Latest Research News and Events
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Marine scientist rows across the Atlantic
March 14, 2024
None of the four members of the Salty Science team had any rowing experience. But they had enthusiasm.
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March 07, 2024
Denali, North America's highest peak at 20,310 feet above sea level, always seemed abnormally high to Peter Haeussler.
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Wet overflow a winter hazard in Alaska
March 01, 2024
While following a snowmachine trail recently, my dog and I came to a low spot that looked like a swimming pool filled with ice water. The air temperature was about 5 degrees F.
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Alaska hot springs, far and wide
February 23, 2024
After a few hours of skiing through deep snow, Forest Wagner and I smelled a tuna sandwich. We knew we were closing in on warm pools of water.
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New detection method aims to warn of landslide tsunamis
February 21, 2024
University of Alaska Fairbanks researchers have devised a way to remotely detect large landslides within minutes of occurrence and to quickly determine whether they are close to open water and present a tsunami hazard.
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Ice fog not often a part of northern life
February 16, 2024
An old friend -- a character not seen in these parts for a few years -- showed up last week in Fairbanks.
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The rusting of northern Alaska streams
February 09, 2024
During these late winter days, researchers who are studying the rusty discoloration of northern Alaska streams are prepping for summer field trips.
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Magma found beneath volcano-less country
January 26, 2024
For years, scientists have wondered why North America's highest mountain is not a volcano. All the ingredients for volcanic activity lurk deep beneath Denali, which sits right above where one planetary plate grinds past another.
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On the ancient trail of a woolly mammoth
January 18, 2024
The female woolly mammoth was 20 years old when she stumbled amid the grasslands. She fell in a cloud of dust, then gasped her last breath of cool air. It was a late-summer day, 14,000 years ago.
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Woolly mammoth movements tied to earliest Alaska hunting camps
January 17, 2024
Researchers have linked the travels of a 14,000-year-old woolly mammoth with the oldest known human settlements in Alaska, providing clues about the relationship between the iconic species and some of the earliest people to travel across the Bering Land Bridge.