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This chart shows warning times that could have been provided in advance of peak shaking from the July 16, 2025, magnitude 7.3 earthquake near Sand Point, Alaska, if Alaska had an early warning system. Chart courtesy of Alex Fozkos

Research shows early quake warning system could provide critical seconds

Geophysical Institute
August 5, 2025
A proposed earthquake early warning system could have provided several Alaska communities an alert of 10 seconds or more ahead of strong shaking...
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The Indian Space Research Organization’s Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle lifts off from Satish Dhawan Space Centre on India’s southeastern coast with the NISAR satellite at 4:10 a.m. Alaska time Wednesday. ISRO photo

UAF satellite facility to manage massive NASA data surge

Geophysical Institute
July 31, 2025
Years of preparation by the Alaska Satellite Facility will ensure that a flood of freely available data from a NASA-India satellite mission that...
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This file photo shows the research vessel Sikuliaq in Alaska's Resurrection Bay. UAF photo by Eric Engman

Sikuliaq underway on unique Alaska coastal research voyage

Geophysical Institute
July 25, 2025
A 2,500-mile, 16-day research cruise that began Thursday in Seward and concludes in Nome aims to advance environmental research in coastal Alaska...
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Research assistant professor Florian Hofmann of the UAF Geophysical Institute’s Geochronology Lab works on the lab’s argon mass spectrometer. Photo by JR Ancheta

UAF critical minerals proposal advances in federal funding competition

Geophysical Institute
July 14, 2025
A University of Alaska Fairbanks proposal to reduce the United States’ dependency on foreign sources of minerals critical to the technology and...
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A steam plume with minor ash extends northeast from Augustine Volcano on Jan. 30, 2006. Photo by R.G. McGimsey/Alaska Volcano Observatory/U.S. Geological Survey

Tiny crystals provide insight to massive 2006 Augustine Volcano eruption

Geophysical Institute
July 11, 2025
Samples of extremely small crystal clots, each polished to the thickness of a human hair or thinner, have revealed information about the process...
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The St. George Creek Fire burns on June 21, 2025. The fire is about 40 miles south of Fairbanks. UAF/GI photo by Martin Stuefer

Alaska climate report: June jumped from cool to hot, hot, hot

Geophysical Institute
July 11, 2025
June began cool and wet but rapidly changed to hot and dry at the midpoint, with wildfires bursting out across the state, according to the...
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Planetarium construction continues at the west side of the University of Alaska Museum of the North on UAF’s Troth Yeddha’ Campus in Fairbanks. UAF/GI photo by Rod Boyce

Planetarium construction begins, Murdock Trust joins project

Geophysical Institute
June 24, 2025
Construction has begun on a new 65-seat planetarium at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. The project, approved by the UA Board of Regents in...
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A University of Alaska Fairbanks professor has published a new mathematical framework for three-dimensional time. TheDigitalArtist/Pixabay

UAF professor’s work is a step toward elusive ‘theory of everything’

Geophysical Institute
June 18, 2025
Time, not space plus time, might be the single fundamental property in which all physical phenomena occur, according to a new theory by a...
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Alaska Earthquake Center Director Michael West testified at a congressional subcommittee hearing on May 20, 2025, regarding bills for volcano, earthquake and landslide hazard programs. Photo taken from subcommittee video.

Alaska Earthquake Center director at Congress: Renew three hazards programs

Geophysical Institute
June 17, 2025
Reauthorizing federal programs that help warn of volcano eruptions, earthquakes and landslides is essential for reducing fatalities and the...
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