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Why the 7.0 earthquake was felt differently across Anchorage

Anchorage Daily News
Dec 02, 2018

The 7.0 earthquake just north of Anchorage on Friday morning shredded the earth with 2 million tons of explosive force, and generated 650...

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This artist’s rendition illustrates what the meteorite might have looked like as it approached Earth. Illustration by Brian Monroe/NASA

Massive impact crater discovered in Greenland

Geophysical Institute
Nov 14, 2018

An international team including a researcher from the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute has discovered a 31-kilometer-wide...

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One of the Alaska Satellite Facility’s antennas sits atop the Elvey Building, home of the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute. ASF uses its antennas to downlink data for NASA. UAF photo by JR Ancheta.

Five-year Alaska Satellite Facility contract worth $48.6 million

Geophysical Institute
Oct 25, 2018

NASA has awarded a $48.6 million contract to the University of Alaska Fairbanks to continue operating the Alaska Satellite Facility’s synthetic...

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WATC Lead Engineer Jay Helmericks explains on-campus infrasound array components to NATO Deputy Secretary General Rose Gottemoeller.

Geophysical Institute eligible for long-term defense research funding

Geophysical Institute
Oct 01, 2018

The University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute has received a Defense Department designation to research topics important to national...

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Seismologist John Power, with the U.S. Geological Survey and the Alaska Volcano Observatory, transfers data from the campaign broadband seismometer AU14 on the northeast flank of Mt. Augustine. A debris fan below the northeast chute is visible in the upper right of the image. Photo by Max Kaufman, AVO/UAF GI

New funding will improve Alaska volcano monitoring network

Geophysical Institute
Aug 10, 2018

The Alaska Volcano Observatory will upgrade its volcano monitoring network throughout Alaska due to a $12 million budget increase through the U.S...

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Students assemble unmanned aircraft at a camp offered by the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the Federal Aviation Administration in June. The students practiced flying the aircraft and, on the camp’s last day, took them home. Photo by Patty Eagan

FAA and UAF spark interest in drones at camp

Geophysical Institute
Jun 25, 2018

Twenty-one middle school students built, learned how to operate and took home their own small unmanned aircraft at a camp taught by pilots and...

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Since it was established by an Act of Congress in 1946, scientists at the Geophysical Institute have studied geophysical processes from the center of the Earth to the surface of the sun and beyond, turning data and observations into information useful for state, Arctic and national priorities.

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