Alaska Science Forum: 100 years since the big one
By nrozell [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu (Ned Rozell)
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.
Old friends mourn Jayaweera: Former GI scientist, UAF administrator dies at 73
Old friends and colleagues at the Geophysical Institute were informed that Kolf O. Jayaweera, 73, died on May 16, 2012. Jayaweera had battled a long illness as a result of a rare brain disorder. He came to the Geophysical Institute in the early 1970s and served as a physics professor and associate professor of geophysics.
The Top 20 Things You Didn't Know About Alaska
Geophysical Institute Science Writer nrozell [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu (Ned Rozell) will participate in the Discover Alaska Lecture Series by providing a special talk on Wednesday, May 30. "The Top 20 Things You Didn't Know About Alaska" will cover interesting trivia about our state -- from super chickadees to the fact that Alaska shares the same all-time high temperature as Hawaii. You'll be amazed and amused.
Alaska Science Forum: Magpies are a common site in state
By nrozell [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu (Ned Rozell)
A while back, Ron Koczaja was walking a riverbank in Kasigluk with a village elder when a large, striking bird perched on a power line.
“What is that bird?” the woman asked.
“A magpie,” said Koczaja, a teacher in the village. “What’s it called in Yupik?”
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."
Lone wolf's days of wandering are over
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Seth McMillan of the National Park Service recovers the body of a male wolf that roamed more than 2,000 miles in seven months. The wolf died of starvation; McMillan is pictured where he and John Burch found it beneath a spruce tree near the upper Kanuti River.
Photo courtesy John Burch.
Thanks to information from a collar that communicated with satellites, a biologist has closed the book on the long journey of a male wolf that left its pack last one year ago and wandered thousands of miles through northern Alaska.
Physics Journal Club will be held Friday, May 4 at 3:45 p.m. in the Globe Room of the Elvey Building
Physics Journal Club will be held this Friday, May 4, 2012, at 3:45 p.m. in the Globe Room of the Elvey Building.
Title: Snow Effects in Antarctic Infrasound
Speaker: David Withoff, Wilson Infrasound Observatory, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute
Abstract:
Alaska Space Grant and NASA EPSCoR Education and Research Symposium to be held this week at Wood Center
The Alaska Space Grant and NASA EPSCoR Education and Research Symposium will be held this Thursday, May 3 and Friday, May 4 in the University of Alaska Fairbanks Wood Center.
See the research projects Alaska Space Grant Students have been working on during the 2011-2012 academic year. Viewing open to the public from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., Thursday, May 3 in the Wood Center Ballroom. Light refreshments will be provided.
The language link between central Siberia and Alaska
Edward Vajda in the village of Kellog in Siberia, a place where some people older than 50 still speak the Ket language, which is related to Athabaskan and other North America language families.
Courtesy Edward Vajda.
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.
GI T-shirts for sale
You know you want one! Geophysical Institute T-shirts are now available in sizes small through XXL. All regular sized T-shirts are $15. If you want an XXL, it's $16. All proceeds from the T-shirt sales fund future GI events.
Contact Debbie Coxon in GI Operations for more information at dcoxon [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu.
