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UAF spin-out company claims environmental innovation prize
A University of Alaska Fairbanks spin-out company captured the grand prize at the 2020 Alaska Airlines Environmental Innovation Challenge this month, winning top honors in the competition for its...
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Life of Riley reaches its end
National Park Service photoRiley the wolf on the Denali Park Road with one of her packmates in 2017. Riley the wolf has died. She lived in the wild until almost the age of 11, which biologists call a...
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KUAC TV offers educational programming for homeschoolers
KUAC TV is broadcasting educational shows for sixth through 12th grade students while schools are closed. Since not every student has access to the internet, free public television can help provide...
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Funding awarded for COVID-19 research innovations
Four University of Alaska research teams have received grants totaling more than $64,000 to develop innovative concepts for fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. The University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Center...
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Scientists, forecasters ask Alaskans for river breakup information
Alaskans can help the National Weather Service monitor rivers during a potentially dangerous breakup this year through a University of Alaska Fairbanks citizen science project. Photo by Chris ArpIce...
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International group urges review of Canadian mining impacts
Twenty-two scientists and policymakers from the United States and Canada are urging U.S., Canadian and indigenous governments to address Canadian mining practices that threaten downstream ecosystems...
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One building remains busy during quiet time
Photo by Anna RozellThe Alaska State Virology Laboratory sits on West Ridge on the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus. On these wet, mushy April days, as returning ducks set their wings for landing...
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Online tool allows fast, free natural-hazard visualization
SARVIEWS 2.0 imageImagery from the SARVIEWS 2.0 interface shows the M 7.1 Ridgecrest, CA Earthquake from July 2019. SARVIEWS 2.0, is a free automated tool that allows scientists, the public and...
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Sikuliaq to embark on limited research cruise in May
Scientific operations will resume on the research vessel Sikuliaq for one week beginning May 4, preserving an unbroken string of 22 years of ecological data collection. Photo by Sarah SpanosThe...
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Beaver invasion on the Baldwin Peninsula
Photo by Frank Zmuda, Alaska Department of Fish and GameA beaver gnaws on a stick. Beavers live from northern Mexico to northern Alaska. Scientists have documented a recent population explosion of...
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UAF alum’s journey includes role identifying new marine reptile
Photo courtesy of Eric MetzEric Metz examines an endennasaurus in Milan, Italy, part of his research to identify a fossil found in Southeast Alaska in 2011. Eric Metz’s timing could not have been...
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COVID-19 harms Alaska mariculture industry
Alaska’s mariculture industry laid off employees after COVID-19 health mandates sharply reduced revenue, according to a new Alaska Sea Grant survey. Photo by Dave Partee/Alaska Sea Grant.A boat works...
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Podcast amplifies Alaska voices on science and life
Photo courtesy of Alaska VoicesUniversity of Alaska Fairbanks researchers Jessie Young-Robertson and Bob Bolton led creation of the Alaska Voices podcast. A University of Alaska Fairbanks researcher’s...
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Caught in the epicenter
Buildings in the city of Wuhan, China, form the horizon on a sunny day. Photo by Qian Li. Qian Li ’12 was vacationing in China when news of the novel coronavirus started to circulate. Hired onto a...
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Web tool forecasts climate effects on Alaska agriculture
Photo by Krista Heeringa/Far North FlowersPeonies bloom in midsummer at Far North Flowers, a farm in the Fairbanks area. A new web tool from University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists helps show how...
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We have been grounded; birds have not
Photo by Ned RozellA bald eagle perches in a spruce after migrating back to middle Alaska. It was the first weekend in May, and Alaskans were getting out. Emboldened by words from the governor to get...
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Program assists agricultural workers with disabilities
Photo courtesy of the National AgrAbility ProjectA farmer with a disability meets with an occupational therapist and uses a Superstand wheelchair to work on a tractor. The garden and field planting...
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Radar gauges methane release from Arctic lakes
Photo by Melanie EngramPh.D. student Natalie Tyler stands next to a bubble survey transect in winter 2019. A University of Alaska Fairbanks-led research team has developed a way to use satellite images...
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Ervin, Loewer honored with UAF student awards
The University of Alaska Fairbanks has awarded Bruce Ervin and Heike Loewer with outstanding student honors for the class of 2020. Ervin, from Northway, received the Marion Frances Boswell Memorial...
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Dinosaurs striding across the land bridge
Photo courtesy Yoshitsugo KobayashiYoshitsugo Kobayashi of Hokkaido University Museum in Sapporo, Japan, looks over the bones of a dinosaur he and a team excavated there. The recent discovery of the...
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