Alaska Dispatch News12h
‘The best job in Alaska’: 30 years of writing about Alaska science
The gig has taken Ned Rozell on adventures across Alaska, from Mount Katmai to the Nogahabara Dunes and Kiska Island.
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Nearly 70 years ago, the world’s first satellite took flight. Three Alaska scientists were among the first North Americans to spot it.
Those Alaskans, working for the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, were the first North American scientists to see the satellite, which was the size and shape of a ...
Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program celebrates 30 years of uplifting students
According to an ANSEP press release, the program has helped the educational growth and career goals of more than 2,500 ...
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner12d
The first satellite’s Alaska connection
On any clear, dark night you can see them, gliding through the sky and reflecting sunlight from the other side of the world: ...
National Fisherman17h
Policy shifts, genetic insights shape the king crab fishery
The future of Alaska’s red king crab fishery is at a turning point. Proposed changes to the fishery’s management in Southeast ...
Juneau Empire4d
Researchers embark on five-year study of flood risks at Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier
After two consecutive years when meltwaters burst out of a basin on Juneau’s Mendenhall Glacier and devastated neighborhoods ...
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National Science Foundation awards nearly $1 million grant to study glacial outburst flooding in Juneau
Studying the shape of Suicide Basin and how it changes could give researchers a better sense of how much water could be ...