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Alaska Science Forum

Weekly column in cooperation with the UAF research community.

If you could have read that frost-covered fat-biker’s mind as he rolled toward McGrath, Alaska, “as if Velcroed to the snow,” you might have suspected he was a scientist.

On these March nights, a male boreal owl has been singing from a wooden owl box near our home.

The first days were the hardest days, Noelle Helder said.

Denali, North America’s highest peak at 20,310 feet above sea level, always seemed abnormally high to Peter Haeussler.

While following a snowmachine trail recently, my dog and I came to a low spot that looked like a swimming pool filled with ice water. The air temperature was about 5 degrees F.

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