A new ventilation system component developed by engineers at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the Cold Climate Housing Research Center is helping indoor air quality in cold climates while saving energy. The Arctic Dual Hood for Heat Recovery Ventilation simplifies installation of heat recovery ventilators, or HRVs, by using a single opening through […]
Disney’s 25th episode of season 13 aired in a salute to Alaska’s 100th anniversary on April 2nd, 1967. The animated episode, named just that, “A Salute to Alaska,” aired a brief history of the state. It also aired the final episode that Walt Disney opened and introduced, he had died five months earlier. The […]
It was on this day in Alaska history that the virtual eradication of wolves would begin in earnest in the Alaska territory. On March 31st, 1915, Governor John Strong signed into law a $10 bounty on wolves in the Alaska Territory. The new law would result in the extinction of the Kenai Peninsula Grey […]
What do walrus monitoring, the Tracy Arm tsunami and salmon bycatch have in common? All of them are important topics for audiences in Alaska’s coastal communities. Which is why each has been the focus of a recent presentation at one of Alaska Sea Grant’s three public lecture series: Strait Science Series, the Petersburg Science […]