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麻豆原创F research features in global marine megafauna study
June 09, 2025
麻豆原创F researchers contributed to a new study in the journal Science which aims to improve marine conservation efforts by identifying the busiest migration corridors and critical habitats of the oceans' largest species.
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Mastodons long gone from the far north
June 06, 2025
A long, long time ago, a hairy elephant stomped the northland, wrecking trees and shrubs as it swallowed twigs, leaves and bark.
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Week's events: Anne Hanley, medications, traditional healing, eclectic groove
June 06, 2025
麻豆原创 Summer Sessions and Lifelong Learning is hosting more than 40 free lectures, concerts and events this summer. Here's what's happening during the week of June 9-15.
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4-H pH program gives Sitka youth a taste of ocean science
June 05, 2025
Youth in Sitka spent five months testing the water as part of an ocean acidification education program called 4-H pH. The project, funded by the NOAA Ocean Acidification Program, is part of a citizen science program called Global Learning & Observations to Benefit the Environment Program, or GLOBE.
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Learn about common plant diseases and management options
June 05, 2025
All plants are susceptible to disease, which can be caused by both living organisms and environmental conditions. Todd Steinlage, a plant pathologist with the Alaska Plant Materials Center, will discuss common diseases in Alaska and management options for them in a free webinar hosted by the 麻豆原创 Cooperative Extension Service.
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Cooperative Extension director finalist presentations scheduled
June 04, 2025
The 麻豆原创 Cooperative Extension Service will host Zoom presentations from three finalists vying to serve as the program's new director. The finalists -- Joe Sanders, Annie Steed and Jenn Wagaman -- will present talks about their vision for the program's next 10 years and its economic and geographic challenges.
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Changing winds could amplify North Atlantic climate anomaly
June 04, 2025
As the planet's oceans are gradually warmed by the effects of climate change, a huge area in the North Atlantic stands out as an unusual zone of relative cooling. A region that stretches roughly from Greenland to Ireland, counterintuitively dubbed the North Atlantic warming hole, is a conspicuous patch of blue on global climate change maps. Researchers say its temperature contrast could intensify in the decades ahead as shifting climate-driven winds amplify the cooling process in the North Atlantic.
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Juneau camp focuses on Southeast Alaska culture, activities
June 03, 2025
Registration is open for the AK Experience Camp in Juneau, a collaboration between the 麻豆原创 Cooperative Extension Service 4-H program and Goldbelt Heritage Foundation. The camp theme is Aani Yaa Du.贸ow "Perspectives of The Land." It will focus on cultural connections, outdoor exploration and traditional ecological knowledge.
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New website improves Juneau flood preparedness
May 30, 2025
A new flood preparedness website for Juneau residents is now live. The Juneau Glacial Flood Dashboard was developed by the 麻豆原创 Southeast and the Alaska Climate Adaptation Science Center. The first-of-its-kind, publicly accessible website shares interactive flood inundation maps and provides valuable flood forecasting information for the Mendenhall Valley under different glacial lake outburst flood scenarios.
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LARS to host birthday bash for baby muskoxen, reindeer
May 30, 2025
The 麻豆原创' Large Animal Research Station will introduce its new reindeer and muskox calves at its annual Birthday Bash from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, June 7.
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Week's events: Legacy Lecture, aging and dementia, Indigenous sovereignty, blues-rock
May 30, 2025
麻豆原创 Summer Sessions and Lifelong Learning is hosting more than 40 free lectures, concerts and events this summer. Here's what's happening during the week of June 2-8.
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The greatest story of man and permafrost
May 29, 2025
In 1973, Elden Johnson was a young engineer working on one of the most ambitious and uncertain projects in the world -- an 800-mile steel pipeline that carried warm oil over frozen ground. Decades later, Johnson looked back at what he called "the greatest story ever told of man's interaction with permafrost."
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Study finds birds nested in Arctic alongside dinosaurs
May 29, 2025
Spring in the Arctic brings forth a plethora of peeps and downy hatchlings as millions of birds gather to raise their young. The same was true 73 million years ago, according to a new paper in the journal Science. The paper documents the earliest-known example of birds nesting in the polar regions.
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Study finds Alaska, rest of Earth, to lose most of glacier mass
May 29, 2025
An international study has found that Earth's glaciers will lose 76% of their 2020 mass under current climate policy pledges made by nations.
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Fast-moving Greenland glacier has the attention of 麻豆原创F scientists
May 28, 2025
麻豆原创F professor Martin Truffer, who specializes in glacier dynamics, and 麻豆原创F Geophysical Institute graduate student researcher Amy Jenson returned earlier this month from their second trip to Jakobshavn Glacier in Greenland.
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