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| 10/14/2009 | Arctic land and seas account for up to 25 percent of world’s carbon sink New study shows that Arctic has potential to alter Earth’s climate.
New study shows that Arctic has potential to alter Earth’s climate |
| 9/24/2009 | How Do High Ducks Get Enough Oxygen?
Oxygen is a basic necessity of life. Yet some humans and animals thrive in places like the high Andes or Himalayas where the low atmospheric pressure results in half or less the oxygen found at sea level. |
| 9/10/2009 | UA scientists seek new emphases in Arctic climate change research
Much of circumpolar Arctic research focuses on the physical, direct changes resulting from climate warming such as sea ice retreat and temperature increases. “What’s understudied is the living component of the Arctic and that includes humans,” said Syndonia Bret-Harte, co-author of a paper to be published September 11, 2009 in the journal Science. |
| 7/9/2009 | Fairbanks hibernation scientist to deliver invited lecture in Japan
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| 6/16/2009 | UAF researchers contribute to national climate change report
Two University of the Alaska Fairbanks researchers are among key contributors to a new national report that details visible effects of climate change in the United States and how today’s choices stand to affect the future. |
| 6/12/2009 | One moose, two moose: Scientist seeks correction in number of species
It is a misinterpretation of the application of the bedrock of scientific naming with regard to the number of moose species that Kris Hundertmark, a University of Alaska Fairbanks wildlife geneticist at the Institute of Arctic Biology, seeks to correct. |
| 6/12/2009 | Biologists use deer pellet DNA to estimate population size
University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists successfully refined a non-invasive technique that that extracts DNA from deer droppings and enables wildlife managers to accurately estimate deer and other ungulate population numbers in areas where visual counting of animals isn’t feasible. |
| 6/11/2009 | Mammalogists to convene in Alaska for annual meeting
More than 400 biologists from around the world will convene at the University of Alaska Fairbanks later this month for the 89th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Mammalogists |
| 4/16/2009 | Pulitzer Prize-winning series spurs prevention research
Alaska Native, safety, wellness |
| 4/6/2009 | UAF hosts wildlife society annual meeting
Climate change and how it affects parasites and their wildlife hosts headlines the annual meeting of the Alaska Chapter and the Northwest Section of The Wildlife Society at the University of Alaska Fairbanks April 7 - 8, 2009. |
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