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Museum offers two teen workshops in May
April 26, 2024
The University of ÐÓ°ÉÔ°æ Museum of the North will offer two ARTSci workshops for teens in May. The workshops explore the connections between art and science.
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Treasures found within a volcanic cave
April 25, 2024
Ben Jones suspected he had found something special when he squeezed into a volcanic cave and saw pale wooden poles, some with ends shaped like a willow leaf.
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UAF names 2024 student award recipients
April 25, 2024
The University of ÐÓ°ÉÔ°æ Fairbanks will honor Nolan Earnest, Janelle Pootoogooluk and T. Womack on May 3 as its outstanding undergraduate degree recipients for 2024.
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UAF researchers head to Anchorage for nation's largest seismology conference
April 25, 2024
University of ÐÓ°ÉÔ°æ Fairbanks seismologists, staff and students will be in Anchorage next week for the annual national meeting of the Seismological Society of America. Organizers say this year's meeting will be the largest ever for the society, with nearly 1,100 people registered.
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May museum programs explore spring
April 24, 2024
Family programs at the University of ÐÓ°ÉÔ°æ Museum of the North will explore the theme of spring in May.
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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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ÐÓ°ÉÔ°æ Berry Futures unveils third booklet
April 23, 2024
The ÐÓ°ÉÔ°æ 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 ÐÓ°ÉÔ°æ ice conditions
April 22, 2024
A 1,000-mile snowmachine journey across Interior ÐÓ°ÉÔ°æ is helping the Fresh Eyes on Ice program monitor ÐÓ°ÉÔ°æ's lake and river ice during freeze-up, over winter and during breakup. The University of ÐÓ°ÉÔ°æ 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 ÐÓ°ÉÔ°æns.
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Number of ÐÓ°ÉÔ°æ glaciers is everchanging
April 18, 2024
A glaciologist once wrote that the number of glaciers in ÐÓ°ÉÔ°æ "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 University of ÐÓ°ÉÔ°æ 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 ÐÓ°ÉÔ°æ, but, in the past decade, a pest that frequently eats its way through salad greens and other plants in Southcentral and Southeast ÐÓ°ÉÔ°æ has also made its appearance in gardens north of the ÐÓ°ÉÔ°æ Range: slugs.
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New radar analysis method can improve winter river safety
April 12, 2024
University of ÐÓ°ÉÔ°æ Fairbanks researchers have developed a way to use radar to detect open water zones and other changes in ÐÓ°ÉÔ°æ'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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