Ep. 11: Field Notes: Into the Ghost Forest

Alaska Science Pod

Alaska Science Pod
Ep. 11: Field Notes: Into the Ghost Forest
Apr 12, 2022 Season 1 Episode 11
UAF Geophysical Institute

At the height of summer in 2021, Ned accompanied University of Alaska Fairbanks ecologist Ben Gaglioti to a ghost forest a glacier had run over in Southeast Alaska. Ned and Ben spent about two weeks near La Perouse Glacier, the one that ran over the trees during a cold period called the Little Ice Age. The story begins with the pair standing on a lonely beach about 100 miles south of Yakutat after a bush pilot dropped them off. (28:10)