Alaska Sea Grant announced that Connie Melovidov, A University of Alaska Fairbanks master’s student, will begin a Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship in Washington, D.C. next year. The esteemed fellowship is administered by the National Sea Grant College Program, a collaboration involving the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and universities in 34 states and U.S. territories. […]
ANCHORAGE, AK — The State Board of Education held a quarterly board meeting last week in Wasilla at Mat-Su Central. Along with other business, it proposed and adopted a resolution charging the Department of Education and Early Development with the development and presentation of a comprehensive model policy limiting the use of cellular phones and […]
The University of Alaska Fairbanks invites the public to view a celestial visitor that hasn’t traveled near Earth in at least 80,000 years. Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, pronounced Choo-cheen-SHAHN-ATLAS, was discovered in January 2023 by the Purple Mountain Observatory in China. The comet could have its best viewing for Alaskans throughout next week — weather permitting. Space physicists from […]
A remotely piloted underwater glider is showing promise as a tool to track crabs in the Bering Sea, where their numbers have plummeted. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game and the University of Alaska Fairbanks have tested the glider Shackleton for the past three years to locate tagged crabs. The 6-foot-long glider, which is […]