Toolik Field Station has partnered with the new Polar Research Infrastructure Network to boost international collaboration in polar science. The project, coordinated by the Alfred Wegener Institute in Germany, will increase international access to 64 field stations, vessels and other polar research facilities across Europe, the Americas and Antarctica. Researchers from the U.S. will be […]
A large find of dinosaur tracks and fossilized plants and tree stumps in far northwestern Alaska provides new information about the climate and movement of animals near the time when they began traveling between the Asian and North American continents roughly 100 million years ago. The findings by an international team of scientists led […]
Denali, North America’s highest peak at 20,310 feet above sea level, always seemed abnormally high to Peter Haeussler. He is a geologist who has studied the mountain for years and has also climbed it a couple of times. Denali soars at least 9,000 feet above surrounding peaks in the Alaska Range, except for neighbor Mount […]
While following a snowmachine trail recently, my dog and I came to a low spot that looked like a swimming pool filled with ice water. The air temperature was about 5 degrees F. Rather than plunge in, my dog and I followed the faint bike-and-boot tracks of friends who had snuck across an ice bridge […]