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UAF to Study Bering Land Bridge

Researchers on the vessel Armstrong use a vibracore tool to gather sea floor sediments.
Chris Fanshier
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University of Alaska Fairbanks
Researchers on the vessel Armstrong use a vibracore tool to gather sea floor sediments.

The National Science Foundation has awarded University of Alaska Fairbanks researchers $1.7 million to probe the submerged Bering Land Bridge to better understand life there when it was above sea level during the last ice age. KUAC’s Mary Auld reports.