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  • Satellite image of Antarctica

    NASA announces open availability of Radarsat-1 data at Alaska Satellite Facility

    October 03, 2023

    The NASA Earth Observing System Data and Information System has announced that all Radarsat-1 data archived at the Alaska Satellite Facility Distributed Active Archive Center are now open data and can be freely downloaded.
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  • Children point to a wind farm

    ACEP and partner launch program to empower rural communities

    October 03, 2023


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  • A black dog lies on mossy vegetation next to a pair of blue running shoes.

    A nose 1,000 times better than ours

    September 29, 2023

    A dog can tell you a lot about the outdoors. When a Lab vacuums the ground with her nose and her tail spins like a helicopter blade, you know a grouse is about to fly. When the dog stops like a dragonfly, then runs off sniffing an invisible path, a snowshoe hare has crossed your trail.
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  • AK CASC graduate student Maggie Harings wears waders while sampling water with a scientific instrument in a river.

    UA, federal agency renew climate science partnership

    September 25, 2023

    The University of Alaska will continue to host the Alaska Climate Adaptation Science Center after renewing an agreement with the U.S. Geological Survey.
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  • UAF graduate student Shelby Bacus performs ocean warming and acidification experiments on marine invertebrates.

    Limpets, crabs stressed by higher temperatures, acidity

    September 21, 2023

    Warmer, more acidified water increases stress in a species of limpet in Alaska's Kachemak Bay, a University of Alaska Fairbanks graduate student has found. Shelby Bacus' discovery, along with her ongoing study of Bering Sea crabs, adds to scientific understanding of how much environmental change marine species can tolerate.
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  • Bright yellow leaves in sunshine cover a distant hillside and are reflected in a shadowed pond in the foreground.

    The varying colors of fall equinox

    September 21, 2023

    We are at fall equinox, a day of great equality: All the residents of the entire world -- from Tierra Del Fuego to Rome to Coldfoot -- will live their lives amid 12 hours of daylight, 12 of darkness on Sept. 22, 2023.
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  • University of Alaska researchers receive funding for space-related work

    September 20, 2023

    University of Alaska engineering faculty received awards from the National Science Foundation to fund research and development of technologies that would aid in space exploration.
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  • Image of projected Mars ocean

    New Mars gravity analysis improves understanding of possible ancient ocean

    September 19, 2023

    The first use of a novel method of analyzing Mars’ gravitational force supports the idea that the planet once had an extensive northern ocean. In doing so, the method defines the scope of what scientists refer to as the northern Martian paleo-ocean in more detail.
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  • A head and shoulders portrait of a smiling woman in a red kuspuk

    Black receives 2023 Bullock Prize for service to the UA system

    September 15, 2023

    The University of Alaska Foundation Board of Directors has awarded the 2023 Edith R. Bullock Prize for Excellence to Jessica Black. Black, associate vice chancellor for rural, community and Native education at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, has been a faculty member since 2006.
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  • Canning River permafrost bluff

    Study: Near-surface permafrost will be nearly gone by 2100

    September 15, 2023

    Most of Earth's near-surface permafrost could be gone by 2100, an international team of scientists has concluded after comparing current climate trends to the planet's climate 3 million years ago.
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