Ned Rozell, UAF Geophysical Institute
Time capsule: The secret life of a red fox family
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.
Time capsule: Looking for a few good wood frogs
Barnes needs wood frogs because he wants to find out more about how frogs can freeze in the fall and then hop around in spring as if they hadn't spent the last seven months as tiny green ice cubes.
Time capsule: Mosquito molestation motivates minor migrations
The females do have a lust for blood, though, enough to alter the behavior of man and beast.
Time Capsule: The world according to a dog’s nose
Lurking behind those textured, damp nostrils are sensitive membranes that allow a dog to distinguish smells.
Meeting deadlines and interesting people
The deadline has been my quietly relentless muse for the last 30 years. She used to give me headaches. But then I met her so many times that the headaches stopped.
Bishop Rock’s oversized effect on breakup
River breakup happens when the power of the sun melts feet of snow from the landscape and rots the ice of the river that was hard as iron for so dang long.
Biking trail ends at the western coast
We fall a few hundred trail miles short of our Nome goal but are both pretty happy with the line we drew across Alaska.
Up a ramp, finally off the big river
After nine days and 265 miles, we are off Alaska’s largest frozen river.
Rolling through a blank spot on the map
That ice we can’t see is the crystal memory of so many cold days of the winter of 2025-2026.
Alaska bike journey rolls along
It’s a good life here on the trail, just-add-water living at its finest.
