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Ideas win big at UAF Arctic Innovation Competition
UAF Photo by JR AnchetaPiper Wilder holds her winning check from the 2017 Arctic Innovation Competition. The University of Alaska Fairbanks School of Management awarded $30,000 in cash prizes Saturday,...
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New UAF wilderness program carries on tradition of empowering girls
Photo courtesy of Claudine HauriGirls in Icy Fjords participants pause during a kayak trip near Bear Glacier on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula. There was something different about Betye Arrastia-Nowak. Her...
View ArticleNominations sought for UAF alumni awards
The University of Alaska Fairbanks Alumni Association is seeking nominations for its 2018 Distinguished Alumnus and William R. Cashen Service awards. The deadline for nominations is Dec. 22. Honorees...
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UAF launches new master’s degree in marine studies
Photo by Brenda Konar Weathered rocks adorn the shore of Kachemak Bay on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula, with Augustine Volcano on the horizon. The University of Alaska Fairbanks has launched a new Master of...
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Alaska mariculture projects receive federal funding
Photo by Dave Partee A farmer cleans oysters at a site in Kachemak Bay, Alaska. Alaska Sea Grant has received three grants to aid the aquatic farming industry in Alaska. Alaska Sea Grant has received...
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When Jerry Brown came to Nome
Photo by Evan WestrupBob Bolton holds a plug of northern tundra soil from the Seward Peninsula extracted during a field trip in early September 2017. To Bolton’s left are Anne Gust Brown, California...
View ArticleExplore dinosaurs and fossils at museum in November
The University of Alaska Museum of the North is exploring dinosaurs and fossils at hands-on programs during the month of November. Families are invited to drop in with children 5 and under at Early...
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UAF grad student searches for seals in children’s book
Image courtesy of University of Alaska Press This cover image features Patches, the main character in a full-color children’s book written by University of Alaska Fairbanks graduate student Roxanne...
View ArticleSymposium will advance tribal governance
An academic forum exploring ways Alaska Native communities can increase self-governance and sustain their own development will be held Nov. 20-22 at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. The Third Annual...
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Salmon complete 1,000-mile journey, and life
Photo by Ned Rozell Dead chum salmon lie on the Delta River’s shallow gravel bottom. The salmon spawn each year just upstream from the bluff at the Delta’s confluence with the Tanana River. MOUTH OF...
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KUAC’s ‘Alaska Live’ delivers music, conversation to Interior
Photo by Mak Landry Steve Mitchell draws a laugh out of KUAC’s Alaska Live host Lori Neufeld during a 2016 appearance on the show. Download text and photo captions here. For the past 10 years, KUAC’s...
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Beavers slapping tails on far-north waters
Photo by Ned Rozell A beaver dam and lodge occupy part of Phelan Creek near Isabel Pass in the central Alaska Range. Animals the size of Labrador retrievers are changing the face of Alaska, creating...
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Study: Added Arctic data show warming didn’t pause
Figure courtesy of Xiangdong Zhang This figure shows the spatial distribution of the Arctic annual warming rate from 1998-2012 using the newly reconstructed surface air temperature data. Gaps in Arctic...
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Biologist trapper retires after helping transform Aleutians
Photo by Ned Rozell Steve Ebbert hauls lumber for a cabin that the Alaska Maritime Wildlife Refuge staff built on Buldir Island in 2004. On Halloween 2017, Alaskan Steve Ebbert, 56, retired from his...
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UAF to host drone races
UAF photo by Josh Hartman Matthew Westhoff replaces the battery on a drone aircraft in between course runs, which last three to four minutes. The first University of Alaska Fairbanks drone races will...
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New Gulf of Alaska mooring system will study ecosystems
Photo courtesy of the Chukchi Ecosystem Observatory A ship crew member holds a Chukchi Sea mooring that contains floatation and housing for an acoustic zooplankton and fish profiler and biogeochemical...
View ArticleMethane fuels Yucatan’s extraordinary underworld
Methane gas sustains an ecosystem deep within the flooded caves of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, according to new research from a team that included University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists. The...
View ArticleDecember museum programs celebrate Alaska fashion
The University of Alaska Museum of the North is exploring Alaska fashion at hands-on programs during the month of December. Families are invited to drop in with children 5 and younger at Early...
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Pioneer scientist determined aurora height over Alaska
This portrait of Veryl Fuller, the University of Alaska’s first scientist to study the aurora, was published in the 1936 yearbook. “Professor Fuller Drops Dead in Garden.” So reads the headline in the...
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Salmon bones inspire wearable art, new museum piece
Photo by Stephanie Lambdin Sitka artist Cynthia Gibson stands with the salmon bone dress she spent years working on. It will soon have a new home at the University of Alaska Museum of the North....
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