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Yukon River Freeze-up at Galena, AK

4 January 2024

As part of the Fresh Eyes on Ice project at University of Alaska Fairbanks we are documenting ice phenology of community study sites with videos. This is our third complete freeze-up sequence for 2023. Thanks to Karin Bodony and rest of crew at USFWS in Galena for support of the camera and making these videos. Watch it on YouTube 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