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Enter the 2021 ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ Top Crop Contest
September 14, 2021
How did your garden grow this year? Were the sunflowers extra tall? Enter photos in the Matanuska Experiment Farm and Extension Center's second annual ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ Top Crop Contest.
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Expedition embarks to assess the state of the eastern Arctic Ocean
September 10, 2021
A ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥-led expedition embarks this week for a 40-day scientific cruise to assess the state of the eastern Arctic Ocean. The expedition, which is part of the Nansen and Amundsen Basins Observational System, includes 27 participants from the United States, Russia, Japan and Denmark.
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Plastic ingenuity provides safe river exit
September 09, 2021
Our Labor Day canoe trip went a day long, and almost a boat short.
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UAF names spring, summer 2021 honors students
September 08, 2021
The ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ has announced the students named to the deans' and chancellor's lists for the spring and summer 2021 semesters. The lists recognize students' outstanding academic achievements
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UAF researcher to lead four-year project to revolutionize seismology
September 03, 2021
A project to unite seismic data analysis and modeling with supercomputing power may help answer some of the biggest questions about the Earth's seismic activity.
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Diversity helps a place survive
September 03, 2021
UAF Geophysical Institute directors have followed the advice of your financial advisor: diversify your portfolio.
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September museum programs explore berries
August 31, 2021
The University of ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ Museum of the North is focusing on berries during family programs in September.
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What does it take to reach 75?
August 26, 2021
We just had a party up here, to celebrate the Geophysical Institute's 75th year of existence. Seventy-five years also happens to be the average life expectancy for a human these days.
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Climate change threatens seal hunting by Indigenous ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ns
August 24, 2021
Climate change has severely reduced the length of the seal hunting season in a rural ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ village, potentially threatening a key feature of the community's Indigenous way of life.
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Beavers not always to blame for beaver fever
August 19, 2021
Beavers usually get the rap for spreading Giardia (beaver fever), but researchers say we blame beavers too often.
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Pine grove near Yakutat is farthest north
August 12, 2021
Gaglioti walked in rubber boots on a green, squishy carpet of muskeg -- a wild garden of water-loving plants growing on acidic soil that has for centuries prevented the encroachment of giant rainforest trees.
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Study takes unprecedented peek into life of 17,000-year-old mammoth
August 12, 2021
Using isotopic data in a tusk, an international research team has retraced the astonishing lifetime journey of an Arctic woolly mammoth.
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UAF Geophysical Institute to mark 75 years with public celebration
August 11, 2021
Come help the ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ Geophysical Institute celebrate its 75th anniversary.
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UAF researcher sails north in search of deep-sea answer
August 11, 2021
Geophysics professor Bernard Coakley is trying explain the formation of the large Arctic Ocean feature known as the Amerasia Basin.
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The closest people to an 8.2 earthquake
August 05, 2021
What if the country's largest earthquake in the last half century happened as you were getting ready for bed in the only cabin on a tiny island in the North Pacific?
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