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Eighty-nine years ago, a drainage project for a gold-mining dredge upstream near Ester bypassed Cripple Creek, shunting its water into a straight ditch that didn’t foster use by fish. Researchers hope to gather data about the newly restored creek’s ability to protect numerous fish species. Chinook, or king, salmon are of special interest.
As part of our hands-on training during the voyage, we analyzed seawater temperature and dissolved oxygen levels to benefit future research, learning the important lesson that the global solidarity we cultivated on the MIRAIE has great potential to contribute to ocean sustainability.
Christi Buffington boarded the MIRAIE, a companion ship for the Japan-Palau Friendship Yacht Race 2024, and instructed young people in ocean literacy, leadership and collecting GLOBE data during the voyage.
Bring wildfire education into the classroom with ideas from this article by AFSC and our partner educators. Spoiler, the story has lots of cool classroom resources and field trip ideas for teachers.
Wild Alaska berries are one of the most nutritious and antioxidant-rich foods available. Climate change is altering many different aspects of where, when and how berries grow. For the past two decades, researchers at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, or UAF, have been studying berries in Alaska.
An Alaska CASC-supported program provides young students with the unique opportunity to go 4,000 feet above sea level in the eastern Alaska Range to explore alpine glaciers and arctic landscapes, illuminating the wonders of the Eastern Alaskan Range for budding researchers’ interest in glaciology and other scientific disciplines.
Atop the contours of C’ulc’ena’ Łuu’, which means “cutting stream glacier” in the Ahtna language, Brannan helped lead a group in collecting water temperature and pH readings. Though she wasn’t initially sure how these measurements might be analyzed, she knew from experience that proactive data collection was good scientific practice.
“I have a firm belief that the health of our environment is intertwined with the health of humans. I am interested in making science-related issues more understandable, for everyone to be a part of their local community. In my future, I see myself continuing to work towards strengthening the relationship between humans and nature and promoting the conservation of our dependence on one another.” - Maggie House
Born and raised in Fairbanks, Katie Spellman has devoted her career to sharing her expertise and passion for science with the people most affected by the changing climate: Indigenous communities and children.
She has volunteered hundreds of hours mentoring K-12 students’ research, organizing science fairs and co-creating citizen science projects to address pressing local issues.
More than 200 students at Pearl Creek Elementary School collected GLOBE leaf data, with three students representing their school and Alaska at the GLOBE Student Research Symposium held at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
In March 2024, a group of students from around the world and two GLOBE Educators from Alaska sailed on the tall ship MIRAIE across the western Pacific Ocean from Yokohama, Japan, to the Micronesian republic of Palau.
Dakota Keller, a graduate student in the UAF Department of Biology and Wildlife, is helping to rebuild habitat that previously provided an aqueous nursery for juvenile salmon before their outmigration to the ocean.
Biomedical Learning and Student Training program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks highlights House’s current project, "Biomonitoring Cripple Creek’s Water Quality After a Reconstruction Through Macro-Invertebrate Diversity,” is a strong indicator of ecosystem health.
Nearly 90 years after its channel was abandoned, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service employees, partners, local students and community landowners strive to restore its natural flow.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Martha Williams toured various sites linked to Cripple Creek juvenile Chinook salmon habitat restoration.
A citizen science project is counting fish on Cripple Creek, a tributary stream of the Chena River, hoping to restore it to produce salmon again.
High school students restore Chinook salmon habitat as part of the Fairbanks Soil and Water Conservation District’s Youth for Habitat program.
K-6 school-wide, long-term monitoring of the environmental impact of a new levee presented at AGU.
Cripple Creek salmon habitat restoration project highlighted on KUAC Radio Morning News, August 23, 2023, starts at 3:58.
UAF partnered with NASA’s SnowEd, to allow elementary school kids to explore snow properties to increase scientific understanding of snow mass on Earth.
Students present their ice measurement findings from Sleetmute to assist satellite imagery and scientists with predicting spring flooding.
A group of young students search for fish and record results the Fairbanks Soil and Water Conservation District’s Youth For Habitat summer program.
Through connected learning in the AE SIGNs Project, the 2018-2019 cohort of participants empowered hundreds of youth to study, research, and act on climate change.
Public participation in research increases understanding of science and can generate new knowledge, according to a University of Alaska Fairbanks scientist.
Students from the Watershed Charter School spent the day at the University of Alaska Fairbanks to learn more about how water moves, pollution, and how the climate can affect water.
Dr. Katie Spellman's left eyebrow arched into an exclamation point above the wide frames of her glasses. "What happens in the Arctic doesn't stay in the Arctic...
