Transit of Venus on June 5, 2012
On June 5, 2012, Alaskans will have the opportunity to witness an event that no one will likely see again in their lifetime -- the transit of Venus across the face of the sun. Transits of Venus are rare. They occur in pairs and are separated by more than 100 years. Tomorrow will be the second transit to occur this century. The last Venus transit occurred in 2004, but the next pair won't happen until 2117 and 2125!
Surplus maps available from GeoData Center Map Office
A surplus of miscellaneous maps are available for FREE in the GeoData Center Map Office on West Ridge. Drop in, check out the selection of free items, while perusing the office's collection of USGS maps, trail guides and more.
For details about the Map Office and what's available there click here.
Image courtesy of ASF.
Remote Sensing of the Last Frontier: IEEE Geoscience & Remote Sensing Society's Luncheon Lecture Series
Greg Walker, manager of the University of Alaska Unmanned Aircraft Program and Poker Flat Research Range, will be the featured speaker at the inaugerual talk in a new lecture series developed by the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society. On Tuesday, June 5, Walker will present "Using Unmanned Aircraft as a Remote Sensing Platform in Alaska" at 11:30 a.m.
Franz Meyer of the Remote Sensing research group and Jeremy Nicoll of the Alaska Satellite Facility are recognized for collaborative paper
The Geophysical Institute is pleased to announce that Associate Professor Franz Meyer has been selected to receive the Best Paper Award of the 9th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar, 2012. The EUSAR award includes an honorarium of 500 euros.
Science Potpourri 2012
The University of Alaska Fairbanks Science Potpourri will provide hands-on science fun for the entire family on Saturday, April 14, 2012. The event runs from noon to 3 p.m. in the Reichardt Building on the UAF campus. Graduate students from the Geophysical institute will be there, along with the portable planetarium. Check out this fun, FREE event!
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.
Peter Webley
Dr Webley joined the Geophysical Institute in February 2009 after arriving in Alaska in Fall 2005 and spending several years as a Post Doctoral Fellow at the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center. His research interests lie in volcanic ash cloud and plume detection through thermal and visible remote sensing as well as volcanic ash cloud modeling using Lagrangian transport and dispersion models.
- WOVO Representative, 2008 - Present
- IAVCEI Member, 2005 - Present
- AGU Member, 2005 - Present
- (2009 – Present) Assistant Research Professor, Geophysical Institute, UAF
- (2005 – 2009) Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Faculty), University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF)
- (2003 – 2005) Postdoctoral Research Associate at Kings College London
- Operational Monitoring of Volcanoes
- Puff Dispersion Model
- Eruption Source Parameters
- Google Earth Applications
- Webley, P. W., Dean, K., Peterson, R., Steffke, A., Harrild, M., and Groves, J., (2011). Dispersion Modelling of Volcanic Ash Clouds: North Pacific Eruptions, the past 40 years: 1970 – 2010. Natural Hazards.
- De Angelis, S., McNutt, S. R., and Webley, P. W., (2011) Evidence of atmospheric gravity waves during the 2008 eruption of Okmok volcano from seismic and remote sensing observations , Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L10303, doi:10.1029/2011GL047144, 2011.
- Rybin, A., Chibisova, M., Webley, P. W., Steensen, T., Izbekov, P., Neal, C., and Realmuto, V., (2011). The June 2009 eruption of Sarychev Peak volcano, Matua Island, Central Kuriles. Bulletin of Volcanology, 73 (9), 1377 - 1392. DOI: 10.1007/s00445-011-0481-0.
- Gong, W., Meyer, F., Webley, P. W., and Lu, Z., (2011). Method of InSAR Atmosphere correction for volcano activity monitoring. IGARSS 2011.
- Liu, S., Mika, A., Gong, W., Hanssen, R., Meyer, F., Morton, D., and Webley, P. W., (2011). The role of weather models in mitigation of tropospheric delay for SAR interferometry. IGARRS 2011.
- Webley, P.W. (2011). Four Dimensional Volcanic Ash Cloud Predictions in Google Earth, with a special case of an ash-aviation encounter. Computer and Geosciences Special Issue: Virtual Globes, 37 (1), 25 – 37. doi:10.1016/j.cageo.2010.02.005.
- Webley, P.W., Dean, K.G., Dehn, J., Bailey, J.E., and Peterson, R., (2010), Volcanic-ash dispersion modeling of the 2006 eruption of Augustine Volcano Using the Puff Model, chapter 21 of Power, J.A., Coombs, M.L., and Freymueller, J.T., eds., The 2006 eruption of Augustine Volcano, Alaska: U.S.G.S. Prof. Paper 1769, 482–501 [http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/1769/chapters/p1769_chapter21.pdf].
- Bailey, J.E., Dean, K.G., Dehn, J., and Webley, P.W., (2010), Integrated satellite observations of the 2006 eruption of Augustine Volcano, chapter 20ofPower, J.A., Coombs, M.L., and Freymueller, J.T., eds., The 2006 eruption of Augustine Volcano, Alaska: U.S.G.S. Professional Paper 1769, 481–506 [http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/1769/chapters/p1769_chapter20.pdf].
- Cahill, C.F., Rinkleff, P.G., Dehn, J., Webley, P.W., Cahill, T.A. and Barnes, D. E., (2010). Aerosol Measurements from a Recent Volcanic Eruption: Implications for Volcanic Ash Transport Predictions. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 198, (1-2), 76-80. doi: 10.016/j.volgeores.2010.08.012.
- Vaughan, G., and Webley, P. W., (2010). Satellite Observations of the March 2009 Hunga Ha’apai Volcanic Eruption, Tonga. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 198, (1- 2), 177-186. doi: 10.016/j.volgeores.2010.08.017.
Anupma Prakash
Awards and Honors
- (2011) Honored at UAF author's reception for edited book Coal and peat fires: A global perspective, Volume 1, Coal- combustion and geology
- (2011) Online curricula on Arctic sea ice selected for inclusion in the NSF Climate Literacy & Energy Awareness Network (CLEAN) collection
- (2010) Terris and Katrina Moore Prize for outstanding research at the Geophysical Institute (first female recipient)
- (2009) Best Technical Paper Award to team for paper on CO2 emissions from coalfires presented at the Annual International Coal Conference by Kolker
- (2008) Recognition from UAF College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics for Excellence in Teaching
- (2006) Teaching Excellence: Dean’s Annual Recognition List
Memberships
- Professional Societies:
- American Geophysical Union - Life member
- American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
- Association of Women Geoscientists
- Geological Society of America
- Indian Geological Congress - Life member
- Indian Society of Remote Sensing - Life member
- National Association of Geoscience Teachers
- Sigma Xi, Alaska Chapter - Life member
- Alaska Geological Society
- Working Groups:
- Member, NASA’s Hyperspectral Infrared Imager (HyspIRI) Thermal Infrared Science Working Group (since 2007).
- Chair, Data Access Working Group for the Digital Library of Earth Science Education (DLESE) (2005-2007); member since 2004
- Member, Education Evaluation Working Group for ESSE21 (2005-2006)
- Science Investigation Teams:
- Member, Science Investigation team for BIRD data, a satellite infrared sensor of the German Space Agency (1999-2005)
- Member, Science Investigation team for FOCUS, a planned satellite thermal infrared sensor of the German Space Agency (2003-2004)
- (2009 – Present) Professor at UAF Geology & Geophysics(50%); Geophysical Institute (50%)
- (2002 – 2009) Associate Professor UAF Geology & Geophysics (50%); Geophysical Institute (50%)
