http://frontierscientists.com Sharing the Arctic's Newest Discoveries Thu, 17 May 2012 17:20:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FrontierScientists/~3/dd6MlX2DR6k/ http://frontierscientists.com/2012/05/recovery-after-worlds-largest-tundra-fire-raises-questions/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 18:28:36 +0000 Laura http://frontierscientists.com/?p=3341 by Ned Rozell Four summers ago, Syndonia Bret-Harte stood outside at Toolik Lake, watching a wall of smoke creep toward the research station on Alaska’s North Slope. Soon after, smoke oozed over the cluster of buildings. “It was a dense, choking fog,” Bret-Harte said. The smoke looked, smelled and tasted like what Bret-Harte has experienced [...]]]> http://frontierscientists.com/2012/05/recovery-after-worlds-largest-tundra-fire-raises-questions/feed/ 0 http://frontierscientists.com/2012/05/recovery-after-worlds-largest-tundra-fire-raises-questions/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FrontierScientists/~3/xy5EPkKslTs/ http://frontierscientists.com/2012/05/dig-afognak-revealing-the-past-strengthening-the-future/#comments Wed, 09 May 2012 00:32:46 +0000 Laura http://frontierscientists.com/?p=3330 Play in the dirt with Dig Afognak Laura Nielsen for FrontierScientists If uncovering archaeological treasures and exploring local culture appeal to you more than simple sightseeing, you’ll want to check out the Kodiak Archipelago the next time you can make it to Alaska. The Afognak Native Corporation’s program Dig Afognak has visitors, archaeologists, and Native [...]]]> http://frontierscientists.com/2012/05/dig-afognak-revealing-the-past-strengthening-the-future/feed/ 0 http://frontierscientists.com/2012/05/dig-afognak-revealing-the-past-strengthening-the-future/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FrontierScientists/~3/IYNxlbG_Qos/ http://frontierscientists.com/2012/05/tools-of-ancient-alaskans-emerge-from-ice/#comments Tue, 01 May 2012 21:05:37 +0000 Laura http://frontierscientists.com/?p=3325 by Ned Rozell On a late summer evening a few years ago, a scrap of birch bark caught William Manley’s eye as he walked along the edge of an ice field in the Wrangell-St. Elias Mountains. The geologist yelled to nearby archaeologist Jim Dixon and Ruth Ann Warden of the Ahtna Heritage Foundation. “When I [...]]]> http://frontierscientists.com/2012/05/tools-of-ancient-alaskans-emerge-from-ice/feed/ 1 http://frontierscientists.com/2012/05/tools-of-ancient-alaskans-emerge-from-ice/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FrontierScientists/~3/GugFwFbpYJQ/ http://frontierscientists.com/2012/04/alutiiq-basket-weavers-share-insight-with-russian-curators-plus-a-frontier-scientists-app/#comments Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:09:19 +0000 liz http://frontierscientists.com/?p=3290 Fairbanks, Alaska, April 24, 2012—“The Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (MAE) and the Russian Ethnographic Museum in St. Petersburg Russia have the earliest collections of Kodiak baskets, grass and spruce root, in the world,” said Sven Haakanson, executive director of the Alutiiq Museum and Archaeological Repository. In 2010, Haakanson traveled with six Native weavers to [...]]]> http://frontierscientists.com/2012/04/alutiiq-basket-weavers-share-insight-with-russian-curators-plus-a-frontier-scientists-app/feed/ 0 http://frontierscientists.com/2012/04/alutiiq-basket-weavers-share-insight-with-russian-curators-plus-a-frontier-scientists-app/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FrontierScientists/~3/qmYP0VuSwdA/ http://frontierscientists.com/2012/04/memories-from-lost-villages/#comments Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:16:24 +0000 Laura http://frontierscientists.com/?p=3269 Laura Nielsen for FrontierScientists World War II brought conflict and trial to Alaska. Unalaska, located in the Aleutian Islands, had served as a trading hub for local villages. Native people from Biorka, Kashega, and Makushin would bring goods like fox pelts and baskets via boat and hiking trail to Unalaska to trade. In June 4, [...]]]> http://frontierscientists.com/2012/04/memories-from-lost-villages/feed/ 0 http://frontierscientists.com/2012/04/memories-from-lost-villages/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FrontierScientists/~3/WGE5ZSjREws/ http://frontierscientists.com/2012/04/alaska-dune-yields-oldest-human-remains-of-far-north/#comments Tue, 10 Apr 2012 16:44:00 +0000 Laura http://frontierscientists.com/?p=3260 by Ned Rozell Last summer, archaeologist Ben Potter was supervising a group of researchers digging on an ancient sand dune above the Tanana River. Potter, who had a field camp he needed to start at another site, was anxious to get through the last day of work at the dune. Two graduate students, Patrick Hall [...]]]> http://frontierscientists.com/2012/04/alaska-dune-yields-oldest-human-remains-of-far-north/feed/ 0 http://frontierscientists.com/2012/04/alaska-dune-yields-oldest-human-remains-of-far-north/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FrontierScientists/~3/zmAgm8TnAdc/ http://frontierscientists.com/2012/04/two-new-videos-about-computational-science-modeling-climate-and-designing-supercomputers/#comments Tue, 03 Apr 2012 11:38:17 +0000 liz http://frontierscientists.com/?p=3085 by Liz O’Connell, Fairbanks, Alaska, April 3, 2012— “An artist that discovers a new process or new material­– the same thing is happening in computation.  People are constantly embarking on new discoveries; that’s what gets people excited about science,” said Greg Newby, Arctic Region Supercomputing Center director at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Stunning science [...]]]> http://frontierscientists.com/2012/04/two-new-videos-about-computational-science-modeling-climate-and-designing-supercomputers/feed/ 1 http://frontierscientists.com/2012/04/two-new-videos-about-computational-science-modeling-climate-and-designing-supercomputers/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FrontierScientists/~3/YksD_-jRgCI/ http://frontierscientists.com/2012/03/bugs-bones-at-the-burke-museum-at-the-university-of-washington-seattle/#comments Wed, 28 Mar 2012 01:33:56 +0000 liz http://frontierscientists.com/?p=3065 By Liz O’Connell for Frontier Scientists Seattle, Washington.  A sticky strip of fly paper lays along the floor at the door of a tiny room.  “Step over,” says Jeff Bradley, collections Manager in mammalogy at the Burke Museum in Seattle.  A group of visiting anthropologists and archaeologists step over the sticky strip and crowd together [...]]]> http://frontierscientists.com/2012/03/bugs-bones-at-the-burke-museum-at-the-university-of-washington-seattle/feed/ 8 http://frontierscientists.com/2012/03/bugs-bones-at-the-burke-museum-at-the-university-of-washington-seattle/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FrontierScientists/~3/_KeGGzcHixs/ http://frontierscientists.com/2012/03/far-north-permafrost-cliff-is-one-of-a-kind/#comments Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:13:51 +0000 Laura http://frontierscientists.com/?p=3046 by Ned Rozell In northern Alaska, an amphitheater of frozen ground is thawing where a northern river is cutting it, exposing walls of ice. The feature, known by scientists as “yedoma,” is the largest of its kind yet found in Alaska. Jim Helmericks, who lives with his wife Teena on the mouth of the Colville [...]]]> http://frontierscientists.com/2012/03/far-north-permafrost-cliff-is-one-of-a-kind/feed/ 0 http://frontierscientists.com/2012/03/far-north-permafrost-cliff-is-one-of-a-kind/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FrontierScientists/~3/Kb6yr3GTbD4/ http://frontierscientists.com/2012/03/my-teacher-the-android-space-girl/#comments Wed, 14 Mar 2012 04:27:30 +0000 Laura http://frontierscientists.com/?p=3032 Laura Nielsen for Frontier Scientists I met her in space. Ok, that’s not true. I met Cindi at the AGU Exploration Station, San Francisco, an annual free science event for families and teachers where kids can get hands-on science. I’d never met a space android girl before… what did she do up in space? What [...]]]> http://frontierscientists.com/2012/03/my-teacher-the-android-space-girl/feed/ 0 http://frontierscientists.com/2012/03/my-teacher-the-android-space-girl/