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New UAF program draws young artists into science
by Marie Thoms Artists and scientists often share a common goal: making the invisible visible. Yet artistically talented students, especially girls, often shy away from scientific careers. A new...
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Science Kids at the Exploration Station
NASA Mars Rover Curiosityinflatable model Laura Nielsen for Frontier Scientists After snapping a few photos with the full-size inflatable model of the Curiosity rover, I went directly to the Discovery...
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Alaska’s Ned Rozell reads in SF at Writers With Drinks
Liz O'Connell for Frontier Scientists Who isn’t thirsty when it comes to good prose? Ongoing San Francisco’s Writers With Drinks mixes it up Saturday, December 8, 2012, at the Make-Out Room, 7:30pm....
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Moviemaker James Cameron Speaks to Scientists
Liz O'Connell for Frontier Scientists James Cameron seamlessly merged the movie-making world with the science world in his talk at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) December annual conference in San...
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The oceans are our neighbors too
Close-up of the symbiotic vestimentiferan tubeworm Lamellibrachia luymesi from a cold seep at 550 m depth. The tubes are stained with a blue chitin stain to determine growth rates. Approximately 14 mo...
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Extreme Weather, Extreme Christmas Tree
. By Liz O'Connell for Frontier Scientists A Ponderosa Pine grove towers over my house roof. The 100 foot trees grow naturally and swiftly east of the Cascades in Oregon. Before Thanksgiving, extreme...
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Dramatic report card for the Arctic in 2012
by Ned Rozell Northern sea ice is at its lowest extent since we've been able to see it from satellites. Greenland experienced its warmest summer in 170 years. Eight of 10 permafrost-monitoring sites...
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Dust on the sun’s mirror
Ice Melt (Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license) Attribution: Mike Pennington Laura Nielsen for Frontier Scientists Imagine yourself on a Colorado mountain slope. Bumblebees buzz...
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Climate change and the people of the mesa
The Mesa Site in northwest Alaska. / Photo courtesy Mike Kunz by Ned Rozell Alaska was once the setting for an environmental shift so dramatic it forced people to evacuate the entire North Slope,...
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Triumphs of the endangered Bowhead Whale
Bowhead Whale (Balaena mysticetus) fluke, Foxe Basin in Nunavut, Canada / by Ansgar Walk (Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License) Laura Nielsen for Frontier Scientists Each...
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Bison Bob a big discovery on the North Slope
by Ned Rozell As she scraped cold dirt from the remains of an extinct bison, Pam Groves wrinkled her nose at a rotten-egg smell wafting from gristle that still clung to the animal’s bones. She lifted...
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Carbon in permafrost and tomorrow’s atmosphere
Ice heaves can cause mounds in permafrost. Pictured are partially melted and collapsed mounds forming stone circles in Svalbard, northern Norway. / Attribution: Hannes Grobe (Creative Commons...
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A Walrus at the Edge of the Ice
Adult female walruses on Chukchi Sea ice floe with young. / Courtesy USGS, photographer S.A. Sonsthagen Laura Nielsen for Frontier Scientists Sea ice is the foundation of an entire Arctic ecosystem....
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Alaska bucks the global temperature trend
Fairbanks, seen here at minus 40 during January 2012, is one of many Alaska places that — unlike most of the world — leaned to the cold side during the first decade of the 2000s. / Photo by Ned Rozell....
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Algae in the changing Arctic ecosystem
Research team investigating sea ice habitat at ice station. / Courtesy: Alfred Wegener Institute Laura Nielsen for Frontier Scientists The Arctic hosts a complex ecosystem, sensitive to the alterations...
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After a lifetime of study, aurora still a mystery
A coronal mass ejection (CME) erupting into space, travelling at speeds over 900 miles per second. CMEs which connect with Earth's magnetosphere cause auroras to appear. / Courtesy National Aeronautics...
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Arctic Volcanism Helps Date Ancient Archaeological Sites
By Liz O'Connell for Frontier Scientists “By dating ash,” said Richard Vanderhoek, “an archaeological site in Alaska, can be placed on a chronostratographic timeline.” Or in other words: the chemical...
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Permafrost scientist snowmachining from Alaska to Atlantic
Permafrost-caused polygons in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. / Courtesy U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. by Ned Rozell Kenji Yoshikawa will soon sleep on brilliant, blue-white landscape that has...
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AAA Conference Gives Life to Ancient Stories and New Revelations
. Liz O'Connell for Frontier Scientists “Ancient ice is melting and yielding many things we haven’t seen before,” said Jeanne Schaaf, National Park Service archaeologist, at the Alaska Archaeological...
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Plants march north
Eagle River Valley near Anchorage, Alaska. / By Frank Kovalchek (Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License) Laura Nielsen for FrontierScientists The face of the Arctic is changing as plant...
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