Ladle-Alutiiq Word of the Week

Ladle-Alutiiq Word of the Week

Dipper, Ladle, Bailer — Qalutaq Maqiwigmi qalutat aturtaapet. – We use dippers in the banya. Enter an Alutiiq steam bath and you will find an assortment of tools for bathing. Adjacent to a wood-burning stove fashioned from a fifty-five-gallon oil drum are large metal tubs for storing, heating, and mixing water; tongs for loading the […]

Indigenous observations make Arctic Ocean models more accurate

Indigenous observations make Arctic Ocean models more accurate

Working with Indigenous observers on Alaska’s northern coast, a research team has developed a way to improve the modeling of oceanic changes.  This work was led by the International Arctic Research Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and the findings were published in the journal Nature Communications Earth and Environment.  Claudine Hauri, a research […]

UAF drone program tests long-distance blood sample delivery

UAF drone program tests long-distance blood sample delivery

Alaska’s drone research program successfully completed a 1,000-kilometer test flight carrying human blood samples for the International Testing Agency, which investigates doping by athletes at the Olympics and other major sporting events.  The 8-hour, 47-minute flight by the Alaska Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration aimed to show that unmanned aircraft can rapidly deliver blood […]