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The venue of the European Geosciences Union annual meeting in Vienna, Austria, is shown prior to the start of this week’s meeting. Photo courtesy EGU.

Geophysical Institute research on display at European science meeting

Geophysical Institute
April 25, 2023
Research by several University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute scientists is being presented this week at the annual meeting of the...
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This still photo from the Poker Flat Research Range's all-sky camera on the night of Saturday, April 15-16 shows a spiral in the sky resulting from the the SpaceX rocket's gas exhaust. Photo courtesy Don Hampton

Giant spiral appears in Alaska sky

Geophysical Institute
April 18, 2023
Aurora watchers in Alaska were startled early Saturday morning when a huge spiral appeared in the sky. People quickly posted photos on social...
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This scanned image of a slice of the Pacific Ocean nodule reveals the nodule’s growth rings. Photo courtesy of Gunther Kletetschka

Paleomagnetism aids research on the Northern Hemisphere Glaciation

Geophysical Institute
April 14, 2023
A small piece of Pacific Ocean floor, brought up 10 years ago by a Chinese research vessel from a depth of 16,500 feet and 2,700 miles from the...
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The ore body containing graphite is shown in this 2021 photo of Graphite Creek. At far left is a Graphite One drill rig. Photo by George Case, U.S. Geological Survey.

Research reveals geologic history of critical Alaska graphite deposit

Geophysical Institute
April 13, 2023
“This gives us a better understanding of how the rock evolved and how the processes affected the rocks’ texture and mineralogy over time,” said...
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ACUASI pilot Matt Westhoff guides the SeaHunter aircraft to the runway at Nenana Municipal Airport on May 5, 2022, for another test flight. Photo by Rod Boyce

New hangar will make Nenana a base for drone cargo testing

Geophysical Institute
April 12, 2023
ACUASI has been using the city-owned Nenana airport regularly for test flights and wants the city to become a part of an Interior drone testing...
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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.

New method of monitoring shore ice could improve public safety

Geophysical Institute
March 29, 2023
Specialized portable radar could serve as an early warning system to reduce risk for humans working on shorefast sea ice, according to a recently...
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The Elvey Building, right, at the University of Alaska Fairbanks houses the Geophysical Detection of Nuclear Proliferation University Affiliated Research Center. Photo by JR Ancheta.

‘Airborne object’ response builds on UAF, military partnership

Geophysical Institute
March 16, 2023
Robert McCoy, director of the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute, was driving to the movie theater in Fairbanks on a Saturday...
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Image is a colored 3D perspective view of Venus’ Maat Mons. Image by David P. Anderson, SMU/NASA science photo library

UAF scientist offers evidence that Venus is volcanically active

Geophysical Institute
March 15, 2023
Venus appears to have volcanic activity, according to a new research paper that offers strong evidence to answer the lingering question about...
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The Magellan probe that orbited Venus from 1990 to 1994 was able to peer through the thick Venusian clouds and build up the above image by emitting and re-detecting cloud-penetrating radar. Visible as the bright patch below central North is Venus’ highest mountain, Maxwell Montes. NASA image

UAF researchers aiding NASA in developing Venus seismometer

Geophysical Institute
February 23, 2023
Earth has earthquakes, Venus has venusquakes. Researchers at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute, working with NASA, are...
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