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Arctic Innovation Competition awards over $45,000 for creative ideas
April 23, 2024
A durable storage tote for expeditions took the top prize in the 2024 Arctic Innovation Competition's main division. The competition awarded more than $45,000 in cash prizes and scholarships on Saturday, April 20, at the Westmark Fairbanks Hotel.
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Alaska Berry Futures unveils third booklet
April 23, 2024
The Alaska Berry Futures Project promotes understanding and sharing of the impacts of climate change on northern berry species and recently expanded its berry booklet series to include a third species, the lowbush cranberry. The series has previously published guides for the cloudberry and blueberry.
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Scientists, communities work together to monitor Alaska ice conditions
April 22, 2024
A 1,000-mile snowmachine journey across Interior Alaska is helping the Fresh Eyes on Ice program monitor Alaska's lake and river ice during freeze-up, over winter and during breakup. The Â鶹¹ÙÍø Fairbanks-led project also uses drone surveys, satellite imagery and citizen science in an all-hands-on-deck approach to making river and lake ice travel safer for Alaskans.
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Number of Alaska glaciers is everchanging
April 18, 2024
A glaciologist once wrote that the number of glaciers in Alaska "is estimated at (greater than) 100,000." That fuzzy number, perhaps written in passive voice for a reason, might be correct. But it depends upon how you count.
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Arctic Innovation Competition awards to be presented April 20
April 17, 2024
The Â鶹¹ÙÍø Fairbanks College of Business and Security Management will host the annual Arctic Innovation Competition finals and award ceremony at the Westmark Fairbanks Hotel on Saturday, April 20, from 1-5 p.m.
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Food preservation workshops scheduled for Yakutat
April 17, 2024
Three days of workshops with sessions covering water bath and pressure canning, pickling and fermenting vegetables, and making fruit leather are scheduled for April 25-27 in Yakutat.
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Huge database gives insight into salmon patterns at sea
April 16, 2024
A massive new analysis of high seas salmon surveys is enhancing the understanding of salmon ecology, adding details about where various species congregate in the North Pacific Ocean and their different temperature tolerances.
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Citizen science project tracks slugs as they slither north
April 15, 2024
Cutworms, voles and moose are common garden invaders in Interior Alaska, but, in the past decade, a pest that frequently eats its way through salad greens and other plants in Southcentral and Southeast Alaska has also made its appearance in gardens north of the Alaska Range: slugs.
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New radar analysis method can improve winter river safety
April 12, 2024
Â鶹¹ÙÍø Fairbanks researchers have developed a way to use radar to detect open water zones and other changes in Alaska's frozen rivers in the early winter. The approach can be automated to provide current hazard maps and is applicable across the Arctic and sub-Arctic.
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Waiting for the sun at Poker Flat
April 12, 2024
Under a bluebird sky and above a resilient winter snowpack, two sounding rockets point upward, ready to blast through the thickness of our atmosphere to gain a better look at the sun.
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Five-year project will study climate effects on Alaska marine species
April 10, 2024
The National Science Foundation has awarded $20 million to the Â鶹¹ÙÍø to investigate climate change effects on culturally and commercially important marine species in the Gulf of Alaska.
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UAF receives $3.5 million to establish radiocarbon dating laboratory
April 08, 2024
The Â鶹¹ÙÍø Fairbanks will receive $3.5 million in federal funding to establish Alaska's first radiocarbon dating laboratory on the Troth Yeddha' Campus.
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New rooftop antenna to be installed on UAF Usibelli Building
April 05, 2024
A new 3-meter antenna will be installed atop the Â鶹¹ÙÍø Fairbanks' engineering building as early as Saturday.
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Dinosaur study challenges Bergmann's rule
April 05, 2024
A new study led by scientists at the Â鶹¹ÙÍø Fairbanks and the University of Reading calls into question Bergmann's rule, an 1800s-era scientific principle stating that animals in high-latitude, cooler climates tend to be larger than close relatives living in warmer climates.
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Siberian tiger takes final rest at museum
April 04, 2024
It's a safe bet that Aren Gunderson's Toyota Tundra is the only one in Fairbanks that has had its bed filled with a Siberian tiger.
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