“I think it’s just so empowering, just that as women, alone, we can do this,” said glaciologist Jessica Mejia. “We can do great science, we could be on a glacier by ourselves, we could do anything.”
Ravenna Koenig, Alaska's Energy Desk
Two Alaska projects selected for federal marine energy innovation grant funds
The grant money comes from the Department of Energy and is part of a larger award to support innovation in marine energy generation.
At the top of the world, an international field school for research students
Earlier this month, the University of Alaska Fairbanks participated in an international field school in Utqiaġvik, giving early-career researchers a broad view of the Arctic coastal system and how it’s changing, along with some different methods for studying it.
Alaska’s northernmost town still in transition 1 1/2 years after official name change
“Barrow” is everywhere while walking around town: on the fire trucks, in the name of the high school, the local utility company, on the North Slope Borough’s official logo. But the name “Utqiaġvik” is showing up, as well. It’s on City Hall and on municipal department letterhead.
As the Arctic warms, a changing landscape on the Chukchi Sea
“These ridges that we’re standing on, there would have been more of them, and they would have been bigger,” ice researcher Andy Mahoney says. “The features that we now see, they’re something of a shadow from the past.”
Utqiaġvik weighs in on the proposed gas and oil lease plan for ANWR
In a departure from the meetings in Fairbanks and Anchorage, the primary focus of the meeting in Utqiaġvik was the details that should be considered as development moves forward, rather than whether or not it should happen.