A method of quickly determining surface air quality during Alaska’s sometimes intense wildfire season will benefit urban and rural communities, especially those in Interior Alaska where boreal forest fires often rage. The development of such a method by Tianlang Zhao, a graduate student in associate professor Jingqiu Mao’s research group at the University of Alaska […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — In May 1920 the Alaska town of Nenana, nestled on the bank of the river of the same name in Alaska’s Interior, suffered great loss of life following a withering wave of the H1N1 influenza. According to a National Park Service article highlighting a historic part of the Nenana South […]
Waking to the smell of a wet ashtray (which, as a Child of the Seventies, I can still remember), I knew the wind had shifted. Wildfire smoke hung in the neighborhood. This is not a reason for alarm: The nostalgic scent of vaporized spruce and willow trees is a normal summer sensation here in middle […]
WASHINGTON — This week the Department of the Interior announced that it has invested over $3.3 million in fiscal year 2022 funding from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to advance wildfire resilience work and support fuels management projects in Alaska on 7,952 acres of land across the state. This is part of $103 million allocated […]