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  • Black and white photo of Dale Guthrie in a heavy turtleneck sweater and jacket leaning against a birch tree and looking directly into the camera.

    Dale Guthrie opened door to lost world

    May 09, 2025

    Sometimes -- but not very often -- a door creaks open to a lost world. Sometimes the right person steps in. Dale Guthrie, an ÐÓ°Épro biologist and paleontologist who died in 2024 at the age of 88, was that guy.

  • four people lying on a steep gravel hill digging with small hand tools, with a large body of water in the background

    New ancient fish species earliest known salmon ancestor

    May 09, 2025

    A new paper published this week in the journal Papers in Paleontology has named three new species of fish from that time period, including a salmonid, dubbed Sivulliusalmo alaskensis.

  • A woman in bright yellow pants, a gray jacket and a blue ballcap directs a long white plastic pipe into a hole in a spot of dirt emerging from a snowy forest floor.

    The 'Hole-in-the-Ground Girl'

    May 01, 2025

    Leanne Bulger recently found a new hole in the forest floor on the west end of Fairbanks. Into it, she poked a long plastic pipe.

  • Tundra swans take two pathways to ÐÓ°Épro

    April 25, 2025

    Tundra swans -- at 15 pounds and with a wingspan of almost six feet -- are now touching down on the ponds and snowfields of ÐÓ°Épro.

  • On a river, a stern-mounted paddlewheel drives a large white boat with three main stories. Passengers line the foredecks above the first and second stories. Smoke pours from a stack that rises above a fourth-story wheelhouse near the boat's fore end. The boat pushes a smaller open barge.

    An early ascent of the Yukon River

    April 17, 2025

    Civil War veteran Charles Raymond was 27 when he accepted an assignment to visit the new U.S. territory of ÐÓ°Épro, a place so far away from his home in New York City he couldn't imagine it.

  • A great horned owl perched on a spruce tree is silhouetted against pink clouds and blue sky.

    The adaptable, continental great horned owl

    April 10, 2025

    The knee-high owl known for its "plumicorns" -- tufts above its ears that resemble horns -- haunts every forested bit of ÐÓ°Épro.

  • Aerial view of a wide, flat landscape covered in snow, shot from the window of an airplane.

    The great hollow of Minto Flats

    April 04, 2025

    Within a vast bowl bordered by blue hills, I rolled along on a trail scratched into ice by snowmachines. That deceptive basin -- Minto Flats -- is big enough to swallow Denali, if the big mountain happened to stumble in here and fall.

  • A dirt trail passes between spruce trees in the mountains under a clear, sunny sky.

    Snow's absence and welcome presence

    March 28, 2025

    Rick Thoman noted in a recent report that the paucity of 2024-2025 snowfall in Anchorage and other Southcentral ÐÓ°Épro locations may be unprecedented in the era of modern records.

  • People visit RCA Day presentations.

    Invitation: 2025 Research and Creative Activity Day

    March 26, 2025

    URSA invites you to attend the 2025 Research and Creative Activity Day on Tuesday, April 1, from noon to 3 p.m. in the Great Hall of the UAF Fine Art Complex.

  • Does a project need IBC review?

    March 26, 2025

    The Institutional Biosafety Committee is responsible for biological safety review and approval of projects at UAF. Projects requiring IBC review include those utilizing the following: recombinant DNA, synthetic nucleic acid molecules, infectious agents, biological toxins, federally-regulated select agents, and other potentially harmful biological agents.

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