Fancy meeting you here

We reached the Arctic Circle yesterday after a dusty, bumpy, 8-hour drive up the Dalton Highway from Fairbanks. This “haul road” parallels the Alaskan Pipeline and threads through awesome mountains covered with spruce and, further north, a green carpet of alpine tundra. After jumping out for an Arctic Circle photo opp, we got back on the [...]

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Fire may be harbinger of future

By Christopher Neill
Principal Investigator, MBL Science Journalism Polar Program
           

        The tomato plants I saw in Fairbanks Alaska this week were taller than the ones in my front yard in Falmouth. A clear reminder that the centers of large land masses—and Alaska qualifies as a truly large land mass—produce continental climates that often go to [...]

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Jason’s Report #1: Supercool Squirrels, Hollow Fur, and Summer Snow

Yesterday was our first full day in Alaska, and several of the other MBL Fellows and I spent the day visiting with the University of Alaska Fairbanks’s (UAF) spectacular scientists.
UAF’s scientists have many exciting research projects underway, and it has been fun learning about several of them. We’re about to hit the road for the [...]

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