Yukon Kuskokwim Nushagak science

Latest Google map (Bethel is the brownish lower right corner)

The image location is N-04-60_2000 on the satellite image

Bethel Census area map here

RE: Google news proxy this was published today–

More News Outlets, Fewer Stories: New Media ‘Paradox’
By James Rainey, Times Staff Writer March 13, 2006

A “new paradox of journalism” has emerged in which the number of news outlets continues to grow, yet the number of stories covered and the depth of many reports is decreasing, according to an annual review of the news business being released today by a watchdog group.

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Forbes.com issued a list of America’s 10 richest cities last week and Anchorage is No. 2. Really.

It’s based on census median household income figures, and Anchorage is second only to San Jose, Calif. Los Angeles and New York don’t make it over the threshold.
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Ear doesn’t care about why. It’s just nice to be at the top of a list in some category other than violence and drunkenness. Here are the top five.

Median HH income / Median home cost

1. San Jose: $71,765 / $623,000

2. Anchorage: $61,595 / $294,374

3. San Francisco: $60,031 / $726,900

Bethel (2000) $57,321 / $146,600 (Median Family Income: $62,431)

4. Virginia Beach: $55,781 / $192,000

5. San Diego: $51,382 / $605,600

No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money-changer.

Sir Thomas Browne as quoted by Dwight J. Ingle, 1958 Principles of Research in Biology and Medicine. Philadelphia: JB Lippincott Co., p. 19

Jennifer Grucza »Google Maps as Art

Can you guess where any of these are from? (And yes, one of them is very easy!)

The easy one is the Y-K Delta (5th one down). But, easy as in having experience reading aerials and having flown over the geological regions.

My geology (hard and soft) was from the TC Chamberlin building on Beloit College campus. There are two great US places to view geology in action– the arid southwest USA and the arid southwest Alaska.

from the state’s community database
Go there for additional information on each YK Village.

baltimoresun.com graphic

Scientists identify Alaska as possible gateway for virus to enter Americas

Related story about Hawai’i preparedness is here [Unfortunately, the article is no longer available except through their archives. Pam 14Apr2006]

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map from USGS here

The Global Spread of Malaria in a Future, Warmer World
D. J. Rogers, and S. E. Randolph
in
Science 8 September 2000: Vol. 289. no. 5485, pp. 1763 - 1766

The frequent warnings that global climate change will allow falciparum malaria to spread into northern latitudes, including Europe and large parts of the United States, are based on biological transmission models driven principally by temperature. These models were assessed for their value in predicting present, and therefore future, malaria distribution. In an alternative statistical approach, the recorded present-day global distribution of falciparum malaria was used to establish the current multivariate climatic constraints. These results were applied to future climate scenarios to predict future distributions, which showed remarkably few changes, even under the most extreme scenarios.