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Alaska Science Forum: A "totally weird" dinosaur;
new waste study in Denali


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This article starts out with one topic and draws you into what you think is all about a scientific discovery but low and behold it really is an article about poop. I am not sure how one topic really should be part of the next.

Alaska Science Forum: A "totally weird" dinosaur; new waste study in Denali:

"In other Denali National Park news, researchers have tracked the movement of human waste down a well-traveled glacier on Mount McKinley, estimated that the byproduct of climbers on the West Buttress route will emerge from melting ice as soon as 15 years from now.

Michael Loso is coauthor of a new paper in the journal Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research. In it, the Alaska Pacific University professor reports on a park-sponsored study to determine the fate of human waste deposited on Kahiltna Glacier, the frozen pathway that leads more than 1,000 climbers each year up Mount McKinley. UAA graduate student Katelyn Goodwin and UAF’s Matthias Braun also coauthored the paper.

The National Park Service requires climbers to remove their feces from base camp and from a climbing camp at 17,000 feet using a portable Clean Mountain Can, but climbers can dispose of the waste later by tossing biodegradable bags in crevasses. The new study opened the eyes of managers.

“Back in the 1980s we thought it would take thousands of years to come out (after being thrown in a crevasse),” said Roger Robinson, a mountaineering ranger at Denali who invented the Clean Mountain Can waste-removal system. “We also thought waste on the surface would break down pretty fast. That’s also been disproven.”

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I wonder how many other things in our society and world today will be disproven tomorrow?

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