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Study: Sulfolane-eating microbe common in North Pole groundwater
November 17, 2021
A ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ research team has determined that a sulfolane-eating microbe is commonly found in North Pole groundwater but that it probably can't remedy the area's widespread contamination by the industrial solvent.
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UAF scientist wins prestigious award for Arctic research
November 12, 2021
John Walsh, a climate scientist at the ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥, has received the Mohn Prize for his outstanding research in the Arctic.
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Blown back to ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥, bird perseveres
November 11, 2021
A bar-tailed godwit recently arrived in New Zealand on its second attempt to get there from ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥, after a storm had blasted it back north.
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UA Giving Day nets $661,000 in support of UAF students, programs
November 11, 2021
Over the course of 49 hours, 748 donors contributed $661,709 in support of students and programs at the ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ during the university's second annual Giving Day event.
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UAF's GINA provides a guiding hand in Arctic Ocean research
November 11, 2021
Satellite imagery produced at the Geographic Information Network of ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥, or GINA, at the ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ Geophysical Institute helps the research vessel Sikuliaq weave its way through sea ice.
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Online course offers free Arctic climate change education
November 09, 2021
UAF is making it easy for people globally to gain a basic understanding of climate change issues in the circumpolar North through a new massive open online course.
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Student’s research upends understanding of upper atmospheric wind
November 09, 2021
Doctoral student Rajan Itani found that upper-level winds from over the North Pole unexpectedly stall over ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥.
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Shorebirds depend on wee slivers of ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥
November 04, 2021
Pencil-beaked shorebirds with the ability to stay airborne for a week -- flying all the way from ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ to New Zealand -- rely on a few crescents of mudflat to fuel that incredible journey.
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National Science Foundation funds diverse collaborators to study Arctic change
November 02, 2021
The National Science Foundation's Office of Polar Programs recently funded the ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ and six other institutions to synthesize what is known about the changing Arctic environment and its consequences.
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November museum programs explore animals in art
November 01, 2021
The University of ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ Museum of the North is exploring animals in art during family programs in November.
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Bus 142 to embark on final journey
October 29, 2021
In a cavernous room within the university's new engineering building, a bus squats on four flat tires. In this place, the 1946 International Harvester model K-5 looks small, for maybe the first time in its eventful existence.
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ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥'s volunteer weather army needs you
October 22, 2021
ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥'s volunteer weather army needs participants
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Far-north permafrost cliff is one of a kind
October 22, 2021
In northern ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥, an amphitheater of frozen ground thaws where a northern river cuts into it, exposing walls of ice.
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Arctic melt ponds hold climate clues for UAF MOSAiC scientist
October 20, 2021
Melinda Webster, a research assistant professor at the ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ Geophysical Institute, has been busy with her MOSAiC expedition research.
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Red aurora rare enough to be special
October 14, 2021
Charles Deehr will never forget his first red aurora. On Feb. 11, 1958, Deehr was a student at Reed College in Portland, Ore. He asked a Fulbright student from Norway named Tone to the Portland Symphony that night.
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