Wolves of Alaska became extinct 12,000 years ago, scientists report
... ... The ancient Alaskan gray...Specialized, bone-crushing wolves of Alaska disappeared long ago
... Our results are surprising as the unique attributes of Alaskan Pleistocene wolves...Ice Age extinction claimed highly carnivorous Alaskan wolves
... ... The study, which will be...Academy paleontologist and Alaska artist in line for natural history awards
PHILADELPHIA A paleontologist who discovered a missing link and an artist with an obsession with fish each will receive a prestigious award for their achievements from The Academy of Natural Sciences at its 195th Annual Meeting on Friday, June 1.... Dr. Ted Daeschler, who co-discovered the 375-million-year-old Canadian Arctic fossil that is an evolutionary link between fish and limbed animals,...University of Alaska Fairbanks awarded $3.8M for bird flu research
... ... "Our initial focus is on known avian reservoirs of influenza...Changing ocean conditions led to decline in Alaska's sea lion population
... ... Theories why...Alaska graduate receives nation's top dissertation honor
... The CGS makes two awards each year to recognize recent doctoral recipients who have already made exceptional contributions to their fields. There are 473 member institutions representing nearly all of the major research universities in the United States and Canada in the CGS and each institution can nominate only...Shrinking ponds signal warmer, dryer Alaska
... Over the past 50 years, Alaska has experienced a warming climate with longer growing seasons, i...Alaska study offers strategies to mitigate climate warming
... Chapin, a professor at the Institute of Arctic Biology and member of the National Academy of Sciences, is the lead author in an interdisciplinary team of ecologists, anthropologists, an economist, a historian and a political scientist that published the recommendations in a recent issue...Alaskans feel the heat of global warming
... Jean Craciun, research director for CRG said, "Across the board, no matter what political affiliation or ethnic background, Alaskans are united in their concern about the impacts of global w...Alaska seal pup diet may hold key to decline of population
Female harbor seal pups whose blubber falls below average levels may be at higher risk of delayed sexual maturation or death, even if they get enough fat in their diets later on, according to a new study sponsored by The American Physiological Society and presented at Experimental Biology 2006....... The study found that harbor seals pups that were heavier when captured from the wild continued to...Alaska timber projection study reveals market trends
A recently completed economic study of timber demand projections for the next two decades in southeast Alaska explains four alternatives describing how the forest products industry could develop. The peer-reviewed study now in process of being published, Timber Products Output and Timber Harvests in Alaska: Projections for 2005-25, was prepared by Pacific Northwest Research Station scientists All...Alaska avian flu project issues initial surveillance results
FAIRBANKS, Alaska -- So far, so good. Although only a few of the results are in, the University of Alaska Program on the Biology and Epidemiology of Avian Influenza in Alaska reports today that none of the samples taken from migratory waterfowl in the state this summer and screened to date have tested positive for the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu virus being reported in Eurasia. Next summer the...Climate change transforming Alaska's landscape
.... ...In a paper published in the August 2005 issue of the NRC Research Press' Canadian Journal of Forest Research, Eric Klein and his colleagues document a significant landscape shift from wetlands to woodland and f...Lands surface change on Alaska tundra creating longer, warmer summers in Arctic
A gradual lengthening of the snow-free season in Alaska's tundra, and a corresponding northward progression of the growth of shrubs and trees, may be creating a cycle of warmer and longer summers in the Alaskan Arctic according to a new study to be published in the Sept. 22, 2005, issue of Science Express.... The resulting atmospheric heating in the region of northern Alaska is equivalent to what...UC faculty members break new ground while treading gently on the Alaskan tundra
...... ......University of Cincinnati assistant professor Wendy Eisner and a team of researchers are studying the Inupiaq people of Alaska as part of a research project on global warming. "It's all woven together," says Eisner. "The processes, the changes, the belief system and the lake drainage." ......The Inupiaq people are watching climate change with c...Using satellite observations to investigate 'greening' trends across Canada and Alaska
Recent research results from scientists at the Woods Hole Research Center suggest that 'greening' has begun to decline in the high latitude forested areas of North America. The work, which represents an important advance by incorporating the full extent of the latest satellite observational record to document unique vegetation responses to climatic warming, and then projecting those trends forwa...American Indians and Alaska Native veterans have higher mortality rate after surgery than Caucasians
HANOVER, NH/WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, VT Contributing to growing literature on marked racial and ethnic disparities in US healthcare, a study led by Dartmouth Medical School has concluded that American Indians and Alaska Natives have a greater chance of death within 30 days of surgery and suffer more from several preoperative risks compared to Caucasian patients. ......Published in the June issue o...Habitat use by North Pacific right whales, Eubalaena japonica, in the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska
The small population of North Pacific right whales, found during the summer in Alaska waters, is one of the most critically endangered whale populations in the world. Commercial whaling in the 1800s has now left us with only a few dozens. Recently these whales have been recognized as a different species from right whales seen in the North Atlantic and others in the Southern Hemisphere. To help...Joslin hosts conference on diabetes in American Indian/Alaska Natives, May 16-19 in Denver
DENVER - May 12, 2005 - A coalition of leading health organizations today announced the first national conference to address cardiovascular disease and diabetes within the American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities. The AI/AN conference will focus on increasing the knowledge of healthcare providers, tribal community members and leaders, and urban community health leaders on the link be...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 salm...NSF funds Panikov's Alaskan Tundra Microbial Observatory project
HOBOKEN, N.J. -- A grant has been awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to Drs. Nicolai S. Panikov (PI, Stevens Institute of Technology) and Vladimir Romanovsky (Co-PI, University of Alaska, Fairbanks) to establish a Microbial Observatory project in the Alaskan tundra. The long-term challenge is to identify the biological nature of recently discovered mysterious microorganisms able to...A summer voyage to investigate the causes of one of the most devastating tsunamis in United States history has uncovered new mysteries about biological and geological processes off Alaska.... ...Probing the depths below one of the world's most important fisheries, scientists with Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, as well as Indiana State University an...