Barrow News

The Summer Solstice occurs at 11:04 AM Friday. At that minute, the sun is as far north as it gets in it's yearly journey.

OK, let's get one thing straight. If I'd wanted to have bright, hot sunshine for weeks in a row I'd have moved to Fairbanks or Hawaii or Mexico or, if I was really desperate, Florida.

Arctic summers mean migrating animals, a bounty of breeding opportunities, and 24 hours of sunlight.

Christina Hammock of Jacksonville, an alumna of N.C. State University, has been named one of eight selected to join NASA’s Astronaut Class of 2013.

The blurb: For years, tour guide Daniel James Inulak Lum has brought visitors as well as his children out to the remote corners of Barrow, one of the northernmost cities in the world, to witness polar bears and walrus on the dark sandy beaches.

Quintillion, the Alaska-arm of the international Arctic Fibre project, wants to lay submarine fiber optic cable from Asia to Europe, routed along Alaska's northern coastline with spurs to five communities.

The trick to getting a good ice core is to drill straight down into the sea ice, continually clear the slush gurgling up from the ocean, correctly reassemble the core fragments on the tray, take its temperature every couple of inches before it melts or cools, and saw it into hockey-puck-shaped chunks without dropping them in the snow.

Picture from KTUU shows the spring flood of the Yukon River . Barrow, Alaska had their warmest temperature of the spring on Friday at 39 degrees.

CRAIG MISHLER will speak about his book, “The Blind Man and the Loon” at 4 p.m. on May 28 at the UAA Campus Bookstore.

Way out there where the air smells fresh, the trees are dense, and cell phones only work as alarm clocks are make shift cabins reconnecting us to nature.

Since more Coast Guard ships and planes are operating in the Arctic, Adm. Robert J. Papp Jr.