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Alaska Science Forum: Mug shot of a wolf, magpie names, goodbye Rat Island

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Release Date: 
2012-06-28
Teaser Title: 
Mug shot of a wolf
Teaser Text: 
Sometimes you get lucky

 

By nrozell [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu (Ned Rozell)

 

Sometimes you get lucky.

 

Ken Tape feels that way, after a time-lapse camera he set up in northern Alaska captured a full-frame portrait of a wolf. He shared the image with me, and, now, with you.

 

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Outreach Office
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Dinosaurs in the Wrangell Mountains

From left, Yoshi Kobayashi, Tony Fiorillo and Tom Adams in the Wrangell Mountains near where they discovered dinosaur tracks.

Photo courtesy Tony Fiorillo.

The more Tony Fiorillo explores Alaska, the more dinosaur tracks he finds on its lonely ridgetops. The latest examples are the stone footprints of two different dinosaurs near the tiny settlement of Chisana in the Wrangell
Mountains.

 

Alaska Science Forum: Dinosaurs in the Wrangell Mountains

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Release Date: 
2012-06-21
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Wrangell Mountains were a "fern prairie"
Teaser Text: 
65 to 70 million years ago hadrosaurs, theropods roamed

 

Yoshi Kobayashi, Tony Fiorillo and Tom Adams in the Wrangell MountainsBy nrozell [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu (Ned Rozell)

 

The more Tony Fiorillo explores Alaska, the more dinosaur tracks he finds on its lonely ridgetops. The latest examples are the stone footprints of two different dinosaurs near the tiny settlement of Chisana in the Wrangell Mountains.

 

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Department: 
Outreach Office
Tectonics and Sedimentation
Other

Katmai and Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes: Izbekov to share his experiences in the field

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Release Date: 
2012-06-19
Teaser Title: 
Exploration of Katmai
Teaser Text: 
Izbekov to provide free, public lecture in Anchorage

 

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Education Group
Outreach Office
Volcanology
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Your hair knows where you've been

Michelle Chartrand of the University of Ottawa performs isotopic analyses on human hair to find out more about a person’s whereabouts and diet.

Photo by Ned Rozell.

Sprouting from your head at the rate of more than three inches a year, hair is a recorder of the things you eat and drink and where you ate and drank them. An Ottawa-based researcher has just assembled a countrywide database of Canadians’ hair designed to help the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

           

Camp to blend science and Athabascan culture

Release Date: 2012-06-15

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