Ground Truth Alaska in the Media

Coverage of our work on landslides and tsunamis, trails, expeditions and Alaska’s lands and waters, along with some of our own writing in the press. Contact us with media inquiries.

Ground Truth Alaska in the Media

2026

Wave Apocalypse: grief lessons from an Alaskan mega-tsunami

Collapsing mountains in Alaska are causing massive tsunamis

How Alaska became the world’s landslide laboratory

A Landslide in Alaska Set Off a Tsunami. There May Be More to Come.

Massive Alaska megatsunami was second largest ever recorded

“We should be acting more quickly”: Tracy Arm tsunami highlights unseen hazards in busy Alaska fjords

Tracy Arm’s post-tsunami landscape

Hazard Cascade

2025

Joint effort assesses landslide and tsunami risks in Prince William Sound

Landslide risk in Alaska: what you need to know, with Dr. Bretwood “Hig” Higman

2024

Sailing in Alaska? Watch out for tsunamis

2023

In Alaska, the run of a lifetime: a 50k trail built by an inspired community

Hig Higman: trekking across the Last Frontier on the hunt for geohazards

2022

Barry Arm landslide’s acceleration is “the opposite of reassuring”

2021

Group investigates possibility of landslides in Lemon Creek area

2020

The specter of a mega-tsunami in Alaska

Refuge Notebook: Landslides awakening in our glaciated mountains (by Hig)

Potential landslide could trigger destructive tsunami in Alaska, scientists warn

2019

Out of the office: Taking our time on Tutka Backdoor Trail

Tutka Backdoor Trail project gaining momentum

2018

Does the recent earthquake tell us anything about risks at Pebble Mine? (by Hig)

Refuge Notebook: Building new trail builds community (by Erin)

One of the biggest tsunamis ever recorded was set off in Alaska by a melting glacier

2017

Meandering the mudflats: 800 miles around Cook Inlet (by Erin)

Why scientists are worried about a landslide no one saw or heard

2016

Sharing the wild: cutting a new trail to a lonely destination on Kachemak Bay (by Erin)

See for yourself: Alaska’s disappearing glaciers, then and now (by Erin)

Following Alaska’s vanishing ice (by Erin)

2015

Welcome to Umnak, a land of cows that assaults the senses (by Erin)

“Heart of Alaska” film to premiere in Homer

Family of four starts 500-mile trek to Kotzebue

Local filmmaker to document Cook Inlet trek

Before 2015

Refuge Notebook: Geologists determine age of Bluff Point landslide

Erin and Hig from Ground Truth Trekking

Home, family and climate on the edge of Alaska

Hear climbers, adventurers speak at upcoming events

Small Feet, Big Land author tour

Alaska trekking family promotes new book

Live on Juneau Afternoon

Talk of Alaska on Small Feet, Big Land

Real-life adventure books for hikers and backpackers

The Cook Inlet Trek

Seldovia’s extreme explorers

Journey on the Wild Coast

Bretwood Higman continues to question integrity of Pebble earthquake data

Symphony recounts Wild Coast journey

TV news short, from 2:05

Family embarking on odyssey across Malaspina Glacier

Talk of Alaska: getting kids outside

Have yurt, will travel

Юрта на оптоволокне (A yurt on fiber optic)

Broadband yes, toilet no: our life and work in a Seldovia yurt

A bear encounter

Walking from Seattle to the Aleutians: stories before, during and after

Expedition News, July 2007

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