JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – Representatives from the federal and state offices of veterans affairs collaborated with community partners to provide outreach services for veterans in Gambell and Nome, July 8 and 9. From helping veterans to file claims for education, medical or other benefits to assisting them in obtaining earned military awards, these offices […]
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, […]
Popular Dalton Highway recreation sites evacuated as the Fish Fire approaches FAIRBANKS, Alaska – Due to ongoing wildland fire activity associated with the Fish Fire #319, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Central Yukon Field Office is evacuating and closing the Arctic Circle campground, near Dalton Highway milepost 115 effective immediately. The evacuation and […]
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 […]