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Listening to avalanches half a state away Ned Rozell High on the broken pyramid of Iliamna Volcano, rotten rock held in place by volcano-warmed ice sometimes loses its grip.

Several times over the years, rock-and-ice avalanches have blasted down Iliamna at 150 miles per hour. Left behind on the mountain’s face is a dirty, five-mile scar, in the same place as the last one.

Due to the location of the volcano — 60 miles across Cook Inlet from Ninilchik, Anchor Point and Homer — no one hears Iliamna’s avalanches.

But after giant slides there in May 2016 and June 2019, scientific microphones captured the airpressure disturbances all the way from Fairbanks, 375 miles away.

Scientists are using these recorded signals far from the volcano to better understand avalanches in steep, icy country.

Liam Toney is a graduate student at UAF’s Geophysical Institute who has become an authority on a slope of a volcanic mountain he has not yet visited.

At 10,015 feet, Iliamna is one of the tallest volcanoes in the Aleutian Arc. It has no historic eruptions, but the mountain’s hot spots belch sulfurous gases into the cold air. The blue-white, snow-capped volcano is visible on clear days to people living on the western Kenai Peninsula.

Avalanches have rumbled down the Red Glacier valley on Iliamna many times in the summer, including in 1960, 1978, 1980, 1983, 1994, 1997,

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2000 and 2003, as well as in 2016 and 2019.

Scientists think big slides happen there so often because the glacier gains so much weight each year in snowfall that gravity takes over, with a big assist from the volcano’s heat.

In 2019, Toney was analyzing the Red Glacier avalanche from 2016. That summer, upon returning from a trip, he learned that instruments planted throughout Alaska had captured yet another avalanche, on the same eastern flank of the volcano.

“When I came back from the field I began to look at the imagery and noticed how similar it was,” Toney said. “That was the most wild thing.”

He quickly modified his Ph.D. study to include the more recent avalanche down Iliamna’s side.

The instruments Toney used included about 25 ground-motion-sensing seismometers buried in the ground around the volcano.

Toney also used the recordings of an infrasound array — a collection of microphones working together — installed in the woods north of UAF campus buildings, within skiing distance of his home.

Infrasound microphones capture sound waves that have frequencies too low for humans — but not some animals, including elephants — to hear.

Scientists at the Geophysical Institute have installed infrasound arrays all over the world, including one in a 1,200-acre wooded area laced with trails on the Fairbanks campus.

Far-off nuclear explosions generate infrasound waves that travel around the planet. Researchers with the UAF group have for a long time shared their results with officials who monitor countries’ compliance with treaties.

In their listening, scientists have also found the

microphones pick up other disturbances in the air, including the dance of the aurora borealis, far-off ocean surf during storms, and massive landslides.

Workers for the Alaska Volcano Observatory just installed infrasound microphones in the town of Whittier, in hopes it might record a potential landslide in Prince William Sound’s Barry Arm. Others are in place in Kenai, on the island of Adak, in the fishing town of Dillingham, and a few other locations near volcanoes.

In comparing the two avalanches on Iliamna Volcano, Toney found they had almost the same runout length of about five miles, a distance he knows well from running 8K races during his undergraduate days.

Toney also found that the acoustic and seismic signals from the avalanches told him where the unseen slide was and in what direction it rumbled.

That information might help researchers pinpoint massive events that happen in the wilds of Alaska and other places.

With warmer air shrinking glaciers in Alaska, scientists might look to infrasound and seismic signals for clues on when oversteep mountain slopes will fail.

“Climate change causes shifting landscapes,” Toney said. “That might cause more of these events.”

This column is provided as a public service by the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, in cooperation with the UAF research community. Ned Rozell is a science writer at the institute.

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Edibles growing in May Julie Cascio UAF Cooperative Extension Service

Oh my, it’s May! Lawns are beginning to turn green, ice is melting on the lakes, soil is gradually warming up. All around us plants begin to grow. Some plants provide food for us this early in Alaska. A few edible plants to look for this month are fireweed, dandelions and chickweed.

When choosing wild edible plants, recognize the plant accurately. Use a reliable book with picture and sketch of the plant to recognize the plant correctly. Know the area the plant grows is free of exhaust, pesticides and animal urination if planning on eating them.

Fireweed, Epilobium angustifolium, grows in open meadows, along riverbeds and roadsides. Early fireweed shoots can be harvested for food. They are a good source of vitamins A and C. “The reddish, asparagus like stalks of Fireweed shoot spring fireweed are edible raw, steamed, or stirfried” shares Janice Schofield in “Discovering

Wild Plants.” Young stems can be eaten in salads, or chopped and added to stews. Another option is to take off the stems then prepare as you would asparagus.

As the plant grows, leaves and unopened buds can be picked and used before the blossoms develop. Young, slender leaves and immature buds can be mixed with salad greens. As with many plants, the taste becomes stronger and the leaves become tougher later in the season, so it is best to harvest and eat leaves early in the spring.

To Clean and Store Wash leaves, stems, flowers and shoots with warm water in a colander to remove dust and bugs. Lay out on papper towel to air dry, or pat dry with towel. Fireweed should be stored in a covered container in the refrigerator.

Fireweed Tea Gather leaves for tea vefore the plants flower, while leaves are young and tender. Place a generous handful of leaves in a warmed teapot and pour boiling water over them, filling the teapot.

Steep for 5 to 10 minutes. The resulting tea is a light green color with a sweet taste. Fireweed tea blends well with other wild teas.

Chickweed, Stellaria species, grows in gardens,

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lawns, disturbed soil, and misty areas. Often considered a weed in our yard, its leaves area tender, milky green that can be eaten raw or cooked.

The greens are low in calories, have copper, iron, phosphorous and vitamin C. Add rinsed, fresh, chopped chickweed to salads, omelettes, soups, quiche, and stir fries.

Steamed Chickweed Rinse fresh chickweed. Chop. Place in pot and steam for 3 to 5 minutes. Remove from heat and mix in butter with a pinch of garlic.

Dandelions, Taraxacum species, with its colorful yellow flower is often easily spotted. It is also often despised as it grows through the lawn so well!

In early spring, however, the leaves and roots provide food.

Caution: Do not eat greens or roots from lawns sprayed with chemical weed-killers.

Picking the dandelion leaves early, before the flowers Dandelion show, provides leaves that can be added to salads, steamed to eat by itself, or simmered in stews or stir-fries. The greens are high in Vitamins A, B, C and minerals copper, phosphorus, potassium, iron, calcium and magnesium. As it grows older the leaves become more bitter in flavor.

The harvested dandelion roots can be eaten as well. Boil, bake, or add to soups and stir-fries.

Dandelion blossoms are rich in vitamin D reports Beverley Gray in “The Boreal Herbal.”

The flowers can be eaten on raw, or added to salads for a splash of color. Fry the blossom in a bit of butter and garlic. Another option is to dip in a savory batter and bake or fry.

Explore our area of Alaska to find and enjoy the edibles it provides.

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