When James Judkins began pulling up his fishing nets out near Point Barrow this month, the weight of the catch pulled back at him. “Man, this is a really big fish,” Judkins thought. Then, he glimpsed ...

The International Polar Expedition was sponsored by the U.S. Signal Corps and the Smithsonian Institution to establish a permanent station for meteorological, magnetic, tidal, and pendulum observation ...

The journal Arctic is North America’s premier journal of northern research. Now in its seventh decade of continuous publication, Arctic is a peer-reviewed, primary research journal that publishes the ...

Above: The sun sets over sea ice on the Chukchi Sea near Barrow, Alaska. This archival photo was taken in spring during the OASIS (Ocean_Atmosphere_Sea Ice_Snowpack) field project. Image credit: UCAR ...

Adams is a good patrician name in Boston. But John Quincy Adams was rediscovered last summer at the northernmost tip of U.S. territory--Point Barrow, Alaska. "Jawn," the latest namesake of several ...