Alaska Science Forum: Doubling our daylight savings
By nrozell [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu (Ned Rozell)
Professor Emeritus Carl Benson honored
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.
Alaska Science Forum: Snow researcher finds his Arctic
By nrozell [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu (Ned Rozell)
Alaska Science Forum: Lake stars and windshield cracks now forming over Alaska
By 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.”
Lake stars and windshield cracks forming all over Alaska
A “lake star” that formed on a Fairbanks lake.
Tohru Saito photo.
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.”
“I thought something so pretty and relatively commonly observed should be understandable, so I pursued it,” said Victor Tsai, who wrote perhaps the only paper in existence on lake stars.
Dipper swims throughout Alaska winters
An American dipper on the Sanctuary River in Denali National Park.
Photo by Ned Rozell.
On the upper Chena River in the heart of a cold winter, a songbird appeared on a gravel bar next to gurgling water that somehow remained unfrozen in 20-below zero air. Then the bird jumped in, disappeared underwater, and popped up a few feet upstream.
The bird continued snorkeling and diving against the current of the stream, which is so far north that in December direct sunlight never touches it, instead bathing only the tops of spruce trees with a ruby light.
G. Carleton Ray from the University of Virginia to give seminar in Elvey Auditorium on October 10 at 3:30 p.m.
Geophysical Institute Seminar
Seascape as an Organizing Principle for Evaluating Sea-Ice as Habitat in Beringia:Consequences for Conservation and Management
G. Carleton Ray
Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia
Wednesday October 10, 3:30pm
Afternoon seminar in GI Globe Room; October 9 at 3:30 p.m.
On Being a Federal Government Science & Technology Program Officer and a UAF Professor
Speaker: Dr. Martin Jeffries, Research Professor of Geophysics
Date: Tuesday, October 9th, 2012
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Location: Elvey Globe Room
Abstract:
"Snow & Ice": A First Friday art show to feature GI faculty, staff, students and more
Join us on Friday, October 5 at the GeoData Center in the International Arctic Research Center for “Snow & Ice” – a First Friday Art Show. The event will run from 5 to 7 p.m. on the West Ridge of the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus.
