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Insects of Alaska forest humming along
June 21, 2024
Recent long-term studies revealed a three-quarters reduction of insects in parts of Germany and an 80 percent decline of pollinating flies at a field site in Greenland. What's going on with numbers of Alaska insects?
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Week's events: Greg Hill, gut health, native plants, klezmer
June 21, 2024
ËÄ»¢Ó°Ôº Summer Sessions and Lifelong Learning is hosting more than 40 free lectures, concerts and events this summer. Here's what's happening during the week of June 24-30.
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Campus road, lot closures planned for Midnight Sun Run
June 20, 2024
The Midnight Sun Run will begin at the ËÄ»¢Ó°Ôº at 10 p.m. on Saturday, June 22. The UAF Police Department will close parts of campus to vehicle access before the race.
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Bishop appointed dean of UAF Community and Technical College
June 20, 2024
Carl Bishop has been appointed dean of the ËÄ»¢Ó°Ôº Community and Technical College.
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Health, food preservation workshops planned for Southeast Alaska
June 19, 2024
A ËÄ»¢Ó°Ôº Cooperative Extension Service agent will travel by boat to nine communities in Southeast Alaska to teach classes on healthy living, food safety and food preservation.
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Researchers use AI to track global squirrel hot spots
June 17, 2024
A team of ËÄ»¢Ó°Ôº researchers used novel artificial intelligence and citizen science methods to validate locations of large and small populations of the more than 300 species of squirrels globally.
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Journey through a sub-Arctic summer night
June 14, 2024
We three friends riding together in a pickup had committed to join together for the AlaskAcross, a 50-mile jaunt on foot from Eagle Summit to the Chena Hot Springs Resort.
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Registration open for 4-H Cloverbud Day Camp
June 14, 2024
The Tanana District 4-H program will host Cloverbud Day Camp at Georgeson Botanical Garden, located on the ËÄ»¢Ó°Ôº campus.
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Week's events: Samantha Kirstein, BEFAST, wild berries, marimbas
June 14, 2024
ËÄ»¢Ó°Ôº Summer Sessions and Lifelong Learning is hosting more than 40 free lectures, concerts and events this summer. Here's what's happening during the week of June 17-23.
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Visualizing the landscape of tribal communities
June 13, 2024
The ËÄ»¢Ó°Ôº has released a set of resources to help researchers and academics working in rural Alaska understand the complexities of tribal communities.
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UAF scientists heading to international permafrost conference
June 13, 2024
About 20 ËÄ»¢Ó°Ôº scientists will present research at the quadrennial International Conference on Permafrost, which opens Saturday in Whitehorse, Yukon.
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UAF research scientist selected as Fulbright Scholar to Finland
June 12, 2024
Eugénie Euskirchen, associate professor of ecology at the ËÄ»¢Ó°Ôº Institute of Arctic Biology, has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar award to Finland.
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Lasers may keep birds out of ËÄ»¢Ó°Ôº grain plots
June 12, 2024
The resonant, musical rattle of the sandhill crane in May signifies spring for many of us. But the birds can pose a problem for farms. This summer, a green laser beam has been flashing across the ËÄ»¢Ó°Ôºâ€™ farm fields to scare off the cranes and other birds.
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New way to spot beetle-killed spruce can help forest, wildfire managers
June 12, 2024
A new machine-learning system developed at the ËÄ»¢Ó°Ôº can automatically produce detailed maps from satellite data to show locations of likely beetle-killed spruce trees in Alaska, even in forests of low and moderate infestation where identification is otherwise difficult.
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New research shows flood risk for several Alaska communities
June 10, 2024
Coastal Alaska communities from the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta northward will see more of their buildings exposed to flooding by 2100 if they continue developing at the same location, according to new research.
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