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.

The killing field of northern Alaska

<p>On a fine spring day about 70 million years ago, a few dozen duck-billed dinosaurs waded a channel of a great northern river. As they strode on two legs into the cloudy water, the man-size hadrosau

Laser light, GPS, Subaru used for precise glacier measurement

<p>As Chris Larsen drives his 1997 Subaru Legacy wagon around the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus, the jutting apparatus bolted to his car&rsquo;s roof rack draws a few stares.</p> <

Secretive seabird found nesting in Aleutians

<p>While hiking the rocky high country on one of the westernmost islands in Alaska a few years ago, Robb Kaler stumbled onto a birder’s dream. Walking around a knee-high volcanic boulder, Kaler flushed a plump little seabird. The bird bounced off a rock and disappeared into the fog. Kaler looked down and saw a turquoise egg in a shallow cup of tundra.</p> <p>“I knew it was something great,” Kaler said.</p>

Climber-turned-scientist ponders Alaska Range formation

<p>About 15 years ago, a distinguished geology professor named David Hopkins noticed that one of his brightest students wasn&rsquo;t captivated by the course Hopkins was teaching. After class, he call

Augustine Volcano as tsunami generator

<p>On Oct. 6, 1883, this entry was in the Alaska Commercial Company logbook at an English Bay trading post, located about 50 miles northeast of Augustine volcano:</p> <p>&ldquo;This mornin

The missing polar bears of St. Matthew Island

<p>&ldquo;We landed on St. Matthew Island early on a cold gray August morning, and judge our astonishment at finding hundreds of large polar bears . . . lazily sleeping in grassy hollows, or digging u

Learning from whales and whalers on top of the world

<p>OFF POINT BARROW &mdash; &ldquo;We&rsquo;re a long ways offshore,&rdquo; Craig George says. &ldquo;The water beneath us is about 180 feet deep.&rdquo;<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

Alaska heavy with summer insects

<p>In these days of endless sunshine and air that doesn&rsquo;t hurt to breathe, life is rich in the north, from the multitude of baby birds hatching at this instant to the month-old orange moose calv

Polar bears of the past survived warmth

<p>An ancient jawbone has led scientists to believe that polar bears survived a period thousands of years ago that was warmer than today.</p>

Burned Alaska may cause more burned Alaska

<p>The blackened scars that Alaska fires leave on the landscape may result in more lightning, more rain in some areas just downwind of the scars, and less rain farther away, according to two scientist

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