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As summers in Alaska have trended warmer, the potential for nonnative ticks to invade Anchorage and Southcentral is on the rise. Two UAA professors, with the Alaska Department of Fish & Game, are researching tick threats and creating a public database to report sightings.

UAA postdoctoral researcher Dr. Katharine Kelsey spent three summers in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta studying the phenological mismatch between local vegetation and migratory geese caused by climate change and how that affects greenhouse gas emissions going forward.

Two student researchers are headed to Florence, Italy, this July to present their research on how turtles survive under low oxygen conditions.

From a ConocoPhillips Arctic Science and Engineering Award, UAA has developed a tool to accelerate corrosion and test mitigating strategies. This could be useful in monitoring aging pipeline for upkeep and maintenance.

As permafrost melts across Alaska, one student's research — and the data he collected just a few miles from downtown Anchorage — will play a role in forecasting coastal erosion statewide.

Undergraduate researcher Austen Rogers is one of a select group of UAA students who will be celebrated at this week’s Undergraduate Research and Discovery Symposium.

Biology alumna Ashley Stanek, M.S. '14, recently published the results of her graduate thesis. Part of a collaboration between UAA and the National Park Service, Ashley helped identify the significance or salmon in the diets of wolves in Lake Clark National Park and Preserve.

UAA’s College of Engineering is partnering with the Structural Engineers Association of Alaska to update the state’s snow load estimates, so civil engineers and structural engineers can create safer structures in both the public and private sectors.

Faculty and students at the University of Alaska Anchorage continue to make important strides in Arctic research, thanks to the support of ConocoPhillips Alaska. UAA announced today that five proposals have been selected to receive ConocoPhillips Arctic Science and Engineering Endowment awards totaling more than $440,000.

Thanks to the polar cold, Alaska's oceans are largely free of invasive species. But that's changing... quickly. Biologists at the Alaska Center for Conservation Science, a research arm of UAA, recently concluded a three-year study ranking 46 economic and ecologic threats to the rapidly warming region.