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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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The Abisko, Sweden, container observatory. Photo by Kylee Branning

New triple-observatory network completes first winter of work

Geophysical Institute
June 11, 2025
Three new Arctic mini-observatories located across the globe from Alaska have completed their first winter studying the upper atmosphere’s wind...
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UAF Geophysical Institute Director Bob McCoy and Alaska Aerospace Corp. CEO John Oberst sign a memorandum of understanding in front of the GI building on Thursday, June 10, 2025. UAF/GI photo by Bryan Whitten:

Geophysical Institute, Alaska Aerospace to boost space opportunity

Geophysical Institute
June 10, 2025
The University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute and Alaska Aerospace Corp. will work together under a new agreement to jointly develop...
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Rime ice covers brush on a hill above Toolik Lake, Alaska, on June 8, 2025. Photo by Julie Stricker

Alaska climate report: May 2025 kept its cool

Geophysical Institute
June 10, 2025
The month of May was noticeably cooler around Alaska, but data from the Alaska Climate Research Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks show...
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Matanuska Glacier, about 100 miles northeast of Anchorage, terminates in a lake in June 2024. UAF photo by Leif Van Cise

Study finds Alaska, rest of Earth, to lose most of glacier mass

Geophysical Institute
May 29, 2025
An international study has found that Earth’s glaciers will lose 76% of their 2020 mass under current climate policy pledges made by nations...
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UAF graduate student researcher Amy Jenson at one of the instrument sites on Jakobshavn Glacier. Photo by Martin Truffer

Fast-moving Greenland glacier has the attention of UAF scientists

Geophysical Institute
May 28, 2025
A powerhouse of ice flows rapidly on Greenland’s west coast, heading toward the ocean. Some of Earth’s largest icebergs are produced here...
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Visitors at the 2022 HAARP open house walk to the facility’s 33-acre antenna array. UAF/GI photo

HAARP to hold fifth public open house Saturday, June 14

Geophysical Institute
May 23, 2025
The public can learn how scientists study Earth’s ionosphere, the region between the planet’s lower atmosphere and the vacuum of space, at a...
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