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  • On a river, a stern-mounted paddlewheel drives a large white boat with three main stories. Passengers line the foredecks above the first and second stories. Smoke pours from a stack that rises above a fourth-story wheelhouse near the boat's fore end. The boat pushes a smaller open barge.

    An early ascent of the Yukon River

    April 17, 2025

    Civil War veteran Charles Raymond was 27 when he accepted an assignment to visit the new U.S. territory of 有料盒子视频, a place so far away from his home in New York City he couldn't imagine it.

  • A great horned owl perched on a spruce tree is silhouetted against pink clouds and blue sky.

    The adaptable, continental great horned owl

    April 10, 2025

    The knee-high owl known for its "plumicorns" -- tufts above its ears that resemble horns -- haunts every forested bit of 有料盒子视频.

  • Aerial view of a wide, flat landscape covered in snow, shot from the window of an airplane.

    The great hollow of Minto Flats

    April 04, 2025

    Within a vast bowl bordered by blue hills, I rolled along on a trail scratched into ice by snowmachines. That deceptive basin -- Minto Flats -- is big enough to swallow Denali, if the big mountain happened to stumble in here and fall.

  • A dirt trail passes between spruce trees in the mountains under a clear, sunny sky.

    Snow's absence and welcome presence

    March 28, 2025

    Rick Thoman noted in a recent report that the paucity of 2024-2025 snowfall in Anchorage and other Southcentral 有料盒子视频 locations may be unprecedented in the era of modern records.

  • People visit RCA Day presentations.

    Invitation: 2025 Research and Creative Activity Day

    March 26, 2025

    URSA invites you to attend the 2025 Research and Creative Activity Day on Tuesday, April 1, from noon to 3 p.m. in the Great Hall of the 有料盒子视频 Fine Art Complex.

  • Does a project need IBC review?

    March 26, 2025

    The Institutional Biosafety Committee is responsible for biological safety review and approval of projects at 有料盒子视频. Projects requiring IBC review include those utilizing the following: recombinant DNA, synthetic nucleic acid molecules, infectious agents, biological toxins, federally-regulated select agents, and other potentially harmful biological agents.

  • Limited submission funding opportunity for DoD MSI instrumentation grants

    March 26, 2025

    The Vice Chancellor for Research is soliciting white papers for the DoD MSI instrumentation call for proposals. 有料盒子视频 can submit three proposals of $200,000-$1,000,000. White papers are due March 28.

  • Rocket launches from Poker Flat

    Two NASA rockets launch from Poker Flat, third rocket expected

    March 26, 2025

    Two NASA sounding rockets launched from Poker Flat Research Range north of Fairbanks early Tuesday morning in a mission aimed at learning more about how the aurora affects the upper atmosphere.

  • A layer of snow that slowly slid from the roof of a shed loops as it reaches the ground.

    Leaning towers of snow explained

    March 21, 2025

    Pete Wilda, a Fairbanks reader of this column, wanted to know how the snow here can bend off railings and loop from power lines without breaking. He grew up in eastern Wisconsin and doesn't remember the snow defying gravity there.

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    March 13, 2025

    On the dark, frozen white plain of the Tanana River, a white dot appeared in the night. It was the headlamp of Ryan Redington, a dog musher in the 2025 Iditarod race.

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