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September museum programs explore berries
August 31, 2021
The University of Alaska 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 Alaskans
August 24, 2021
Climate change has severely reduced the length of the seal hunting season in a rural Alaska 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 University of Alaska Fairbanks 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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UAF launches 12-week geographic information systems certificate
August 04, 2021
Filling a growing need for a workforce that can understand and interpret spatial data to reveal patterns and relationships, University of Alaska Fairbanks has created an online, 12-week professional certificate in geographic information systems as part of its edX partnership.
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Scientists look for cause of recent kittiwake die-off
July 28, 2021
A team of scientists from the University of Alaska and other organizations are investigating a seabird die-off in the Gulf of Alaska.
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One Health alumna provides veterinary care in Southwest Alaska
July 22, 2021
Laurie Meythaler-Mullins is one of the first two graduates of the University of Alaska Fairbanks' new master's degree program in One Health, and she's already putting her degree to good use.
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