"It's Just a Number": Greg Shipman's 10-minute play to be performed April 13-14, 2012
Geophysical Institute Machine Shop Manager Greg Shipman had a play selected for performance by the Fairbanks Drama Association. Members of the association's board of directors chose Shipman's "It's Just a Number," as one of the best 10-minute plays they recieved during their 8x10 Festival. This mean's Shipman's work will be performed April 13 - 14 at FDA's Riverfront Theater in Fairbanks.
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.
Program prepares indigenous students for science careers
Program prepares indigenous students for science careers
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PDF DownloadAkasofu 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.
GI 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
