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Health, food preservation workshops planned for Southeast Alaska
June 19, 2024
A ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈÊÓƵ Cooperative Extension Service agent will travel by boat to nine communities in Southeast Alaska to teach classes on healthy living, food safety and food preservation.
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Researchers use AI to track global squirrel hot spots
June 17, 2024
A team of ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈÊÓƵ researchers used novel artificial intelligence and citizen science methods to validate locations of large and small populations of the more than 300 species of squirrels globally.
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Journey through a sub-Arctic summer night
June 14, 2024
We three friends riding together in a pickup had committed to join together for the AlaskAcross, a 50-mile jaunt on foot from Eagle Summit to the Chena Hot Springs Resort.
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Registration open for 4-H Cloverbud Day Camp
June 14, 2024
The Tanana District 4-H program will host Cloverbud Day Camp at Georgeson Botanical Garden, located on the ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈÊÓƵ campus.
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Week's events: Samantha Kirstein, BEFAST, wild berries, marimbas
June 14, 2024
¾Ã¾ÃÈÈÊÓƵ 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 17-23.
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Visualizing the landscape of tribal communities
June 13, 2024
The ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈÊÓƵ has released a set of resources to help researchers and academics working in rural Alaska understand the complexities of tribal communities.
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UAF scientists heading to international permafrost conference
June 13, 2024
¾Ã¾ÃÈÈÊÓƵ 20 ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈÊÓƵ scientists will present research at the quadrennial International Conference on Permafrost, which opens Saturday in Whitehorse, Yukon.
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UAF research scientist selected as Fulbright Scholar to Finland
June 12, 2024
Eugénie Euskirchen, associate professor of ecology at the ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈÊÓƵ Institute of Arctic Biology, has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar award to Finland.
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Lasers may keep birds out of Fairbanks grain plots
June 12, 2024
The resonant, musical rattle of the sandhill crane in May signifies spring for many of us. But the birds can pose a problem for farms. This summer, a green laser beam has been flashing across the ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈÊÓƵ’ farm fields to scare off the cranes and other birds.
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New way to spot beetle-killed spruce can help forest, wildfire managers
June 12, 2024
A new machine-learning system developed at the ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈÊÓƵ can automatically produce detailed maps from satellite data to show locations of likely beetle-killed spruce trees in Alaska, even in forests of low and moderate infestation where identification is otherwise difficult.
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New research shows flood risk for several Alaska communities
June 10, 2024
Coastal Alaska communities from the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta northward will see more of their buildings exposed to flooding by 2100 if they continue developing at the same location, according to new research.
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Week's events: Jack Wilbur, vascular surgery, wildlife interactions, bagpipes
June 07, 2024
¾Ã¾ÃÈÈÊÓƵ 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 10-16.
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Did sea ice help populate the Americas?
June 07, 2024
A team of scientists has proposed winter sea ice as a possible ephemeral highway through and around Alaska and into the New World.
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Alaska Satellite Facility gets $139 million federal intelligence contract
June 06, 2024
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has awarded a $139 million, five-year contract to the ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈÊÓƵ for the global collection and processing of elevation and 3D data about Earth's surface.
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UAF student steel bridge team places fourth in the nation
June 05, 2024
The UAF ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈÊÓƵ of Engineering and Mines team emerged as a fierce competitor during the Student Steel Bridge Competition National Finals held in Louisiana, clinching 4th place overall out of the 47 participating schools.
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