Best fiction award goes to Sue Ann Bowling for Tourist Trap
Tourist Trap, a novel by North Pole resident and former Geophysical Institute researcher sbowling [at] mosquitonet [dot] com (Sue Ann Bowling), was named best Fiction Book of the Year by Reader Views.
2012 Alaska Weather Symposium
Scientists, students and community stakeholders will convene at the Geophysical Institute this Tuesday and Wednesday, March 13 -14, to discuss air pollution among other topics related to the region's weather and environment.
The 2012 Alaska Weather Symposium will provide a forum for sharing operational and research information specifically related to the themes of air quality, data assimilation, high resolution modeling in complex terrain, observations/monitoring challenges and weather-scale sea ice.
Iliamna Volcano: AVO increases alert level to Advisory and the Aviation Color Code to Yellow
The Alaska Volcano Observatory changed the Aviation Color Code of Iliamna Volcano to Yellow on Friday, March 9. Over the past three months the earthquake rate at the volcano has steadily increased and now exceeds normal background levels. Although it is not certain that this sustained increase in earthquake activity represents the movement of magma at depth, it is a significant change and AVO has increased the Alert Level to Advisory and the Aviation Color Code to Yellow.
Alaska Weather Summary: February 2012
Temperatures were above normal this February for all nine of the stations operated by the Alaska Climate Research Center. February’s temperatures are in stark contrast to a colder than normal January. Most of February was above normal with the exception of the last week of the month, which was colder than seasonably typical.
Alaska Science Forum: More news on bird noses
By nrozell [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu (Ned Rozell)
After reading a recent column about whales’ ability to smell, a few people wanted to know more about the same sense in birds.
"Every bird that’s been studied has a sense of smell,” said Julie Hagelin, a biologist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks who has pondered that overlooked ability in birds for years.
Alaska beetles sruvive 'unearthly' temperatures
The adult and larva versions of the red flat bark beetle, one of the hardiest organisms in Alaska.
Ned Rozell photo.
As we pull on our winter coats and wool hats to shield our tropical bodies from the cold, there is a creature in our midst that survives Alaska’s coldest temperatures bare-naked.
Kramm invited to join editorial board of new journal
Dataset Papers in Atmospheric Sciences is a new academic journal published by Hindawi Publishing Corporation. The journal will publish papers from all areas of atmospheric sciences research. Gerhard Kramm, an associate professor with the UAF College of Natural Science and Mathematics and the GI Atmospheric Sciences Group, was invited to join the editorial board of the publication in February 2012.
Mölders to deliver overview talk at climate research conference
From June 18 to 20, 2012, more than 100 experts will convene in Boulder, Colo. to attend a Lower Atmospheric Observing Facilities Workshop, sponsored
