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From above alpine treeline looking downhill toward the upper edge of the forest. Study plots are at left center. View is to the north toward the Alaska Range from the 1998 campsite along the Denali Highway. These plots were established in 1998 by the Mother of All Field Crews: Kate Shick, John Mauro, Phil Higuera, and...
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Photo taken using 6x9 homemade bellows camera in early August 1986
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Stitched images of five study plots above treeline near Eagle Summit Alaska. Each image is stitched from six or nine handheld photos taken from the southwest corner of the plots. Each plot is 20x20m and had a white tape along its borders. Aerial photographs of these plots from a kite-lofted camera are described and...
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This is a handmade more or less ortho photo mosaic of three 20x20m above-treeline alpine tundra study plots in the White Mountains of Alaska near Eagle Summit. There are five plots along this transect, all of which can be seen in this half-spherical gigapan: gigapan.org/gigapans/83270/ (which was made from a di...
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A half-spherical panorama stitched from 36 photos taken by a camera lofted by a kite. Below the camera were five study plots established in 1998 above the limit of tree growth at an elevation of 3200 feet in the White Mountains of Alaska. Plot 4 is outlined by a tape along its perimeter, and the others have their bound...
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I forgot to straighten the horizon before exporting from ICE. This version has a more realistic horizon and is easier to look at: gigapan.org/gigapans/83270/. A half-spherical panorama stitched from 36 photos taken by a camera lofted by a kite. Below the camera were five study plots established in 1998 abov...
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A Levitation Delta kite lofted a Canon S95 on a KAP rig over the site of this Nearbynature Gigapan: gigapan.org/gigapans/80659/. A snapshot shows the exact location occupied by the gigapan imager. Wind speed varied enough that the rig rose and fell constantly as the AuRiCo controller snapped photos in a diffe...
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The top of Eagle Summit is 4,000 feet above sea level, and 1,000 feet above treeline. Although nothing can grow taller than the winter snowpack in this harsh environment, there is relatively high species diversity, especially where the ground stays damp as in the foreground of this view. The rocks and bare soil were n...
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Near Fairbanks Alaska, climatic conditions above an elevation of 3000 feet limit tree growth, so higher terrain supports treeless tundra vegetation. Near the tor-like outcrops of metasandstone (the Fairbanks Schist), thin soil supports a dry tundra dominated by mountain avens with few shrubs more than a few inches tall...
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Tundra swans (Cygnus columbianus) pass through Minnesota in their spring migration from Chesapeake Bay to their breeding grounds in the Arctic. In flight, swans can average 40 to 50 miles an hour. In this diorama at the Bell Museum of Natural History, a group has stopped to rest and feed in the Minnesota River bottoms ...
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