Citizen science offers lessons in understanding Fairbanks' climate
May 06, 2024
Interior Alaska's long winters are the impetus for a lot of long-running citizen science. The Nenana Ice Classic is a 107-year-long climate record for Interior Alaska. But it's not the only citizen science effort in Fairbanks, which also boasts multi-decadal records for predicting green-up, when birch sap will start flowing, and when to stock up on allergy medications to get ready for pollen season.
Food preservation workshops scheduled for Yakutat
April 17, 2024
Three days of workshops with sessions covering water bath and pressure canning, pickling and fermenting vegetables, and making fruit leather are scheduled for April 25-27 in Yakutat.
Citizen science project tracks slugs as they slither north
April 15, 2024
Cutworms, voles and moose are common garden invaders in Interior Alaska, but, in the past decade, a pest that frequently eats its way through salad greens and other plants in Southcentral and Southeast Alaska has also made its appearance in gardens north of the Alaska Range: slugs.
StrongPeople training class offered in Fairbanks
April 03, 2024
A workshop in Fairbanks will teach people how to lead a popular exercise program for midlife and older adults in Alaska communities.
May 08, 2024
By Julie Stricker Interior Alaska’s long winters are the impetus for a lot of long-running citizen science. Most famous is the event cooked up in 1917 by a bunch of railroad engineers who bet on the exact minute the ice on the Tanana River would break up. That first of what became the Nenana Ice …
April 21, 2024
By Reina Hasting Earth Day is tomorrow. According to the Library of Congress, it was first observed on April 22, 1970, when an estimated 20 million people nationwide attended the inaugural events at tens of thousands of sites including elementary and secondary schools, universities, and community sites across the United States. Later that year in …
April 14, 2024
By Julie Stricker It’s never fun to walk into your garden on a sunny Fairbanks summer day only to find cutworms have sliced your broccoli off at soil level, voles have left tiny tooth marks in your carrots or, worst of all, a moose has chomped on what was a giant cabbage. These are common …
April 07, 2024
By Adrian Kohrt What do flavored juice drinks, sweetened tea, non-diet sodas, coffee drinks, sports drinks, electrolyte replacement drinks, and energy drinks have in common? They are all sugar-sweetened beverages — with a lot of added sugar. Sugary drinks are the largest source of sugar in the U.S. diet. The calories in sugary beverages provide …