Archive for May 2015

Whether exploring remote wilds, asking questions in our own backyards, or helping out in the lab you’ll find the Donnelly’s are hard at work. In 2010 Jeff Donnelly’s father, Pat, was fortunate enough to accompany the team to Good News Bay in Alaska as part of a project investigating high latitude barrier beach development Jeff…

The problem, in the deep and narrow confines of Naginak Bay on Unalaska Island in the Aelutians, was that the anchors kept slipping. A successful coring operation requires that the coring platform stays still and does not drift off station. While high-tech solutions such as dynamic positioning can be used on larger and more expensively…