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 It was Joe Longuevan’s senior year of high school when his father announced that the family was packing up their belongings, leaving their Colorado life and heading northbound to Anchorage, Alaska. 

 For the past 27 years, UAA theater and dance professor Dr. Jill Flanders Crosby has been working on a project spanning generations, mediums and even the Atlantic Ocean. 

 It’s a brilliant July Fourth morning outside of Juneau, and I’m bagging barnacles. 

 Alaska had been a state for one year in 1960 when its Department of Fish and Game conducted a wolf-planting experiment on Coronation Island in Southeast Alaska.

 Sixteen rural Alaska high school students will head into their senior year this fall with four years of geological fieldwork under their belts thanks to participation in the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ GeoFORCE Alaska program. 

 Faculty and students paddled over 200 km in Holkham Bay and Endicott Arm in a new Kayak Oceanography Program at University of Alaska Southeast.