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1. Article · Aug 15, 2026 · Ned Rozell

   Alaska Science Forum time capsule: In search of a few good wood frogs (opens the original)

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   (Editor’s note: This article was originally published 30 years ago, on Aug. 7, 1996. Brian Barnes and author Ned Rozell have since retired from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and scientists now know that the wood frog’s internal body temperature can dip to 0.6 degrees below zero Fahrenheit while overwintering. So the wood frogs are still out there, hopping around and readying for the long winter ahead!) The office phone rang while Brian Barnes discussed with me his need for wood frogs.

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2. Article · Jul 10, 2026 · Ned Rozell

   Mosquito molestation motivates minor migrations (opens the original)

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   ABOVE THE SALCHA RIVER, PIPELINE MILE 495 — Enough mosquitoes perch on my tent these nights that they could airlift Jane and me to their favorite bog if they all latched on and lifted at once. Fortunately, mosquitoes don’t have very big brains. The females do have a lust for blood, though, enough to alter the behavior of man and beast. Frank Morschel recently studied how caribou were affected by the flying devils of the North. Morschel did his research in the Alaska Range during the summers

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