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  • Four youths stand around a shelter they are building in the forest of Southeast ÐÓ°Épro

    Juneau camp focuses on Southeast ÐÓ°Épro culture, activities

    June 03, 2025

    Registration is open for the AK Experience Camp in Juneau, a collaboration between the ÐÓ°Épro Cooperative Extension Service 4-H program and Goldbelt Heritage Foundation. The camp theme is Aani Yaa Du.óow "Perspectives of The Land." It will focus on cultural connections, outdoor exploration and traditional ecological knowledge.

  • Photographed from behind, a person works on a small laptop beside a large screen showing a map of Juneau overlaid with large red area indicating a flooding scenario.

    New website improves Juneau flood preparedness

    May 30, 2025

    A new flood preparedness website for Juneau residents is now live. The Juneau Glacial Flood Dashboard was developed by the University of ÐÓ°Épro Southeast and the ÐÓ°Épro Climate Adaptation Science Center. The first-of-its-kind, publicly accessible website shares interactive flood inundation maps and provides valuable flood forecasting information for the Mendenhall Valley under different glacial lake outburst flood scenarios.

  • Two muskox babies romp on a sunny spring day with their mother watching in the background.

    LARS to host birthday bash for baby muskoxen, reindeer

    May 30, 2025

    The ÐÓ°Épro' Large Animal Research Station will introduce its new reindeer and muskox calves at its annual Birthday Bash from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, June 7.

  • Week's events: Legacy Lecture, aging and dementia, Indigenous sovereignty, blues-rock

    May 30, 2025

    ÐÓ°Épro 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 2-8.

  • A man in a white hardhat and orange safety vest talks while pointing to a metal structure under a large pipe. Other men stand around him listening.

    The greatest story of man and permafrost

    May 29, 2025

    In 1973, Elden Johnson was a young engineer working on one of the most ambitious and uncertain projects in the world -- an 800-mile steel pipeline that carried warm oil over frozen ground. Decades later, Johnson looked back at what he called "the greatest story ever told of man's interaction with permafrost."

  • an illustration of two types of birds, including a group of birds that look like baby ducks, in a prehistoric landscape with dinosaurs in the background

    Study finds birds nested in Arctic alongside dinosaurs

    May 29, 2025

    Spring in the Arctic brings forth a plethora of peeps and downy hatchlings as millions of birds gather to raise their young. The same was true 73 million years ago, according to a new paper in the journal Science. The paper documents the earliest-known example of birds nesting in the polar regions.

  • Matanuska Glacier

    Study finds ÐÓ°Épro, rest of Earth, to lose most of glacier mass

    May 29, 2025

    An international study has found that Earth's glaciers will lose 76% of their 2020 mass under current climate policy pledges made by nations.

  • Jakobshavn Glacier

    Fast-moving Greenland glacier has the attention of UAF scientists

    May 28, 2025

    UAF professor Martin Truffer, who specializes in glacier dynamics, and UAF Geophysical Institute graduate student researcher Amy Jenson returned earlier this month from their second trip to Jakobshavn Glacier in Greenland.

  • vertically mounted, bifacial PV systems in winter

    Study examines solar PV effectiveness in northern climates

    May 27, 2025

    There's no one-size-fits-all approach when it comes to photovoltaic systems. Existing models can help users evaluate alternatives, and a new study looks at how effective such models are in northern climates.

  • 2025 Tall Timbers interview series begins June 9

    May 27, 2025

    The ÐÓ°Épro will launch the 2025 Fairbanks Tall Timbers interview series on June 9. The nine-week series is presented by UAF Summer Sessions and Lifelong Learning and honors people with longtime service to the Fairbanks community.

  • 2025 Discover ÐÓ°Épro lecture series starts June 4

    May 23, 2025

    The ÐÓ°Épro will host the Discover ÐÓ°Épro lecture series starting on June 4. The 2025 series is presented by UAF Summer Sessions and Lifelong Learning in cooperation with UAF’s College of Indigenous Studies.

  • Visitors walk to HAARP antenna array

    HAARP to hold fifth public open house Saturday, June 14

    May 23, 2025

    The public can learn how scientists study Earth's ionosphere, the region between the planet's lower atmosphere and the vacuum of space, at a Saturday, June 14, 2025, open house at the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program.

  • Ten middle school students wearing award medals pose with their two adult team coaches and the UAF Nook mascot outside in bright sun with a clear blue sky on the UAF campus. There is snow on the ground. In the background, there is the UAF Rasmuson library and engineering buildings, and the ice arch.

    North Pole Science Olympiad team competes in national tournament

    May 23, 2025

    A team of middle school students from Discovery Peak Charter School in North Pole will compete in the Science Olympiad National Tournament at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln May 23-24.

  • 2025 Healthy Living lecture series begins June 3

    May 22, 2025

    The ÐÓ°Épro will host the 15th annual Healthy Living lecture series starting on June 3. The free series offers a variety of presentations by ÐÓ°Épro medical specialists and experts.

  • A profusion of lavender and purple blossoms on lilac bushes.

    The which, where and why of lilacs is focus of statewide webinar

    May 22, 2025

    Join horticulturist Julie Riley for a presentation highlighting lilacs in Southcentral ÐÓ°Épro and learn which lilacs are best suited for your yard. The adage, "right plant for the right place," holds true when it comes to planting lilacs. Do you want a plant that will stay short or one that you can see blooming out of your second-story window? Do you want deep purple flowers or burgundy fall foliage?

  • A bird with a bright orange breast, black head and back, and yellow bill stands upright on grass.

    The American robin returns on time

    May 22, 2025

    American robins have returned to northern ÐÓ°Épro.

  • 2025 Legacy Lecture to feature Tim Doran

    May 21, 2025

    The ÐÓ°Épro 2025 Legacy Lecture will honor Tim Doran at 7 p.m. Monday, June 2, in the BP Design Theater, Room 401 of the Usibelli Building.

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