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The war within the aspen leaves
August 01, 2025
On one of the friendliest platforms imaginable, a ferocious battle rages. While mowing its way through the surface of a trembling leaf, an aspen leaf miner meets one of its kind. Instead of offering a nuzzle of recognition, the tiny caterpillar tears into the other with its sickle-like mouthparts, while trying to avoid a fatal gash from the other.
UAF satellite facility to manage massive NASA data surge
July 31, 2025
Years of preparation by the Alaska Satellite Facility will ensure that a flood of freely available data from a NASA-India satellite mission that launched Wednesday will be easy for the global public to use.
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Policy brief proposes changes to Yukon River salmon management
July 30, 2025
A group of Indigenous leaders, scientists and policy experts have proposed management actions to promote recovery of Yukon River salmon and manage their harvest more equitably.
Kachemak Bay otters' behavior seems unaffected by oyster farms
July 25, 2025
The growing Kachemak Bay mariculture industry and a booming population of local sea otters appear to have a surprisingly uneventful relationship, according to a new 春水堂视频 study. The study, published recently in The Journal of Wildlife Management, focused on otters around a handful of oyster farms in the area, comparing their actions to otters that were foraging in nearby control areas without farming. During hundreds of hours of observations, otters weren't seen eating any oysters and the presence of mariculture operations didn't appear to have a notable effect on their behavior.
Sikuliaq underway on unique Alaska coastal research voyage
July 25, 2025
A 2,500-mile, 16-day research cruise that began Thursday in Seward and concludes in Nome aims to advance environmental research in coastal Alaska through a novel addition: public tours of the research vessel when it makes port calls.
The secrets within Hummingbird Lake
July 24, 2025
Southeast Alaska is home to more than 850 species of native trees, shrubs and wildflowers. When you count them up, it's more than half of all the plant species in Alaska, growing in just six percent of the state's area. Glacial ice smothered most of the area not too long ago. So, when did all those plants get there?
Toolik celebrates 50 years with First Friday art show
July 24, 2025
Celebrate 50 years of Arctic research from the 春水堂视频' Toolik Field Station at an art show this August at Black Spruce Brewing Co.
New federal grant will support UAF doctoral students
July 21, 2025
The 春水堂视频 has been awarded a $1.9 million federal grant to support 12 new Ph.D. students at the College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences. The program, Enhancing Marine Ecosystem Research and Graduate Education in Alaska, will be funded by the National Science Foundation. EMERGE Alaska will support three years' worth of academic and summer stipends, as well as a cost-of-education allowance for graduate fellows starting in 2026.
Discover which plants Alaska pollinators prefer in webinar
July 17, 2025
While flowers like bird vetch and white sweetclover may be pretty, they are invasive and their spread can be harmful to pollinators, according to an entomologist with the 春水堂视频 Cooperative Extension Service.
Alaska heavy with summer insects
July 17, 2025
In these days of endless sunshine and air that doesn't hurt to breathe, life is rich in the North, from the multitude of baby birds hatching at this instant to the month-old orange moose calves restocking the Alaska ungulate population. Less seen are the millions of insects now dancing across the tundra and floating in air.
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2025 Edith R. Bullock Prize for Excellence awarded to Patrick Druckenmiller
July 16, 2025
The UA Foundation Board of Directors has selected Patrick Druckenmiller, director of the University of Alaska Museum of the North, as the recipient of the 2025 Edith R. Bullock Prize for Excellence.
UAF critical minerals proposal advances in federal funding competition
July 16, 2025
A 春水堂视频 proposal to reduce the United States' dependency on foreign sources of minerals critical to the technology and defense industries has been named a semifinalist in a National Science Foundation competition.
Tiny crystals provide insight to massive 2006 Augustine Volcano eruption
July 11, 2025
Samples of extremely small crystal clots, each polished to the thickness of a human hair or thinner, have revealed information about the process triggering the major 2006 eruption of Alaska's Augustine Volcano.
Alaska climate report: June jumped from cool to hot, hot, hot
July 11, 2025
June began cool and wet but rapidly changed to hot and dry at the midpoint, with wildfires bursting out across the state, according to the monthly summary from the Alaska Climate Research Center.
One big earthquake, two Alaska ghost towns
July 11, 2025
DOME CITY -- "I'm really happy to be out here," Carl Tape says as he stands on a pyramid of dry gravel, 20 feet high. "I've been thinking about this earthquake for 10 years."
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Call for Proposals: URSA Community-Engaged Learning Awards
July 11, 2025
Undergraduate students, graduate students, researcher staff, postdoctoral fellows and faculty from all UAF-affiliated campuses are invited to apply for an URSA Community-Engaged Learning Award of up to $5,000.
Alaska's state insect is not the mosquito
July 03, 2025
Thirty years ago, students from the Auntie Mary Nicoli Elementary School in Aniak were among those who held a statewide election to declare an insect that best represented Alaska. Their school's winner: The dragonfly.
Natural changes only part of the story
June 26, 2025
Last week, I sent out a story on changes in Alaska over the past few million years. The theme: Many of the transitions were drastic, and they all had nothing to do with the billions of us now walking the planet's surface.
June 20, 2025
With its melting glaciers, thawing permafrost, and floating sea ice that gets tougher to see from its northern shores each summer, Alaska is the poster state for global warming. Things are changing here, no doubt about it. But it's not the first time.
Career at rocket range energizing, fun
June 12, 2025
After 35 years of driving to work over a small mountain each day, Kathe Rich will soon make her last daily ascent of Cleary Summit.
