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.
Alaska Science Forum: Wind-aided birds on their way north
Bynrozell [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu ( Ned Rozell)
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.
Alaska Science Forum: Explorer's magnetic measurements ring true
By nrozell [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu (Ned 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. 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.
"Views of the Circumpolar North": First Friday even on West Ridge
Joins friends and colleagues at a First Friday event in the Geophysical Institute's GeoData Center Map Office on Friday, April 6. The event, titled "Views of the Circumpolar North," will run from 5 to 7 p.m. and is free to the public.
"Views of the Circumpolar North" will feature local artist and teacher Mary Maisch's quilt titled, "The World is Simply a Very Big Ice-House: Stories of the Circumpolar North." Additionally, quilts by Martha Wiedmaier and Alaska Satellite Facility Director Nettie LaBelle-Hamer will be on display, with aurora photography by Bud Kuenzil.
Akasofu to discuss "Challenge"
Syun-Ichi Akasofu will provide a special seminar titled "Challenge" on Thursday, April 5. The talk will take place in room 401 of the Akasofu Building, from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. Akasofu will discuss his 50 years of research and summarize some of his experiences to offer 10 lessons for younger researchers. All are welcome to attend.
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.
Alaska Science Forum: Spring equinox tips the light northward
By nrozell [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu (Ned Rozell)
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.
Davis Sentman memorial viewable online
Materials and video associated with the celebration of life held at the Geophysical Institute for Dr. Davis Sentman on January 27, 2012 is now available online. Click here to visit the online repository. Adobe Flash Player is needed to view the video.
DVD copies of the Sentman memorial are available upon request. If you're interested in a DVD copy, email info [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu.
Alaska Science Forum: Searching for secrets within the Alaska sled dog
By nrozell [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu (Ned Rozell)
Mike Davis lives in Oklahoma, but he travels to Alaska all the time to work with our greatest athletes.
“I’m up here about once a month, about half around Anchorage and half around Fairbanks,” the Oklahoma State University veterinarian and exercise physiologist said on the phone from Wasilla. “If I could settle on a single address, I could get a Permanent Fund Dividend.”
