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Alaska Beetles Survive Unearthly Temperatures

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on Sep 26, 2018 Featured, The Arctic and Alaska Science

As we pull on our winter coats to shield our tropical bodies from the cold, there is a creature in our midst that survives Alaska’s coldest temperatures bare-naked. The red flat bark beetle lives as far north as there are balsam poplar trees in Alaska, hunkering down for the winter in the moist area between […]

Kenai Bark Beetles Primed for Another Run

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on Dec 9, 2015 Featured, Science/Education

Ed Berg has spent much of his life observing the natural happenings on a large peninsula (the Kenai) that juts from a larger peninsula (Alaska). The retired ecologist who worked many years for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has been around long enough he might see a second version of the most damaging insect […]