A Computer Model of the Tidal Phenomena in Cook Inlet, Alaska

The work upon which this report is based was supported by funds (Project A-028-ALAS) provided by the United States Department of the Interior, Office of Water Resources Research, as authorized under the Water Resources Act of 1964, as amended

Arctic Engineering for the Seventies: A Philosophy

The Naval Arctic Research Lab at Barrow has been the base for productive studies of sea ice and pipelines in permafrost. It can offer the engineer a chance to do his fieldwork in the Arctic to solve challenging problems of housing design and construction, structural and power requirements, routings and oil spill difficulties of ships operating through the Northwest Passage, and basic work on physical and chemical properties of sea ice and its significance to shipping

A Program for the Collection, Storage, and Analysis of Baseline Environmental Data for Cook Inlet, Alaska

The scope of this report is to provide a general, yet comprehensive, description of the Cook Inlet System which will serve as a basis for understanding the interrelated natural and man-made factors governing its future; to present a program of field research studies for the estuarine environment that will describe the existing state of the Inlet with respect to the water quality and biota; to provide a framework whereby the program of studies can be evaluated and redirected in light of the preliminary results; and, to provide a method of storing and analyzing the data from the investigations so that it can be made available to interested parties in the most efficient manner possible.This report was prepared by the Institute of Water Resources of the University of Alaska for the Alaska Water Laboratory, Federal Water Pollution Control Administration under Contract No. 14-12-449

IWR; no. 3

Project Number: A-006-ALAS Agreement Number: 14-01-0001-722 Project Duration : November 15, 1965 - June 30, 1966The water resource research requirements for Alaska revolve around the needs of a rapidly expanding population and industrial growth in an unpopulated country. It appears that many of the problems which have been researched elsewhere must be restudied in Alaska because of the extremes of climate which Alaska exhibits . Most of the southern coastal areas of the State exhibit from 70 to 350 inches of runoff per year and in much of the northern part of the State permafrost to great depths and seasonal frost lock virtually all of the water in the solid state for a major part of the year. Alaska Is proving to be an area with vast petroleum reserves. These reserves are being brought into production and are resulting in the development of previously unpopulated areas. The proper management of previously untouched waters requires knowledge of the nature of the existing resources and then an evaluation of the probable effects of alternative water uses in order to optimize the desirable use of Alaskan water resources. This evaluation of present conditions and the analysis of future possible uses provide vast amounts of required research.The work upon which this report is based was supported by funds provided by the U .S . Department of the Interior , Office of Water Resources Research, as authorized under the Water Resources Research Act of 1964