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  • Pesticide applicator training classes scheduled for April

    April 03, 2023

    A three-day certified pesticide applicator training course is scheduled for April 25-27.
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  • Man with large dinosaur bone in his hands talks to the French Consul General and his assistant in the collections area of the University of Alaska Museum of the North.

    French officials visit UAF

    April 03, 2023

    San Francisco-based Consul General of France Frédéric Jung visited Fairbanks last week for meetings with Chancellor Dan White, City of Fairbanks Mayor David Pruhs, several UAF units and the Fairbanks French-speaking community.
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  • A sunset turns the undersides of clouds pink above a snowy hillside covered with small, widely spaced black spruce and tamarack trees.

    Raven roosts shrouded in mystery

    March 30, 2023

    Last week, while getting ready to climb into a bunk, I heard the yell of a raven outside. And then another, and a few more. I pulled on my boots.
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  • An ice island on Alaska's Arctic Ocean coast.

    New method of monitoring shore ice could improve public safety

    March 29, 2023

    Specialized portable radar could serve as an early warning system to reduce risk for humans working on shorefast sea ice, according to a recently published study.
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  • Flowers and green plants in a vegetable garden.

    AARP, UAF Cooperative Extension offer online gardening series

    March 27, 2023

    Learn to garden from the comfort of your own home in a five-week series of free classes hosted by AARP Alaska and the University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service.
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  • A kneeling woman wearing heavy gloves holds up a porcupine.

    The porcupine's slow-motion winter

    March 24, 2023

    While running through Bicentennial Park in Anchorage, biologist Jessy Coltrane spotted a porcupine in a birch tree. On her runs on days following, she saw it again and again, in good weather and bad. Over time, she knew which Alaska creature she wanted to study.
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  • four people holding a red weather balloon with tundra and mountains in the background

    Toolik launches climate education program for underserved students

    March 21, 2023

    Twelve high school students will visit Alaska's remote Arctic during summer 2023 to learn about the effects of climate change on the region.
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  • A woman in winter gear holds an instrument and gathers a snow sample into a container. Another woman in the background looks on.

    Dozens descend upon Alaska to measure snow

    March 21, 2023

    Five scientists have padded their way on snowshoes into the middle of this frozen swamp in Fairbanks. They are here to measure the pillowy, perfect snowpack that has fallen here, flake by flake, since last October.
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  • Two young girls look at an unidentified specimen held out to them by an adult male.

    Museum hosts annual open house

    March 21, 2023

    The University of Alaska Museum of the North will host its annual open house on Saturday, March 25, from noon to 4 p.m.
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  • Elvey and Akasofu buildings at UAF.

    ‘Airborne object’ response builds on UAF, military partnership

    March 16, 2023

    The Department of Defense asked for the university's help in recovery. The effort showcased the university's ability to be an essential federal government partner in the Arctic.
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