Science and service: GI's Freymueller and Cahill named 2013 Usibelli winners
The University of Alaska Fairbanks has announced recipients of the 2013 Emil Usibelli Distinguished Teaching, Research and Public Service Awards.
Big booms over the northland
A photo from the Leonid Kulik expedition to the Tunguska region of Russia in 1929. A meteorite or comet knocked down millions of trees in one of the largest space-object-meets-Earth events in recorded history.
The Leonid Kulik Expedition, St. Petersburg Museum.
Near a small village in Russia, Marina Ivanova stepped into cross-country skis and kicked toward a hole in the snow. The meteorite specialist with the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History and Vernadsky Institute in Moscow was hunting for fragments of the great Chelyabinsk Meteorite that exploded three days earlier.
Alaska Science Forum: AEIC seismologists visits Southeast in wake of large earthquakes
By nrozell [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu (Ned Rozell)
Alaska Science Forum: A "totally weird" dinosaur; new waste study in Denali
By nrozell [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu (Ned Rozell)
Alaska Science Forum: Dinosaurs in the Wrangell Mountains
By nrozell [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu (Ned Rozell)
The more Tony Fiorillo explores Alaska, the more dinosaur tracks he finds on its lonely ridgetops. The latest examples are the stone footprints of two different dinosaurs near the tiny settlement of Chisana in the Wrangell Mountains.
Rattling Alaska: AEIC gathers info on recent seismicity
The Alaska Earthquake Information Center, based at the Geophysical Institute at the Unviersity of Alaska Fairbanks, collects earthquake data from a network of more than 400 seismic sites. Their job is to not only collect event data, but analyze and archive it for the State of Alaska, other agencies and the general public.
Geophysical Institute Quarterly Report Volume 24, No. 4 now available
How the Amerasia Basin was created, the utility of infrasound and debris lobes on the move in northern Alaska -- all of these topics are covered in the latest edition of the Geophysical Institute Quarterly Report. You can access a pdf of Volume 24, Number 4 online here or retrieve hard copies from the Outreach Office in Elvey 611. Find out what your colleagues are up to!
Paul W. Layer
Paul W. Layer, CNSM Dean, received his BS in geology from Michigan State University, and his MS and PhD degrees in geophysics from Stanford University. He spent three years as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Toronto, Department of Physics, and has been at UAF since 1989 when he was hired as an assistant professor in the Department of Geology & Geophysics and the Geophysical Institute.
