The University of Alaska Museum of the North and Alaska Satellite Facility are presenting a new exhibit to showcase how synthetic aperture radar data is received and distributed and how it benefits the public. The exhibit, titled “Observing our Dynamic Planet,” opens May 24 and will run through the 2026 New Year’s holiday. Researchers around […]
A Fairbanks biologist recently cupped in his hand a tiny bird whose arrival he had been rooting for. That bird — a female Hammond’s flycatcher — now holds the title of the oldest known of its species. A few days ago, Robert Snowden of the Alaska Songbird Institute in Fairbanks felt his heart beat a […]
The Arctic landscape during the Cretaceous Period may have been dominated by the dinosaurs, but the rivers and streams held something more familiar. Alaska’s fresh waters 73 million years ago were teeming with the ancient relatives of today’s salmon, pike and other northern fish. A new paper published this week in the journal Papers in […]
Leanne Bulger recently found a new hole in the forest floor on the west end of Fairbanks. Into it, she poked a long plastic pipe. “Thirteen feet,” she said when the pole finally hit ground she could not see. Bulger, an undergraduate student at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, had hiked to the northeast corner […]