Jason Kishineff. Courtesy photo. NORTHERN CALIFORNIA – An American Canyon resident said he is joining the race for the House of Representatives seat held by Congressman Mike Thompson.
Jason Kishineff, 48, representing the Green Party, said he is running for the Fifth Congressional District seat as part of a mission to get corporate influences out of the United States electoral system, a goal he and other progressives plan to accomplish through a constitutional amendment prohibiting corporate campaign contributions and making elections publicly funded.
Kishineff believes that the planet is at risk from climate change, fracking, military pollution and an ever-growing network of oil pipelines.
He believes that health care, college education and housing should be considered human rights, that policing should be demilitarized policing, that our water is contaminated in many places and should be cleaned up, that wars for profits and oil should be be halted, and that no one who works 40 hours a week should be living in poverty.
Other priorities for Kishineff include addressing the growing gap between rich and poor is largely responsible for a great deal of crime.
Kishineff is refusing all donations from corporate super PACs, which gives him a financial disadvantage that he is embracing.
He said Democrats like his opponent, Mike Thompson, have failed to represent labor, failed to represent the environment, failed to represent immigrants, failed the anti-war movement and failed the American people as a whole.
Kishineff is endorsed by Bernie Sanders' Our Revolution group, Lt. Governor candidate Gail McLaughlin, Napa Valley College Trustee Amy Martenson, the Sonoma County Green Party, the Solano County Green Party and has been working closely with the Napa County Green Party. He has spoken at the marijuana forum at the Napa library in January and has appeared on KPFZ radio in Lake County.
He has signed the Contract For American Renewal and has signed an agreement to co-sponsor a term limits bill. He's also ready to answer any and all of your questions.
LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – The latest round of Stars of Lake County winners was announced at the awards ceremony on Saturday evening at the Soper Reese Theater.
The sold out event celebrated 66 nominees from around Lake County.
U.S. Congressman Mike Thompson who has been a participant in Stars since its inception presented his personal certificate to every recipient.
The selection committee met for four hours on Feb. 1 after being given less than a week to read all 66 nominations. Their secret ballots were cast as they completed a discussion on each of the 21 categories.
Selection committee members this year were Robert Boccabella, Linda Diehl-Darms, Brock Falkenberg, Susan Feiler, Greg Folsom, Trena Pauly, Beth Rudiger, Yvette Sloan, John Tomkins, Sandy Tucker and Hedy Montoya.
The Carnegie Library in Lakeport, Calif. Photo by Elizabeth Larson/Lake County News.
LAKEPORT, Calif. – The Lakeport City Council this week will consider awarding a contract for accessibility upgrades for the city’s historic Carnegie Library.
The council will meet in closed session at 5:30 p.m Tuesday, Feb. 20, to discuss negotiations with Lake County Tribal Health for property at 902 Bevins Court before the public portion of the meeting begins at 6 p.m. in the council chambers at Lakeport City Hall, 225 Park St.
Community Development Director Kevin Ingram will present to the council the proposed award of a construction contract for the Carnegie Library Accessibility Upgrade Project to R & C Construction.
Ingram’s report to the council explains that the project is to provide Americans with Disabilities Act-compliant access to the building, which turns 100 this year.
“There will be an elevator installed providing access to the second floor. Both bathrooms will be remodeled, making one ADA compliant. New water and sewer lines will be installed for service to the building,” Ingram wrote in his report.
Ingram said the two bids received were opened Feb. 12. R & C Construction put in the low bid at $385,381, while the second bidder, FRC Inc., came in at $479,000. The engineer’s estimate for the project was $425,000.
He said construction is estimated to start March 19.
The project will be funded by the 2016 Community Development Block Grant, said Ingram.
In other business, the council will hold a public hearing to consider updates to the city’s ordinance regarding the Park and Recreation Commission.
At its meeting Feb. 6 the council discussed and gave initial approval to proposed changes involving allowing one at-large, non-city member from the 95453 zip code and establishing monthly meetings.
Also on Tuesday, Bonnie Sharp, the new permit technician, will be introduced to the council.
Items on the consent agenda – items considered noncontroversial and usually accepted as a slate on one vote – are ordinances; minutes of the council’s regular meeting on Feb. 6; the Feb. 7 warrant register; approval of Application 2018-004, with staff recommendations, for the Child Festival in the Park event to be held in Library Park on April 21; approval of Application 2018-005, with staff recommendations, for the July 4th Arts and Crafts Fair to be held in Library Park; approval of Application 2018-006, with staff recommendations, for the Taste of Lake County event to be held on Main Street on Aug. 25; approval of Application 2018-007 and waive application fee, with staff recommendations, for the Trick or Treat Main Street event, to be held Oct. 31; approval of Application 2018-008, with staff recommendations, for the Dickens’ Faire to be held on Main Street on Nov. 24.
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CLEARLAKE, Calif. – The Clearlake City Council this week is set to hold a special meeting to get an update on its road sales tax measure as well as a regular meeting in which it will discuss filling a council vacancy.
The council will meet beginning at 5 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 22, in the council chambers at Clearlake City Hall, 14050 Olympic Drive, for a joint meeting with the Measure V Citizen Oversight Committee.
That special meeting will be for the purpose of receiving a report on Measure V’s progress and to evaluate expenditures.
That will be followed at 6 p.m. by the regular council meeting.
One of the key items of business at Thursday’s regular meeting will be the discussion of options for filling the unexpired term of Councilman Russell Perdock, who resigned on Feb. 1 in order to apply for the Clearlake Police Department’s chief position, as Lake County News has reported.
Perdock’s term expires in November, and city staff is recommending that the council adopt a resolution directing City Clerk Melissa Swanson to prepare an application for qualified applicants and schedule interviews with those who apply.
Swanson’s report to the council explained that, rather than seek applicants, it may adopt a resolution calling a special election to fill the vacancy. However, by law, that special election would have to occur on Nov. 6, which is the date when Perdock’s seat would have expired.
In that second scenario, Swanson said the seat would remain vacant until the regularly scheduled election on Nov. 6.
The council also will consider a second reading and adoption of an ordinance amending the city’s commercial cannabis rules allowing commercial cannabis cultivation west of Highway 53 and repealing an urgency ordinance that instituted a moratorium on grows on the west side of the highway.
On Thursday the council also will hear a presentation from Adventist Health Clear Lake regarding the 340B drug program, get the annual audit report for the fiscal year ending 2017 and the annual Clearlake Police Department report from interim Chief Tim Celli.
On the consent agenda – which includes items considered noncontroversial and usually accepted as a slate on one vote – are warrant registers and the minutes of the meetings on Nov. 9, 16 and 30, and Dec. 14 and 21.
The council also will hold a closed session to discuss two cases of existing litigation, Rosa Aleman v. City of Clearlake and Matamoros v. City of Clearlake.
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From right, Janice Sue Harper, 48, and Emmanuel Yagnye Yennyemb, 58, of Lakeport, Calif., were arrested on Wednesday, February 7, 2018, on charges of child abuse involving two boys. Lake County Jail photos.
LAKEPORT, Calif. – Two Lakeport residents have been arrested for child abuse after police said an investigation revealed they had abused two boys.
Emmanuel Yagnye Yennyemb, 58, and Janice Sue Harper, 48, were arrested on Feb. 7, according to Lakeport Police Chief Brad Rasmussen.
Rasmussen said that on Oct. 26 his department’s school resource officer received a call from Lakeport Unified staff regarding two boys, ages 10 and 14, who were possible child abuse victims.
The officer went to the school office and met with officials and the 14-year-old, who had visible injuries, Rasmussen said.
The teen told the officer that Harper and Yennyemb had inflicted the injuries on him. During the interview Rasmussen said the officer found out that the 10-year-old was at home.
Rasmussen said the officer contacted Child Protective Services which, at the officer’s request, met the officer at the school and then responded to the home.
He said the 10-year-old also was found to have suffered from a traumatic injury, and CPS took custody of both juveniles.
The Lakeport Police Department detective subsequently took over the case and conducted an extensive investigation with the help of the District Attorney’s Office’s criminal investigations division, Rasmussen said.
The investigation included multiple interviews, two search warrants that were served on two Lakeport residences and a third search warrant for the forensic examination of an electronic device, according to Rasmussen.
Rasmussen said the investigation was completed on Jan. 5 and sent to the District Attorney’s Office, which filed charges against Harper and Yennyemb on Jan. 24.
A Lake County Superior Court judge signed warrants for their arrests and they were taken into custody for child abuse by a Lakeport Police officer on Feb. 7, Rasmussen said.
Both were booked with bail set at $150,000. Rasmussen said they later posted bail and were released.
Yennyemb is the clinic operations manager for Lake County Tribal Health, while Harper, a registered nurse, is outreach manager, according to the organization’s Web site. A request for comment sent to Tribal Health’s executive director about the arrests was not responded to by the time of publication.
Chief Deputy District Attorney Richard Hinchcliff said Harper and Yennyemb were each charged with two counts of willful infliction of cruel or inhuman corporal punishment or an injury resulting in a traumatic condition.
If convicted, they face up to six years in prison and a fine of up to $6,000 fine, or both, he said.
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CLEARLAKE, Calif. – Clearlake Animal Control has big and little dogs waiting for new homes this week.
The available dogs are Raider, Robbie, Oliver, Magnolia, Jessie, Hutch and Buttercup.
To meet the animals, call Clearlake Animal Control at 707-994-8201 and speak to Marcia at Extension 103 or call Extension 118, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Thursday, or leave a message at any other time.
Below are this week's available pets.
“Raider.” Courtesy photo. ‘Raider’
“Raider” is a male fun-sized terrier mix who loves to cuddle.
He is about a year old, weighs 12 pounds, has been neutered and has a short brindle coat.
Shelter staff said he’s good with other dogs, is timid at first but warms up quickly.
He was picked up from a red-tagged home and is ready for a new life with a family of his own.
“Robbie.” Courtesy photo. ‘Robbie’
“Robbie” is a young and happy-go-lucky mix – possibly Labrador Retriever and Rottweiler.
Shelter staff said is he around a year and a half old and weighs 50 pounds.
He walks well on a leash, makes friends with other dogs, and is playful but not super active.
Robbie is vaccinated and will be neutered prior to adoption.
“Oliver.” Courtesy photo. ‘Oliver’
Oliver is a very handsome 9-month-old male mixed breed who weighs about 90 pounds and has a short black and white coat.
Shelter staff said he is good with children, treat motivated and eager to please. He’s also a quick learner.
“Magnolia.” Courtesy photo. ‘Magnolia’
“Magnolia” has a short brown and white coat.
Shelter staff said she loves walks and commands you rub her belly. She wiggles over then flops over for the rubs.
She came in as a stray and is already spayed. Staff estimated she is around 2 years old and weighs about 60 pounds.
Magnolia is very social and friendly. She is fine with other dogs, and walks well on leash.
“Jessie.” Courtesy photo. ‘Jessie’
“Jessie” is a small female shepherd mix, weighing about 20 pounds and estimated to be 4 months old.
She has a short tan coat with black and white markings.
Shelter staff said she is good with other dogs and with children.
Jessie is very spunky and on the go, and loves to play chase and zoom around. Staff said she is quickly learning to walk nicely on leash.
“Hutch.” Courtesy photo. ‘Hutch’
Hutch is a calm shepherd mix estimated to be between 1 and 2 years old, with a short brown coat and weighing 55 pounds.
Shelter staff said he appears to be good with other dogs, and is attentive.
He walks great on leash but also likes to just chill on his bed.
“Buttercup.” Courtesy photo. ‘Buttercup’
“Buttercup” is a female Chihuahua-terrier mix who is estimated to be between 6 and 8 months old.
Shelter staff said she weighs about 20 pounds, is good with other dogs and with children.
She is shy but warms up quickly, and has young pup manners.
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The Anderson Marsh ranch house in Lower Lake, Calif., has reopened to the public. Photo by Lucy Llewellyn Byard. LOWER LAKE, Calif. – After a hiatus, a local landmark, the Anderson Marsh ranch house, is once again open to visits from the public.
A group of 11 people met three Anderson Marsh tour docents in the parking lot of Anderson Marsh State Historic Park at 8:30 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 10, for a walking tour of the marsh that culminated in a tour of the ranch house, opened for the first time since the contents of the house were evacuated to protect them from the 2016 Clayton Fire.
Docents Roberta Lyons, Dr. Harry Lyons and Henry Bornstein, members of the Anderson Marsh Interpretive Association, led the group along the Cache Creek Nature Trail.
Along the way they stopped to point out bluebird houses and one of seven types of oak trees, the valley oak, along with natural grasses on the 540 acres, acreage set aside from the 1,065 total acreage of the State Historic Park as the nature preserve.
Two white-tailed kites scoured the marshlands for prey. A blue kingfisher dove for food in the creek.
Walking along the wooden boardwalk built by the volunteer group Telephone Pioneers of America, gave the crowd an intimate view of the creek.
Each season brings different flora and fauna. Bornstein said that it’s possible, if hikers come early morning, that a herd of deer, sometimes numbering 400, can be seen drinking from the creek.
Springtime brings neon pink California native roses in a stand along Marsh Trail. The honeycombed-shaped common teasel, which is currently brown and dry, flowers in the spring, creating a field of purple.
Roberta Lyons halted the tour several times to point out trails leading back to the ranch house, for those who wanted to take a shorter tour.
Approaching the Ridge Trail, through the Blue Oak woodland, naked and looking like arthritic fingers reaching upward, the crowd had thinned to four, plus the guides.The tour also stopped at the stunning acorn woodpecker granary tree, the woodpeckers’ storage site.
The distance for this monthly tour was two-miles and took roughly two and a half hours. Once back in the parking lot, the group gathered again for the tour of the ranch house.
A view from the boardwalk built by volunteers of Telephone Pioneers of America at Anderson Marsh State Historic Park in Lower Lake, Calif. Photo by Lucy Llewellyn Byard. The house was built in three sections, with the original, middle section, dating back to the 1860s. Most of the furnishing was used by the Anderson family.
Access to the sleeping room – which slept the Anderson’s six children – upstairs is prohibited as the ceiling is in a weakened state.
The spacious parlor was added on in the 1880s, made completely out of redwood for the floors, walls and ceiling.
Cooking was done over wood outside until a stove was brought into the Craftsman-style kitchen wing, built in the 1920s, and eventually replaced by the current stove.
The area was originally inhabited by Native Indians – Koi, Miwok and Pomo – as far back as 14,000 years ago.
In 1885 the John Anderson family bought the ranch and occupied it until the 1960s. The house and land were then sold to rancher Raymond Lyons and eventually bought by the California State Parks in 1982.
It is now a protected part of the archeological and nature site, maintained by the 100 volunteers of the Anderson Marsh Interpretive Association, with some help from the Californian State Park system.
Free guided nature tours and tours of the ranch house are conducted on the second Saturday of the month, except January, September and December, starting a 8:30 a.m. Binoculars and sturdy shoes are recommended.
Dogs and horses are not allowed; their scents will scare native wildlife from the area.
Lucy Llewellyn Byard is a Lake County News correspondent. She lives in Lucerne.
The Craftsman-style kitchen wing of the historic Anderson Marsh ranch house, built in the 1920s, in Lower Lake, Calif. Photo by Lucy Llewellyn Byard.
LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – A cold snap is in the forecast for the coming week, according to the National Weather Service.
The agency issued a freeze watch for Lake County that will be in effect from 2 a.m. Monday to 8 a.m. Wednesday.
The watch warns of overnight temperatures between 24 and 32 degrees.
The coldest temperatures in Lake County are expected on Monday morning, with widespread lows in the mid to upper 20s and several hours of subfreezing temperatures possible, the National Weather Service reported.
Daytime temperatures also are forecast to drop this week.
During the day on Sunday temperatures are forecast to be in the high 40s with wind gusts into the mid 20s, according to the forecast.
On Monday, with temperatures in the mid 40s, forecasters said there is a slight chance of rain and snow in the higher elevations.
From Tuesday through Friday, daytime temperatures are forecast to rise into the 50s, with nighttime temperatures into the high 30s.
Chances of rain also are predicted on Thursday, according to the forecast.
During the freeze, area residents are urged to check on the elderly and make sure animals have a warm shelter, protect plants and consider wrapping external pipes that may be vulnerable to freezing.
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Barbara Green is decked out in Seuss gear and ready to read stories at Lakeport Library in Lakeport, Calif., when all Lake County Library branches observe Read Across America Day with Dr. Seuss-themed storytimes in February and March 2018. Photo courtesy of the Lake County Library. LAKEPORT, Calif. – Readers in Lake County will join millions of their peers across the country to celebrate the 21st annual National Education Association's Read Across America Day on March 2, 2018.
NEA's Read Across America Day, which celebrates Dr. Seuss's birthday and the joys of reading, expects more than 45 million readers, both young and old, to pick up a book and read.
To honor Dr. Seuss and celebrate the fun and value of reading, the Lake County Library is asking you to join NEA and many of America's leading literacy, youth, and civic groups in bringing a nation of readers together under one hat – the red and white stovepipe made famous by the Cat in the Hat – for a flurry of reading excitement.
All branches of the Lake County Library will present Dr. Seuss-themed storytimes during the week of Read Across America.
These very special events will feature games, prizes, and free books for all who attend. The dates and times for the storytimes are:
– Middletown Library, 21256 Washington St.: Tuesday, Feb. 27, 11:30 a.m. – Redbud Library, 14785 Burns Valley Road in Clearlake: Thursday, March 1, 11 a.m. – Upper Lake Library, 310 Second St.: Thursday, March 1, 2 p.m. – Lakeport Library, 1425 N. High St.: Friday, March 2, 10:15 a.m. and 2:30 p.m.
The Lake County Library is working with Bloom, a program of the Lake County Office of Education, for these activities. Bloom is supplying the games and prizes. The Adult Literacy Families for Literacy program is supplying the books to be given away.
Bloom operates on a simple premise: the word “bloom” conjures up images of children blooming into the best they can be through engagement and interaction with the most important people in their lives – their parents and families. Talking, playing and reading with your children are the best ways to prepare them for success in school.
Bloom and the Lake County Library share the goal of showing America's children the joy of reading and building a nation of readers – on March 2 and every day.
For more information about NEA's Read Across America, visit www.nea.org/readacross and www.readacrossamerica.org and learn of other reading celebrations that are happening from coast to coast.
LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – Lake County Animal Care and Control has a small group of dogs waiting to go to their new homes this week.
The dogs offered adoption this week include mixes of Chihuahua, golden retriever and pit bull.
Dogs that are adopted from Lake County Animal Care and Control are either neutered or spayed, microchipped and, if old enough, given a rabies shot and county license before being released to their new owner. License fees do not apply to residents of the cities of Lakeport or Clearlake.
If you're looking for a new companion, visit the shelter. There are many great pets hoping you'll choose them.
The following dogs at the Lake County Animal Care and Control shelter have been cleared for adoption (additional dogs on the animal control Web site not listed are still “on hold”).
This male Chihuahua is in kennel No. 12, ID No. 9415. Photo courtesy of Lake County Animal Care and Control. Male Chihuahua
This adult male Chihuahua has a short white coat.
He’s in kennel No. 12, ID No. 9415.
This male golden retriever is in quarantine kennel No. 19, ID No. 9302. Photo courtesy of Lake County Animal Care and Control. Male golden retriever
This adult male golden retriever has a medium-length golden coat.
He already has been neutered.
He’s in quarantine kennel No. 19, ID No. 9302.
This young female pit bull is in kennel No. 26, ID No. 9465. Photo courtesy of Lake County Animal Care and Control. Female pit bull
This young female pit bull has a short blue and fawn coat.
She is in kennel No. 26, ID No. 9465.
This male pit bull is in kennel No. 27, ID No. 9480. Photo courtesy of Lake County Animal Care and Control. Male pit bull
This male pit bull has a short blue and white coat.
Shelter staff said he is super sweet and bubbly.
He’s in kennel No. 27, ID No. 9480.
Lake County Animal Care and Control is located at 4949 Helbush in Lakeport, next to the Hill Road Correctional Facility.
Office hours are Monday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., and 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday. The shelter is open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday and on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
For more information call Lake County Animal Care and Control at 707-263-0278.
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Last year was a record-breaking one for Operation IceBridge, NASA’s aerial survey of the state of polar ice.
For the first time in its nine-year history, the mission, which aims to close the gap between two NASA satellite campaigns that study changes in the height of polar ice, carried out seven field campaigns in the Arctic and Antarctic in a single year.
In total, the IceBridge scientists and instruments flew over 214,000 miles, the equivalent of orbiting the Earth 8.6 times at the equator.
“A big highlight for 2017 is how we increased our reach with our new bases of operations and additional campaigns,” said Nathan Kurtz, IceBridge’s project scientist and a sea ice researcher at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. “In the Arctic, we flew out of Svalbard for the first time, expanding our coverage of the Eastern Arctic Ocean. And with our two Antarctic aircraft campaigns from Argentina and East Antarctica, we’ve flown over a large area of the Antarctic continent.”
The expanding sets of measurements collected by IceBridge will continue to be invaluable for researchers to advance their understanding of how the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are contributing to sea level rise and how the changing polar sea ice impacts weather and climate.
For example, in 2017, scientists worldwide published studies that had used IceBridge data to look at ways to improve forecasts of sea ice conditions and to use satellites to map the depth of the layer of snow on top of sea ice, a key measurement in determining sea ice volume.
Regarding research on ice sheets and glaciers, 2017 saw further integration of Operation IceBridge’s ice height measurements into decades-long records that combine airborne and satellite data, as well as the use of combinations of datasets from multiple IceBridge instruments, including its radars and laser altimeter, into products such as an improved map of the bedrock underneath Greenland’s ice sheet, and studies that looked at the evolution of glaciers.
Since 2009, IceBridge has carried at least two major campaigns per year, in the Arctic and Antarctica, plus two smaller yearly sets of flights in Alaska. In 2017 the team overcame several logistical challenges in order to nearly double the number of campaigns flown compared to previous years.
“Working in new locations and with different airplanes as we did this year always presents a challenge, but we took them on in order to continue expanding our knowledge of some little-explored areas of the Arctic and Antarctic," Kurtz said.
The first IceBridge campaign of the year was in the Arctic springtime. From Mar. 9 until May 12, the mission carried a total of 40 flights (14 over sea ice and 26 over land ice) from four sites: Thule Air Base and Kangerlussuaq in Greenland, Fairbanks in Alaska, and the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard.
This was the first time IceBridge explored the Eurasian half of the Arctic Basin to collect data on sea ice and snow in a scarcely measured section of the Arctic Ocean and surrounding seas, along with surveys of a few glaciers in the Svalbard archipelago.
The airborne mission also collaborated with international teams in collecting and comparing measurements of snow and ice; partners included CryoVEx – a campaign to validate data collected by the European Space Agency’s (ESA) CryoSat-2 satellite, a group of European adventurers taking snow depth data while en route to the North Pole, ESA’s Sentinel-3A satellite, and a GPS survey near Summit Station, Greenland, designed to help with instrument calibration on upcoming missions, such as Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2), among others.
Next, the IceBridge scientists performed four sets of flights in the Arctic during the summer to measure how the melt season impacted Arctic sea and land ice.
In July, the mission carried six surveys out of Thule Air Base, in northwest Greenland, focusing on the older and thicker sea ice cover north of Greenland and in the Canadian Archipelago.
IceBridge also completed an experiment to determine how well the laser instrument could measure the depth of the aquamarine lakes of meltwater that form on the surface of the Greenland Ice Sheet and Arctic sea ice every summer.
Preliminary results indicate that the laser could penetrate more than thirty feet through these lakes, a first step to gauge the depth of these ponds.
The second summer Arctic campaign, flown between Aug. 25 and Sept. 20, was launched from Kangerlussuaq, in central Greenland, and replicated land ice surveys that IceBridge had carried the previous spring. A total of 15 flights measured how much ice had melted since spring.
Meanwhile, in Alaska, a companion campaign that regularly monitors the state of the Alaskan mountain glaciers completed two sets of flights in May and August. Led by Chris Larsen of University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Operation IceBridge-Alaska carried a total of 10 aerial surveys.
“The main focus was repeated lines for laser altimetry, but we also expanded our radar coverage on the Bering and Malaspina glaciers,” Larsen said. “A highlight of the missions was flying the Harding and Sargent icefields on the Kenai Peninsula. Other areas included the Fairweather Range in Glacier Bay National Park, and the eastern Alaska Range.”
The last feat of 2017 for IceBridge was launching two consecutive sets of Antarctic flights from South America and Antarctica. The first Antarctic campaign, carried out from Oct. 29 to Nov. 25 from Ushuaia, Argentina, comprised 11 science flights over the Antarctic Peninsula and Weddell Sea that included gravity surveys of the Larsen C and Venable Ice Shelves, plus two flights under the tracks of the German TanDEM-X satellite to explore whether scientists can use the radar data from the spacecraft to detect a band of older and thicker sea ice that may exist near the northern edge of the ring of sea ice around Antarctica.
Finally, IceBridge scientists and instruments deployed to McMurdo Station, Antarctica, from where they completed 16 survey flights between Nov. 28 and Dec. 18.
“Our McMurdo campaign exceeded all expectations,” said Joe MacGregor, IceBridge’s deputy project scientist and a glaciologist at Goddard. “We covered lots of ground around the South Pole, the Transantarctic Mountains, the Ross Ice Shelf and Victoria Land. We surveyed all our highest priority targets and then some.”
The mission of Operation IceBridge, NASA’s longest-running airborne mission to monitor polar ice, is to collect data on changing polar land and sea ice and maintain continuity of measurements between ICESat missions.
The original ICESat mission launched in 2003 and ended in 2009, and its successor, ICESat-2, is scheduled for launch in the fall of 2018. Operation IceBridge began in 2009 and is currently funded until 2020. The planned overlap with ICESat-2 will help scientists connect with the satellite’s measurements.
LAKEPORT, Calif. – Susan Krones has joined the race to become Lake County’s next district attorney.
Krones is currently a senior deputy district attorney and has 25 years of experience prosecuting criminal cases in Lake County.
Also in the race so far is local attorney Steven Brown, as Lake County News has reported.
Krones started out in the District Attorney’s Office Family Support Division in 1992 and then transferred to the Criminal Division in 1997 where she has prosecuted serious and violent felonies including murder, child sexual assault, domestic violence, vehicular homicide and animal abuse cases, to name just a few.
While assigned to the child sexual assault cases, Krones was instrumental in establishing the first child interview center in Lake County for victims of sexual assault.
Krones is a U.S. Army veteran, having served as a judge advocate general attorney for seven years reaching the rank of captain.
While in the military she served as a prosecutor and a Medical Board Advocate for soldiers.
When she was stationed in Germany during Operation Desert Shield, Krones served as a trial defense attorney and then the chief of the Civil Division in Stuttgart.
Krones received her law degree from UC Hastings College of the Law in 1984.
While in law school Krones worked part-time as a law clerk at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Francisco. She received her undergraduate degree cum laude in history from UCLA.
Krones is involved in the local community and serves on the Lake County Arts Council Board, the Lake County Community Radio Board and is a member of 100 Women Strong and the Lake County Bar Association. She is also a member of the California District Attorney’s Association.
She pledges to work closely with local law enforcement agencies and community leaders to reduce crime in Lake County.
“Over my 25 years in prosecuting crime in Lake County I have forged the relationships and gained the experience required to lead the District Attorney’s Office,” Krones said. “I will maintain the highest degree of ethics in the office and will be responsive to the people of Lake County.”
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