The Glacier(s) of Attu
In late August, seabird biologist John Piatt paused from his task of “stealing food from baby puffins†to look up at the green mountains of Attu, the last island in the long sweep of the Aleutians.
Alaska Science Forum: Visiting Bats and the Hot Maggots of Autumn
After she read a column on Alaska bats, Pat Holloway of Fairbanks sent me a photo of a little brown bat that made it into her house this summer. It surprised her, as bats tend to do when they appear in your living room.
Alaska Science Forum: Alaskans’ Vitamin D Production Slows with the Season
Interested people are needed to participate in a one-year study to assess the effects of long dark winters on the vitamin D and calcium levels of Fairbanks residents.
Alaska Science Forum: Biologist Sees Value in Unchanged Landscape
George Schaller has studied gorillas in Rwanda, lions on the Serengeti, pandas in China, antelope in Tibet, and many other animals in wild places around the planet, but he thinks the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is unique among them. He visited there in 2006 for the first time in half a century.