Biologists earlier this month recorded whale song that they were able to attribute to a particular humpback, a male called #1652, in Glacier Bay.
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Douglas couple witness apparently random meteor
An unidentified flying object over Juneau Sunday night had one Douglas couple rubbing their eyes in disbelief.
Construction underway on new forestry research lab
Nearly three decades after it was first proposed and designed, construction is now getting underway on the Pacific Northwest Research Station’s Juneau Forestry Sciences Laboratory. Ground was broken Thursday afternoon on the new lab adjacent to the University of Alaska Southeast campus, just down the foot and bike path from the Egan Library. The U.S.…
Orange goo made up of spores
Not eggs, after all. Scientists have done a more detailed examination of that mysterious orange goo that showed up recently in a lagoon near Kivalina. They are fungal spores. Samples were sent down to the NOAA’s National Ocean Service Center for Coastal Environmental Health and Biomolecular Research in Charleston, South Carolina. Doctor Steve Morton, a…
Kids learn chemistry through cooking
What makes dough rise? How do you preserve milk? Twenty-seven young chefs are learning the answers to those questions and more this week at a Juneau Economic Development Council summer camp designed to teach kids the science of cooking. Casey Kelly has more. Its day three of the Kitchen Chemistry camp and students are making…
Mysterious orange goo identified as mass of microscopic eggs
Federal scientists say they have tentatively identified the mysterious orange goo that showed up recently in a lagoon near Kivalina. It appears to be a concentration of microscopic eggs. Jeep Rice, research biologist at the Ted Stevens Marine Institute in Auke Bay, says their lab staff first tried to figure if it was plant, animal,…