New paper: Oxygen isotopes on peat cellulose

News Archive

2024

June

• New publication on organochlorine and mercury transfer to SSL pups

• BRAIDED team visits St. Paul

• New publication

May

• METAL research presented at SETAC Europe Annual Meeting, May 2024

March

• Crawford receives Angus Gavin Migratory Bird Research Grant

January

• METAL undergraduate student receives top poster award at Alaska Marine Science Symposium

2023

April

• Thesis Defense: Variability of total mercury concentrations in Steller sea lion bones

2022

August

• Alaska's Permafrost Farms

• Museum of North launches Adopt a Mammoth program

• If a lake drains in northern Alaska…

July

• M.S. Thesis Defense: Drew Porter

• It’s time to make science in remote places family-friendly

March

• M.S. Defense: Calculation of Sublimation from Tundra Snowpack in Alaska

February

• WERC researchers featured in NOVA episode

January

• WERC researchers featured in permafrost science overview

• Walter Anthony research featured in New Yorker

2021

August

• Just published: Life and movement of a wooolly mammoth

April

• Fasting Status of Steller Sea Lion Pups - Stephanie Crawford Thesis Defense:

2020

September

• Jones revisits crash site to honor pilot friend

• Just published: Long-term study of winter sea ice extend in Bering Sea

August

• Long-term changes in mercury levels in the Aleutians

May

• Just published: Taliks, cryopegs, and permafrost dynamics related to channel migration, Colville River Delta, Alaska

• Radar gauges methane release from Arctic lakes

April

• Just Published: Forest resilience from records in the Neotropics

March

• Just Published: Dried blood spots provide insights on mercury exposure and diet

February

• Graduate Student Opportunities at WERC

2019

December

• Thesis Defense: Ancient Bison Migration in Alaska

November

• Class offering: Strontium Isoptopes in Interdisciplinary Research

• Strontium isotope research class offered in Spring 2020

August

• Walter Anthony receives Usibelli award

March

• New ice monitoring project engages kids to become community scientists

• ASIF gets a new instrument

• New paper Susitna environmental change and archeology

• New paper: Oxygen isotopes on peat cellulose

February

• New paper from Andrew Cyr coupling stable isotopes and mercury analyses on AK fish

• Just Published: Mercury concentrations in marine species from the Aleutian Islands

January

• A shrinking Alaska glacier is releasing old pesticides in its meltwater

2018

December

• Climate Data Now Available On Amazon

November

• Just published: Early human dispersals within the Americas

• Data set featured by NSF Data Center

October

• How bison adapted to climate change

• ASIF Welcomes Centennial Postdoctoral Scholar

September

• WERC research faculty Walter Anthony featured in Washington Post

August

• Just published: Abrupt thaw beneath thermokarst lakes and its significance for greenhouse gas emmissions

June

• Just published: Paper on mobility of bison using Sr and O isotope analysis

May

• Wooller Receives Emil Usibelli Award

April

• WERC Researcher Receives CAREER Award

• Presentation April 17: Ancient bison movement patterns in Northern Alaska

February

• Alaska Stable Isotope Facility Special Seminars March 6&7

• Art and Science Meet at a Pingo...

2017

December

• WERC Research in the Press: Beavers expanding range

• WERC Student Wins Prestigious Presentation Award

November

• WERC faculty Wooller co-authors paper on new genus of horse from Pleistocene North America

• UAF Graduate Nominated as Assistant Secretary for Water and Science

September

• Our Researchers in the Press

August

• Research faculty Kenji Yoshikawa looks to be ‘Japanese Santa,’ mushing reindeer across tundra

July

• SPECIAL SEMINAR: Greenland Ice Sheet: Using geochemistry and isotopes to trace subglacial processes and nutrient fluxes

• Mountain glaciers recharge vital aquifers

June

• SPECIAL SEMINAR: Non-traditional isotopes in modern and past environments

2016

• Community, Policy, and Science: World views come together at the International Comparative Rural Policy Studies (ICRPS) program, 14-26 July 2016

March

• PhD Defense Ben Gaglioti 3/31 @ 2PM

• WERC Researchers Featured in Washington Post Article

2015

October

• How is Arctic lake ice changing?

July

• Quartz Lake sediment core reveals ancient pike remains

April

• Reindeer as a mode of transportation? WERC researcher Yoshikawa plans on giving it a try.

February

• Andy Padilla MS Thesis Defense February 24

2014

May

• Sean Brennan Ph.D. Defense June 2