NORTH SLOPE, Alaska — “Chick chick whirrr, chick whirrr.” Although it was a recorded birdsong that chattered through each of the poplar stands we entered, I still occasionally caught myself believing we were hearing the real thing — the call of the gray-headed chickadee, last heard in Alaska in 2018. Tom Glass, a postdoctoral researcher […]
Learn about sea otter activity and interactions with mariculture operations in a free statewide webinar hosted by the University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service. Emily Reynolds, an Alaska Sea Grant state fellow with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, works on projects related to seaweed farming and mapping kelp. In the field, she monitors […]
A proposed earthquake early warning system could have provided several communities an alert of 10 seconds or more ahead of strong shaking from the magnitude 7.3 quake that occurred south of Sand Point near the tip of the Alaska Peninsula in mid-July. That analysis is provided by Alex Fozkos of the Alaska Earthquake Center’s systems team at the […]
Raising chickens doesn’t require a lot of space, just the right information. Jim Vinyard, livestock nutritionist at the Matanuska Experiment Farm and Extension Center in Palmer, will hold three in-person workshops over the next month to discuss how to start and care for a healthy coop. Two free workshops will be held in the agriculture […]