Alaska Science Forum: Wildfire hits close to home for scientist
By nrozell [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu (Ned Rozell)
While pounding nails on a roof extension for his shed this summer, Scott Rupp heard a roar that almost scared him off the roof. Three planes with bellies full of fire retardant swooped low, then banked over the mountain behind his home.
ASF awarded huge NASA contract
NASA announced on Friday, September 27 that it selected the University of Alaska Fairbanks to develop and operate the Synthetic Aperture Radar Distributed Active Archive Center for NASA’s Earth Observing System Data and Information System. The DAAC is managed by the Alaska Satellite Facility at the Geophysical Institute at UAF.
Alaska Science Forum: 90-mile aqueduct still etched in Interior hills
By nrozell [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu (Ned Rozell)
Like a bright yellow contour line painted above the Steese Highway, the Davidson Ditch now reveals itself by the flagging autumn birches and poplars that clog its path.
Alaska Science Forum: Winds and ice stop Northwest Passage journey
By nrozell [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu (Ned Rozell)
Beavers and jet skis surprised four adventurers on their recent attempt to row through the Northwest Passage. Vancouver, British Columbia residents Kevin Vallely, Paul Gleeson, Frank Wolf and Denis Barnett are now back home after the team stopped short of its goal of gliding through the northern waterway on muscle power.
Earth, Wind & Fire: First Friday Art Show October 4
Come enjoy artwork created by University of Alaska Fairbanks faculty, staff, students and community members centered around the theme, Earth, Wind & Fire.
Warming ocean thawing Antarctic glacier, researchers say
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Sept. 18, 2013
CONTACT: Diana Campbell, 907-474-5229, dlcampbell [at] alaska [dot] edu
PDF DownloadAlaska Science Forum: Billions of bodies on the move
By nrozell [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu (Ned Rozell)
CREAMER’S FIELD, FAIRBANKS — “As this bird takes off, think about how they have to fly thousands and thousands of miles,” Tricia Blake said to 21 first-graders sitting on wooden benches surrounded by birch and balsam poplar trees.
Alaska Science Forum: A supertanker voyage through the Northwest Passage
By nrozell [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu (Ned Rozel)l
Magnitude 7.0 earthquake in Aleutians
The magnitude 7.0 earthquake that struck just 58 miles east/southeast of Adak, Alaska on Aug. 30, 2013 was a whopper, but not unusual for the region. The earthquake occurred at 8:25 a.m. that morning at the interface of the Pacific and North American plates, a region called the Aleutian Arc.
The Aleutian Arc is home to more than 20 earthquakes of magnitude 6.5 or larger within the last century.
