Scientists from NOAA’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, the University of Alaska and the Alaska Ocean Observing System are teaming up this summer and early fall to use new unmanned tools to study how melting glaciers in Alaska’s Prince William Sound may be intensifying ocean acidification in the sound and on the Gulf of Alaska […]
Fairbanks, Alaska – Governor Sean Parnell Tuesday cleared the way for a new power plant at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF). During a visit to the UAF campus, the governor signed Senate Bill 218, providing the university with $157.5 million of revenue bond issuance authority for the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Atkinson Heat and […]
Slicing through the top quarter of the Alaska map, the Arctic Circle marks the boundary of perpetual light. North of the line, the sun won’t set on summer solstice. But somehow the breezy, treeless tundra of Barrow has a more arctic feel than Fort Yukon, also poleward of the line but home to dense spruce […]
A settlement has been made between the University of Alaska-Fairbanks and the U.S. Department of Agriculture after USDA accused UAF in mid-April of possible Animal Welfare Act violations and a failure to provide adequate veterinary care in the starvation deaths of 12 musk oxen at the large-animal research station. The animals either died or were […]