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

In April 2013, personnel from the Alaska Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration at the UAF Geophysical Institute visited the Welgevonden Game Reserve in South Africa.

More than 80 participants have converged at the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska Fairbanks for a conference dedicated to seismic imaging. Participants will take in a number of presentations, conduct a poster session, tour the Alaska Earthquake Information Center and create simulations in the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center and more as part of the three-day conference.

The University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute will host “Rockets and Gold,” an open house at the Poker Flat Research Range Thursday, July 18 from 4 to 8 p.m. Admission is free and is open to all ages.

June in Fairbanks was warmer than normal, with a monthly mean temperature of 66.8 degrees Fahrenheit or 6.4 degrees above the long-term mean for the month. Only four days had a negative deviation from the normal. The highest temperature occurred the 25th and 26th, a sweltering 92 degrees was observed on both days. A new daily maximum record was set on the 25th, which broke the 1983 record by one degree.

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

In a world crawling with insects, those billions of tiny bodies fall into just 30 major descriptive groups, known as orders. That’s why Derek Sikes, curator of insects at the University of Alaska Museum of the North, was disappointed with a graduate student when she failed to identify a creature that was wandering her plots on Prince of Wales Island.

Wilderness pilots, hikers, boaters and people in Alaskan communities can now report online to authorities if they witness falling ash or an ash cloud from anerupting volcano. The Alaska Volcano Observatoryhas developed a new online tool for reporting visible volcanic ash. 

The University of Alaska Fairbanks has showers and limited housing available to any students or employees that are displaced by the Stuart Creek 2 fire.