The Arctic landscape during the Cretaceous Period may have been dominated by the dinosaurs, but the rivers and streams held something more familiar. Alaska’s fresh waters 73 million years ago were teeming with the ancient relatives of today’s salmon, pike and other northern fish. A new paper published this week in the journal Papers in […]
The University of Alaska now owns the land beneath its upper atmospheric research facility near Gakona, nearly 10 years after acquiring the site’s science instruments from the U.S. Air Force. The federal government officially relinquished 1,158 acres beneath the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program facility to the university earlier this year. Additionally, the government sold […]
Leanne Bulger recently found a new hole in the forest floor on the west end of Fairbanks. Into it, she poked a long plastic pipe. “Thirteen feet,” she said when the pole finally hit ground she could not see. Bulger, an undergraduate student at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, had hiked to the northeast corner […]
