News from IARC

IARC director tapped to lead Germany’s Alfred Wegener Institute

By IARC Communications | February 10, 2026

Hajo Eicken, director of the University of Alaska Fairbanks International Arctic Research Center, has been selected as scientific director at Germany’s Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research.

Arctic Report Card celebrates 20 years

By Heather McFarland | December 16, 2025

The 20th edition of the Arctic Report Card, published this week, continues to serve as a record of persistent and extraordinary warming in the North. As has been the case…

IARC Science at AGU 2025

By Mike Delue | November 17, 2025

Dozens of IARC researchers and students are participating in the 2025 American Geophysical Union fall meeting held both virtually and in New Orleans this December. We hope to connect with our…

Typhoon leaves flooded Alaska villages facing a storm recovery far tougher than most Americans will ever experience

By Rick Thoman | October 15, 2025

This story originally appeared in The Conversation. Remnants of a powerful typhoon swept into Western Alaska’s Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta on Oct. 12, 2025, producing a storm surge that flooded villages as far…

The quietly essential salmon stream

By Ned Rozell | September 25, 2025

On this rainy September afternoon, Erik Schoen vacuums water from a backwater slough. The liquid will tell him if there are predators in this body of water.