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Researcher to discuss benefits of using kelp as fertilizer
October 15, 2025
Kelp shows great promise for improving soil health and crop production in ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥. In a free webinar, Erin Oliver, a postdoctoral researcher with Washington State University, will discuss the lab and field studies conducted at the Matanuska Experiment Farm to investigate the effects of kelp on soil health and crop production.
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UAF names summer 2025 honors students
October 15, 2025
The ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ has announced the students named to the deans' and chancellor's lists for the summer 2025 semester. The lists recognize students' outstanding academic achievements.
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Acoustic tagging seeks answers to king salmon decline
October 14, 2025
An ambitious new research project is aiming to better understand the lives of king salmon by focusing on their difficult journey from freshwater habitat to the ocean. The project, a collaboration between the ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ and ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ Department of Fish and Game, is using hundreds of acoustic tags and an array of underwater hydrophones to track young salmon as they navigate the Kenai River to Cook Inlet.
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ACUASI adds new drones for cargo trials
October 14, 2025
Two large-payload unmanned aircraft have joined the fleet of the ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥' drone industry development program. They will be used to test cargo deliveries and emergency responses.
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Mendenhall Glacier to pull toe from lake
October 09, 2025
In the near future, Juneau's Mendenhall Glacier will withdraw its icy toe from the lake of its making, scientists say.
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Food preservation, healthy living classes offered in Anchorage
October 09, 2025
The ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ Cooperative Extension Service and the Anchorage Museum's Seed Lab are offering five in-person food preservation and healthy living classes in Anchorage this month.
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UAF receives $3.26 million grant for tribal heart health research
October 09, 2025
The National Institutes of Health has awarded the ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ a $3.26 million grant for a new research project to address coronary heart disease among Yup'ik ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ Native people in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta region.
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Scientists aim to map Mount Edgecumbe volcano's upper plumbing
October 09, 2025
Mount Edgecumbe volcano in Southeast ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ sits in a place where a volcano shouldn't really be sitting. Research underway with new federal funding aims to solve that mystery.
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Biologist to discuss ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥'s bats in free webinar
October 08, 2025
An ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ wildlife biologist will lead a free lunch-and-learn webinar on bats in ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ hosted by the ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ Cooperative Extension Service. Arin Underwood, who works with the Threatened, Endangered and Diversity Program with the ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ Department of Fish and Game, will discuss ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥'s tiny flying mammals.
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ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ climate report: Sea ice growth and other winter transitions
October 08, 2025
Sea ice has returned to its annual growing season, though it's a slow turnaround as usual. The Arctic sea ice extent likely reached its 2025 seasonal minimum Sept. 10, at 1.85 million square miles.
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UAF to host Indigenous Peoples Day events Oct. 13
October 08, 2025
The ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ will celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day with several events and activities on Monday, Oct. 13.
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Free workshop lays out ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥'s new homemade food rules
October 06, 2025
In 2024, the ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ Department of Environmental Conservation made significant changes to its cottage food industry rules, which are now called the homemade food exemption. Sarah Lewis, a ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ Cooperative Extension Service health, home and family development agent, will explain the changes in a free in-person and online workshop.
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October museum program focuses on mysteries
October 06, 2025
The University of ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ Museum of the North family program will explore mysteries in October.
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October 03, 2025
While applying to attend John McPhee's writing seminar at Princeton University in the fall of 2017, Ben Weissenbach wrote his 86-year-old instructor "I want to follow in your footsteps, literally." In completing his first book, "North to the Future: An Offline Adventure Through the Changing Wilds of ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥," Weissenbach penned a compelling portrayal of wild places that are similar but not identical to the ones McPhee explored in his classic 1977 book "Coming into the Country."
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State alerts beekeepers of discovery of 'economically significant' pest
October 03, 2025
A beetle that harms honey bees has been found in ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥, according to the ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ Division of Agriculture. Small hive beetles eat pollen, bee eggs, larvae and pupae (bee brood), and honey inside the hive. Their activity turns the honey foul and slimy. Their presence can lead to colony loss and reduced honey production, resulting in financial losses for the beekeeper.
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