Science at Sea Day 3 – Cruising College Fjord Inlet
When you think of a classroom, I’ll bet the deck of a cruise liner overlooking glaciers doesn’t come to mind. Day 3 was a day at sea – traveling from Anchorage to Sitka – but we started the morning at 5:00 a.m. on the deck with John Scheerens to learn about the science of glaciers. We learned about the famous “Harriman Expedition” that discovered College Fjord and named many of the glaciers. The video below will give you a brief look at the day’s activities including our mandatory safety drill. Our friend Vlad seems to be making a cameo in each video… go figure.
In an interview with NBC affiliate KUSA-TV in the early morning, I renamed many of the glaciers to make the hometown folks in Colorado happy (University of Colorado Glacier, Colorado State University Glacier, Arapahoe Community College Glacier, you get the idea).
After breakfast, we started our Science at Sea Lecture Series with The Natural History of Alaska and the Inside Passage. We were introduced to the natural history process of coastal Alaska, including basic geological constructs, weather patterns, glaciers, flora & fauna and ocean process. John’s lecture brought together the
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