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Utqiagvik, where there’s still snow in June

By Serina Wesen | Geophysical Institute on Jun 23, 2022   Featured, North Slope/Northwest Alaska, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

Utqiagvik, where there’s still snow in June

A group of University of Alaska Fairbanks faculty, students and staff has been conducting Arctic fieldwork in Utqiagvik since mid-April to measure snowmelt, but the melt only started in mid-June. This is an exceptionally late melt year. The Snow Albedo Evolution in the Arctic team, or SALVO, has been working hard through the midnight sun, […]

Rugged Science on the Southeast Coast

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on Jun 17, 2022   Featured, Southeast Alaska, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

Rugged Science on the Southeast Coast

OVER THE NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN — To the woman wearing earbuds and sitting next to me in seat 7E: I’m sorry; I did not get to shower before boarding the plane after 12 days of accompanying four scientists in the hills north of Lituya Bay. I will try to keep my arms pinned to my […]

UAF Scientists Find New Indicators of Alaska Permafrost Thawing

By Rod Boyce | Geophysical Institute on Jun 10, 2022   Featured, North Slope/Northwest Alaska, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

UAF Scientists Find New Indicators of Alaska Permafrost Thawing

More areas of year-round unfrozen ground have begun dotting Interior and Northwest Alaska and will continue to increase in extent due to climate change, according to new research by University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute scientists. The scientists said the spread of taliks — volumes of unfrozen ground within areas of permafrost — has major […]

The Worst Fire Year We can Remember

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on May 27, 2022   Featured, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

The Worst Fire Year We can Remember

In a gorgeous warm May this year, we have not yet sniffed the bitter scent of flaming spruce. When we do, some of us will think back to a year that still haunts us. In summer 2004, a Vermont-sized patch of Alaska burned in wildfires. That hazy summer was the most extreme fire year in […]

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