URSA Spotlights
Featured Projects
Leanne Bulger: Investigating the origin of high CO2 emissions in soil cavities
Pirada Anderson: Rising Temperatures & Sporocyst Production in Snails
Jacob Starkey: UAMN Special Exhibit on Tidewater Glaciers
Anastasia Chen: Quantifying Air Quality in Fairbanks
Danny Casner: DNA Analysis of Marmot Stomach Contents
Dorothy Sherer: Identifying Bacterial Infection in Alaskan Small Mammals
Jonas Fields: Dendromorphological Tree Cores & the 11-Mile Landslide
Lee Aeo: Rock Erosion Rates & Carbon Capture in Alaska
Laura Serrato: DNA Sequencing & Analysis of Labrador Tea
Hailey Hodgins & Petie Deveer: PULSE Project
Adrian Burke: STARTRAM Project
Bree Smith: Extracting Ancient DNA from the North Slope
Queenie Turner: Microplastics in Bowhead Whales
Akela Byrne: Healthcare Providers’ Perspective on Breastfeeding in Alaska
Sarah Finney & Cole Osowski: Climate Change, Volcanic Eruptions & Policy
Jenno J.L.H.: Spring 2025 Mentor Awardee
Dr. Jen Peterson: Spring 2025 Mentor Awardee
Phasor Measurement Unit (PMU) Project
Daniela Barrera Guevara: Publishing on a New Horned Dinosaur
Samantha Allen: Sea Otter Prey Availability
Ryan Owens: Evaluation of the Effect of Vegetation Sources on Smith Lake BDOC
Iva Thomason: How does a permafrost lake influence downstream carbon cycling?
Nick Samuel: Improving Hydrogen Production Efficiency from Electrode Surface Modifications
Wetherleigh Griffin: Majoring in Minecraft
Geo Learning Community
Erica Ebert: 2023-2024 URSA Mentor Awardee
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Anna Medina: 2023-2024 URSA Mentor Awardee
Jessie Skalisky: Invasive Plant Seedbank Development after Wildfire in Alaska’s Boreal
Forest
Garrett Savory: 2023-2024 URSA Mentor Awardee
Lauren Wilson: 2023-2024 URSA Mentor Awardee
Tyra Best & Cara Roberts: Microplastic Content in Stellar Sea Lions and Cassin's Auklets
Cedar Hanger: Reconstruction of Fire History and its Connection to the Arrival of
Spruce from Windmill Lake, Interior Alaska
Ian Wilkinson: Spheres of Influence
Sam Herreid: Posters on the Hill