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Kenai, Alaska 99611

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Cook Inlet Navigator August 2018

Students learning about ocean currents get assist from CIRCAC

CIRCAC’s field season was in full swing this summer, with both vessel- and helicopter-based habitat surveys taking place in Kamishak Bay and western Cook Inlet. During one survey, the field team was able to help an international educational project by rescuing a stranded boat…an un-manned MiniBoat, that is. In April, a call went out to the Cook Inlet research community that the satellite-tracked vessel had gone aground on Augustine Island and, given its remote location on a wave-exposed beach, there were limited options for collecting it. Fortunately, CIRCAC and our project partners were scheduled to be in the area in both May and June. After an unsuccessful attempt to go ashore on Augustine Island during a storm in May, the survey team was able to successfully collect the stranded vessel in June. Read about the MiniBoat project and rescue here .

Watch for our next newsletter to read more about our summer field work.

CIRCAC tours subsea pipeline construction site at Beluga

06272018 Half-mile sections of pipe are staged at the beach cut to be pulled out by the barge

Half-mile sections of pipe are staged at the beach cut where they will be pulled out by large winches on a barge.

In June, CIRCAC Board and staff members went to Beluga to tour the Cross Inlet pipeline project sites. Harvest Alaska and Hilcorp Alaska LLC briefed staff and Directors on the progress that had been made as we toured the staging area at Ladds Landing, where half-mile segments of pipe were being assembled and moved in place to be pulled off shore to connect the pipeline segments. As part of the operation, CIRCAC Directors and staff had the opportunity to meet the marine mammal spotter assigned to monitor marine mammal activity in the project area, and to hear the procedures that are followed when marine mammals are present.

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Cross Inlet Pipeline News

The Petroleum News has reported that the Regulatory Commission of Alaska has recently approved Cook Inlet Pipe Line Co. and Kenai Beluga Pipeline LLC applications for pipeline changes, including converting a portion of the Kenai Beluga Pipeline gas system into an oil pipeline. You can read the entire article here .