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COVID-delayed Arctic research cruise yields late-season data
Researchers studying the Bering and Chukchi seas in October found no ice and an active ecosystem.
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Real-time maps show ocean currents in the Arctic
High-frequency radar systems along the Alaska coast yield valuable information about currents.
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Without otter predation, sea urchins decimate Aleutian reefs
Scientists have linked sea urchins, otters and climate change to the destruction of Aleutian reefs.
Read more about urchins, otters and climate change.News
Study takes unprecedented peek into life of 17,000-year-old mammoth
August 12, 2021
An international research team has retraced the astonishing lifetime journey of an Arctic woolly mammoth, which covered enough of the Alaska landscape during its 28 years to almost circle the Earth twice.
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UAF researcher sails north in search of deep-sea answer
August 11, 2021
How one of the two large basins underlying the Arctic Ocean formed during the Mesozoic Era remains a mystery to scientists. It’s one that geophysics professor Bernard Coakley of the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute is hoping to unravel as he leads an international research project that set sail this week aboard the UAF research vessel Sikuliaq.
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A day in the life of fisheries and hydrokinetic researchers
July 29, 2021
Watch a new video that showcases the broader impacts of understanding the collision risk of fishes and the spinning turbines.
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