Ned Rozell, UAF Geophysical Institute
The demise of Scotch Cap lighthouse
In spring of 1946, five men stationed at the Scotch Cap lighthouse had reasons to be happy. World War II was over. They had...
Birds in Alaska, 70 million years ago
Lonely northern cliffs from which scientists have pulled the bones of Alaska dinosaurs also hold the fossilized remains of birds.Lauren Keller is studying the...
Butterflies and ravens as poetic inspiration
Stories about ravens and chickadees and wolves result in more responses in my inbox than others. The past few weeks — after one story...
Making sense of raven talk
Be careful what you say, ravens. Doug Wacker is listening.Wacker studies animal behavior at the University of Washington Bothell. Since August 2022, he has...
Butterflies in the middle of winter
Rod Boyce of Two Rivers, Alaska, reports that he has noticed — at a time when the outside air’s temperature has not been above...
Alaska’s small glaciers on the way out
Glaciers worldwide are withering. Half of them will disappear by the end of this century, and much of the lost ice will vanish from...
Report of frog’s death greatly exaggerated
Things didn't look good for the five frozen wood frogs. The palm-sized amphibians were hibernating in a box outside Brian Barnes' Fairbanks home a few...
Ancient moose antlers hint of early arrival
When a great deal of Earth’s water was locked up within mountains of ice, our ancestors scampered across a dry corridor from what is...
Adopt a woolly mammoth and win!
A University of Alaska Fairbanks scientist wants to find out when the last woolly mammoth fell to the grass in Alaska. He is asking for help from an unusual source: people like you.
If a lake drains in northern Alaska . . .
“Lakes seem, on the scale of years or of human life spans, permanent features of landscapes, but they are geologically transitory, usually born of...
