[content id=”79272″] A free tool developed by a University of Alaska Fairbanks researcher can help communities with small-scale power grids plan for different energy resources. Microgrid systems provide electricity in rural and remote communities in many places, including Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Canada, Australia, India, Kenya and the United Arab Emirates. Rural Alaska has more […]
Currants were banned in the United States for 55 years, but are now an emerging berry crop around the country, including Alaska. Join Lily Hislop, the currant and elderberry breeder for the Savanna Institute, in a free webinar as she explains why currants were banned, how that ban was lifted and the berries’ future. The […]
Years of preparation by the Alaska Satellite Facility will ensure that a flood of freely available data from a NASA-India satellite mission that launched Wednesday will be easy for the global public to use. “Most of what we’ve been working on for the past eight years is preparing for NISAR,” Alaska Satellite Facility Director Wade […]
June began cool and wet but rapidly changed to hot and dry at the midpoint, with wildfires bursting out across the state, according to the monthly summary from the Alaska Climate Research Center. The month also saw the first issuance of the new “heat advisory” by the National Weather Service. Unusually hot weather was previously noted […]