Community Connection

Latest Â鶹¹ÙÍø News and Events

UAF Â鶹¹ÙÍø News
  • A man in a ballcap, shades, a blue shirt and khaki shorts sits on a rock high above a lake surface covered in broken sheets of ice.

    Thirty years of writing about Alaska science

    January 30, 2025

    When I was drinking coffee with a cab-driving-author friend of the same vintage last week, he said of my occupation: "It's the best job in Alaska."

  • A road winds through a wide, sparsely wooded valley blanketed in snow. Mountains rise from forested foothills to snow domes in the background.

    Dangerous cold across the land

    January 23, 2025

    During this time when peak cold often arrives in the northern hemisphere, Alaska today celebrates the king-of-the-cold's birthday.

  • A man in a suit sits at a wooden desk signing a document while surrounded by other men in suits applauding.

    The man who preserved Alaska

    January 10, 2025

    Today is the official national day of mourning for Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States. He died Dec. 29, 2024, at age 100. Carter protected almost half of the land area (43 percent) of this giant state, with multiple new national conservation units, including parks, wildlife refuges and monuments.

  • A lightning bolt strikes a green forested hillside beyond a wide river in the foreground.

    Mystery of the dead caribou

    January 06, 2025

    Fifty-three years ago, an Army helicopter pilot flying over a tundra plateau saw a group of caribou. Thinking something looked weird, he circled for a closer look. The animals, dozens of them, were dead.

  • Two people stand next to a Â鶹¹ÙÍø Fairbanks sign as a pickup idles nearby producing a white plume of exhaust. An illuminated temperature reading on the sign reads minus 41F. In the background is an evergreen-covered hill topped with a building. A large smokestack from a powerplant also rises above the pickup and trees.

    Ancient beavers, sea floor bumps, thick air

    December 20, 2024

    It's time to start emptying the notebook following the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, where more than 25,000 scientists shared their work during five days.

  • At night, cars and people crowd a street outside a brightly lit, several-story glass-fronted building with a large poster featuring the words

    More familiar news of the North

    December 13, 2024

    I am once again elbow to elbow with thousands of scientists, at a meeting I first attended 25 years ago.

  • In between mountains, a broad column of smoke rises from a evergreen forest just beyond a highway lined with buildings.

    Alaska continues to change, fast

    December 06, 2024

    With his eyes on Alaska weather and climate for many years, Rick Thoman saw a need for a recent update on what is happening within America's largest state.

  • A person sits at the bottom of a square hole dug in the ground. He is holding an animal jaw bone.

    Study shows ancient human, canine relationship

    December 04, 2024

    Humans are no strangers to sharing their food with their dogs: Look no further than the average American dining room. As it turns out, that's been the case for millennia.

  • Four squirrels poke their heads in unison from the entry hole in a bird nest box made of boards and attached to a tree.

    The secret life of red squirrels

    November 27, 2024

    Stan Boutin has climbed more than 5,000 spruce trees in the last 30 years. He has often returned to the forest floor knowing if a ball of twigs and moss within the tree contained newborn red squirrel pups.

  • Advertise your Ph.D opportunities at AGU

    November 27, 2024

    Do you have openings for Ph.D. students on your team? UAF will be at the American Geophysical Union meeting in December and will share information about your Ph.D. opportunities at our booth.

More UAF research news