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CTC aviation program hosts airport’s fire certification tests
Fairbanks International Airport fire rescue personnel respond to a simulated aircraft fire for a state certification test Sept. 19. They used the 727 jet owned by the University of Alaska Fairbanks...
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Website encourages reporting of coastal hazards
Entangled marine debris rests on a St. Paul Island beach. Photo by Deborah Mercy. A new website from Alaska Sea Grant offers members of the public information to help them understand unusual things...
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UAF students track launch of satellite they built
UAF photo by Todd ParisEngineering majors Jesse Frey, left, Morgan Johnson, center, and Patrick Wade hold the “cubesat” they designed and built as part of their work with the Alaska Space Grant...
View ArticleUAF names spring and summer 2015 honors students
The University of Alaska Fairbanks has announced the students named to the deans’ and chancellor’s lists for the spring and summer 2015 semesters. The lists recognize students’ outstanding academic...
View ArticleProject aims to increase number of women in geophysics
The University of Alaska Fairbanks will begin a study designed to encourage high school-age girls to consider geophysics and technology science careers through summer academies. The National Science...
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Arctic Innovation Competition finals scheduled Oct. 17
UAF photo by JR AnchetaAIC 2014 cub division winner Lewis Enterkin holds his first-place check. The University of Alaska Fairbanks School of Management will award more than $25,000 in cash prizes...
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Research gives insight into historic walrus population dynamics
Two Pacific walruses relax on sea ice in the Chukchi Sea. Photo by Casey Clark. Hormones stored in ancient bones are revealing how Pacific walrus populations react to environmental change. Alaska’s...
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Explore health careers at free UAF summit
Participants of AIMES practice taking blood pressure. Photo courtesy of UAF’s College of Natural Science & Mathematics. Fairbanks residents can explore health careers at the fourth annual Alaska...
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Perennial snowfield research helps archaeological surveys
A University of Alaska Fairbanks graduate student’s research on perennial snow cover may someday help discover archaeological artifacts in Arctic Alaska. Photo by Chris Ciancibelli/National Park...
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Pioneer songbird meets an early snowstorm
As piles of wet snow fell, an unexpected guest rapped at the window. My wife, Kristen, heard it bump into the glass. She was soon cupping in her hands a delicate bird she saw perched on the windowsill....
View ArticleFast food appeals to humpback whales
Four humpback whales in Southeast Alaska have discovered their own fast-food restaurant. The whales have been eating juvenile chum and coho salmon at hatchery release sites in Chatham Strait, near...
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Uher appointed interim director at Interior Alaska Campus
Thirteen years ago, Bryan Uher started as a student assistant at Interior Alaska Campus. and worked up to become administrative manager for the community campus. In November he takes over as interim...
View ArticleAlaska fires release more carbon than trees absorb
More frequent forest fires have turned Alaska’s Yukon Flats into a net exporter of carbon to the atmosphere, according to a new analysis. This is worrisome, researchers said, because Arctic and...
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Invasive species workshop hosted in Juneau
The Alaska Invasive Species Workshop Oct. 27-29 in Juneau will highlight invasive species management and issues in Southeast Alaska and around the state. Photo by Trish Wurtz, U.S. Forest...
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Ancient Alaska infants’ DNA supports human migration theory
An illustration of an 11,500-year-old grave in central Alaska that contained a rare double burial of two infants. Outlines of the two sets of remains are shown at left and center. Also found in the...
View ArticleApplicants sought for business competition
Applications are due Nov. 2 for a national business strategy competition sponsored in the Interior by the University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service and the Alaska chapter of SCORE,...
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North Slope crude, burning on water
Oil burns on a manmade water basin at Poker Flat Research Range in April 2015. Photo by Len Zabilansky. On a clear day last spring, fire sizzled on water at Poker Flat Research Range in the Chatanika...
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Japan’s torpedo-like submarine rusts into an Alaska island
Biologist Jeff Williams near a midget submarine on Kiska Island in the far western Aleutians in 2004. Photo by Ned Rozell. On a damp island far out in the Aleutian chain, a secret weapon of Japan’s...
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More than 200 students attend health summit
More than 200 high school and college students attended the third annual Alaska Interior Medical Education Summit on Oct. 24 to learn about different health careers and talk to professionals in the...
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Ice-age lesson: large mammals need room to roam
Photo by Pamela Groves for the U.S. Bureau of Land ManagementUniversity of Alaska Fairbanks researcher Daniel Mann holds a steppe bison skull from the last ice age that he and fellow UAF researcher...
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