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	<description>News, research and natural acts from Alaska</description>
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		<title>Bad desert air and a glacier that licks a river</title>
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Atmospheric scientist Cathy Cahill points to two
recent air samples from Baghdad, one showing
dust and the other fine trapped particles from
burned diesel fuel. Photo by Ned Rozell

This column is provided as a public service by the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, in cooperation with the UAF research community. Ned Rozell is a science writer at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.farnorthscience.com/2008/04/28/ak-sci-forum/bad-desert-air-and-a-glacier-that-licks-a-river/</link>
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		<title>The latest word on Alaska birds</title>
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A barred owl in Juneau. Unknown in Alaska
before the late 1970s, barred owls are now
the second most-abundant owl in Southeast.
Photo by Paul Suchanek.

This column is provided as a public service by the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, in cooperation with the UAF research community. Ned Rozell is a science writer at the institute. 
The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.farnorthscience.com/2008/04/15/ak-sci-forum/the-latest-word-on-alaska-birds/</link>
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		<title>Filling in the Alaska Permafrost Map</title>
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Kenji Yoshikawa drills a hole to monitor permafrost
in the Seward Peninsula village of Wales.
Photo by Ned Rozell

This column is provided as a public service by the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, in cooperation with the UAF research community. Ned Rozell is a science writer at the institute. 
Fifteen days, 15 villages, more than 800 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.farnorthscience.com/2008/04/14/ak-sci-forum/filling-in-the-alaska-permafrost-map/</link>
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		<title>A day in the life of Kenji Yoshikawa</title>
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The Iditarod trail between the Seward Peninsula
villages of Elim and Golovin. Kenji Yoshikawa is
traveling along part of the trail to visit schools
and install permafrost boreholes.
Photo by Ned Rozell.

This column is provided as a public service by the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, in cooperation with the UAF research community. Ned Rozell is a science [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.farnorthscience.com/2008/04/03/ak-sci-forum/a-day-in-the-life-of-kenji-yoshikawa/</link>
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		<title>On the long trail to permafrost</title>
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A sunset over Norton Sound
as seen from the village of Stebbins.
Photo by Ned Rozell.

This column is provided as a public service by the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, in cooperation with the UAF research community. Ned Rozell is a science writer at the institute. 
STEBBINS &#8212; ”There’s no permafrost here, like there was none [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.farnorthscience.com/2008/03/31/ak-sci-forum/on-the-long-trail-to-permafrost/</link>
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		<title>Green, leafy invaders finding a home in Alaska</title>
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Hairy catsear is an invasive plant that is spreading into Alaska.
Photo courtesy U.S. Forest Service.

This column is provided as a public service by the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, in cooperation with the UAF research community. Ned Rozell is a science writer at the institute. 
With only five roads connecting it to the outside [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.farnorthscience.com/2008/03/18/ak-sci-forum/green-leafy-invaders-finding-a-home-in-alaska/</link>
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		<title>The mystery of mammoth tusks with iron fillings</title>
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Embedded iron particles surrounded by carbonized
rings in the outer layer of a mammoth tusk from
Alaska. Inset photo shows how an object ripped
through the tusk.
Image courtesy Richard Firestone.

This column is provided as a public service by the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, in cooperation with the UAF research community. Ned Rozell is a science writer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.farnorthscience.com/2008/03/10/ak-sci-forum/the-mystery-of-mammoth-tusks-with-iron-fillings/</link>
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		<title>Alaskans&#8217; Astronomical Bragging Rights</title>
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Crab Nebula
Courtesy of Neil Davis

Texans are known as braggarts, but in the arena of geography, they can&#8217;t start to compete with Alaskans who can brag about the facts that we are the biggest state, the northernmost state, the westernmost state, and the easternmost state, plus we have the longest coastline of any state, and we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.farnorthscience.com/2008/03/08/news-from-alaska/alaskans-astronomical-bragging-rights/</link>
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		<title>Scientists spy mythic white orca in the Aleutians</title>
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Thar He Blows!
The white whale was a type of orca that eats only fish.
Credit: H. Fearnbach/NMML NMFS permit 782-1719

Fisheries biologists cruising the remote Aleutian Islands on a pollock survey caught sight of one of the North Pacific&#8217;s rarest creatures: a white orca.
Rather than sporting the species&#8217; iconic black-and-white markings, the animal swimming with its fish-eating [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.farnorthscience.com/2008/03/06/marine-mammals/scientists-spy-mythic-white-orca-in-the-aleutians/</link>
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		<title>Drained lake holds record of ancient Alaska</title>
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After holding water for centuries, Iceberg Lake
in the Wrangell-St. Elias Mountains drained in
1999 and has lost its water every year since
except 2001.
Photo by Mike Loso.

This column is provided as a public service by the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, in cooperation with the UAF research community. Ned Rozell is a science writer at the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.farnorthscience.com/2008/03/04/ak-sci-forum/drained-lake-holds-record-of-ancient-alaska/</link>
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