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Field Trip OptionsPermafrost Tunnel -Must Register
TimesWednesday - 7pmFriday - 9am Friday - 10am Address2126-2166 Steese HwyFairbanks, AK 99712 DescriptionThe CRREL Permafrost Tunnel is located in Fox, Alaska, about 15 km north of Fairbanks. 150 meters of Tunnel was originally constructed in the mid-1960s but expansion efforts over the past 7 years have doubled the size of the original facility. The Tunnel exposes Pleistocene ice and carbon rich "yedoma" permafrost that ranges from 18,000 to 43,000 years old. Massive ice features, mammoth and bison bones, and a variety of permafrost soils are exposed in the Tunnel walls. Ongoing projects in the Tunnel range from engineering and geophysics work to Mars analog studies to biogeochemistry and microbiology of permafrost soils.TransportationYou must coordinate your own transportation.Alaska Satellite Facility -Must Register
TimesMonday - 6:30pmThursday - 12:30pm Address505 South Chandalar Drive Fairbanks, AK 99775DescriptionASF is the NASA Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) as well as a member of the NASA Near Earth Network (NEN) and will be offering tours of the ASF data center and ground station facilities. The tour will include a short introduction to ASF and its activities, a visit to the ASF operations room and ASF rooftop antenna (including group photo), and a walk through ASF's premises on the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus. Two tour time slots are available in the agenda with a maximum of 20 participants each.TransportationShort walk from the Murie Science Building.Division of Forestry -Must Register
TimesThursday 4-6pmAddress3700 Airport WayFairbanks 99709 DescriptionThe Division provides fire protection services and related fire and aviation management activities on 150 million acres of land throughout Alaska, including the state's most populous areas. The field trip will include tours of the dispatch, aviation, and logistics facilities. The trip may be cancelled if DOF staff are unavailable due to significant fire activity. We plan to go on from the field trip to a group dinner.TransportationShuttle buses will be arranged. Details to follow.Bonanza Creek LTER site -Must Register
TimesSaturday 9am - 2pmAddressBonanza Creek Experimental ForestDescriptionThe Bonanza Creek Long-Term Ecological Research program (BNZ LTER) at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Institute of Arctic Biology has been continuously funded by the NSF since 1987. BNZ LTER scientists and students study the interactive effects of changing climate and disturbance regimes such as wildfire frequency on the Alaska boreal forest, the associated consequences for regional feedbacks to the climate system, and the sustainability of subsistence in Alaska communities.TransportationTrucks will be available for use, more details to follow on meeting location for ride sharing.UAF Large Animal Research Station -Must Register
TimesSaturday 2pmAddress2220 Yankovich RoadFairbanks, Ak 99775 DescriptionThe R.G. White Large Animal Research Station (LARS) has a broad mission to support research, education, and outreach on Alaskan animals. We support the interests and activities of UAF scientists but we also serve scientists from other institutions and organizations in the United States and from around the world. LARS is a 130 acre facility on Yankovich Road currently housing muskoxen and reindeer but is also periodically home to other large animals. We are located on a former homestead established by Mike Yankovich in 1923. Mike turned the farm over to the University in 1963 and we had our first muskoxen arrive in 1964.Our animals are maintained for a wide variety of research and educational projects including reproduction, nutrition, energetics, and behavior. These herds are valuable for research on fundamental biological principles, biomedical sciences, validating and teaching wildlife and protocols, as well as evaluating and developing their use in Alaskan agriculture. TransportationYou must coordinate your own transportation.Museum of the North - At your leisure
TimesOpen: Monday through Saturday 9am - 5pmAddressUAF Campus1962 Yukon Drive Fairbanks, AK 99775-6960 DescriptionThe University of Alaska Museum of the North is a thriving visitor attraction, a vital component of the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and the only research and teaching museum in Alaska. The museum’s research collections – 2.2 million artifacts and specimens – represent millions of years of biological diversity and thousands of years of cultural traditions in the North. The collections are organized into 10 disciplines (archaeology, birds, documentary film, earth sciences, ethnology/history, fine arts, fishes/marine invertebrates, insects, mammals, and plants) and serve as a valuable resource for research on climate change, genetics, contaminants and other issues facing Alaska and the circumpolar North. The museum is also the premier repository for artifacts and specimens collected on public lands in Alaska and a leader in northern natural and cultural history research.TransportationYou must coordinate your own transportation.Denali - At your leisure
TimesVisitor Center Daily hours are 8am — 6pmAddressMile 237, Highway 3DescriptionDenali is six million acres of wild land, bisected by one ribbon of road. Travelers along it see the relatively low-elevation taiga forest give way to high alpine tundra and snowy mountains, culminating in North America's tallest peak, 20,310' Denali. Wild animals large and small roam unfenced lands, living as they have for ages. Solitude, tranquility and wilderness await.NOTE: You may drive as much of the road as snow conditions allow in the spring, until you reach Teklanika River (Mile 30). Bus tours start May 20. TransportationYou must coordinate your own transportation. |