Arctic Research

Scientists at Alaska’s flagship research university staged a demonstration Tuesday to protest threats to research funding, federal government reorganization and the freezing of science grants. Two dozen researchers gathered on the plaza in front of the Margaret Murie building at University of Alaska Fairbanks.

For the past decade more Arctic residents have noticed an increase in beavers and the way they change the land and affect other animals. The Arctic Beaver Observation Network, or ABON is meeting for three days in Fairbanks to inform each other about new findings.

Hibernation scientists at University of Alaska Fairbanks have invited colleagues and students from around the world to a workshop in Fairbanks. They reviewed each others’ findings indoors last week, and will head up to Toolik Lake Research Station in the Brooks Range this week for outdoor lab work.

Millions of dollars of research and operations come through the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Director Bob McCoy talked to local business leaders this week about how that impacts the community.

Officials with the University of Alaska Fairbanks and more than a hundred invited guests gathered Wednesday at UAF to celebrate completion of the $245…

The University of Alaska Fairbanks is building a heat-and-power plant to replace the old facility that went into service in 1964. The new $245 million…

Ten Alaskan communities will join hundreds of others worldwide Saturday to show support for science and the role it plays in improving the lives of…

The U.S. Arctic Research Commission set off alarms last week when a staffer inadvertently suggested the agency would halt its Twitter feed. The resulting…

An Arctic Council changing of the guard, in Alaska …As the United States ushers in a new administration, the eight member nations of the Arctic Council…

A research plan for the peoples of the Arctic …The U.S. Arctic Research Commission’s plan for the next couple of years will focus mainly on studies and…