alaska compared to east coast

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Alaska compared to east Alaska compared to east coastcoast

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Strategic LocationStrategic Location

China

Canada

NorthPole

Russia

FrankfurtFrankfurt

Washington, DCWashington, DC

Los AngelesLos Angeles

HawaiiHawaii

SeoulSeoul

BeijingBeijing

MoscowMoscow

4,1004,100

3,4003,4003,8003,800

3,9003,900

4,5004,500

TokyoTokyo

2,3002,300

2,5002,500MesaMesaAnchorageAnchorage

2,7002,7003,6003,600 2,7002,700

KievKiev4,7004,700

3,4003,400

4,3004,300

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Cook Inlet ConditionsCook Inlet Conditions• High tidal range - over 34 feetHigh tidal range - over 34 feet

• Tidal currents to 5+ knotsTidal currents to 5+ knots

• Pan ice several months of the yearPan ice several months of the year

• Silt laden waters require periodic dredgingSilt laden waters require periodic dredging

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   - Represents the direction wind is blowing towards.

VALID TIME1436 (YDT) 07/26/04

Station: AnchorageWIND SPEED: 3 KNOTSGUSTING TO: 4 KNOTSDIRECTION: 265 TAIR TEMP.: 56.8 FBARO PRESS.: 1008.9 mbar

Station: NikiskiWIND SPEED: 13 KNOTSGUSTING TO: 21 KNOTSDIRECTION: 49 TAIR TEMP.: 56.1 FBARO PRESS.: 1007.1 mbar

Anchorage PORTSAnchorage PORTS

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PORTS – water levelsPORTS – water levels

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Stryker BrigadeStryker Brigade• Requires Requires strategicstrategic transfers from road or rail to transfers from road or rail to

waterwater

• Must be rapid, efficient, and secure Must be rapid, efficient, and secure

• Introduced large, high-speed catamarans and Introduced large, high-speed catamarans and transport vessels for sealift deployment to the transport vessels for sealift deployment to the theatertheater

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Ferries as “ships of Ferries as “ships of opportunity”opportunity”

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Figure 7. M/V Tustumena route across the Alaska Coastal Current and in Prince William Sound. Surface temperature, salinity, nitrate, transmittance, fluorescence and dissolved organic matter

Credit: Cokelet et al. proposal

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Continuous Plankton Recorder sampling

Sonia Batten - Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science

David Welch – Pacific Biological Station

(red shows current transects, orange the transect that was sampled between 1997 and 2003. Blue line is 1000m

isobath)

-170 -160 -150 -140 -130 -12045

50

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60

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EVOS

NPRB

Credit: Batten

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Commercial fishing vesselsCommercial fishing vessels

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