Ned Rozell

4 days ago | kodiakdailymirror.com | Ned Rozell

POKER FLAT RESEARCH RANGE — After 35 years of driving to work over a small mountain each day, Kathe Rich will soon make her last daily ascent of Cleary Summit. The longtime director of this university-owned rocket range is retiring at the end of June 2025. She leaves behind a cold, starry sky full of memories above these 5,000 wooded acres. The Chatanika River valley north of Fairbanks is not always as quiet as it was on a recent June day during which Rich reflected on her career.

4 days ago | deltawindonline.com | Ned Rozell

A long, long time ago, a hairy elephant stomped the northland, wrecking trees and shrubs as it swallowed twigs, leaves and bark. Mastodons left a few scattered teeth and bones in Alaska and the Yukon, reminders of an immense mammal that lived as far south as Honduras. A 2104 look at far-north mastodons shows the creatures vanished from the Arctic thousands of years earlier than researchers had thought.

6 days ago | newsminer.com | Ned Rozell

After 35 years of driving to work over a small mountain each day, Kathe Rich will soon make her last daily ascent of Cleary Summit. The longtime director of this university-owned rocket range is retiring at the end of June 2025. She leaves behind a cold, starry sky full of memories above these 5,000 wooded acres. The Chatanika River valley north of Fairbanks is not always as quiet as it was on a recent June day during which Rich reflected on her career.

1 week ago | adn.com | Ned Rozell

POKER FLAT RESEARCH RANGE — After 35 years of driving to work over a small mountain each day, Kathe Rich will soon make her last daily ascent of Cleary Summit. The longtime director of this university-owned rocket range is retiring at the end of June 2025. She leaves behind a cold, starry sky full of memories above these 5,000 wooded acres. The Chatanika River valley north of Fairbanks is not always as quiet as it was on a recent June day during which Rich reflected on her career.

1 week ago | kodiakdailymirror.com | Ned Rozell

A long, long time ago, a hairy elephant stomped the northland, wrecking trees and shrubs as it swallowed twigs, leaves and bark. Mastodons left a few scattered teeth and bones in Alaska and the Yukon, reminders of an immense mammal that lived as far south as Honduras. A 2104 look at far-north mastodons shows the creatures vanished from the Arctic thousands of years earlier than researchers had thought.