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Alaska Science Forum: Ornithological observations from a recliner
I don’t know what age you’re supposed to start sitting in a recliner and looking out the living room window at the bird feeder, but I sure do like doing that.
Alaska Science Forum: Moving beyond Alaska Grown
Although I am a lover of Fairbanks, I am not particularly in love with mid-October Fairbanks. Fall’s yellow, shimmering leaves are now browning and dissolving underfoot, and my garden is crisped with old tomato vines and a few intrepid kale leaves, still reaching for the weakening sun.
Alaska Science Forum: Beyond Alaska Grown
We’ve figured out “Alaska Grown,” but we’ve not yet built “Alaska Stored,” “Alaska Packed,” and “Alaska Distributed.”
Alaska Science Forum: Beyond Alaska Grown
We’ve figured out “Alaska Grown,” but we’ve not yet built “Alaska Stored,” “Alaska Packed,” and “Alaska Distributed.”
Alaska Science Forum time capsule: Hardwood, softwood, fuelwood
Note: After finally cleaning my stovepipe last weekend, it feels like woodstove season at my cabin can officially (and safely) begin. Carla Helfferich wrote this wood power-focused Alaska Science Forum column on Oct. 3, 1990. — Sara Wilbur
Alaska Science Forum time capsule: Hardwood, softwood, fuelwood
Note: After finally cleaning my stovepipe last weekend, it feels like woodstove season at my cabin can officially (and safely) begin. Carla Helfferich wrote this wood power-focused Alaska Science Forum column on Oct. 3, 1990. — Sara Wilbur
Alaska Science Forum time capsule: The secret life of a red fox family
Note: At the start of every walk, my dogs try to sneak away to “fox town,” a fox den on the other side of the pond near my cabin, and we often see the adult foxes trotting through the neighborhood. Hearing one of them bark the other evening, I was reminded of this March 26, 2020, story by Ned Rozell. He recently reported that foxes still use the den, but did not occupy it in summer 2026. — Sara Wilbur
Alaska Science Forum time capsule: The secret life of a red fox family
A trail camera exposed a year that included new additions to the skulk.
Alaska Science Forum: Mapping tsunamis, building trust
While taking a quick shower before her son’s fourth birthday party on Dec. 26, 2004, tsunami scientist Elena Troshina heard the phone ring. Deciding it was worth jumping out, she picked it up — with kids, you never know.
Alaska Science Forum: Getting to the bottom of copper’s rise to the top
Kennecott has been spruced up quite a bit since my last visit there nearly 30 years ago.
Alaska Science Forum Time capsule: Color guard
Note: Regardless of how far they had advanced into autumn colors, all the leaves in Goldstream Valley on the morning of Sept. 3, 2026, were crusted with frost. Neither green willow nor purple fireweed leaves were spared, a first-frost possibility that Carla Helfferich explores in this week’s Alaska Science Forum time capsule from Sept. 11, 1997. Helfferich was the primary author for the forum from 1988 to 1994, when she hired Ned Rozell as her successor.
Alaska Science Forum time capsule: Stalwart perennials make a bet on the future each year
Their game has only a few simple rules. Grow as fast as you can, bloom and set seeds to continue the line, and stash away every spare crumb of energy you can to get through the winter.
Alaska Science Forum time capsule: In search of a few good wood frogs
Just how cold can an Alaska wood frog get? A UAF associate professor of zoophysiology was keen to find out.
Alaska Science Forum: Research team seeks answers from a changing river
A shifting climate is bringing big, sudden changes to the Kuskokwim River and the people who rely on it
Alaska Science Forum: Mind-bending science for this science layman
Exploring scientific frontiers with the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Geophysical Institute
This one's for you, Ned!
It’s been a big spring for now-former Alaska Science Forum author Ned Rozell.
This one's for you, Ned!
It’s been a big spring for now-former Alaska Science Forum author Ned Rozell.
After 3 decades of splendid scientific communication, this one’s for you, Ned
With a style that was both accurate to the work and approachable to the reader, Ned Rozell authored the Alaska Science Forum for 31 years.
Alaska Science Forum: A whale of a mammoth tale
The youngest mammoth fossil ever found in mainland Alaska is from a creature that died 13,000 years ago.