August 2024 - A new article about the Adotp-a-mammoth program was published in the Ancient Origins Magazine. Check out the story here.
August 2024 - A new radio interview with Pamella Stagg about mammoth research on St Paul Island. Check out the story here.
Jan 2024 - Our group published a new paper showing the movements of a female mammoth who's remains were found in an archeological site in interior Alaska. It was featured on the front cover of the journal. the art was designed by Julius Csotonyi based on the findings from the study. Check out the story here. The story was covered by the media - check link here - including being reported on by the New York Times.
Nov 2023 - A Canadian Geogrpahic Article talks about our fascination with Mammoths and mentions the Adopt a Mammoth project here.
Oct 2023 - Mat gave a radio interview with Pamella Stagg (Host of The County, Naturally
99.3 County FM. The voice of the County, Ontario, Canada) about a recent team research trip aboard UAF's research vessel the Sikuliaq "hunting for mammoths" (and other evidence of the past Bering Land Bridge) in the Bering Sea. You can listen to the interview here. (photo credit JR Ancheta).
Sept 2023 - JR and Natalie prepared a neat video (see here) outlining our life and science on the research vessel Sikuliaq taking cores from what was the Bering Land Bridge and is now covered by ocean. This landscape was crossed by mammoths and some of the earliest people in the Americas.
African elephant on the move. Manoj Shah via Getty Images
Sept 2023
We just started a new 3-year NSF project using stable isotopes and ancient DNA to track the movement and ecology of Woolly Mammoths (Mammoth Arctic Pathways - MAPs) in Alaska. Check out the project link here.
Sept 2022 - Mat Wooller joined field work led by Dr. Chris Maio from UAF to visit St. Paul Island in the Bering Sea. He joined with Dr. Nancy Bigelow, Lindsey Smith and Harper Baldwin, all also from UAF. They all weathered one of the biggest storms in recent history and conducted further coring to help better characterize the environmental conditions surrounding the extinction of the most recent (5,600 years before present) mammoths in Alaska (not on the mainland - which is the focus of the Adopt a Mammoth Project).
Image: Top (below): Windy app image of the Sept 2022 storm in the Bering Sea. Next: A visit to the cave where mammoths remains had previously been found on St. Paul and a schematic cross section of the cave. Next: Nancy, Lindsey and Mat coring in the crater of an extinct volcano on St. Paul Island. Next: Mat in a hole at a study site on St Paul Island. Photo credits: M. Wooller 2022.
Sept 2022 - Mat Wooller joined field work led by Dr. Chris Maio from UAF to visit St. Paul Island in the Bering Sea. He joined with Dr. Nancy Bigelow, Lindsey Smith and Harper Baldwin, all also from UAF. They all weathered one of the biggest storms in recent history and conducted further coring to help better characterize the environmental conditions surrounding the extinction of the most recent (5,600 years before present) mammoths in Alaska (not on the mainland - which is the focus of the Adopt a Mammoth Project).
Image: Top: Windy app image of the Sept 2022 storm in the Bering Sea. Middle: Nancy, Lindsey and Mat coring in the crater of an extinct volcano on St. Paul Island. Bottom: Mat in a hole at a study site. Below: A visit to the cave where mammoths remains had previously been found on St. Paul and a schematic cross section of the cav. Photo credits: M. Wooller 2022.
Aug 2022 - UAF Chancellor White adopts the first mammoth.
Image: Chancellor White (left) and Mat (right) sample a mammoth skull in the University of Alaska Museum of the North (photo credit Eric Engman UAF)
Aug 25th 2022 - Adopt a woolly mammoth and win!
News Miner by Ned Rozell.