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.

Magpies a more common sight throughout Alaska

A while back, Ron Koczaja was walking a riverbank in Kasigluk with a village elder when a large, striking bird perched on a powerline.

The tiny universe on the surface of Alaska glaciers

A scientist wearing plastic boots and crampons knelt on Gulkana Glacier and pointed at the king of beasts, a snow flea.

Arctic lakes getting a closer look

Minnesota is the Land of 10,000 Lakes, but Alaska has more than that in the great expanse of flatlands north of the Brooks Range. These ubiquitous far-north bodies of water — most of them formed by the disappearance of ancient, buried ice that dimples the landscape as it thaws — make the maps of Alaska’s coastal plain look like Swiss cheese.

100 years since the big one

On June 6, 1912, if you happened to be sitting on a log outside your cabin near Fairbanks, Juneau or Dawson City, you would have heard an explosion.

A quarterly century of change

Not too long ago, I passed a milestone that doesn’t really mean much, but is a nice round number. Twenty-five years ago, I drove a Ford Courier pickup from upstate New York to Fairbanks, Alaska. I rolled into town in August, started college in September, and have lived here ever since.Not too long ago, I passed a milestone that doesn’t really mean much, but is a nice round number. Twenty-five years ago, I drove a Ford Courier pickup from upstate New York to Fairbanks, Alaska. I rolled into town in August, started college in September, and have lived here ever since.

Your hair knows where you've been

Sprouting from your head at the rate of more than three inches a year, hair is a recorder of the things you eat and drink and where you ate and drank them. An Ottawa-based researcher has just assembled a countrywide database of Canadians’ hair designed to help the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

Dinosaurs in the Wrangell Mountains

With these finds, and more to be announced once the publishing cycle catches up with Fiorillo’s recent discoveries, Alaska in the time of the dinosaurs is coming into focus.

Mug shot of a wolf, magpie names, goodbye Rat Island

Sometimes you get lucky.

Lab developed Arctic innovations and oddities

“Cleaning and Sterilization of Bunny Boots.” “Comparative Sweat Rates of Eskimos and Caucasians Under Controlled Conditions.” These are some of the studies completed by scientists who worked for the Arctic Aeromedical Laboratory from the late 1940s to the 1960s. Developed during the Cold War to “solve the severe environmental problems of men living and working in the Arctic,” the lab cranked out dozens of quirky and sometimes controversial publications in its two decades of existence.

Moose flies a high-summer Alaska pest

While boating down the Yukon River during the hottest summer recorded in Alaska (1915, when Fort Yukon reached 100 degrees Fahrenheit), missionary Hudson Stuck wrote about the wildlife that most bothered his party.

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