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Engineering solutions for the world's cold regions and beyond

The Hoki Mai served as base camp for a sub-sea permafrost drilling program from 1994 to 1997 just off the north coast of Alaska.

Credit: Kenji Yoshikawa

Doug Kane leads a group of local students on a field trip at the UAF Permafrost Tunnel.

Credit: Sandra Boatwright

This open system pingo is near the Hulahula River in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Credit: Kenji Yoshikawa

Tim Howe loads samples into the GC isolink system for stable isotope analysis. This lab is located in the Alaska Stable Isotope Facility, part of the Water and Environmental Research Center.

Todd Paris

These two 65 kW Entegrity wind turbines are located in Kotzebue, Alaska. ACEP is currently researching improved battery storage systems and de-icing techniques for the windmill blades.

Credit: Katherine Keith

Frozen soil specialist Yuri Shur stands inside a chasm created by melting ice-rich, syngenetic Pleistocene permafrost.

Credit: Mikhail Kanevskiy

This barge-mounted 25 kW New Energy turbine is being tested and deployed in Eagle, Alaska, by Alaska Power and Telephone with research support from INE.

Credit: Todd Paris

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Jan

Ice analysis project could answer big questions about ecosystem responses to climate change

Imagine what you could learn about a far-off landscape by looking at it through a telescope. Now imagine what you could learn by looking at pieces of that landscape through a microscope. What if you did both? What could you learn then?

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Jan

Discoveries of a frozen world: Researchers embark on “Forty Thousand Years of Yedoma” project

Jules Verne used his passion for science and adventure and talent in vivid storytelling to open a window into dark and mysterious worlds. His research and corresponding words revealed to the world the beauty and wonder of the deep sea in “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.” His appetite for discovery offered (more…)

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Nov

INE researchers help NOAA develop precipitation frequency map for Alaska

How much, how long and how often does it rain in Alaska?

These are the questions researchers from the University of Alaska Fairbanks sought to answer in a collaborative research project (more…)

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Nov

New lab offers new opportunities, resources for interdisciplary research

Think big. That was Phil Loring’s motto for developing resources to bolster his unique interdisciplinary research and support the work of students and faculty like him.

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Nov

Data Management Plans Required by NSF

Proposal submissions to National Science Foundation must include a Data Management Plan as of Jan. 18, 2011. This document, designed to facilitate dissemination and sharing of research results, is a supplementary document describing how the proposal will conform to NSF policy on the dissemination and sharing of research results. It is required in addition to other proposal documents and is not part of the 15-page Project Description.

Per NSF policy, (more…)