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Most of us haven't started thinking about winter utility and fuel bills, but we know high energy costs are a part of life in Alaska. ISER has partnered with community stakeholders to create a single portal for researchers and the public to access Alaska's energy data. Check it out.

Anchorage residents share their neighborhoods and UAA's wooded college campus with something like 700 moose each winter. Here's a refresher from scientists on best ways to live with moose. Hint: Give them a lot of space.

It’s a small world. That’s the refrain that comes to mind when you hear Audrey Taylor’s story about a very small, continent-hopping bird. Follow along on a shorebird-tracking adventure.

Sobering statistics in a new report from the UAA Justice Center, the Alaska Victimization Survey: Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, have been a hot news topic this past week. Link to full coverage.

APRN's Dave Waldron paid a visit last week to one of Professor Doug Causey's outdoor classrooms, spending the day catching fish with biology students in the Portage Valley.

UAA’s Alaska Justice Statistical Analysis Center (AJSAC) received a $79,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, to support a new AJSAC research initiative called the Alaska Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Case Processing Project.

Tess Forstner, a junior at UAA, spent her Alaska summer dressed in Xtratufs, wading through wetlands on a quest for chicks. Boreal birds, actually. She also wrangled a couple dozen volunteers to tromp through their backyard wetlands to monitor key species. Ever felt a wild bird heartbeat? It's pretty amazing, Tess reports.

When you think of frost heaves, you probably think about bumping down spring roads and—depending on the vintage of your vehicle’s shock absorption systems— being surprised by a sudden dip or rise in the asphalt. Learn how they shape the Arctic landscape.

Want to see what 4th Avenue looked like after the 1964 earthquake? Just type in your query at the new portal created by Archives and Special Collections and it’ll search through meticulously cataloged images.