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Break-up of the Yukon River at Galena

25 May 2022

As part of the Fresh Eyes on Ice project (http://fresheyesonice.org/) at University of Alaska Fairbanks we are documenting ice phenology of community study sites with videos. This is our fourth complete break-up sequence for 2022. Special thanks to Koyukuk NWR for access to this wonderful view! Watch video on You Tube here!

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2024

June

• 2024 Break-up watch on the Kuskokwim River at Sleetmute, AK

• Yukon River Break-up at Galena, AK in 2024

• Yukon River Break-up at Eagle, AK in 2024

May

• Thermal Break-up on the Innoko River

• Break-up watch on the Tanana River below Fairbanks

January

• Yukon River Freeze-up at Eagle Village

• Freeze-up watch on the Kuskokwim River at Sleetmute

• Yukon River Freeze-up at Galena, AK

2023

December

• Innoko River Freeze-up

• Freeze-up watch on the Tanana River below Fairbanks

• Freeze-up Watch on the Kantishna River

July

• Break-up and flooding on the Innoko River

• Yukon River break-up watch at Galena, AK

June

• Kuskokwim River Break-up at Sleetmute

• Yukon River break-up at Eagle, AK

• Break-up on the Tanana River near Fairbanks

May

• Break-up on the Kantishna River 2023

• Long and Unfinished Freeze-up on the Copper River

January

• Innoko River freezeup

2022

December

• Kuskokwim R Freezeup at Sleetmute

• Yukon River Freeze-up at Eagle

• Freeze-up of the Yukon River at Galena

November

• Tanana River Freeze-up

• Freeze-up of the Kantishna River

October

• Colville River Freeze-up

June

• Break-up and Ice-jam Flooding on Kuskokwim R at Sleetmute

• Yukon River breakup at Eagle

• Innoko River break-up and flooding

May

• Break-up of the Kuskokwim River at Napaskiak

• Teedriinjik River Break-up at Venetie, AK

• Break-up of the Yukon River at Galena

• Break-up on the Kantishna River, 2022

• Freeze-up and break-up on the Copper River, 2021-22

2021

December

• Freeze-up on the Yukon River at Galena in 2021

• Freeze-up of the Yukon River at Eagle in 2021

• Freeze-up on the Tanana River in 2021

• Freeze-up of the Kantishna River in 2021

• Freeze-up on the Innoko River in 2021

• Fast Freeze-up on the Kuskokwim River in 2021

• Freeze-up on the Colville River in 2021

June

• Break-up on the Kuskokwim River near Napasiak, AK in 2021

• Break-up of the Yukon River at Galena, AK in 2021

May

• Break-up of the Yukon River near Paimute, AK in 2021

• Break-up of the Kantishna River in Interior Alaska, 2021

• Break-up on the Innoko River near Shageluk, AK in 2021

• Break-up of the Tanana River near Fairbanks, AK in 2021

• A long and unfinished freeze-up on the Copper River: winter of 2020-21

February

• Slow Freeze-up of the Lower Yukon River near Paimute, Alaska in 2020-21

January

• Freeze-up on the Tanana River downstream of Fairbanks, AK in 2020

• Freeze-up on the Kuskokwim River near Napasiak, Alaska in 2020

• 2020 Freeze-up on the Kantishna River in Interior Alaska

• Freeze-up of the Yukon River at Galena, AK in 2020

2020

December

• Freeze-up of the Innoko River near Shageluk, AK in 2020

• Freeze-up on the Colville River in northern Alaska in 2020

July

• Yukon River ice breakup at Galena, AK in 2020

June

• Noatak River breakup in 2020

• Kuskokwim River breakup in 2020

• Tanana River break-up downstream of Fairbanks, AK in 2020

February

• Freeze-up of the Kuskokwim River above Kwethluk, Alaska in 2019

January

• Freeze-up of the Innoko River near Shageluk, AK in 2019

2019

December

• Freezeup of the Yukon River at Galena in 2019