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Science for Alaska 2025 is here!

K-12 planetarium show | Jan. 28

Local flash talk night | Jan. 30

Full science talks, in-person and virtually | Feb. 4, 11, 18, 25

Don't miss these opportunities to learn about exciting Alaska science from University of Alaska Fairbanks experts! Visit the Science for Alaska page for more information or for virtual options.

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Real-time data from the world around you.

Researchers

Meet the people behind the science.

Alaska Science Forum

Weekly column in cooperation with the UAF research community.

Mount Churchill stands in a white corner of the Alaska map, deceptive in its cold, windblown silence.

When I was drinking coffee with a cab-driving-author friend of the same vintage last week, he said of my occupation: “It’s the best job in Alaska.”

In late January 2025, meteorologists from the National Weather Service Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland, are predicting “dangerously cold temperatures and wind chill values for much of t

Right about now, within a shrub in southern Texas, a ruby-crowned kinglet twitches to face northward.

It’s time to start emptying the notebook following the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, which happened from Dec. 9-13, 2024 in Washington, D.C.

Facilities

Research facilities at the Geophysical Institute.