Ned Rozell
Alaska Science Forum
Ned Rozell is a science writer at the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Recent Stories
- Warm fall keeps leaves on trees longer
- Sunday, Oct. 11, 2009
- Recently, a few biologists at the Alaska Bird Observatory made an observation about our autumn. It appeared that the leaves were hanging on the trees for an extra-long time. An expert confirmed this.
- Albedo change about to alter Alaska
- Sunday, Sept. 27, 2009
- You can see it on the mountains — a clean, platinum finish that wasn’t there yesterday. It’s in the forecast for here in the lowlands, too. Snow. Our world is about to change.
- Waterspouts, dust devils, williwaws and tornadoes
- Sunday, Sept. 20, 2009
- Dorothy Ivanoff of Unalakleet isn’t crazy about flying, especially when the flight is bumpy.
- Drilling for permafrost on Mount Kilimanjaro
- Sunday, Sept. 13, 2009
- The words permafrost and equator don’t seem to go together, but ground that has remained frozen for at least two summers survives in high, cold refuges scattered near the globe’s midsection.
- The Selawik Slump, a permafrost thaw, grows unabated
- Sunday, Aug. 30, 2009
- About five years ago, Kevin Fox was flying over the Selawik National Wildlife Refuge in northwest Alaska when he noticed the upper portion of the clear-running Selawik River looked cloudy.
- Life inching its way back to Kasatochi
- Sunday, Aug. 23, 2009
- In the mid-Aleutians, 1,200 miles from Anchorage, little Kasatochi Island – about 1.5 miles from end to end – was the surprise volcanic eruption of 2008, blowing up and painting itself in a shade of gray.
- A brand new world in the Aleutians
- Sunday, Aug. 16, 2009
- In a science report in which they wrapped up their 2008 field season, biologists Ray Buchheit and Chris Ford wrote, under a section titled Interesting Observations, “Our island blew up.”
- A crayfish lived in Denali Park
- Sunday, Aug. 9, 2009
- A few days ago, Steve Hasiotis found a crayfish burrow in Denali National Park and Preserve. The discovery was somewhat unusual, because the nearest living crayfish is now jackknifing through a stream in southern Ontario.
- Are Alaska’s glaciers growing? Not exactly
- Sunday, July 26, 2009
- Recently, several people have contacted an editor at the daily newspaper in Fairbanks about Alaska glaciers.
- Voles, bats, caribou and the mammal with the big brain
- Sunday, July 5, 2009
- A few notes from American Society of Mammologists 2009 Annual Meeting, held at the University of Alaska Fairbanks:
