Alaska Science Forum: Dramatic report card for the Arctic in 2012

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2012-12-10
Teaser Title: 
2012 was a year of "astounding" change
Teaser Text: 
AGU scientists share details at press conference

Photo by Ned RozellBy nrozell [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu (Ned Rozell)

 

Northern sea ice is at its lowest extent since we’ve been able to see it from satellites. Greenland experienced its warmest summer in 170 years. Eight of 10 permafrost-monitoring sites in northern Alaska recorded their highest temperatures; the other two tied record highs.

 

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Join us for the 2013 Science For Alaska Lecture Series in January

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Release Date: 
2012-12-06
Teaser Title: 
Save the Dates!
Teaser Text: 
Science For Alaska Lecture Series this January

 

2013 SFALS Line-up

 

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Atmospheric Science
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Seismology
Snow Ice Permafrost

Alaska Science Forum: Yakutat time, correcting some errors, big meeting in San Francisco

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2012-11-29
Teaser Title: 
AGU Fall Meeting approaches
Teaser Text: 
GI science writer to cover event for 14th consecutive year

 

Hans Nielsen at AGU press conference in 2011.By nrozell [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu (Ned Rozell)

 

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Alaska Science Forum: Goodbye to a giant of glacier research

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2012-11-27
Teaser Title: 
Austin Post leaves behind a legacy
Teaser Text: 
Pioneer defined fieldwork done in Alaska; photographed thousands of glaciers

 

Austin Post in his home studyBy nrozell [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu (Ned Rozell)

High-school dropout Austin Post’s career began in the 1950s, when colleagues made up the title “Senior Meteorologist” to include him in a funding proposal.

 

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Goodbye to a giant of glacier research

Austin Post in an orange jacket.

Photo by Ron Karpilo, U.S.G.S.

Doubling our daylight savings

Carl Benson, crosser of Greenland, longtime studier of Mount Wrangell, world expert on ice fog and devotee to the metric system.

Photo by Christine Simko, Design Services, Geophysical Institute.

Last week, Carl Benson, 85, accepted a lifetime achievement award from the place he has worked since Dwight Eisenhower was president. As the snow and ice scientist and professor emeritus at University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Geophysical Institute rose to applause from his friends and coworkers, memories rushed back to me.
   

Alaska Science Forum: Doubling our daylight savings

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Release Date: 
2012-11-08
Teaser Title: 
Doubling our daylight savings
Teaser Text: 
Reflections on Carl Benson's GI research

 

Professor Emeritus Carl Benson, GI PhotoBy nrozell [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu (Ned Rozell)

 

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Professor Emeritus Carl Benson honored

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2012-11-05
Teaser Title: 
Professor Emeritus Carl Benson honored
Teaser Text: 
Scientist earns 2012 Roger Smith Lifetime Achievement Award

 

On November 2, 2012, Professor Emeritus Carl Benson was the first recipient of the new Roger Smith Lifetime Achievement Award. Benson’s sustained commitment to the Geophysical Institute and research success are a model worth emulation. Benson’s award was presented by longtime friend and colleague Professor Emeritus Glenn Shaw at the Annual Banquet held at the Westmark Gold Room.

 

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Atmospheric Science
Directors Office
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Alaska Science Forum: Snow researcher finds his Arctic

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Release Date: 
2012-11-02
Teaser Title: 
"Finding the Arctic" reviewed
Teaser Text: 
"[Matthew] Sturm is one of those people who would have been quite happy tromping through the Arctic a few hundred years ago"

 

Matthew Sturm photoBy nrozell [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu (Ned Rozell)

 

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Snow Ice Permafrost
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Alaska Science Forum: Lake stars and windshield cracks now forming over Alaska

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Release Date: 
2012-10-25
Teaser Title: 
Lake stars, windshield cracks forming
Teaser Text: 
Alaska Science Forum zeroes in on the phenomena

 

lake star in Fairbanks, AKBy nrozell [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu (Ned Rozell)

 

As Alaska’s billion lakes become colder and harder, some of them will sport mysterious, spidery cracks extending from small holes in the ice. This phenomenon inspired a geophysicist to figure out what he calls “lake stars.”

 

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