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.
A bird and a puzzling sound lead to discovery
The Cornell Lab’s Merlin bird app disagreed with me that morning. It identified the sound as that of a Wilson’s snipe.
Time capsule: How to win the ice pool
One sure way to win the Nenana Ice Classic is to invest $100,800 to buy 50,400 tickets, one on each minute from about April 18 to May 22.
A new Arctic partnership
Seeing the young bear, or “nanuq” in Iñupiaq, from the Barrow Arctic Research Center was a special highlight of the four-day Arctic ACTION Workshop.
Mind-bending science for this science layman
Some of the most difficult science subjects for me to share involve things most of us can’t see, hear or touch.
Research team seeks answers from a changing river
The Aniak River, which runs alongside his house, was a jumble of car-sized chunks of ice. Breakup on the nearby Kuskokwim River had pushed a frozen snarl down the Aniak.
This one’s for you, Ned!
It’s been a big spring for now-former Alaska Science Forum author Ned Rozell.
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.
