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.

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.

Does a whale's nose know the way to food?

Julie Hagelin remembers the day she hugged a rare New Zealand kakapo parrot to her chest. The soft, green bird emitted the scent of lavender, like dust and honey; it lingered upon Hagelin’s t-shirt for hours. That powerful essence inspired her question to the revered biologist for whom she was working. Was the bird’s pleasant odor attractive to other birds?

Alaska beetles sruvive 'unearthly' temperatures

As we pull on our winter coats and wool hats to shield our tropical bodies from the cold, there is a creature in our midst that survives Alaska’s coldest temperatures bare-naked.

Searching for secrets within the Alaska sled dog

Mike Davis lives in Oklahoma, but he travels to Alaska all the time to work with our greatest athletes.

Spring equinox tips the light northward

My thermometer here in Fairbanks is stuck on single digits today, but the height of the sun and a quick online check informs me that this is indeed the spring equinox. We will experience daylight for half the day, which was beyond imagining when the sun was two fingers above the Alaska Range in December.

Explorer's magnetic measurements ring true

More than a century ago, Roald Amundsen and his crew were the first to sail through the Northwest Passage, along the way leaving footprints in Eagle, Nome, and Sitka. Pioneering that storied route was a dream of Amundsen’s since his boyhood in Norway, but he also performed enduring science on the three-year voyage of the Gjøa.

Wind-aided birds on their way north

After flying northward from Chile, a whimbrel landed in late March in an alfalfa field near Mexicali, Mexico. The handsome shorebird with a long curved beak left its wintering ground in South America one week earlier and flew more than 5,000 miles. Nonstop.

"Snow Mosquitoes" the First Wave of Summer Irritants

After researching the mealtime mechanisms of mosquitoes, I've come up with a fool-proof plan to keep the bloodsuckers off me this summer.

Twenty feet of snow on Valdez Glacier

After a winter of outstanding snow conditions, three scientists drove snowmachines up Valdez Glacier this spring, curious to see how far they could get.

The language link between central Siberia and Alaska

Spoken by only a few dozen people, a language uttered in river villages 3,000 miles from Alaska is related to Tlingit, Eyak and Athabaskan. This curious link has researchers wondering how people in the middle of Siberia can be related to Alaskans and other North Americans, and what it means to the populating of the Americas.

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