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  • ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ names 2022 alumni award recipients

    January 14, 2022

    ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ Alumni Association has named its 2022 award recipients.
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  • A student at John Fredson School in Venetie, Alaska, works with one of the drone kits provided by the Alaska Satellite Facility through a NASA grant.

    ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ scientists help rural students do science with tiny drones

    January 14, 2022

    NASA-funded effort seeks to get more students involved in STEM education -- science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
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  • A man in a yellow and green knit cap and parka holds a 2-by-3-foot flat piece of 1-inch-thick snow crust in front of his chest, with his right hand bare and his left mittened. He stands in a snowy landscape with spruce trees to his right and a 6-foot chain-link fence to his left, behind which are spruce and larch trees.

    Midwinter rain on snow is a game changer

    January 13, 2022

    On Dec. 26, more than an inch of rain fell over a wide swath of the state. Much of the backcountry of Interior Alaska now has an ice sheet beneath a foot of fluffy snow.
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  • Sport and recreation business speaker series begins Feb. 1

    January 13, 2022

    Recreation business professionals will share their experiences during a series of free public online discussions sponsored by the sport and recreation business program at the ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ College of Business and Security Management.
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  • Juneau composer Michael Bucy plays the trombone.

    Turning science into music to find common ground and inspire

    January 12, 2022

    If climate change was a song, what would it sound like? Alaska composer Michael Bucy has an answer to that question.
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  • A view of thermokarst lakes on the Arctic tundra

    ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ researchers featured in permafrost science overview

    January 11, 2022

    A newly published overview of recent permafrost science includes contributions from seven ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ researchers who helped review how long-frozen terrain is being rapidly affected by climate change.
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  • A porcupine perches in a deciduous, leafless tree.

    The porcupine's winter in slow-motion

    January 06, 2022

    On her runs through Bicentennial Park in Anchorage, biologist Jessy Coltrane discovered the Alaska creature she wanted to study: the porcupine.
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  • A child's hand picks up an ancient stone tool

    January museum programs explore tools

    January 05, 2022

    The University of Alaska Museum of the North is focusing on the theme of tools during family programs in January.
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  • A parabola-shaped valley between tundra-covered mountains features a braided river draining from a glacier.

    Mummified forest tells tale of changing north

    January 03, 2022

    Twelve summers ago, a warden at Canada's northernmost national park -- in a land that has not hosted trees for thousands of years --found some wood protruding from mud near a glacier.
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  • A woman crouches by the shoreline on a pebble beach while working with scientific sampling equipment on a sunny summer day. Beyond an inlet of Auke Bay lies an evergreen-covered ridge, and, far across Lynn Canal, the snow-topped mountains of the Chilkat Range rise in the background.

    Plastic in the rain of Southeast Alaska

    December 22, 2021

    Researcher Sonia Nagorski discovered just how ubiquitous plastic has become when she looked at precipitation near Juneau.
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  • Children play on a hill of snow

    'Dirty snow' project connects scientists, students

    December 20, 2021

    A recent ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½-led project encouraged a far-flung group of K-12 students to pursue local research questions by examining "dirty snow" in their communities.
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  • PredictFest brings people to the science

    December 17, 2021

    An upcoming science brainstorming event will take an uncommon approach to developing new Arctic-based research proposals: Include more people who aren't researchers.
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  • A woman with long hair wearing red

    Carbon emission change follows record rainy season

    December 17, 2021

    In 2014, the Fairbanks area experienced a summer of record-setting rain. That damp weather may have played a big role in a major shift in the ecosystem.
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  • A woman works on scientific equipment on the tundra

    Researcher finds Alaska's Arctic coastal towns face extensive inundation

    December 17, 2021

    Coastal erosion and land subsidence driven by permafrost thawing may lead to extensive seawater inundation in several northern Alaska communities by 2100, according to research by a ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ geomorphologist.
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  • an image showing different colors representing vegetation types

    Hyperspectral imaging of forests can aid wildfire prevention

    December 17, 2021

    Airborne hyperspectral imaging can be a valuable tool in wildfire prevention and forest management.
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