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How do Alaska animals sleep in the summer? – The Delta Discovery, Inc.
2+ day, 6+ hour ago (681+ words) ore than a month after the summer solstice, Fairbanks is still the land of the midnight sun. Joggers are out getting in their late-night runs along Farmers Loop, and we still don’t need our headlights after another evening ice cream…...
Time capsule: Looking for a few good wood frog
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (691+ words) Note: This article was originally published 30 years ago, on Aug. 7, 1996. Brian Barnes and author Ned Rozell have since retired from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and scientists now know that the wood frog’s internal body temperature can dip to 0.6 degrees…...
New instrument will aid environmental science and industry
2+ day, 6+ hour ago (422+ words) by Jennifer “Moss” Moss A new spectrometer facility at the University of Alaska Fairbanks will let researchers see chemical components of materials in the parts-per-trillion range, advancing environmental science across Alaska. The UAF International Arctic Research Center will build the…...
UAF leads AI project to strengthen Alaska’s rural power grids
2+ day, 6+ hour ago (396+ words) A new energy research project led by the University of Alaska Fairbanks has received a $725,000 award from the U.S. Department of Energy. The AURORA-AI project, short for Alaska Utility Resilience and Optimization using Real-time AI, will use advanced artificial intelligence to…...
Shapes of Western Alaska bays influence local flood danger
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (481+ words) hen large storms hit Western Alaska, some areas fare much worse than others. New research studying ex-Typhoon Merbok in September 2022 has found that a complex recipe of topography, tidal influences and seasonal water-level changes contribute to those differences. A University…...
Deep thawing soil will keep roads rough
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (792+ words) Before being patched with thick black asphalt during recent weeks, the roads across Goldstream Creek’s swampy valley bucked my car like a whitewater raft in the Nenana River canyon. This is not news. I’ve bobbed over these road waves for…...
4.9 earthquake felt near Bethel
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (174+ words) by Ned Rozell I just so happened to be stretched out on good ol’ Mother Earth the other night when an earthquake happened. On a Memorial Day overnight canoe trip, a friend and I had dragged our boats onto the…...
Research team seeks answers from a changing river
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (691+ words) Dan Gillikin surveyed the view from his front window and didn’t like what he saw. The Aniak River, which runs alongside his house, was a jumble of car-sized chunks of ice. Breakup on the nearby Kuskokwim River had pushed a…...
Bethel FLL Robotics team, the Dirt Busters participate in the open WPI Waffle FIRST Lego League event
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (375+ words) The Dirt Busters are a mixed team of homeschool, elementary, and Jr. High kids (5th-8th grade) from Bethel, Alaska, ranging in FLL experience from 1st year rookies to 5th year veterans. They participated in First Lego League (FLL), which introduces STEM (science, technology,…...
Maybe the salmon problem isn’t in the rivers; it’s in the ocean
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (775+ words) Washington has spent billions trying to restore salmon and save the endangered southern resident orcas that depend on them. So why aren’t the results keeping pace? Rivers have been restored. Dams modified. Hatcheries expanded. By every traditional measure, Washington is…...