Throughout the internship we interns connected virtually during webinars and in a group chat. We finally met each other and the Environment for the Americas team at the Mosaics in Science Career and Leadership Workshop in Washington D.C. We also met the Latino Heritage Internship...
Denali National Park has its own fixed-wing plane and pilot Justin Wiseman. My supervisor, Geographic Information Systems Specialist Britta Schroeder planned a Structure from Motion flight over the park road. Structure from motion (SfM) is the process of estimating the 3-D structure of a scene...
Denali Park Road is closed at mile 43 due to the Pretty Rocks landslide at mile 45.4. The only ways to access the parts of the park west of mile 43 are to hike around the landslide or to take a helicopter or plane. The...
Bradford Washburn was a mountaineer, scholar, scientist, and photographer who climbed Denali multiple times. His wife, Barbara Washburn, was the first woman to climb Denali. Bradford Washburn’s map of Denali is still in use today. Denali National Park houses hundreds of historic images, including images...
Denali National Park is massive at six million acres of wild land. It was originally named Mt. McKinley National Park and was founded in 1917 as a wildlife preserve. Denali means “the great one” in Koyukon Athabaskan and it is North America’s tallest mountain at...
Howdy! My name is Angela Fiorito and welcome to my Mosaics in Science (MIS) blog. I am stationed in Denali National Park as the GIS assistant for summer 2022. About me: I graduated this May from Texas Tech University (TTU) with an M.S. in geosciences and...