News

  • Welcome to the new IARC website!

    December 12, 2016

    After months of development, the IARC web design & development team presents an updated website for IARC. This includes:

    Realignment — we’ve reorganized content to better communicate IARC activities and aid discovery

    Redesign — we’ve strengthened our branding and information architecture to provide a better user experience

  • Science industry meets University: Collaboration with Private Research

    October 28, 2016

    Thursday, November 10, 2016 | noon–1:15 pm, 501 Akasofu—Explore opportunities and challenges arising from collaboration between university and private research and to encourage broad engagement from the research community.

  • Climate Change and Health in Alaska

    October 11, 2016

    October 6, 2016, noon–1:15 p.m., 401 Akasofu—A joint presentation by researchers John Walsh (IARC), Bert Boyer (IAB/Center for Alaska Native Health Research), and Michael Brubaker (Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium)

  • Highlight: New report from North Slope Scenarios Project

    September 7, 2016

    In a warming climate, long-term monitoring and research in the American Arctic is crucial. To address this, the North Slope Science Initiative (NSSI) implemented the Scenarios Project to help natural resource management agencies better direct research and monitor change in the Arctic using a scenarios framework.

  • Highlight: Study measures methane release from Arctic permafrost

    August 26, 2016

    A UAF research project led by IARC’s Katey Walter Anthony has provided the first modern evidence of a landscape-level permafrost carbon feedback, in which thawing permafrost releases ancient carbon as climate-warming greenhouse gases. The study was published today in the journal Nature Geoscience.

  • Highlight: IARC partners with Japanese research center

    August 18, 2016

    IARC Director Hajo Eicken recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Dr. Sei-Ichi Saito, Director of Hokkaido University’s new Arctic Research Center (HU-ARC), located in Sapporo, Japan.