UAF Partners with edX to Share Arctic Courses, Research Globally
Known as America’s Arctic university, UAF will offer courses and programs that have a focus on the circumpolar North and its diverse peoples.
Science
ASL Environmental Services Selected for Hydroacoustic Study
The Vancouver Fraser Port Authority has committed to developing eulachon-specific mitigation that will be used during dredging activities.
Bears Alert Scientists to Secret Salmon Streams
Until recently, scientists did not know salmon swam up some of these waterways, nor that grizzlies were fattening up on them before entering hibernation.
Banana Slugs Ooze Over Coastal Alaska
Pacific banana slugs live on the floor of coastal rain forests all the way south to California. Down there, where frosts are rare as 90 degree days here, the slugs grow long as pencils.
Earthquake Adds Missing Piece to Puzzle
Late in the evening of July 21, State Seismologist Michael West heard a text alarm. His phone informed him of a large earthquake beneath the ocean, just south of the Alaska Peninsula, about 60 miles southeast of the village of Sand Point. His first thought was that this—the biggest earthquake on the planet so far in 2020—would cause a devastating tsunami. His second thought was that a longstanding earthquake mystery may have just been solved.
Chinook Salmon Declines Related to Changes in Freshwater Conditions
With Alaska’s climate warming twice as fast as the global average and experiencing changes in precipitation and streamflow, the research team set out to understand if changing conditions in fresh water—where salmon spawn and rear—played a role in recent declines of chinook populations in the Cook Inlet basin of Southcentral Alaska.