The University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Alaska Center for Energy and Power and partners will hold a fourth and final town hall meeting on March 3 in Utqiagvik to discuss carbon capture, use and storage in Alaska. The town hall events facilitate the free expression of opinions on the implications of carbon capture, use and storage, […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON – Tuesday, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers – Alaska District awarded a construction contract for the Barrow Coastal Erosion Project in Utqiagvik. Brice Civil Constructors Inc. of Anchorage, Alaska, will begin constructing a portion of the structure in Utqiagvik aimed at reducing erosion and the risk of storm damage to about […]
The Alaska State Troopers Statewide Drug Enforcement Unit conducted an operation that lasted multiple days targetting drugs and alcohol bound for Utqiagvik and the North Slope Borough this month and seized illegal substances with an estimated street value of over $220,000 according to their report. Seized items included 259 grams of methamphetamine, 48 grams of […]
For almost half a century, some of the most important observations of the changing Arctic climate were captured and analyzed in a cramped 960 square-foot temporary structure at the northernmost tip of the United States. NOAA’s Barrow Atmospheric Baseline Observatory is one of four monitoring stations maintained by the Global Monitoring Laboratory, which produce long-term, […]