Alaska temperature changes analyzed for first decade of 21st century
When the rest of the nation grapples with the results of a scorching hot 2012, scientists at the Alaska Climate Research Center found that Alaska got colder from 2000 to 2010. The cooling trend was identified after examining the 21st century's first decade of data on annual and seasonal values from Alaska's first order meteorlogical stations.
Science for Alaska 2013
Mark your calendars for Science for Alaska 2013! Our 21st year of the popular lecture series will experience some changes. Lectures will take place in Schaible Auditorium on the UAF campus and occur on Saturdays throughout January. We're hoping the smaller space and the coffee to follow each of the lectures will lead to a more intimate exchange between our line-up of lecturers and the community.
Temperature
URSA lecture to be held on Wednesday, December 5 at 5:30 p.m. in Schaible Auditorium
What's in the air? Pollution research at UAF
Presented by Cathy Cahill, Associate Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry
When: Wed, December 5, 5:30pm – 6:30pm
Where: Schaible Auditorium
Doubling our daylight savings
Carl Benson, crosser of Greenland, longtime studier of Mount Wrangell, world expert on ice fog and devotee to the metric system.
Photo by Christine Simko, Design Services, Geophysical Institute.
Last week, Carl Benson, 85, accepted a lifetime achievement award from the place he has worked since Dwight Eisenhower was president. As the snow and ice scientist and professor emeritus at University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Geophysical Institute rose to applause from his friends and coworkers, memories rushed back to me.
Alaska Science Forum: Doubling our daylight savings
By nrozell [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu (Ned Rozell)
Professor Emeritus Carl Benson honored
On November 2, 2012, Professor Emeritus Carl Benson was the first recipient of the new Roger Smith Lifetime Achievement Award. Benson’s sustained commitment to the Geophysical Institute and research success are a model worth emulation. Benson’s award was presented by longtime friend and colleague Professor Emeritus Glenn Shaw at the Annual Banquet held at the Westmark Gold Room.
Alaska Science Forum: Lake stars and windshield cracks now forming over Alaska
By nrozell [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu (Ned Rozell)
As Alaska’s billion lakes become colder and harder, some of them will sport mysterious, spidery cracks extending from small holes in the ice. This phenomenon inspired a geophysicist to figure out what he calls “lake stars.”
