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December museum programs explore winter
December 01, 2021
The University of Alaska Museum of the North is focusing on the theme of winter during family programs in December.
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ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ Student Investment Fund celebrates 30-year anniversary
November 30, 2021
The Student Investment Fund provides ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ students with real-world investment experience, made possible by a $100,000 allocation from the UA Foundation to the ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ College of Business and Security Management, formerly the School of Management.
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Gratitude comes easy to science writer
November 24, 2021
With a short work week upon us and me not wanting to rush a draft through the editing pipeline, this week I visit a theme many writers are pulling from their back pockets: gratitude.
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ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½, electric utility collaborate to overhaul Kotzebue energy monitoring system
November 23, 2021
Kotzebue's electric utility will install advanced electricity meters next year with help from the ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½.
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ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ tapped as part of new National Science Foundation institutes
November 22, 2021
Two researchers at the ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ Geophysical Institute will participate in a new five-year $75 million effort by the National Science Foundation to increase collaboration among scientists and engineers to handle key problems.
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ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ scientist reveals cause of lost magnetism at meteorite site
November 19, 2021
A ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ scientist has discovered a method for detecting and better defining meteorite impact sites that have lost their craters.
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Listening to the voices of killer whales
November 18, 2021
Hannah Myers' fieldwork, executed on a 34-foot vessel that sails out of Seward, is shedding light on killer whales in the undersea world off the south coast of Alaska.
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Study: Sulfolane-eating microbe common in North Pole groundwater
November 17, 2021
A ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ research team has determined that a sulfolane-eating microbe is commonly found in North Pole groundwater but that it probably can't remedy the area's widespread contamination by the industrial solvent.
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ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ scientist wins prestigious award for Arctic research
November 12, 2021
John Walsh, a climate scientist at the ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½, has received the Mohn Prize for his outstanding research in the Arctic.
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Blown back to Alaska, bird perseveres
November 11, 2021
A bar-tailed godwit recently arrived in New Zealand on its second attempt to get there from Alaska, after a storm had blasted it back north.
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UA Giving Day nets $661,000 in support of ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ students, programs
November 11, 2021
Over the course of 49 hours, 748 donors contributed $661,709 in support of students and programs at the ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ during the university's second annual Giving Day event.
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ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½'s GINA provides a guiding hand in Arctic Ocean research
November 11, 2021
Satellite imagery produced at the Geographic Information Network of Alaska, or GINA, at the ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ Geophysical Institute helps the research vessel Sikuliaq weave its way through sea ice.
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Online course offers free Arctic climate change education
November 09, 2021
ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ is making it easy for people globally to gain a basic understanding of climate change issues in the circumpolar North through a new massive open online course.
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Student’s research upends understanding of upper atmospheric wind
November 09, 2021
Doctoral student Rajan Itani found that upper-level winds from over the North Pole unexpectedly stall over Alaska.
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Shorebirds depend on wee slivers of Alaska
November 04, 2021
Pencil-beaked shorebirds with the ability to stay airborne for a week -- flying all the way from Alaska to New Zealand -- rely on a few crescents of mudflat to fuel that incredible journey.
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