Ned Rozell
Alaska Science Forum
Ned Rozell is a science writer at the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Recent Stories
- Fairbanks is due for a spell of the roaring 90s
- Sunday, June 29, 2008
- My dad never liked the heat. On humid days in upstate New York, he’d ride out hot spells by sitting in his underwear in front of an electric fan. He got no relief on his only trip to Alaska, when two days of 90-degree June temperatures forced him to hunker down inside my small cabin.
- Weather goes to extremes in area around Yakutat
- Sunday, June 15, 2008
- The forces shaping Alaska never sleep, especially near Yakutat.
- Giant Chinese dam not responsible for large earthquake
- Sunday, June 8, 2008
- After the magnitude 7.9 earthquake in northern China on May 12, 2008, journalists from China and London, and an observant reader, e-mailed the UAF Geophysical Institute to see if the creation of the dam, which is nearing completion and holding back ever-increasing amounts of water, might have caused the earthquake.
- UAF student raises mosquitoes in the name of science
- Sunday, June 1, 2008
- Alison Triebenbach is probably the only person in Alaska with the “Manual for Mosquito Rearing” on her bookshelf.
- What big teeth this Alaska dinosaur had
- Sunday, May 25, 2008
- A long time ago, a dinosaur named Troodon lived in the area where Alaska’s North Slope is today. Troodon was a meat eater that looked like an eight-foot bird, with the mouth and tail of an alligator.
- After 6 decades, researcher still amazed by Antarctica
- Sunday, May 18, 2008
- Fifty years ago, Charles Bentley and five other young men chugged across the ice of Antarctica in three tracked vehicles, exploring the mysterious white continent. In those days when frontiers existed on the planet, Bentley and his comrades saw a mountain range ahead of them that had Rocky-Mountain-size peaks with no names.
- Blame the trees, and pollen season, for that runny nose
- Sunday, May 11, 2008
- With your next breath of spring air, you’ll pull dozens of invaders through your nose. These intruders may make your nose drip and your eyes red and watery.
- Shishmaref school is home to some very lost sparrows
- Sunday, May 4, 2008
- This just in from Shishmaref science teacher Ken Stenek: On this late April day, two house sparrows are singing their little hearts out while perched on the metal roof of the Shishmaref School.
- After 20 years, observatory still keeps an eye on Alaska volcanoes
- Sunday, April 27, 2008
- Twenty summers ago, earthquakes rocked the town of King Cove on the Alaska Peninsula. Some people were so worried that the nearby volcano, Mount Dutton, was going to erupt that they caught flights out of town. Others called in the cavalry — members of the fledgling Alaska Volcano Observatory.
- Spring tour helps fill in Alaska permafrost map
- Sunday, April 6, 2008
- Fifteen days, 15 villages, more than 800 miles traveled by snowmachine, and Kenji Yoshikawa’s spring permafrost tour, phase one, is complete.