Multimedia Collection
Journey of Discovery: Landscape History of the Bering Land Bridge
VHS
30 minutes
QE28.2 .J61 1997
Discover the rich past and understand the intriguing landscape of the Bering Land Bridge with David M. Hopkins, Professor Emeritus of Quaternary Studies, University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Professor Hopkins, who pioneered research in the Bering Land Bridge nearly 50 years ago, takes you on a journey through ice ages, spectacular volcanic eruptions, and climate change spanning thousands of years of earth history.
Through the studies of geology, archeology, and paleoecology you will learn why understanding the landscape and the processes shaping it are important not only to the Iñupiat who live there today, but to everyone. This educational video, which explains the processes affecting the arctic landscape within the context of climate change, will be of particular interest to secondary and college students studying earth processes.
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