Alaskan puzzles, monitoring provide insight about North Pacific salmon runs
The University of Washington Alaska Salmon Program, the world's longest-running effort to monitor salmon and their ecosystems, has received nearly $2.4 million from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to expand its sampling scope and sophistication. The Alaska-based program has applications for Pacific salmon all along the West Coast, providing insights into the fluctuating fortunes of s...NASA study: Alaskan fires affected Houston air quality in 2004
An innovative new NASA-funded study based on a combination of satellite data, computer models and weather balloon readings finds that smoke from Alaskan and Canadian forest fires as much as doubled ground-level ozone thousands of miles away in Houston during a two-day period in July 2004. The study, which will appear online Sept. 26 in the Journal of Geophysical Research, offers scientists a rare...Ice Age extinction claimed highly carnivorous Alaskan wolves
Wolves were generally thought to have survived...MapTeach project spreads Alaskan geographic knowledge online
Traditional, rural Alaskan knowledge can now spread globally thanks to a joint effort between UW-Madisons Environmental Remote Sensing Center and the Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys. Their <a target="_blank" href="htt...