{"id":183471,"date":"2025-03-07T06:16:52","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T20:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=0d81cbf0214677f2f2a654899159e91e"},"modified":"2025-03-07T06:16:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T20:16:52","slug":"kachemak-bays-stony-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=183471","title":{"rendered":"Kachemak Bay\u2019s Stony Waters"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NASA\/Michala Garrison, USGS<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The\u00a0OLI<\/a>\u00a0(Operational Land Imager) on\u00a0Landsat 8<\/a>\u00a0captured an image of Kachemak Bay\u2019s turbid, cloudy waters on September 20, 2024. This cloudiness comes from glacial flour: bits of pulverized rock ground down by glaciers that has the consistency of flour. Several\u00a0meltwater streams\u00a0rich with the particles, sometimes called\u00a0suspended sediment, absorb and scatter sunlight in ways that turn water a\u00a0milky blue-green hue<\/a>. The water that flows into the bay from the\u00a0Grewingk-Yalik Glacier Complex\u00a0to the east carries sediment-infused waters that transform the appearance of the bay during the summer, raising questions about how much the influx of sediment affects the bay\u2019s marine life.<\/p>\n

Learn more about efforts to study Kachemak Bay\u2019s sediment plumes.<\/a><\/p>\n

Text credit: Adam Voiland<\/p>\n

Image credit: NASA\/Michala Garrison, USGS<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0OLI\u00a0(Operational Land Imager) on\u00a0Landsat 8\u00a0captured an image of Kachemak Bay\u2019s turbid, cloudy waters on September 20, 2024. This cloudiness comes from glacial flour: bits of pulverized rock ground down by glaciers that has the consistency of flour. Several\u00a0meltwater streams\u00a0rich with the particles, sometimes called\u00a0suspended sediment, absorb and scatter sunlight in ways that turn water a\u00a0milky [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15644],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-earth"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t