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Eight students and professionals are troweling the floury tan soil of Hollembaek’s Hill to learn more about the distant past in Interior Alaska.
“Insects are like a glue that holds ecosystems together,” said researcher Derek Sikes, who is studying populations in Alaska’s boreal forests.
Science writer Ned Rozell was joined by two friends on a 33-hour trek from Eagle Summit to the Chena Hot Springs Resort.
Ancient people might have used sea ice as a bridge to “coastal areas and islands with a relatively traversable surface that doubled as a platform for hunting energy-dense marine mammals,” according to a recent study.
Horticulturists and animal breeders today carry on the same type of experiments Charles Georgeson did 100 years ago, finding species of plants and animals capable of adapting to the Far North.
Science writer Ned Rozell is joined on trip into the woods to investigate a peculiar hole in the ground he had noticed on dog walks.
A study sampling microplastics across the state is discovering where they are the most concentrated, with some clues as to why.
A recent paper reported avalanches killed between 23% and 65% of all the collared animals that had died during the 17 years biologists had followed them.
A pair of UAF engineering students will try to collect samples every 2,000 feet on Denali, in an effort to determine if the tiny plastic particles are as abundant there as they are elsewhere on Earth.
Researcher Ben Jones found working tools — several paddles and a spear with a stone tip — within the Lost Jim Lava Flow on the Seward Peninsula.
When the ice retreats it causes them to fragment into smaller bodies of ice, establishing more glaciers.
Astrophysicists Lindsay Glesener and Sabrina Savage wait for the conditions to be ideal before launching a pair of rockets loaded with testing instruments into the atmosphere.
Kunali was delivered from the Alaska Zoo in Anchorage to Fairbanks, where its skin, tissue and bones will aid scientists in the future.
An expert in space physics at the UAF Geophysical Institute, Peter Delamere finished third in the Iditarod Trail Invitational 350 bike race.
In the far north, where night will soon be in short supply, nocturnal animals like flying squirrels and owls need to go about their business in daylight.