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  • A newly captured juvenile king salmon rests in a viewing box container, which allows researchers to identify fish species and measure their size.

    Acoustic tagging seeks answers to King salmon decline

    October 14, 2025

    An ambitious new research project is aiming to better understand the lives of king salmon by focusing on their difficult journey from freshwater habitat to the ocean. The project, a collaboration between the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø and Alaska Department of Fish and Game, is using hundreds of acoustic tags and an array of underwater hydrophones to track young salmon as they navigate the Kenai River to Cook Inlet.

  • Two new ACUASI aircraft

    ACUASI adds new drones for cargo trials

    October 14, 2025

    Two large-payload unmanned aircraft have joined the fleet of the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø' drone industry development program. They will be used to test cargo deliveries and emergency responses.

  • A glacier winds down a mountainous valley into a lake.

    Mendenhall Glacier to pull toe from lake

    October 09, 2025

    In the near future, Juneau's Mendenhall Glacier will withdraw its icy toe from the lake of its making, scientists say.

  • Jars of preserved meat, fish and vegetables on a counter with pressure-canning equipment

    Food preservation, healthy living classes offered in Anchorage

    October 09, 2025

    The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Cooperative Extension Service and the Anchorage Museum's Seed Lab are offering five in-person food preservation and healthy living classes in Anchorage this month.

  • A person in a hoodie works at a table outdoors, cutting a salmon.

    UAF receives $3.26 million grant for tribal heart health research

    October 09, 2025

    The National Institutes of Health has awarded the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø a $3.26 million grant for a new research project to address coronary heart disease among Yup'ik Alaska Native people in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta region.

  • Mount Edgecumbe

    Scientists aim to map Mount Edgecumbe volcano's upper plumbing

    October 09, 2025

    Mount Edgecumbe volcano in Southeast Alaska sits in a place where a volcano shouldn't really be sitting. Research underway with new federal funding aims to solve that mystery.

  • A small, furry brown bat lies on a rock

    Biologist to discuss Alaska's bats in free webinar

    October 08, 2025

    An Alaska wildlife biologist will lead a free lunch-and-learn webinar on bats in Alaska hosted by the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Cooperative Extension Service. Arin Underwood, who works with the Threatened, Endangered and Diversity Program with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, will discuss Alaska's tiny flying mammals.

  • Sept. 25, 2025, Arctic sea ice extent

    Alaska climate report: Sea ice growth and other winter transitions

    October 08, 2025

    Sea ice has returned to its annual growing season, though it's a slow turnaround as usual. The Arctic sea ice extent likely reached its 2025 seasonal minimum Sept. 10, at 1.85 million square miles.

  • An Elder in a kuspuk sits at a table displaying beaded slippers and other goods, talking with three smiling people.

    UAF to host Indigenous Peoples Day events Oct. 13

    October 08, 2025

    The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø will celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day with several events and activities on Monday, Oct. 13.

  • Several jars of homemade jelly with colorful cloths decorating the lids

    Free workshop lays out Alaska's new homemade food rules

    October 06, 2025

    In 2024, the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation made significant changes to its cottage food industry rules, which are now called the homemade food exemption. Sarah Lewis, a ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Cooperative Extension Service health, home and family development agent, will explain the changes in a free in-person and online workshop.

  • A young girl holds up a seashell. An adult sits behind her, smiling. On the table in front of her is a plastic bin containing a block of ice with beads, balls and many other items frozen inside it.

    October museum program focuses on mysteries

    October 06, 2025

    The University of Alaska Museum of the North family program will explore mysteries in October.

  • The cover of a book featuring a graphic representation of snow-covered mountains against a sunrise or sunset sky. The cover reads: North to the Future, an Offline Adventure through the Changing Wilds of Alaska.

    Coming back to the country

    October 03, 2025

    While applying to attend John McPhee's writing seminar at Princeton University in the fall of 2017, Ben Weissenbach wrote his 86-year-old instructor "I want to follow in your footsteps, literally." In completing his first book, "North to the Future: An Offline Adventure Through the Changing Wilds of Alaska," Weissenbach penned a compelling portrayal of wild places that are similar but not identical to the ones McPhee explored in his classic 1977 book "Coming into the Country."

  • Small black beetles are seen on honeycomb with honey bees

    State alerts beekeepers of discovery of 'economically significant' pest

    October 03, 2025

    A beetle that harms honey bees has been found in Alaska, according to the Alaska Division of Agriculture. Small hive beetles eat pollen, bee eggs, larvae and pupae (bee brood), and honey inside the hive. Their activity turns the honey foul and slimy. Their presence can lead to colony loss and reduced honey production, resulting in financial losses for the beekeeper.

  • Many orange and yellow winter squash are laid out on a table for curing

    Free class offers tips for preserving the harvest

    October 03, 2025

    Registration is open for a free, informative class on the best practices to keep your home-grown or farmers market produce as fresh as possible for as long as possible. Alex Wilson, agriculture education coordinator for Alaska Pacific University, will share her expertise and the tools and tips for preserving garden-fresh produce after the harvest season.

  • A jar of carrots is ready to be cooked in the pressure canner

    In-person food preservation workshops offered in Palmer

    October 02, 2025

    Four in-person food preservation workshops are scheduled this month in Palmer as part of a partnership between the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Cooperative Extension Service and Alaska Pacific University's Kellogg ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø. Sarah Lewis, an Extension health, home and family development agent, will teach the classes.

  • A healthy spider plant sits on a stand near an Alaska-themed wall-hanging

    Webinar offers insight into friendly, and finicky, houseplants

    October 01, 2025

    Houseplants can help Alaskans get their gardening fix even on the darkest winter days. In a free statewide webinar offered by the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Cooperative Extension Service, learn about which plants are easy to maintain and which can be finicky.

  • UAF receives $21.25 million grant to expand biomedical research

    October 01, 2025

    The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø has received a five-year, $21.25 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to strengthen biomedical research and training across Alaska. The grant renews the NIH Institutional Development Award known as the IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence, or INBRE.

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