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Firefighters from four local fire agencies will be on the University of Alaska Fairbanks
campus on Friday, May 27 from noon to 4 p.m. for a wildland firefighting exercise.
The University of Alaska Fairbanks Music in the Garden concert series will kick off
on May 26 at the Georgeson Botanical Garden, offering 12 weeks of family-friendly
performances throughout the summer. The series, organized by the University of Alaska Fairbanks Summer Sessions and Lifelong
Learning, will be held at 7 p.m. Thursdays through Aug. 11. Concerts are free, but
donations to support the botanical garden are welcome. The concerts also will include
welcoming bands at 5:30 p.m. as people settle.
UAF employees and students have another chance to nominate outstanding staff members
for the 2022 Staff Make Students Count Award. The nomination period was extended through
June 10, 2022.
Snow geese flew in a ragged V overhead, rasping as they looked down upon Alaska’s
bumpy face for the first time in 2022. Nine hundred feet below, the Yukon River flowed
by quietly, except for the dull thuds of icebergs skidding along the river bottom
near the shore. Sensing a break in the ice traffic, U.S. Geological Survey hydrologist Heather Best
— wearing chest waders with a hole she would soon discover — stepped into the river.
Alaska has a new tool for tracking ocean acidification — a 7-foot-long, bright pink Seaglider. The University of Alaska Fairbanks and its
commercial partners are the first U.S. team to measure carbon dioxide, the driving
factor in ocean acidification, with an unoccupied underwater vehicle.
Read about students tracking Alaska's erosion troubles, a professor hunting Alaska
coronavirus variants, a musical alumnus creating an endowment and more in the spring
2022 edition of Aurora magazine.
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Join the Alaska Alpine Club in a screening of "The Sanctity of Space," a documentary of the history of photography and cinematography on documenting mountain
ranges and how it has impacted past and present Alaska range mountaineering ascents.
The screening is scheduled for May 27 from 7 - 8:45 p.m. in the Murie Auditorium.
Tickets are on sale online and at the door.
Over 100 scientists and policy-makers from around the circumpolar North gathered at
the University of Alaska Fairbanks last week for the 16th International Circumpolar
Remote Sensing Symposium.
Anyone curious to learn about mindfulness or who is struggling to maintain a consistent
mindfulness practice can sign up for this free four weeklong virtual meditation course.
Author and scientist Katey Walter Anthony and artist Ina Timling will share conversation
and vignettes showing the intersection of permafrost methane science and art on May
31 from noon to 1 p.m. in the UA Museum of the North Arnold Espe Auditorium. Timling's
art is featured in Walter Anthony's new book, "Chasing Lakes," and at the Bear Gallery
during May. The two will discuss the collaboration, share slides, and read excerpts
from "Chasing Lakes." A book signing will follow.
An unmanned aircraft owned and operated by the University of Alaska Fairbanks flew
from the general aviation area of the Fairbanks International Airport on Sunday. This
was the first civilian large drone flight from an Alaskan international airport.
Using shipping containers and energy-efficient techniques, a team of University of
Alaska Fairbanks students has created a prize-winning new design for rural Alaska
housing construction.
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Wading into the icy Yukon River for science
UAF team lauded for innovative home design
