Ned Rozell | Alaska Science

Barnes retired this year after a rich career in a quirky place that fit.

If geologists can find pockets and figure out how to mine them, a hydrogen plant could power a nearby village that now has diesel generators rattling every second of every day.

Meteorologists rely on the work churned out by people they never see, who feed weather information to supercomputers all over the world.

Weighing as much as a cup of walnuts and resembling a squeaky dog toy, the ermines are easy to underestimate.

Matthew Crisafi-Lurtsema and Roger Jaramillo spent nearly five weeks on the mountain and returned with snow they believe will have microplastic particles from a variety of sources.

The end of American lions in Alaska may have been due to changes that also doomed other creatures, including the woolly mammoth.

Biologists have noticed similar drops in peregrine numbers in New Jersey, Virginia, Washington and California.

A longtime space physicist and aurora forecaster at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Charles Deehr witnessed his first red aurora in 1958 after a date with his future wife, Tone.

Because insects become scarce when the fall chill sets in, wood frogs might eat their numerous, highly available sons and daughters to help them survive the winter.

Writer Merle Colby penned a guidebook to Alaska that was published in 1943 as part of the Federal Writers’ Project. Many of his observations still hold up well today.

The insect mimics a snake and even though there aren’t snakes in Alaska, birds are still wary due to lessons learned during migration.

On a recent trip to Alaska’s upper Colville River, scientists found a lost world, a time of “polar forests with reptiles running around in them.”

Scientists studying Black Rapids Glacier believe it has surged four times since the year 1400, drastically changing the surrounding landscape.

William Dall collected the piece of obsidian near the mouth of the Nowitna River. One hundred and fifty-seven years later, archaeologist Jeff Rasic held that same piece of obsidian in his hand at the Smithsonian.

Stormy Fields, a scientist at UAF’s Alaska Stable Isotope Facility, is looking for clues left behind to find out more about those hunters of long ago.