Mahla Strohmaier, executive director of the Tanana Valley State Fair Association, said she is feeling hopeful about hosting a fair in 2021 in part due to ongoing COVID-19 vaccinations.
March 5, 2021 at 10:25 am
NASA’s Super Soaker mission was basically an extreme DIY project: To better understand how noctilucent, or night-shining clouds form, researchers made one from scratch.
One frigid, predawn morning in January 2018, researchers launched a rocket hauling a bathtub’s worth of water from Poker Flat Research Range in Chatanika, Alaska. When this rocket was 85 kilometers off the ground, its water cargo exploded spraying the upper mesosphere with a plume of vapor that froze into a cloud of ice crystals. When such high-flying hazes of ice are illuminated by sunlight from beyond the horizon after sunset, they are seen in the dark sky as shimmery noctilucent clouds (
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Clayton Kruger of Coffman Engineers has obtained his professional process engineering license. A graduate from Montana State University with a degree in chemical engineering and biological engineering, Kruger offers insight on operational system performance through hydrocarbon processing modeling, process controls, safety relief and vessel/piping fitness for service, stress analysis, equipment and material selection, vessel design, industrial process, and piping system design for both brownfield and greenfield designs. Kruger has been with Coffman since 2015.
Arin “AJ” Wooster of Coffman passed the mechanical engineering exam and obtained his Alaska Professional Engineering License. Wooster is a 2020 graduate of the University of Alaska Fairbanks with a master’s degree in petroleum engineering and holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Alaska Anchorage. Wooster joined
Almost immediately, there was a hit. It was quite amazing because I did upload them on the Google Drive, and I could see immediately that people were commenting on those pictures, she said. At first people would be identified like, That s my grandma , I might know this person.
Soon there were dozens of comments.
One person commented on a photo of a landscape, writing: This almost makes my heart hurt. The Earth here is so familiar.
Charles first heard about the photos on Facebook. His friend, Abby Augustine, posted about how she found herself pictured when she was just a baby in the early 1960s.