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Sergey Marchenko stands off the Nome-Council Road on the Seward Peninsula during one of his early Alaska fieldwork travels. Photo courtesy Vladimir Romanovsky.

Remembering Sergey Marchenko: Internationally known geocryologist

Geophysical Institute
July 2, 2024
The Geophysical Institute lost a longtime member of its permafrost team last week with the death in Fairbanks of Research Associate Professor...
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 Elisabeth Nadin holds her signed copy of “Eruption.” She assisted author James Patterson with information about volcanoes. Photo by Brian Whitten

UAF science communicator gets an explosion of literary notoriety

Geophysical Institute
June 28, 2024
A little bit of fame can be just an email or phone call away. That happened for Elisabeth Nadin, communications manager at the Alaska Earthquake...
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Poorly understood multiscale ripples in the lower thermosphere-ionosphere regionh, as depicted in the gray-scale ground track, are the result of atmospheric wave forcing from below. Image by University of Colorado Boulder, Johns Hopkins APL

UAF on team in NASA-funded space weather project competition

Geophysical Institute
June 25, 2024
The University of Alaska Fairbanks is part of a team led by the University of Colorado Boulder and Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory that...
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Guy Doré, president of the Canadian Permafrost Association, at the International Conference on Permafrost. The weeklong conference in Whitehorse, Yukon, began June. 16, 2024. Photo courtesy Guy Doré

Canadian Permafrost Association president: We need universities such as UAF

Geophysical Institute
June 20, 2024
WHITEHORSE, Yukon — Universities play an essential role in advancing permafrost science, the president of the Canadian Permafrost Association...
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Graduate student Emily Graham shows her work about rusted rivers at the International Conference on Permafrost in Whitehorse, Yukon, on Monday, June 17, 2024. Photo by Rod Boyce

UAF scientists present research at international permafrost conference

Geophysical Institute
June 18, 2024
Nearly two dozen University of Alaska Fairbanks researchers — faculty, technicians and students — are among the several hundred scientists at the...
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Students explore the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory's Permafrost Tunnel in Fox, Alaska. Several University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists use the tunnel for research projects. UAF photo by Leif Van Cise

UAF scientists heading to international permafrost conference

Geophysical Institute
June 13, 2024
About 20 University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists will present research at the quadrennial International Conference on Permafrost, which opens...
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Yuan Tian, a co-author on the beetle research paper, stands next to a dead spruce tree near Cantwell, Alaska. Photo by Simon Zwieback

New way to spot beetle-killed spruce can help forest, wildfire managers

Geophysical Institute
June 12, 2024
A new machine-learning system developed at the University of Alaska Fairbanks can automatically produce detailed maps from satellite data to show...
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This photograph shows Front Street in Nome, Alaska, during a storm on Oct. 7, 1913. Anvil Bakery, Anvil Coffee Shop, Merchants Cafe and S.L.Lewis clothing store are visible. UAF archive

New research shows flood risk for several Alaska communities

Geophysical Institute
June 10, 2024
Coastal Alaska communities from the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta northward will see more of their buildings exposed to flooding by 2100 if they continue...
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The antenna known as AS2 sits atop the Elvey Building at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. The antenna has a 9.1-meter aperture. UAF photo by Leif Van Cise

Alaska Satellite Facility gets $139 million federal intelligence contract

Geophysical Institute
June 6, 2024
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has awarded a $139 million, five-year contract to the University of Alaska Fairbanks for the global...
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