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The Elvey Building, right, at the University of Alaska Fairbanks houses the Geophysical Detection of Nuclear Proliferation University Affiliated Research Center. Photo by JR Ancheta.

‘Airborne object’ response builds on UAF, military partnership

Geophysical Institute
March 16, 2023
Robert McCoy, director of the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute, was driving to the movie theater in Fairbanks on a Saturday...
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Image is a colored 3D perspective view of Venus’ Maat Mons. Image by David P. Anderson, SMU/NASA science photo library

UAF scientist offers evidence that Venus is volcanically active

Geophysical Institute
March 15, 2023
Venus appears to have volcanic activity, according to a new research paper that offers strong evidence to answer the lingering question about...
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The Magellan probe that orbited Venus from 1990 to 1994 was able to peer through the thick Venusian clouds and build up the above image by emitting and re-detecting cloud-penetrating radar. Visible as the bright patch below central North is Venus’ highest mountain, Maxwell Montes. NASA image

UAF researchers aiding NASA in developing Venus seismometer

Geophysical Institute
February 23, 2023
Earth has earthquakes, Venus has venusquakes. Researchers at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute, working with NASA, are...
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Alaska Earthquake Center research seismologist Ezgi Karasözen displays a map of earthquake activity in a computer application named Earthquake. UAF/GI photo by JR Ancheta

For a UAF seismologist, the Turkey earthquake is personal

Geophysical Institute
February 21, 2023
No, he said, it had just struck their native Turkey and northern Syria, both 12 hours ahead of Alaska. An email alert soon arrived from the U.S...
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David Newman.  UAF photo by Todd Paris

UAF research contributes to progress on fusion energy

Geophysical Institute
February 20, 2023
Fairbanks and nuclear fusion research usually aren’t mentioned in the same sentence. But they could be. Plasma physicist David Newman at the...
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Event participants gather around the Sentry unmanned aircraft of the UAF Alaska Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration after a successful flight May 22, 2022, at Fairbanks International Airport. Photo by JR Ancheta/UAF Geophysical Institute

FAA grants wide authority to UAF unmanned aircraft center

Geophysical Institute
February 15, 2023
The Federal Aviation Administration has granted a regulatory waiver to the University of Alaska Fairbanks unmanned aircraft systems test site...
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University of Alaska Fairbanks Ph.D. student Kyle Smith installs a seismic sensor in the Minto Flats on Sept. 3, 2015. Photo by Carl Tape

Research explains strength of earthquake shaking in Nenana Basin

Geophysical Institute
January 25, 2023
Research about the Nenana Basin conducted by former University of Alaska Fairbanks Ph.D. student Kyle Smith was published in December in the...
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Alaska Satellite Facility Director Wade Albright, with the Elvey Building behind him at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. ASF is located in the Elvey Building. Photo by JR Ancheta

Wade Albright selected as director of Alaska Satellite Facility

Geophysical Institute
January 24, 2023
“I’m proud to be associated with ASF because we’ve done such phenomenal things,” Albright said. “We’ve been so successful. And that’s because of...
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The annual Science for Alaska lecture series returns this year to an in-person format, with the addition of an online audience, after two years of being online only due to the COVID outbreak. In this 2019 photograph, audience members listen during a presentation. UAF Geophysical Institute photo

31st annual Science for Alaska talks and outreach events announced

Geophysical Institute
January 20, 2023
The University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute will host free public talks about tracking space debris, fostering education using the...
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