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Last Thurs we had a great visit to the hospital for an ultrasound. Although Torsten seemed to like the rotating chair just as much as the ultrasound, he was excited to compare his sister’s foot size with his, look at the size of her head, and especially to hear her heartbeat. (Yep, the tech said more than 90% sure it is a girl.) Exciting!!

After the beach, up the tram for snow!

What a stretch of fantastic weather. Juneautopia has been paradise!

Nope, not much reality here–but what a week!!!

No reality in this backpack:

Or anywhere up here we could find:

Or down here by Mendenhall Lake (Torsten at the small swimming pond on the side of Mendenhall Lake), after swimming for a while on the nice sunny afternoon (too much sun for the camera to get a good picture!).

From Swimming Mendenhall

Oh, a little more non-reality from the Weather Service:

Record high reached Wednesday in Juneau, another record could be in store today
The record high temperature for the date yesterday was tied.

Here’s Meteorologist Corey Van Pelt in the Juneau Forecast Office says it hit 79 degrees at 4:46 p.m.

That matches the high reached in 1954.

Another record could be in store for today.

The high today is forecast to range between the upper 70’s and low 80’s. The record for this date is 80 which was also set in 1954.

This is the latest UAS article in today’s Juneau paper.

I think it does actually give a reasonable view of life and times at UAS. The university environment here is not just “lack of support for research”, which would be frustrating enough, but it is actually distracting from our efforts to grow an integrated, predominantly undergrad environment built on place-based interdisciplinary research programs. It is really too bad–there is so much potential here..

There are a few details I’d quibble with–the no confidence against Chancellor Pugh is currently tabled in Senate (there hasn’t been a vote on the motion), the senate resolutions weren’t “asking for a larger role in governance of the university”–it asked to recognize and practice shared governance as laid out in the UAS faculty constitution (signed by the current Chancellor when it was adopted in ~2003).

The contrast over the latest Dean search is “interesting” (“the search panel was unhappy with the candidates.” vs “all of the finalists withdrew“)

And unfortunately, the Chancellor says “we don’t have large research labs”–what a missed opportunity, because we do have great research labs! Three of ’em: the Juneau Icefield, The Tongass National Forest, and the Pacific Ocean/Inside Passage…

And here are a few photos of us at work in the lab yesterday–thanks Ayanna!

From Mendenhall Glacier Divide

From Mendenhall Glacier Divide

(and the whole (5 pictures so far!) album)..

Out with Beth, Jim, Glen on the Ijsselmyr (finally-we joked it was 5 years in the making). This is the boat, we have the hydrophone out for porpoises while eating the great breakfast Jim cooked. More good pictures from the camera soon.

Last day of school at Auke Bay Coop means a bike parade, gifts, and graduation!

Today, we woke up and had to head out Boy Scout beach trail to Eagle Beach. We ran into friends camping out there, and another group kayaked by. It was a little windy, but since the forecast was for 100% chance of rain, we can’t really complain!

Here’s one more picture from our stop over in Portland to catch up w/ Kristen, Ava, and Willa.

From Portland Visit

Time has flown, and it is the end of the school year! Torsten’s preschool celebrated with a BBQ at Auke Rec with the continued perfect weather we’ve been getting.. I was total failure at picture taking (only had the phone)–but we’ll probably get some of October’s pics (she had the good camera).

From Auke Bay Coop End of School BBQ

From Auke Bay Coop End of School BBQ

From Auke Bay Coop End of School BBQ

(Sorry for the backlog on the blog–we’ve been having fun and trying to keep up with ourselves!)