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Return to Crash Site is Emotional, Healing

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on Sep 12, 2020   Featured, North Slope/Northwest Alaska, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

Return to Crash Site is Emotional, Healing

  Ben Jones recently returned to the tundra site of a plane crash that in May took the life of the pilot, and left Jones bloodied and broken. Jones is a do-it-all scientist with the Institute of Northern Engineering at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He is inventive and opportunistic, pursuing curiosities of northern Alaska […]

Orange Trees in the Alaska Range

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on Sep 4, 2020   Featured, Science/Education, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

Orange Trees in the Alaska Range

  While wandering middle Alaska this summer, I noticed orange spruce trees along the entire length of the Denali Highway, from Paxson to Cantwell. In what looked like a dendrological case of frostbite, tips of every branch were afflicted with something. The real show happened when the wind blew: An entire valley glowed apricot. After […]

A Bad Night in a Good Box

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on Aug 30, 2020   Featured, Science/Education, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

A Bad Night in a Good Box

  Early in his career, on a wet, windy, foggy night, Guy Tytgat checked into the loneliest hotel in the Aleutians. His room was four feet wide and five feet tall, made of fiberglass, and perched on the lip of a volcanic crater. Tytgat did not enjoy the evening he shared with 420 pounds of […]

Glaciologist dies in Greenland crevasse

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on Aug 21, 2020   Science/Education, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

Glaciologist dies in Greenland crevasse

  Konrad Steffen, 68, died Aug. 8, 2020, when he fell into a meltwater-filled crevasse on the Greenland ice sheet. The glaciologist never worked in Alaska, but Steffen’s work influenced a scientist here, his countryman Martin Truffer. Truffer was born in Switzerland, as was Steffen. Truffer, a professor who studies glaciers at the Geophysical Institute […]

White killer whale spotted in Southeast

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on Aug 15, 2020   Featured, Science/Education, Southeast Alaska, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

White killer whale spotted in Southeast

  People in an 80-foot charter boat out of Petersburg recently saw what a biologist described as a “less-than-once-in-a-lifetime” event: a white killer whale swimming through the sea. UAF graduate student Stephanie Hayes was on the Northern Song, operated by Captain Dennis Rogers, on August 7, 2020, just offshore of the village of Kake. Hayes, […]

Bears Alert Scientists to Secret Salmon Streams

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on Aug 14, 2020   Featured, Science/Education, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

Bears Alert Scientists to Secret Salmon Streams

  Right now, on the brushy tundra of northern Alaska, grizzly bears are gathering at quiet streams and rivers, attracted by the largest calorie reward they can find — spawning salmon. Until recently, scientists did not know salmon swam up some of these waterways, nor that grizzlies were fattening up on them before entering hibernation. […]

Banana Slugs Ooze over Coastal Alaska

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on Aug 3, 2020   Featured, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

Banana Slugs Ooze over Coastal Alaska

  In this era of limited air travel, my family and I have spent most of our recent months in Fairbanks. Here, we are surrounded by spruce and birch trees of the boreal forest, a swath of mosquito-laden vegetation that stretches from Alaska all the way to Nova Scotia. We just punched out of that […]

Earthquake Adds Missing Piece to Puzzle

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on Jul 24, 2020   Featured, Science/Education, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

Earthquake Adds Missing Piece to Puzzle

  Late in the evening of July 21, 2020, State Seismologist Michael West heard a text alarm. His phone informed him of a large earthquake beneath the ocean, just south of the Alaska Peninsula, about 60 miles southeast of the village of Sand Point. His first thought was that this — the biggest earthquake on […]

Granite Tors Evidence of Ice-Free Alaska

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on Jul 13, 2020   Featured, Science/Education, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

Granite Tors Evidence of Ice-Free Alaska

  As I started hiking a ridgetop during the July 4th weekend, a friend told me to look for the mushroom rock ahead. At first, I thought I may have heard her wrong. But a few hours later I saw the rock she was talking about. It appeared to be a granite tor, but looked […]

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