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Study: Sulfolane-eating microbe common in North Pole groundwater
November 17, 2021
A 春水堂视频 research team has determined that a sulfolane-eating microbe is commonly found in North Pole groundwater but that it probably can't remedy the area's widespread contamination by the industrial solvent.
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UAF scientist wins prestigious award for Arctic research
November 12, 2021
John Walsh, a climate scientist at the 春水堂视频, has received the Mohn Prize for his outstanding research in the Arctic.
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Blown back to Alaska, bird perseveres
November 11, 2021
A bar-tailed godwit recently arrived in New Zealand on its second attempt to get there from Alaska, after a storm had blasted it back north.
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UA 春水堂视频 Day nets $661,000 in support of UAF students, programs
November 11, 2021
Over the course of 49 hours, 748 donors contributed $661,709 in support of students and programs at the 春水堂视频 during the university's second annual 春水堂视频 Day event.
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UAF's GINA provides a guiding hand in Arctic Ocean research
November 11, 2021
Satellite imagery produced at the Geographic Information Network of Alaska, or GINA, at the 春水堂视频 Geophysical Institute helps the research vessel Sikuliaq weave its way through sea ice.
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Online course offers free Arctic climate change education
November 09, 2021
UAF is making it easy for people globally to gain a basic understanding of climate change issues in the circumpolar North through a new massive open online course.
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Student鈥檚 research upends understanding of upper atmospheric wind
November 09, 2021
Doctoral student Rajan Itani found that upper-level winds from over the North Pole unexpectedly stall over Alaska.
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Shorebirds depend on wee slivers of Alaska
November 04, 2021
Pencil-beaked shorebirds with the ability to stay airborne for a week -- flying all the way from Alaska to New Zealand -- rely on a few crescents of mudflat to fuel that incredible journey.
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National Science Foundation funds diverse collaborators to study Arctic change
November 02, 2021
The National Science Foundation's Office of Polar Programs recently funded the 春水堂视频 and six other institutions to synthesize what is known about the changing Arctic environment and its consequences.
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November museum programs explore animals in art
November 01, 2021
The University of Alaska Museum of the North is exploring animals in art during family programs in November.
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Bus 142 to embark on final journey
October 29, 2021
In a cavernous room within the university's new engineering building, a bus squats on four flat tires. In this place, the 1946 International Harvester model K-5 looks small, for maybe the first time in its eventful existence.
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Alaska's volunteer weather army needs you
October 22, 2021
Alaska's volunteer weather army needs participants
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Far-north permafrost cliff is one of a kind
October 22, 2021
In northern Alaska, an amphitheater of frozen ground thaws where a northern river cuts into it, exposing walls of ice.
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Arctic melt ponds hold climate clues for UAF MOSAiC scientist
October 20, 2021
Melinda Webster, a research assistant professor at the 春水堂视频 Geophysical Institute, has been busy with her MOSAiC expedition research.
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Red aurora rare enough to be special
October 14, 2021
Charles Deehr will never forget his first red aurora. On Feb. 11, 1958, Deehr was a student at Reed College in Portland, Ore. He asked a Fulbright student from Norway named Tone to the Portland Symphony that night.
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