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.

Flying machines for the dirty, dull and dangerous

Some places in this world are just too dirty, dull or dangerous for human pilots to fly. An airspace in the latter category is anywhere near gas flares in Alaska’s oilfields. With only a few seconds of warning, flames blast high in the air from a network of pipes, releasing the stress of sucking oil from deep in the ground.

Once again, news of the world from San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO — For the thirteenth straight year, I’m happy to be spending one week of December here, at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, where more than 15,000 scientists gather for a week to discuss the latest news of the world.

The State of the State, 1906

Alfred Brooks was a geologist who traveled thousands of miles in Alaska and left his name on the state’s northernmost mountain range. Twenty years before his death in 1924, he also left behind a summary of what Alaska was like over a century ago, when “large areas (were) still practically unexplored.”

The Alaska porcupine's winter in slow-motion

While running through Bicentennial Park in Anchorage, biologist Jessy Coltrane spotted a porcupine in a birch tree. On her runs on days following, she saw it again and again, in good weather and bad. Over time, she knew which Alaska creature she wanted to study.

The greatest story of man and permafrost

In 1973, Elden Johnson was a young engineer with a job working on one of the most ambitious and uncertain projects in the world — an 800-mile steel pipeline that carried warm oil over frozen ground. Thirty-five years later, Johnson looked back at what he called “the greatest story ever told of man’s interaction with permafrost.”

Glaciers no obstacle for Copper River and Northwestern Railway

Home of the trans-Alaska pipeline, Alaska has been the setting for a few epic engineering battles rendered against nature. The Million Dollar Bridge, spanning the lower Copper River, is a reminder of another improbable Alaska construction project.

The giant waves of Lituya Bay

One of the prettiest places in Southeast Alaska has felt some of nature’s most violent behavior.

Eroding islands, disappearing glaciers, lots of greenhouse gases

The latest meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco in December 2011 featured hundreds of talks about Earth science, some of those relating to Alaska (and some of those comprehensible to a non-scientist). Here are a few items from the notebook I carried around the Moscone Center:

Alaska scientist leaves colorful legacy

Alaska scientist Davis “Dave” Sentman died in December 2011. The man who named “sprites,” colorful discharges that burst upward from thunderclouds, was 66 years old.

When NASA visited Venetie

VENETIE — The cozy log structure smells of coffee, gasoline, and spruce logs burning in a stove made from a 55-gallon drum. Inside the building that serves as the Village Council headquarters for Venetie, Josh Bundick explains a new policy that rewards villagers who find spent rocket parts launched from north of Fairbanks.

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