“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.
Department of Energy scientists to attend first Alaska National Lab Day
“We think we’ve got some great challenges right now for them and we hope they’ll pick some up,” said Larry Hinzman, Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
A lot of people get this pretty basic question about oil wrong
“I have had to correct school teachers in the past who have been teaching their kids that oil comes from dinosaurs.”
‘How much, how fast?’ Alaska researchers ask of melting Antarctic glacier
“The report that triggered this proposal call originally had a title that I think was quite catching. It asked ‘how much, how fast?’ ” researcher Martin Truffer said. “And that’s really the question here.”
This man and his yellow truck signal the arrival of spring in Fairbanks
Back in 1992, Glenn Hackney actually got hit by a car while picking up trash. It broke both his legs. That might give the average person pause about continuing. Not Hackney.