Clarence beach side of the |
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Looking Northwest toward the Grantley Harbor body of water. |
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Students learn from seabird scientist Alexis Will about |
A dried starfish sits atop beach rocks on Port Clarence beach. |
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The Chena Hot Springs Resort tour showed lettuce |
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Participants learned about hydroponics, with plants in |
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Meteorologist Ed Plumb presents information about weather. Photo by Yuri Bult-Ito. |
Educators work together on science lesson experiments. |
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Presenters Tyler Ivanoff, Adrienne Aakaluk Titus and |
Elder Sam Demientieff shares his observations about |
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Artwork display at Golovin School. Photo by Yuri Bult-Ito. |
Boats line the shore awaiting the upcoming fishing season. Photo by Yuri Bult-Ito. |
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"Face of Golovin". Everyone locally knows of this rock feature. |
Golovin School. Photo by Yuri Bult-Ito. |
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Glaciologist Regine Hock helps students with checking snow depth |
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Glaciologist Regine Hock helps students investigate |
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White Mountain School. Snow machines are typical |
The Sun peeks through clouds over a frozen river. |
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Science Fair held in Stebbins. Photo by Sean Tevebaugh. |
Student gives presentation during science fair. Photo by Sean Tevebaugh. |
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Science Fair award ceremony. Photo by Sean Tevebaugh.
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Bluff in the sun. Bluff by Stebbins. Photo by Yuri Bult-Ito. |
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Elim School. Photo by Yuri Bult-Ito.
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Sky and hills near Elim. Photo by Yuri Bult-Ito.
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Trees in the sun, Elim. Photo by Yuri Bult-Ito.
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Arial view of sea ice near Shaktoolik. Photo by Yuri Bult-Ito. |
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Leif Albertson teaches students how to identify bed bugs. Photo by Yuri Bult-Ito. |
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Shaktoolik playground under a full moon, mid-day. Photo by Yuri Bult-Ito. |
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Cheryl Cooper gives a presentation on the Next |
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Teachers try a REACH Up Environmental Cycles activity.
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Sam Norlin, REACH Up PI presents an overview of the |
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Koyuk School. Photo by Yuri Bult-Ito. |
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Plant ecologist Lindsey Parkinson engages students |
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Ice starts to form on Norton Sound. Photo by |
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Aerial photo of the Alaska Range with a glacier on a |
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A raven and a gull feast on a Beluga whale carcass
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Water lines run over the tundra to houses in Savoonga. |
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Sea bird scientist Alexis Will leads a discussion on murres' |
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Water lines run over the tundra to houses in Savoonga. |
Windmills help generate energy in the village of Gambell. Photo |
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Arnold Eakon explains diesel engine operations to |
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Becky Atchak of Stebbins, demonstrates doll-making. Photo: Putt Clark. |
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Bobbi Andrews of St. Michael, demonstrates how she |
Fishing weir on the Unalakleet River. Photo: Putt Clark. |
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Matt Macander (far right) leads a drone survey at the 2017 REACH Up Science and Culture Camp. Photo: Yuri Bult-Ito. |
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Roberta Walker (top left) leads educators on an activity to identify invertebrates along the North River during
the 2017 REACH Up Science and Culture Camp. Photo: Yuri Bult-Ito. |
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Sally Kieper gives a synopsis of what campers should expect in the next days. Photo: Putt Clark. |
Abigail Takak demonstrates how she hangs her salmon after filleting and making cuts to help in the drying process. Photo: Putt Clark. |
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Lon Gillas works with students a REACH Up lesson. Photo: Sally Kieper. |
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Luci Washington conveys the changes, challenges and |
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Everyone took a trip to view the pipeline by Fox . Not far from the Permafrost Tunnel, teachers had an opportunity to see the pipeline up close. Photo: Sally Kieper. |
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Teachers went on a Behind-the-Scenes tour at the UAF Large Animal Research Station (LARS). Here, a yearling muskox is shedding its qiviut. Photo: Sally Kieper, courtesy of LARS. |
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Teachers and K-12 Outreach Staff toured the Permafrost tunnel. Here, an ice wedge is illuminated from behind. Photo: Putt Clark, courtesy of US Army Corps of Engineers, Engineering Research and Development Center (ERDC) Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) Permafrost Tunnel. |
Teachers and K-12 Outreach Staff in the Permafrost tunnel. Photo: Putt Clark, courtesy of US Army Corps of Engineers, Engineering Research and Development Center (ERDC) Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL). |
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Teachers and K-12 Outreach Staff in the Permafrost tunnel. Photo: Putt Clark, courtesy of US Army Corps of Engineers, Engineering Research and Development Center (ERDC) Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL). |
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 Teachers were treated to a performance by the Iñu-Yupiaq Dance Group, a student organization at UAF. Some members of the dance group are Yup'ik language
majors, and also presented a lesson about the Yup'ik language. Photo: Sam Norlin. |
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Gerald "JJ" Frost, vegetation scientist at Alaska Biological, observes Unalakleet students using the ESRI storymap. Photo: Sally Kieper. |
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Gerald "JJ" Frost and Sally Kieper pose with a classroom behind a soil sample they harvested in Unalakleet Photo: Unalakleet School Staff. |
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Margaret Cysewski, a fellow with the Changing Alaska Science Education program at UAF and permafrsot specialist,
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Margaret leads a lesson with students in Brevig Mission. |
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Multipoint foundations, are becoming more common building |
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Permafrost probes are a quick test method to discover how deep |
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Non-sorted Circles are visible on the flight out of Brevig. These |
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A thaw lake, or a body of freshwater, usually shallow, that is formed in a depression formed by
thawing ice-rich permafrost is evidentin this |
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Erosion is evident along the entire northwest side of Shishmaref. |
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Students try probing with the probing sticks to find at what point |
 Burkher Ivanoff shares stories of the history and ecology of the Unalakleet River area. Photo: Sally Kieper. |
 Kari Rasmussen leads teachers on a lesson about moose. Photo: Sally Kieper. |
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 Staff Sally Kieper and teachers prepare for a rainy day on the Unalakleet River. Photo: Sam Norlin. |
 Cultural Knowledge Bearers and teachers work together on the REACHUp science lessons. Photo: Sam Norlin. |
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 Teacher Braxton Cox shows the salmon he caught while on the river. Photo: Sally Kieper. |
 The Unalakleet River bends its way through the tundra. Photo: Sam Norlin. |
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 Robin Garber-Slaght, Product Testing Lab Engineer at Cold the Climate Housing Research Center, leads Brevig-Mission students through a cold climate construction site in their village. Photo: Sally Kieper. |
 Garber-Slaght leads a lesson about housing and construction in cold climates with Brevig-Mission students. Photo: Sally Kieper. |
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 Teller students gather around Robbin to learn more about the new construction in their village. Photo: Sally Kieper. |
 St. Michael landscape drifts by between the village of Stebbins and St. Michael. Photo: Putt Clark. |
 Olivia Lee a sea ice and sea mammal specialist, leads a a lesson about the changing arctic habitat in St. Michael. Photo: Putt Clark. |
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 Stebbins village has nicely constructed wooden boardwalks for the main street. Photo: Putt Clark. |
 Emma Marcucci, Remote Sensing and Planetology specialist, gives a lesson to Shishmaref students about Mars' lava flows. Photo: Putt Clark. |
 Emma works with Shishmaref students to understand the satellite images showing years of erosion on their island of Sarichef. Photo: Putt Clark. |
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 Old fish rack posts stand like statues along the beach where locals process their harvests. Photo: Putt Clark. |
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 Emma gives a lesson to a young classroom in the community of Wales. Photo: Putt Clark. |
 The old church is still used in Wales. Photo: Putt Clark. |
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 Fall colors help to make a very gray and windy day, beautiful in Wales. Photo: Putt Clark. |
 Jesse Coleman, PhD Fisheries student, leads students in a science lesson about the salmon life cycle . Photo: Sally Kieper. |
 Fish racks and netting decorate the beach side in Bevig. Photo: Sally Kieper. |
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 Students return to the school after gathering samples from the melting beach area. Photo: Sally Kieper. |
 Snow drifts and sheer quantity of snow cover entrances and and windows of houses and establishments. Photo: Sally Kieper. |
 Savoonga School endures the challenge of continually being buried in snow at its entrance. Photo: Sally Kieper. |
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 A snowmachine's handlebars peek out of the snow. Photo: Sally Kieper. |
 Jesse Coleman, PhD Fisheries student, leads students in a science lesson about the salmon life cycle . Photo: Putt Clark. |
 Fish racks and netting decorate the beach side in Bevig. Photo: Putt Clark. |
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 Students return to the school after gathering samples from the melting beach area. Photo: Putt Clark. |
| Anchorage and Whittier Group | ||
 The Whittier Tunnel is a one-lane road, allowing one-way travel through the tunnel on the half-hour. Photo: REACH Teacher. |
 Whittier is unique, as the entire population, the school and stores reside in the large building featured in this photograph. Photo: Putt Clark. |
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 Scientist Cathy Hanks paddles with the photographer in a double kayak. Kayaking was led by Maligiaq Padilla, kayak builder and expert. Photo: Putt Clark. |
 Willy Hensley shares stories with teachers, staff and scientists at the Alaska Native Heritage Center. Photo: Putt Clark. |
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 Michael Carey, PI of a fish study project for USGS Alaska Science Center shows teachers how he stores tissue samples in a dewar canister filled with liquid nitrogen. Photo: Gary Cooper. |
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 Teachers & Michael Carey work together to haul in a setnet placed in Salmon Lake the night before. Photo: Gary Cooper. |
 Teachers work together on microscopes to view samples taken from Salmon Lake and one of the rivers. Photo: Gary Cooper. |
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Cultural Knowledge Bearers share their stories with teachers |
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 Teachers enjoy a fast skiff ride on the Unalakleet River with Nick. Photo: Putt Clark. |
 A lesson in wind power helps stir up a competitive nature as teachers vie to have the fastest sail design. Photo: Joe Miller. |
