by Ned Rozell | Dec 29, 2021 | Arctic, Environmental, Science, Transportation
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.
by Ned Rozell | Aug 26, 2021 | Education, News, Science
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?
by Ned Rozell | Jun 18, 2021 | News, Science
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.
by Ned Rozell | May 25, 2021 | Science
HOME | Posts by Ned Rozell (Page 2) Alaska Science Forum: Bringing the World to a Standstill Hikers traverse the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes on the Alaska Peninsula, walking on a sheet of ash and volcanic rock more than 500-feet thick. Ned Rozell On a fine...
by Ned Rozell | Apr 29, 2021 | Fisheries, News, Science
In Alaska’s infinite waters swims a handsome, silvery fish. Until recently, we knew little about the Bering cisco, which exists only around Alaska and Siberia. Then a scientist combined his unique life experiences with modern tools to help color in the fish’s life history.
by Ned Rozell | Apr 2, 2021 | Science
While out on a springtime snow trail, I recently saw a dozen white-winged crossbills pecking at snow on the side of the trail. When I reached the spot, I saw a yellow stain from where a team of dogs had paused: Why might songbirds have a thing for yellow snow?
by Ned Rozell | Mar 5, 2021 | Science
The largest earthquake on the planet that year happened somewhere near Kodiak on Oct. 9, 1900. Scientists know it was big, but how big? And could it happen again?
by Ned Rozell | Feb 3, 2021 | Science
Bowheads are also a rare wildlife rebound story, with the population north and west of Alaska now numbering more than 16,000. That’s up from the 1,000 or so animals Yankee whalers left behind in bloody waters at the turn of the last century.
by Ned Rozell | Jan 18, 2021 | Science
Mike Taras has worked for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game for many years, but this is the first time he has said the words “nuisance lynx.”
by Ned Rozell | Dec 17, 2020 | Science
Unlike all the other days of winter, on December 21, we will neither lose nor gain a second of sunlight here in middle Alaska. The sun arcing over the Alaska Range to the south will follow a path that is almost precisely the same as its track on December 20.