UAF aims to make Alaska a critical minerals hub
2024年11月1日 · The Alaska Critical Minerals Collaborative, based at the UAF Geophysical Institute, brings together researchers and labs from across the university to help industry, Alaska Native corporations and government agencies accelerate critical mineral discovery, characterization and extraction in the state.
Alaska continues to change, fast | Geophysical Institute
2024年12月5日 · From the start of record-gathering in about 1900, Alaska’s long-term average yearly temperature remained the same until the mid 1970s. Since 2010, Alaska has experienced six of its top 10 warmest years. The last year that ranked in …
The lion that walked through your yard - Geophysical Institute
2024年10月10日 · “Dale found pairs of round punctures, three-and-a-half inches apart. The spacing of these punctures matched exactly with the incisors of an Alaska Pleistocene lion skull in the museum collections,” wrote Dale’s wife Mary Lee Guthrie in Blue Babe: The Story of a Steppe Bison Mummy from Ice Age Alaska.
The secret life of red squirrels | Geophysical Institute
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A guide to the Alaska that was (is) | Geophysical Institute
2024年9月12日 · When he was writing the book, there was no highway connecting Alaska to the Lower 48. The road then ended a few hundred miles short of Alaska, in Hazelton, British Columbia. A historical novelist and fiction writer, Colby filled 500 pages of A Guide to Alaska with his descriptions of the territory and the 60,000 people that lived in it.
Alaska peregrine falcon numbers drop again
2024年10月3日 · No infected dead birds have been found in Alaska, in part due to the difficulty of finding a small carcass in big wild country. Because they noticed the less-desirable cliffs vacated early in the upper-Yukon peregrines’ decline, Ambrose and Florian were among the first scientists to see the peregrine decline.
Alaska's fish are clean, according to study - Geophysical Institute
2003年9月23日 · Scientists have found dioxins in the breast milk of Native women in Canada’s Arctic and pesticide in the bark of Alaska trees, but a new study shows extremely low levels of toxins in Alaska fish. “It is tremendously good news,” said Bob Gerlach, the state veterinarian and Alaska wild food safety coordinator at the Department of ...
Method rapidly determines surface air quality during Alaska wildfires
2024年10月23日 · The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation don’t have enough standardized monitoring sites in the state to rapidly and accurately measure fine particulate pollution, known as PM 2.5, during a wildfire. This especially the case in rural Alaska.
Fossil tracks push range of large bird northward
2024年11月4日 · The finding of the Alaska tracks adds to understanding of the complexity of the biodiversity at the time, Fiorillo said. The three researchers in August 2023 investigated mid-Cretaceous sedimentary rock outcroppings along the Yukon River in west-central Alaska to better understand the dinosaurs that were present and their environments close to ...
A rich career in a quirky place that fit - Geophysical Institute
2024年10月25日 · Brian Barnes listens to a colleague while studying ground squirrels near the trans-Alaska pipeline north of the Brooks Range on Sept. 21, 2007. Photo by Øivind Tøien. An Arctic ground squirrel that appeared on the cover of the journal Science on June 30, 1989.
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