Mystery wolf didn't survive in Alaska
Pleistocene wolf skulls from Rancho La Brea (in present day L.A.), California (above) and Fairbanks (middle). Though the skulls are the same length, their shape is different—the wolf skull from Alaska is wider, suggesting those wolves had greater biting power.
Photo Credit: Blaire Van Valkenburgh, University of California, Los Angeles
An Alaska wolf that disappeared about 12,000 years ago just made another appearance.
No one will ever see this wolf, but scientists have found that it was different from Alaska’s wolves of today, and it was not like its Ice-Age contemporaries that lived in, among other places, Los Angeles.
Alaska Science Forum: American dipper swims throughout Alaska winters
By nrozell [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu (Ned Rozell)
On the upper Chena River in the heart of a cold winter, a songbird appeared on a gravel bar next to gurgling water that somehow remained unfrozen in 20-below zero air. Then the bird jumped in, disappeared underwater, and popped up a few feet upstream.
A “totally weird” dinosaur; new waste study in Denali
A therizinosaur track in Denali National Park discovered by David Tomeo.
Photo by David Tomeo.
A couple of summers ago, David Tomeo was exploring a creekbed in Denali National Park, preparing for a field seminar on the park’s dinosaurs he would help lead a few weeks later. With a trained eye for the impressions dinosaurs pressed into mud millions of years ago, Tomeo walked to a large boulder in the middle of a landslide.
“Right in the middle of it, a four-toed track stood out,” said Tomeo, program director for Alaska Geographic at the Murie Science and Learning Center in Denali Park.
Alaska Science Forum: A "totally weird" dinosaur; new waste study in Denali
By nrozell [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu (Ned Rozell)
Apache Alaska Corporation shares Cook Inlet 3-D seismic data with GI, DGGS
Apache Alaska Corporation is sharing its Cook Inlet 3-D seismic data with the Alaska Department of Natural Resources, Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys (DGGS) and the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) to better identify seismic hazards in Southcentral Alaska.
UAF’s Geophysical Institute has begun the process of accepting and processing the data and will begin modeling efforts to help geologists at UAF and DGGS better identify seismic hazards in the area.
Leslie Almberg recognized for Student Learning
A former Geophysical Institute graduate student earned a prestigious teaching award in Australia. L [dot] Almberg [at] curtin [dot] edu [dot] au (Leslie Almberg) received her doctorate in volcanology just a few short years ago and is now faculty at Curtin University in Western Australia.
"Snow & Ice": A First Friday art show to feature GI faculty, staff, students and more
Join us on Friday, October 5 at the GeoData Center in the International Arctic Research Center for “Snow & Ice” – a First Friday Art Show. The event will run from 5 to 7 p.m. on the West Ridge of the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus.
Stakeholders to set goals for unmanned aircraft in Alaska
Stakeholders to set goals for unmanned aircraft in Alaska
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PDF DownloadAlaska Science Forum: Alaska’s view of the new sea-ice minimum
By nrozell [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu (Ned Rozell) 
