Welcome!
OneTree Alaska is a STEAM (STEM + Arts) program affiliated with the Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station of the University of 缅北禁地.
OneTree Alaska鈥檚 mission is to engage learners of all ages in boreal forest education, citizen science and forest product development. It is centrally concerned with phenology, seasonality and climate change. Phenology is the study of cyclic and seasonal natural phenomena, especially in relation to climate and plant and animal life.
OneTree Alaska STEAM integrated research and citizen science projects are made possible through collaboration with K-12 teachers, the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District, university students, staff and faculty, and many community partners.
The local boreal forest is our foundation and inspires our work. Please see our recent projects, and share your expertise.
A photo of Kes Woodward's painting "Dancing into the Dark." This painting, which depicts one of our research trees at this time of year, is OneTree's signature piece.
A QR code for the OneTree Ustore our U-Store portal:
Arielle Johnson, author of "Flavorama" is the keynote speaker for a birch sensory panel workshop on Sept. 28-29.
Honoring our collaborators
OneTree Alaska is celebrating the individuals honored at the 2025 Blue and Gold Celebration who have been collaborating with OneTree on our spring curriculum unit, 鈥淭apping into Spring,鈥 and as birch tree tappers/citizen scientists through the Fairbanks Birch Sap Cooperative.
Sabine Siekmann
Chef Sean Walklin
Jon Buchholtz
Furthering the OneTree mission
OneTree Alaska鈥檚 mission is 鈥渢o engage learners of all ages in boreal forest education, citizen science and forest product development.
To that aim, we have invited Arielle Johnson, author of 鈥淔lavorama鈥 to be the keynote speaker of a birch sensory panel workshop on Sept. 28-29. The purpose of this initial invitation-only workshop is to develop birch syrup flavor profiles, the foundation of the inaugural OneTree Birch Syrup Flavor Wheel. We plan to schedule more workshops to build upon these flavor profiles in the future.
You are invited to visit the OneTree Alaska STEAM Studio in the Lola Tilly Commons building to learn more about our research, community outreach and education.
If you are interested in our products, you can purchase them at .
For more information, contact: Jen Hoppough at jahoppough@alaska.edu or Dr. Jan Dawe (OneTree Alaska Program Lead) at jcdawe@alaska.edu.