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Greenup unfolds, pollen soon to follow
Photo by Ned RozellGreenup happens in Interior Alaska when leaves unfold after a long winter, as is happening on this birch tree. Greenup — the great, silent collective explosion of freed tree buds...
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Study forecasts a more fiery future for Southcentral Alaska
Photo courtesy of Alaska Fire ServiceThe Swan Lake fire rages in a forest on the Kenai Peninsula in 2019. Some of the weather conditions that led to the destructive McKinley and Swan Lake fires in 2019...
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Brock Anundson to serve as Alaska Nanooks athletic director
Brock Anundson University of Alaska Fairbanks Chancellor Dan White has named Brock Anundson to serve as the next director of athletics for the Alaska Nanooks. Anundson was selected from a pool of four...
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Collaboration boosts food, energy, water security in rural Alaska
Photo by Amanda ByrdChildren run along a boardwalk in Kongiganak with wind turbines in the background. A new analysis of renewable power in four rural Alaska communities emphasizes the need for more...
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Wolf-virus study shows the virtue of space
Photo courtesy the National Park ServiceWolves check out a trail camera in Denali National Park and Preserve in 2016. Wolves with adequate social distancing from humans tend to avoid nasty viruses,...
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NASA launches rocket in search of aurora answers
Photo by NASA Wallops/Terry ZaperachThe NASA Black Brant XII rocket lifts off Sunday carrying the KiNET-X experiment at Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. NASA launched one of its largest sounding...
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FNA expands career training program offerings
Photo courtesy of Fairbanks Native AssociationA student who is part of the Fairbanks Native Association’s NACTEP program holds a UAF diploma cover. Fairbanks Native Association is now offering free...
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Scientific evidence found of overwintering ‘zombie fires’
Photo courtesy of the Alaska Division of ForestryIn spring 2020, two holdover fires reignited in the burn scars of the 2019 Swan Lake Fire, shown here, on the Kenai Peninsula. New research provides the...
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Global study of glacier debris shows impact on melt rate
A large-scale research project at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute has revealed insight into the relationship between surface debris on glaciers and the the rate at which they...
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Music in the Garden series begins May 27
The University of Alaska Fairbanks will kick off its popular, family-friendly summer music series with a May 27 concert at the Georgeson Botanical Garden. The 2021 Music in the Garden series, which is...
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New tool factors effects of fossil-fuel emissions on ocean research
Photo by NOAA/Terry McTigueA photo shows the Kenai Fjords in the Gulf of Alaska. A newly developed tool will allow scientists to better gauge how centuries of fossil fuel emissions could be skewing the...
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Bringing the world to a standstill
Photo by Ned RozellHikers traverse the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes on the Alaska Peninsula, walking on a sheet of ash and volcanic rock more than 500-feet thick. On a fine June day about 100 years...
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KUAC TV adds 360TV public affairs channel
KUAC will add 360TV to its television channel lineup by May 31. KUAC TV 9.9 will air the channel year-round, providing Alaska public affairs, arts, culture, science and health programming. Included...
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Alaska writer awarded an honorary degree
Photo by Ned Rozell.Dan O’Neill visits the Fairbanks campus in spring 2021. Alaska is large in its acreage of spruce swamps and spongey tundra but small in the number of writers who have described this...
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Short film shows UAF researchers in harsh Greenland landscape
The wind’s low, rumbling howl fills the ears for 89 seconds before a human voice is heard. The ice and snow of Greenland’s expanse passes below, seen through the lens of Brooklyn, New York, filmmaker...
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Esports champions earn UAF scholarships
Photo courtesy of Nome Beltz NanooksThe Nome Beltz Nanooks won the ASAA Rocket League tournament. Coach Aaron Blankenship, junior Bode Leeper, freshman Isaiah Marble, freshman Calvin Fry and Coach Matt...
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Bowhead whale soars at Alaska museum
Photo by Roger ToppUAMN mammals collection manager Aren Gunderson watches as the whale’s skull is lifted into place above the museum lobby and below the third-floor balcony. An iconic Arctic whale’s...
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UAF professor on science team for new NASA mission to Venus
NASA has approved two missions to Venus, and that means University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute research professor Robert Herrick is going to have a lot more to do. Herrick is on the...
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Alaska earthquake stirs many, but the beat goes on
Alaska Earthquake Center imageAn Alaska Earthquake Center map of all the earthquakes that happened in the year 2020, including the epicenter of a magnitude 6.1 earthquake that happened May 30, 2021. I...
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The sinking feeling over much of Alaska
Photo by Ned RozellJason Clark, at left, a postdoctoral researcher at UAF, and Nicholas Hasson, a UAF graduate student, examine a sinkhole known as a thermokarst in a Fairbanks homeowner’s backyard. To...
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