Science news articles about 'arctic biology'

  • UAF researchers to present at AGU press briefing

    ... coasts. Walker is a professor at the UAF Institute of Arctic Biology. Other panelists include Julienne Stroeve ... led by Donald "Skip" Walker of the Institute of Arctic Biology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks has strongly ...
  • Planning to save a changing world

    ... inhospitable far north. Terry Chapin, a professor of ecology at the University of Alaska’s Institute of Arctic Biology, said that climate change is already affecting ...
  • Researchers tie crest size to seabirds' suitability as a mate

    ... costs," said Hector Douglas, assistant professor of biology at the Kuskokwim Campus in Bethel. Douglas and collaborator ... Kitaysky, an associate professor at the UAF Institute of Arctic Biology, say their results fit into a larger theory ...
  • 1 moose, 2 moose: Scientist seeks correction in number of species

    ... of moose species that Kris Hundertmark, a University of Alaska Fairbanks wildlife geneticist at the Institute of Arctic Biology, seeks to correct. The adoption of Carl ...
  • Alaska researchers contribute to national climate change report

    ... ecology professor and researcher with the UAF Institute of Arctic Biology. The report is written in plain language ... that elsewhere," said Walsh, director of the Center for Global Change and Arctic System Research at UAF's International ...
  • Scientists seek new emphases in Arctic climate change research

    ... component of the Arctic and that includes humans," said Syndonia "Donie" Bret-Harte, associate professor of biology ... . One effect studied intensively at the UAF Institute of Arctic Biology Toolik Field Station on Alaska ...
  • Scientists isolate new antifreeze molecule in Alaska beetle

    ... , director of the University of Alaska Fairbanks Institute of Arctic Biology and one of five scientists who participated in the Alaska ... studies ahead," said Barnes. "To find out how common this biologic antifreeze is and how it actually prevents freezing and where ...
  • Scientists uncover surprising features of bear hibernation

    ... during and after hibernation according to a paper by scientists at the Institute of Arctic Biology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and published ... black bears extends beyond comparative biology, since application of the mechanisms of metabolic suppression ...
  • World's forests' role in carbon storage immense, profound

    ... ," said A. David McGuire, co-author and professor of ecology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Institute of Arctic Biology and co-leader of the USGS Alaska ...
  • Scientists identify hibernation-inducing signaling mechanism

    ... and UAF professor of chemistry and biochemistry in the Institute of Arctic Biology. Hibernating animals survive by severely ... to hibernate. "We devised an experiment in which non-hibernating arctic ground squirrels were given a substance that stimulated ...
  • Largest recorded tundra fire yields scientific surprises

    ... the largest recorded tundra fire in the circumpolar arctic released approximately as much carbon into the atmosphere ... ecologist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Institute of Arctic Biology. The Anaktuvuk River fire burned ...

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