Second year of garlic trials gets underway
A few days before snow started falling in Fairbanks, Glenna Gannon, Kristen Haney and graduate research assistant Soumitra Sakhalkar planted…
ARS tour group visits UAF and Alaska farms
By Chelsea San Roman and Caley Gasch On June 19-22 a group of scientists from Agricultural Research Service labs in…
A prickly little problem at GBG
Last winter, Lacey Higham, operations lead at Georgeson Botanical Garden, discovered that the garden on the west side of the…
Research into rhodiola’s potential as Alaska crop continues
It’s been more than a decade since the University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service started researching a small plant…
When is green-up? It’s going to be late this year, and so is the birch sap run
Cold weather this April is delaying two cherished milestones in Interior Alaska: the start of the birch sap run and…
AGU 2022: Tolerating distress and regulating emotions in research work
IANRE researcher Jessie Young-Robertson is presenting two areas of research at this week’s American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in Chicago….
AGU 2022: Consequences of shrub expansion in the boreal forest
Samuel Dempster is an undergraduate working with IANRE boreal ecologist Jessie Young-Robertson. He will talk about his research on “Consequences…
AGU 2022: Boreal tree adaptation to seasonal drought conditions
IANRE researcher Jessie Young-Robertson is presenting a paper this week at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting in Chicago…
Falling into autumn: Pretty reds can mean pretty dry and warm
Jessie Young-Robertson For the News-Miner Have you noticed more red leaves this autumn compared to the past few years? I…
Small-grain trials in Fairbanks, Palmer
If you’ve ever driven by the agricultural fields at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and wondered what’s growing there, we…