Christian Haselwimmer
- 2010-Present Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks
- 2010 Remote Sensing Data Analyst, British Antarctic Survey
- 2005-2006 Research Assistant, Imperial College London
- 1996-2004 Web Developer
I have broad research interests in the geological applications of remote sensing and photogrammetry including the following applications and techniques
- Applications:
- Geological, lithological and mineral mapping
- Geothermal exploration
- Geohazard assessment
- Techniques:
- Spaceborne and airborne spectral remote sensing at visible and thermal infrared wavelengths
- Laboratory spectroscopy including reflectance and FTIR emission spectroscopy
- Broadband FLIR imaging for assessment of thermal heat flux
Petrich to work at the Northern Research Institute in Narvik, Norway
As of Jan. 1, 2012, Chris Petrich will begin work at the Northern Research Institute (Norut) in Narvik, Norway. Petrich will be working on ice-related issues as part of a team of researchers. For a start, he will continue his work on oil-in-ice and other issues of relevance to Norway, including ice loads in hydropower dams.
"North by 2020: Perspectives on Alaska's Changing Social-Ecological Systems"
Orders can be placed now for “North by 2020: Perspectives on Alaska’s Changing Social-Ecological Systems,” a 736-page book edited by Associate Professor of Political Science Amy Lauren Lovecraft and Geophysical Institute Professor Hajo Eicken and available through the University of Alaska Press.
Prakash featured in American Federation of Teachers publication
University of Alaska Fairbanks' Anupma Prakash, Remote Sensing Group leader at the Geophysical Institute and co-chair of the Department of Geology and Geophysics, is on the cover of this month’s issue of On Campus, published by the American Federation of Teachers. The cover article, about pay and promotion inequities for women in academia, discusses a recent report by AFT titled “Promoting gender diversity in the faculty: What higher education unions can do.”
Read or download the article here.
The experiment that never ends
A plastic disc from an experiment 30 years ago, found by Paul Boots on Alaska’s North Slope in late July 2011.
Photo by Paul Boots.
Some experiments never end. Especially ones involving plastic objects released in the far north.
In late July 2011, Paul Boots, a supervisor at an
oilfield on Alaska’s North Slope, found a small, yellow plastic disc on a
creekbed. Scientists 30 years ago tossed the disc into the sea as part
of a study on arctic oil spills.
Boots, who works at the large gravel pad that hosts the
Badami oil field, was with his coworkers on an annual cleanup day along
a nameless creek just west of the gravel pad.
Inflating volcanoes of South America: Scientists learn what fuels a super eruption
High in the Andes Mountains, a few volcanoes have been inflating for decades despite not having erupted in hundreds of thousands of years. Geophysical Institute scientists lead a South American-based project to study the world’s largest body of magma and its implications in a land of super eruptions.
Improving upon the past: Venus’ topography and the future of planetary research
Long before Robert Herrick was a research associate professor at the Geophysical Institute, he was a doctoral candidate at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas working on the Magellan mission. Launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in 1989, the imaging radar orbited Venus until 1994. Herrick’s current research has brought him full circle. Along with colleagues, Herrick has reprocessed the data collected by Magellan. The results have been clarifying.
