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The audience listens to one of several brief science presentations in The Pub at the University of Alaska Fairbanks at the start of the 2023 Science for Alaska talk series. The 2024 talk series begins Thursday, Feb. 1, at The Pub. UAF/GI photo by Rebecca Beltran.

UAF announces 32nd annual Science for Alaska series

Geophysical Institute
January 26, 2024
Free public talks in the next few weeks will explore Mount Edgecumbe volcano, the peaking sun cycle’s boost to aurora viewing, Alaska’s role in...
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Girls take photos of a dragonfly at Creamer’s Field Migratory Waterfowl Refuge during summer camp. Photo by Perrin Teal Sullivan

Local items boost students’ connection to science

Geophysical Institute
January 26, 2024
Using local items in science lessons for K-12 students is especially important for teaching science in the North, according to new research...
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The time and temperature sign on Alumni Drive on a frigid January 2021 morning on the UAF Troth Yeddha’ campus in Fairbanks. UAF photo.

International Arctic weather workshop to be held at UAF

Geophysical Institute
January 12, 2024
An international group of nearly 140 military personnel and civilians with an interest in improving Arctic weather forecasting will gather at the...
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Bryant Chow in front of a seismic station deployed in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand. This station was part of the Broadband East Coast Network, which was deployed to improve data coverage for his imaging research. Photo courtesy Bryant Chow.

UAF scientist receives top honor from New Zealand geoscience society

Geophysical Institute
January 11, 2024
Assistant Professor Bryant Chow of the University of Alaska Fairbanks has received the Geoscience Society of New Zealand's top honor for his...
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Graduate student researcher Emily Fedders sits on top of an ice island with the portable interferometric radar. The ice island is in landfast sea ice on Alaska’s Arctic coast near Utqiaġvik. Photo courtesy of Andy Mahoney.

2023: A year of continued research leadership by the UAF Geophysical Institute

Geophysical Institute
December 21, 2023
2023, like the years and decades before it, showed the strength and significance of the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute as a...
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CeCe Borries-Strigle at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023, in San Francisco. Photo by Rod Boyce.

AGU research spotlight: New research benefits Arctic sea ice forecasting

Geophysical Institute
December 14, 2023
Ocean temperatures in the Bering Strait and heat transport through the region have increased over the past 20 years. New modeling using a range...
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Darren Tan at a seismology station. Photo courtesy Darren Tan.

AGU research spotlight: New research helps detect elusive volcanic tremors

Geophysical Institute
December 13, 2023
These are semi-continuous seismic or acoustic signals, or both, that Graduate student researcher Darren Tan at the University of Alaska Fairbanks...
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Opening day of the American Geophysical Union annual meeting in San Francisco. Photo by Rod Boyce.

More than 100 UAF researchers presenting work at national science conference

Geophysical Institute
December 11, 2023
“AGU is the country’s prime venue to showcase research to agencies and colleagues in academia,” “IARC research combines Arctic systems...
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Visitors gather at the University of Alaska Fairbanks exhibitor booth at the AGU Fall Meeting 2022 in Chicago, IL. UAF GI Photo by Kelly Eagan.

Geophysical Institute research at the American Geophysical Union 2023 Fall Meeting

Geophysical Institute
December 11, 2023
Geophysical Institute researchers and students are attending the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2023 from Dec. 11–15 in San Francisco...
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