Magpies a more common sight throughout Alaska
A black-billed magpie in the Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge.
Photo by Dave Menke.
A while back, Ron Koczaja was walking a riverbank in Kasigluk with a village elder when a large, striking bird perched on a powerline.
"What is that bird?" the woman asked.
"A magpie," said Koczaja, a teacher in the village. "What's it called in Yupik?"
"I don't know,” she said. “Them birds never used to be here. There is no word."
Wind-aided birds on their way north
A flock of bar tailed godwits departs Alaska in September from Nelson Lagoon on the Alaska Peninsula.
Photo by Bob Gill
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.
Explorer's magnetic measurements ring true
Part of Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen’s route through the Northwest Passage in the early 1900s. This image of from a plaque in Eagle, Alaska, to where Amundsen mushed from Herschel Island in the winter of 1905.
Photo by N. Rozell.
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.
Program prepares indigenous students for science careers
Program prepares indigenous students for science careers
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 28, 2012
PDF DownloadGI Education Research Group to host University of Houston's Edgar Bering on April 6 at 2 p.m. in Akasofu 417
The Geophysical Institute’s Education Research Group invites you to an afternoon seminar:
The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics STEM K-12 Outreach Program
Spring equinox tips the light northward
Sunshine is returning to the north with the spring equinox.
Ned Rozell photo.
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.
Searching for secrets within the Alaska sled dog
Alaska sled dogs like this one can adapt on the fly to extreme exercise.
Ned Rozell photo.
Mike Davis lives in Oklahoma, but he travels to Alaska all the time to work with our greatest athletes.
Students awarded at 2012 Alaska Weather Symposium
On March 13-14, 2012, the Geophysical Institute co-hosted the Alaska Weather Symposium. As in 2011, there was a student poster and oral presentation competition similar to those held at other academic conferences. This year, three students from Japan participated in this competition along with University of Alaska Fairbanks students from the Department of Atmospheric Sciences (GI, IARC, CNSM), Computer Sciences, and the School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences.
The first presentation in the GI Lunch Seminar Series will be held Feb. 20 at 12 p.m. in the GI Globe Room
GI Faculty, Staff, and Students are invited to the first talk of the GI LUNCH SEMINAR SERIES!
The first talk will be held in the GI Globe Room on MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20 at NOON. Pizza will be for sale at $2 a slice; come early to get your slice!
Speaker: Andy Mahoney
Title: Lessons learned from the first wintertime fuel delivery at Nome
Alaska Science Forum: Girls on Ice comes to Alaska
By nrozell [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu (Ned Rozell)
After more than a decade on the glaciers of Washington, Girls on Ice is coming to Alaska.
