RIVER ICE OBSERVATIONS - HEALY, AK

This village was established as a mining camp in about 1905 and named after the nearby Healy Creek. It subsequently became a station stop on the Alaska Railroad. It is located at 63.857°N,148.966°W on the Nenana River northwest of the mouth of Healy Creek and 125.5 kilometers (78 miles) south-southwest of Fairbanks. It is 409 m (1342 ft) above sea level.

The head of the YANERT FORK is at the Yanert Glacier (63.594°N, 147.875°W). It is 49.9 kilometers (31 miles) long and flows northwest to Nenana River with the confluence of these two rives being some 22.5 kilometers (14 miles) southeast of Healy(63.682°N, 148.780°W).
Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)

Tri Valley School (Grades - PK-12) in Healy has 183 students (http://www.greatschools.net/).

Mark Martin's class has been taking freeze-up and break-up data using the Freshwater Ice Protocols during the 2007-2008 ice growth and decay season.

View the 2007-2008 freeze-up data/break-up summary data on the Nenana River near Healy.

The image in the upper right shows the road and railroad bridge over the Nenana River. This is were the Tri-Valley students make their ice observations. Can you locate the observation site in the image at bottom right?






The map below shows the Healy area with Healy Creek joining the Nenana River in the center of the image.Can you locate the Healy observation site on the map?


The image at bottom right show a larger area around the Healy observation site. Can you locate of the airstrip the students get their weather data from?.