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A new digital atlas chronicling sea-ice concentrations in the Beaufort, Chukchi and Bering seas from 1850 to 2012 has been launched. John Walsh, second from left, chief scientist for the University Alaska Fairbanks’ International Arctic Research Center, and Sarah Trainor, left, director of UAF’s Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy, led the project, working with, among others, John Kurkowski and Michael Lindgren. They are seen with the website home page and a copy of a hand-drawn Danish map from 1901, one of the many data sources used in the project. ERIC ENGMAN/NEWS-MINER

By Robin WoodFOR THE NEWS-MINER

A new digital atlas chronicling sea-ice concentra-tions in the Beaufort, Chukchi and Bering seas from 1850 to 2012 has been launched.

The interactive, Web-based graphic will allow

users to view the extent of sea ice as much as 300 miles off Alaska’s coast, dating back to 1850. Users can search based on date or location, and there are animations of monthly ice change, ice-coverage graphs and a glossary of sea ice and scientific terms.

The atlas is currently only searchable back to 1953, but the remaining portion should be live next week.

The atlas was compiled by the Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy (ACCAP) at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the Scenarios Network for Alaska and Arctic Planning (SNAP) and combines more than 10 historical and current

databases.Anchorage-based Alaska Ocean Observing System

funded the $200,000 project.John Walsh, chief scientist for UAF’s Internation-

al Arctic Research Center, and Sarah Trainor, direc-tor of ACCAP, led the two-year effort. Walsh said researchers wanted a better, more reliable tool to understand the sea-ice cycle.

“If you only have 30 years of data, it’s really hard to say there is a 20-year cycle,” Walsh said.

Changing landscapes

Searchable sea ice atlas holds 160 years of information

Fuel truck rolls on Dalton, spills 2,000 gallons of dieselStaff ReportNEWSROOM@NEWSMINER.COM

An Eggor fuel tanker crashed on a north-ern stretch of the Dalton Highway on Tues-day night, rolling over and spilling more than 2,000 gallons of diesel fuel onto the roadside.

The crash occurred at 11:24 p.m., when the truck veered from the road at 309.5 Mile in the North Slope Borough. The tanker had been carrying several thousand gallons of diesel fuel from North Pole to Deadhorse.

The crash caused the truck’s trailer to begin spilling its contents. Eggor estimated

the volume of the spill at about 2,188.5 gal-lons, according to the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation. DEC was alerted to the spill eight hours after the crash via its after-hours reporting line.

Shortly after the crash, Big State Logistics arrived on scene and began emptying the trailer’s remaining contents into an empty trailer, which then transported the leftover diesel to Deadhorse. The leaking trailer also was taken off-scene after being emptied.

Eggor and Colville have mobilized equip-ment and personnel to respond to the incident, and DEC had mobilized its own responder to oversee the cleanup.Contact the newsroom at 459-7572.

ADFG proposes ‘targeted hunts’ for nuisance mooseBy Tim MowryTMOWRY@NEWSMINER.COM

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game wants to let hunters take care of “nuisance” moose around Fairbanks instead of state wildlife biologists.

The department is propos-ing “targeted hunts” that would allow hunters with shotguns

and bows and arrows to kill injured or aggressive moose around town, as well as moose that “habitually spend time along roadways.” People who apply for the hunts would be issued permits in a lot-tery drawing to shoot specific moose.

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House official: Communities won’t be punished for joining suitBy Matt BuxtonMBUXTON@NEWSMINER.COM

JUNEAU — The House law-maker who heads the state’s capital budget says there’s no risk communities will be punished for backing a law-suit over the state’s education funding.

Last week, Gov. Sean Par-nell warned that Ketchikan’s lawsuit against the state’s

mandate that municipalities pay for part of basic education funding, which the Fairbanks North Star Borough agreed to get involved with Thursday, could endanger the city’s fund-ing requests.

The repeal of local contri-bution is estimated to cost the state about $206 million per-year moving forward.

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Borough to get involved in lawsuit

By Amanda BohmanFOR THE NEWS-MINER

The Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly voted unanimously to get involved in a lawsuit against the state regarding its edu-cation funding scheme.

The lawsuit by the Ket-chikan Gateway Borough calls into question a state

requirement that munici-pal taxpayers help pay for schools. Residents in unin-corporated areas have no such requirement. The state covers that portion of their school funding.

“Some people in Alaska who are able to pay for edu-cation are not paying for education,” Assemblyman John Davies said.

The vote on Thursday authorizes borough legal staff to file briefings and monitor the lawsuit. The borough will participate in the case as an amicus cur-iae, or friend of the court, meaning the municipality is not joining the lawsuit but weighing in.

Supporters of the case say the required local contribu-tion is unconstitutional and essentially a penalty on peo-ple who live within a local government jurisdiction.

Assembly hopes school funding suit will fix taxpayer inequity

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