During a good year in Bristol Bay, a surge of over 100 million pounds of salmon fights
its way upstream, spawns, and dies. In Bristol Bay and elsewhere in Alaska, this incredible
pulse of salmon carcasses enriches streams and rivers and makes young salmon hardier.
The UAF Summer Sessions and Lifelong Learning concert series Music in the Garden will
move to the Davis Concert Hall for July 7 due to the wildfire smoke in the Tanana
Valley.
New research shows two widely used computer models that predict summer melt pond formation
on sea ice greatly overestimate their extent, a key finding as scientists work to
make accurate projections about Arctic climate change. The NASA-funded work, which compared computer model assessments to observations made
during the last four months of the expedition, was led by Melinda Webster of the UAF
Geophysical Institute. The results were published in the journal Elementa in May.
Leif Albertson will teach a series of in-person, hands-on classes on food preservation
this summer. Albertson is a member of the health, home and family development faculty at the University
of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service.
