The 4th annual Geophysical Institute Food Drive has begun! This food drive supports the Fairbanks Community Food Bank and their mission to provide food for hungry people living in the Tanana Valley. The food drive will take place through the remainder of the month and items may be donated on the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus in Elvey Room 614. The GI hopes to collect 1,000 pounds of food or more to the local charity by October 31, 2012.

Geophysical Institute Pumpkin Carving Contest

Construction of the newest SuperDARN radar recently wrapped in Adak, Alaska. The project was led by scientists at the Geophysical Institute, with participation from Virginia Tech, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab and Dartmouth College. 

By nrozell [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu (Ned Rozell)

On the upper Chena River in the heart of a cold winter, a songbird appeared on a gravel bar next to gurgling water that somehow remained unfrozen in 20-below zero air. Then the bird jumped in, disappeared underwater, and popped up a few feet upstream.

By nrozell [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu (Ned Rozell)

Apache Alaska Corporation is sharing its Cook Inlet 3-D seismic data with the Alaska Department of Natural Resources, Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys (DGGS) and the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) to better identify seismic hazards in Southcentral Alaska.

UAF’s Geophysical Institute has begun the process of accepting and processing the data and will begin modeling efforts to help geologists at UAF and DGGS better identify seismic hazards in the area. 

A former Geophysical Institute graduate student earned a prestigious teaching award in Australia. L [dot] Almberg [at] curtin [dot] edu [dot] au (Leslie Almberg) received her doctorate in volcanology just a few short years ago and is now faculty at Curtin University in Western Australia.