Public Information & Education Outreach Office	903 Koyukuk Drive, Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK 99775-7320

Public Relations Services

     The Geophysical Institute Public Information and Education Outreach Office acts as a coordination center for the institute's public relations activities and as a resource for information about institute researchers. Trained personnel in the office conduct activities that promote the nature of the institute's research, instruction, accomplishments, and public service.

PR Services include:

• Scheduling and promoting numerous events open to the public including lectures, workshops, open houses, symposiums, and seminars;
• Scheduling scientific speakers for public lectures, for service organizations, for classroom presentations, and for related activities on a local, statewide, national, and international level;
• Coordinating on-location news and media interviews for the institute and institute scientists. The office prepares news releases, arranges briefings and press conferences, with GI administration and faculty, and prepares background material for media consumption;
• Scheduling and find volunteers for science fairs, career-day fairs, and other local, statewide, national, and international events and symposiums;
• Scheduling and conducting tours of the Geophysical Institute and of Poker Flat Research Range year round for schools, public groups, and visitors;
• Responding to requests for information about a wide range of topics and conducts background research for inquiries that come to the institute through email, by phone, or via letter.

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  For more information about any of these services or to obtain written information already produced by the Geophysical Institute, please contact
  Public Information Officer Amy Hartley at (907) 474-5823
  or
  Info@gi.alaska.edu (907) 474-7558.