Using a new net, marine biologists from the Alfred Wegener Institute have, for the first time, been able to catch polar cod directly beneath the Arctic sea ice with a trawl, allowing them to determine their large-scale distribution and origin. This information is of fundamental importance, as polar cod are a major source of food […]
During Patrick Druckenmiller’s not-so-restful sabbatical year, he is flying to museums around the world. In Alberta a few weeks ago and London now, the University of Alaska Museum’s curator of earth science is looking at bones of dinosaurs similar to ones found in northern Alaska. The more he squints at them and chats with experts, […]
Eight summers ago, a bolt of lightning struck a dry tundra hillside in northern Alaska. Fanned by a warm wind that curled over the Brooks Range, the Anaktuvuk River fire burned for three months, leaving a scar visible from the International Space Station. The charred area was larger than Cape Cod. While northern Alaska’s treeless […]
HEADQUARTERS U.S. ARMY ALASKA, FORT WAINWRIGHT, Alaska – U.S. Army Alaska’s 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team demonstrated its ability to rapidly deploy and operate in extreme cold regions this week with the first-ever deployment of Stryker vehicles north of the Arctic Circle November 3-4. The joint, multi-agency Operation Arctic Pegasus exercised the brigade’s rapid deployment […]