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Mount Hunter’s record of a colder past
Erich Osterberg photoA view overlooking a scientific camp on a high plateau of Mount Hunter from which two ice cores were pulled. For the past century, official thermometers scattered around Alaska...
View ArticleDown Memory Lane lectures will highlight UAF history
Down Memory Lane, an interview series featuring retired University of Alaska Fairbanks faculty members and administrators, will begin June 11. The eight-part series is presented by UAF Summer Sessions...
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UAF, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory ink collaborative agreement
UAF photoJeremy Kasper, left, and Paul Duvoy, researchers with UAF’s Alaska Center for Energy and Power, install testing components on a floating debris diverter designed to block floating logs and...
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Life recovered quickly after asteroid impact that killed dinosaurs
Photo by Kevin KurtzMichael Whalen, of UAF’s Geophysical Institute, and Elise Chenot, a French doctoral student, describe a sediment core from the Chicxulub impact crater at the IODP Bremen Core...
View ArticleDepartment of Energy announces $7 million for unconventional oil and natural...
From the U.S. Department of Energy: The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy has announced an award for a project to receive approximately $7 million in federal funding for cost-shared...
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Alaska structures crumble without us
Photo by Ned RozellBuildings like this shed at the townsite of Fortymile in the Yukon don’t last forever. Water is the chief agent of destruction. In Alan Weisman’s book, “The World Without Us,” the...
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Scientists find pre-earthquake activity in central Alaska
Photo by Carl TapeLakes in the roadless Minto Flats surround the Tanana River in this photo from July 2014. The ridge on the horizon leads down to the town of Nenana, Alaska. Seismic stations placed in...
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Alaskan receives Digital Coast Fellowship
UAF grad student Richard Buzard with his supervisor Jacquelyn Overbeck. Photo courtesy of NOAA. A graduate student from UAF has won a prestigious fellowship with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric...
View ArticleUAF names spring 2018 honors students
The University of Alaska Fairbanks has announced the students named to the deans’ and chancellor’s lists for the spring 2018 semester. The lists recognize students’ outstanding academic achievements....
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Pseudo-Sun Instrument tops Invent Alaska Competition
UAF photoBrandt Lomen stands next to his Pseudo-Sun Instrument and a poster describing how it works and potential applications. Recent University of Alaska Fairbanks graduate Brandt Lomen has taken the...
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UAF graduate to study atmosphere with NASA aircraft
Photo by Meghan MurphyAs a University of Alaska Fairbanks undergraduate researcher in a chemistry lab, Kiersten Johnson helped study the health effects of air pollution by examining the water soluble...
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Running circles around the land of no night
Photo by Chris CarlsonAndy Sterns of Fairbanks competes in the Alaska Endurance Trail Run, during which he kept moving for 24 hours. All of a sudden, we are again the land of no night. Summer happens...
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Loose moose helps find keys to user-friendly virtual reality
Photo courtesy of Tristan CraddickThe view inside recent UAF graduate Tristan Craddick’s virtual reality experiment, in which participants were asked to use visual or audio clues to locate a cartoon...
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Cook Inlet belugas’ diet shifted amid population decline
U.S. Department of Defense photo by Chris GarnerA Cook Inlet beluga cow and calf swim in the mouth of Eagle River in Knik Arm in 2009. A new University of Alaska Fairbanks study has found evidence that...
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View of African drought inspired UAF climate scientist
Photo courtesy of Uma BhattUma Bhatt and husband David Newman stand under a sign marking the equator in Kenya, where they served two years with the Peace Corps during the mid-1980s. Uma Bhatt always...
View ArticleSummer construction closes UAF’s Yukon Drive
Road construction at the University of Alaska Fairbanks will close the main street connecting core campus and West Ridge throughout the summer. Large portions of Yukon Drive, which runs from the...
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Study: Alaska fishermen suffer high rate of health problems
Photo courtesy of Alaska Sea GrantAlaska Sea Grant Marine Advisory agent Torie Baker speaks with fishermen in Cordova, Alaska, in 2015 about participating in a study about fishermen’s health led by a...
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Pink salmon — too much of a good thing?
Photo by Ned RozellPink salmon return in August 2017 to Port Valdez near the Solomon Gulch Hatchery, where workers release about 230 million salmon smolts to the ocean each year. Of the five species of...
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Climate shift may have spurred migration across Bering Land Bridge
Image courtesy of Royal Society Open ScienceLake Hill on St. Paul Island, where a UAF-led team collected a sediment core, is located in the former Bering Land Bridge, delineated in gray on the map....
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UAF researcher studies Alaska resources from afar
Jeff Fay photoDave Verbyla stands by a downed birch tree on the UAF campus. He is studying how freezing winter rain affects tree mortality, especially white spruce. Dave Verbyla has used remote sensing...
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