Alaska Science Forum: North Pacific Megastorms vs. East Coast Hurricanes
Hurricane Ian slashed through Florida’s Gulf Coast, one week after remnants of Typhoon Merbok battered a wider swath of Western Alaska.
Author: Ned Rozell
Alaska Science Forum: Salmon Are Nature’s Way of Returning Ocean Nutrients Upstream
“These salmon literally bring back tons of fertilizer to these systems,” says UAF aquatic ecologist Mark Wipfli.
Alaska Science Forum: Alaska’s Water Crop Is a Natural Resource
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.
Alaska Science Forum: Happenings North of the Arctic Circle
Checking in with an active Arctic community: musk oxen, lynx, and trees are on the move.
Alaska Science Forum: Marching from Cordova Down the Yukon in One Summer
Recalling the three-man US Army expedition that put Interior Alaska on the map, literally.
Alaska Science Forum: Midwinter Rain-on-Snow a Game Changer
A crust of ice is aggravating for moose, lethal for their calves, inconvenient for smaller mammals, yet a boon to wolves. Interior Alaska may have to get used to it.
Alaska Science Forum: Plastic Rain in Southeast Alaska
A Juneau researcher presented findings to the American Geophysical Union fall meeting of microplastic particles collected in rain samples, likely blown in from the ocean.
Alaska Science Forum: Shipping Brings More Noise, Trash to Bering Strait
Scientists are finding waters of the Bering Strait are becoming much noisier due to more industrial ship traffic. Alaska residents of the region have noticed more garbage floating ashore recently.
Alaska Science Forum: What Does It Take to Reach 75?
A workplace for volcanologists, glaciologists, seismologists, aurora-ologists and other types of scientists, the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska Fairbanks has endured since the 1940s. Why?
Alaska Science Forum: Visit to Exotic Tree Plantation in Alaska
The two-acre exotic tree plantation is part of a much-larger “boreal arboretum” on the UAF campus, which mostly consists of native spruce, birch, aspen, poplar and willow trees.