Media and Public Relations

The Media and Public Relations team promotes Geophysical Institute faculty, staff and student research activities through print, radio, television and online/social media. Public
Relations staff construct press releases, function as media
liaisons, plan community events and lectures, help create announcements
and more.

Some ongoing GI public relations programs include:

•    The Geophysical Institute Quarterly Report
•    The Geophysical Institute Annual Report
•    Science for Alaska Lecture Series
•    The Alaska Science Forum
•    Media Relations
•    Special Editing & Writing Projects
•    Advertising & Public Relations Campaigns
•    The GI Weekly Newsletter
•    The Tanana Valley State Fair

For more information please contact:

Amy Hartley
Public Relations Manager
Elvey 606
amy [dot] hartley [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu
907-474-5823

 

 

Ned Rozell
Science Writer
IARC 203C
nrozell [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu
907-474-7468

 

 

Diana Campbell
Public Relations Assistant
Special Events Coordinator
Elvey 608
dlcampbell [at] alaska [dot] edu
907-474-5229

 

 

Kaz Alvarez
Student Assistant
Elvey 608
kaz [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu

Press Releases

All GI press releases are displayed here. You may select a group from the list on the left to view a more targeted selection of press releases.

From Alaska to the top of Africa

<p>On windy, cold nights a few decades ago, men in darkened rooms north of the Arctic Circle spent their evenings watching radar screens. They were looking for slashes of green light that represented

Gaseous dinosaurs and surging glaciers

<p>SAN FRANCISCO — The emissions of northern dinosaurs may have led to a warmer planet 70 million years ago, said a scientist attending the 2010 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in mid-December.</p> <p>Dinosaur hunters have found preserved footprints of hadrosaurs in rocks all over Alaska, including: Denali National Park, near the Colville River north of the Brooks Range, at Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve on the Alaska Peninsula, and in Yukon-Charley National Park and Preserve.</p>

Old dogs, Alaska, and the New World

<p>When people first walked across the Bering Land Bridge thousands of years ago, dogs were by their sides, according to a study published in the journal Science.</p>

Finding a midwinter night's roost

<p>During the darkest days of Alaska&rsquo;s winter, black-capped chickadees stuff themselves with enough seeds and frozen insects to survive18-hour nights. Where the chickadees spend those long night

Mummified forest tells tale of a changing north

<p>Two summers ago, Joel Barker was measuring gases wafting from the tundra on Ellesmere Island in Canada&rsquo;s far north. One day he took a break from his duties to check out a report from a warden

Alaska glaciers help drive rise in sea level

<p>Geophysical Institute researcher Regine Hock and her colleague Valentina Radic have calculated that the rate of sea-level rise due to the meltwater from glaciers in Alaska and elsewhere will increa

Notes from AGU's 2010 Fall Meeting

<p>My notebook is full from my visit to the American Geophysical Union&rsquo;s Fall Meeting in San Francisco, which convened for a week in December 2010. Here&rsquo;s some Alaska-related news:</p>

Alaska's all-time cold record turns 40

<p>At the northern fringe of the boreal forest, in a valley silent except for the occasional rumble of a truck on the Dalton Highway, an Alaska milestone came and went on January 23, 2011.</p>

Graduate student has career night in Chatanika

<p>POKER FLAT RESEARCH RANGE, NORTH OF FAIRBANKS &mdash; &ldquo;Ten, nine, eight . . .&rdquo;</p> <p>As a woman&rsquo;s voice echoed over loudspeakers on a breezy hill above the Chatanika

Rock redwoods in Sutton, stone bird tracks in Denali

<p>A few years ago, Chris Williams found a big tree on the grounds of an abandoned coal mine in Sutton, Alaska. It was six feet in diameter, stood more than 110 feet above the surrounding swamplands,

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