Last week’s helicopter crash on Alaska’s North Slope took the lives of a permafrost expert from the Netherlands, a pilot who recently transitioned from the military to fly charters and two other scientists conducting field work.
recovered the bodies from the sunken wreckage of the aircraft
“He’s such a good-natured guy, he’s kind, he’s caring, he’s good humored,” said Howie Epstein, a professor in environmental sciences at the University of Virginia. During summer field work, they studied permafrost and changes in Arctic tundra in Canada, Alaska and Siberia. “He’s determined, a young man who chased his dream and accomplished a lot in his life,” said his mother, Karla Germann.
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