by Ned Rozell | Jun 6, 2024 | Agriculture, Science
Charles C. Georgeson, a special agent in charge of the United States Agricultural Experiment Stations, was tasked with finding out if crops and farm animals could survive in the mysterious land acquired just twenty-one years earlier from the Russians.
by Ned Rozell | May 6, 2024 | Environmental, Science
UAF engineering students Matthew Crisafi-Lurtsema and Roger Jaramillo are climbing Denali this month to learn if microplastic pollution has spread to the highest point in North America.
by Ned Rozell | Dec 26, 2023 | Engineering, News, Science
Warmer waters prove bad for Yukon and Kuskokwim chinooks but good for juvenile sockeye in warmer, richer lakes and freshwater streams. Will climate changes lead Yukon and Kuskokwim chinook salmon to evolve or will the rivers be overtaken by the growing sockeye population?
by Ned Rozell | Jun 28, 2023 | Engineering, News, Science
The mechanism of how washboards form on gravel roads was a mystery until sixty years ago, solved by an Australian scientist just before he became director of the UAF Geophysical Institute.
by Ned Rozell | Dec 27, 2022 | Arctic, News, Science
The Arctic Report Card—a compilation of northern science by researchers from all over the planet, most of them doing work in Alaska—came out in mid-December at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union in Chicago.
by Ned Rozell | Oct 25, 2022 | Construction, Energy, Engineering, Manufacturing, Science
A few Alaska researchers are working to create insulation made from biological materials that removes carbon from the atmosphere.
by Ned Rozell | Oct 5, 2022 | News, Science
Hurricane Ian slashed through Florida’s Gulf Coast, one week after remnants of Typhoon Merbok battered a wider swath of Western Alaska.
by Ned Rozell | Jul 9, 2022 | Fisheries, Science
“These salmon literally bring back tons of fertilizer to these systems,” says UAF aquatic ecologist Mark Wipfli.
by Ned Rozell | May 4, 2022 | Arctic, Science
Clear as gin, brown as iced tea, or tinted aquamarine by glacial dust, Alaska’s freshwater supply is so abundant the numbers are hard to comprehend.
by Ned Rozell | Apr 11, 2022 | Arctic, Science
Checking in with an active Arctic community: musk oxen, lynx, and trees are on the move.