A new icing tower at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute will help aerospace engineers figure out how to enable drones to fly safely in icy weather. That’s important as Alaska accelerates an effort to use drones for deliveries to remote communities and for emergency response in harsh weather conditions. The Alaska Center for […]
The University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Alaska Center for Energy and Power and partners will hold a fourth and final town hall meeting on March 3 in Utqiagvik to discuss carbon capture, use and storage in Alaska. The town hall events facilitate the free expression of opinions on the implications of carbon capture, use and storage, […]
Poking holes in the sea floor that used to be part of the Bering Land Bridge, researchers have found that large swaths of it were floodplains pocked with bogs and ponds that may have restricted passage of animals like the woolly rhino and short-faced bear. Those two species and a few others never seemed to […]
A recent poll of Alaskans found that the University of Alaska is the most trusted organization for the public on the topic of energy supply. The survey of 600 registered Alaska voters was conducted by Strategies 360, with a margin of error of 4%. The poll was commissioned, in part, to test Alaskans’ familiarity with carbon capture, […]