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OneTree Alaska is a STEAM (STEM + Arts) program affiliated with the Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station of the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
OneTree Alaska’s mission is to engage learners of all ages in boreal forest education, citizen science and forest product development. It is centrally concerned with phenology, seasonality and climate change. Phenology is the study of cyclic and seasonal natural phenomena, especially in relation to climate and plant and animal life.
OneTree Alaska STEAM integrated research and citizen science projects are made possible through collaboration with K-12 teachers, the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District, university students, staff and faculty, and many community partners.
The local boreal forest is our foundation and inspires our work. Please see our recent projects, and share your expertise.
Come celebrate birch trees under the full moon
Visit OneTree’s Alaska’s birch grove under the full moon and learn about the long-term monitoring of birch trees and celebrate the tree stewardship that supports OneTree’s mission.
The full moon celebration will be on Thursday, Oct. 17, from moonrise at 5:47 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the OneTree research plot in the T-Field in the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ north campus woods.
The OneTree research plot is home to 144 saplings from eight maternal trees. Jan Dawe, director of OneTree Alaska, studies the effects of climate change on birch trees over time by monitoring these saplings with the help of K-12 teachers and students, university students, staff and faculty and Fairbanks artists.
OneTree Alaska’s mission is to engage learners of all ages in boreal forest education, citizen science and forest product development. Tree stewards help support this mission by sponsoring a tree from the grove that will fund a OneTree educator.
There will be a second full moon celebration at the research plots on Sunday, Dec. 15.
Participants can get to the research plot on commuter trails from the ski hut on UAF’s Westridge or from the Large Animal Research Station. Come when you can and stay for as long as you’d like.
Accommodation requests related to a disability should be made five business days in advance to Dawe. Language access services, such as interpretation or translation of vital information, will be provided free of charge to individuals with limited English proficiency upon request to amnorris2@alaska.edu.
