The Climate of Alaska hits bookstores
A lone canoeist at Ballaine Lake in Fairbanks on a smoky summer day in 2004. Photo by Ned Rozell, from The Climate of Alaska This column is provided as a public service by the Geophysical Institute,...
View ArticleFifty-year-old science booklet waxes eloquent
One of the six posters produced for the National Academy of Sciences in 1958 to mark the last International Polar Year, also known as the International Geophysical Year. Courtesy The National...
View ArticleDrained lake holds record of ancient Alaska
After holding water for centuries, Iceberg Lake in the Wrangell-St. Elias Mountains drained in 1999 and has lost its water every year since except 2001. Photo by Mike Loso. This column is provided as a...
View ArticleThe mystery of mammoth tusks with iron fillings
Embedded iron particles surrounded by carbonized rings in the outer layer of a mammoth tusk from Alaska. Inset photo shows how an object ripped through the tusk. Image courtesy Richard Firestone. This...
View ArticleGreen, leafy invaders finding a home in Alaska
Hairy catsear is an invasive plant that is spreading into Alaska. Photo courtesy U.S. Forest Service. This column is provided as a public service by the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska...
View ArticleOn the long trail to permafrost
A sunset over Norton Sound as seen from the village of Stebbins. Photo by Ned Rozell. This column is provided as a public service by the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, in...
View ArticleA day in the life of Kenji Yoshikawa
The Iditarod trail between the Seward Peninsula villages of Elim and Golovin. Kenji Yoshikawa is traveling along part of the trail to visit schools and install permafrost boreholes. Photo by Ned...
View ArticleFilling in the Alaska Permafrost Map
Kenji Yoshikawa drills a hole to monitor permafrost in the Seward Peninsula village of Wales. Photo by Ned Rozell This column is provided as a public service by the Geophysical Institute, University of...
View ArticleThe latest word on Alaska birds
A barred owl in Juneau. Unknown in Alaska before the late 1970s, barred owls are now the second most-abundant owl in Southeast. Photo by Paul Suchanek. This column is provided as a public service by...
View ArticleBad desert air and a glacier that licks a river
Atmospheric scientist Cathy Cahill points to two recent air samples from Baghdad, one showing dust and the other fine trapped particles from burned diesel fuel. Photo by Ned Rozell This column is...
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