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Laura Conner (left) in discussion with Laura Oxtoby and Suzanne Perin, both postdocs, discussing Bright Girls activities at the Mendenhall Glacier near Juneau. Photo by Cathy Connor

Laura Conner joins GI administrative team

September 12, 2023

Laura Conner was recently appointed associate director of the Geophysical Institute, joining Jessica Larsen in that role. Conner is research...

The Pogo Mine Road Fire burns on Saturday, Aug. 5, 2023. Photo by Duane Morris/Alaska Division of Forestry

UAF helps present air quality data on popular Alaska wildfire website

September 12, 2023

Getting information about where wildfire smoke is headed in Alaska has become easy for the public, thanks to collaboration between the University...

A 100-meter beaver dam, left, creates a large beaver pond on the Seward Peninsula in western Alaska. A beaver lodge is visible in the pond in this August 2021 photograph. Photo by Ken Tape.

Beaver activity in the Arctic increases emission of methane greenhouse gas

September 7, 2023

The climate-driven advance of beavers into the Arctic tundra is causing the release of more methane — a greenhouse gas — into the atmosphere...

The research vessel Akademik Tryoshnikov sails in the Arctic Ocean on a 2021 science cruise in the Nansen and Amundsen Basins Observational System program. A science cruise aboard the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy began in August 2023 to research in the same area. Photo courtesy of Igor Polyakov

New research explains “Atlantification” of the Arctic Ocean

August 31, 2023

New research by an international team of scientists explains what’s behind a stalled trend in Arctic Ocean sea ice loss since 2007. The findings...

Jakobshavn Glacier calves icebergs into the ocean. Photo by John Sonntag/NASA

UAF scientists heading to Greenland for glacier research, museum project

August 30, 2023

University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists will make several trips to Greenland over two years to study how meltwater and the ocean affect glacial...

The map shows the worst-case flooding scenario for upper Cook Inlet, based on numerical modeling. Image courtesy of Elena Suleimani, Alaska Earthquake Center; Barrett Salisbury, Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys; Dmitry Nicolsky, UAF Geophysical Institute

New analysis finds real, though rare, tsunami threat to upper Cook Inlet

August 16, 2023

Scientists assessing tsunami threats throughout Alaska recently modeled the flooding scenario of the 1964 Great Alaska Earthquake and discovered...

The High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program facility in early June 2022 near Gakona, Alaska. The 33-acre ionospheric research instrument helps researchers study the ionosphere. UAF/GI photo by JR Ancheta

Polar Aeronomy and Radio Science Summer School returns to HAARP

July 28, 2023

More than 50 researchers are in Alaska in August for the resumption of a science summer school that culminates with experiments at the High...

Graduate student James Campbell installs the sampling inlet for the X-act instrument outside at the Delta Junction network site. Photo courtesy of Jingqiu Mao.

Delta Junction air quality monitoring site comes online in new national network

June 30, 2023

Four science instruments at Delta Junction have begun gathering air quality data as part of a multistate project to determine the chemical...

The Elvey Building houses the Alaska Satellite Facility, part of the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. UAF Geophysical Institute photo.

NASA awards Alaska Satellite Facility five-year, $70 million contract

June 30, 2023

The Alaska Satellite Facility at the University of Alaska Fairbanks will continue to operate NASA’s Distributed Active Archive Center for...

Degassing is seen on Pavlof Volcano in July 2017. Photo by Taryn Lopez.

Research reveals sources of CO2 from Aleutian-Alaska Arc volcanoes

June 28, 2023

Scientists have wondered what happens to the organic and inorganic carbon that Earth’s Pacific Plate carries with it as it slides into the planet...

A sign welcomes visitors for free guided summer tours of the Geophysical Institute, which start at the Elvey Building on UAF's West Ridge. UAF/GI photo by JR Ancheta.

Geophysical Institute, Poker Flat offer free summer tours

June 19, 2023

The University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute is offering free public family-friendly tours through Labor Day. Tours began on Memorial...

Graduate student researchers Claire Puleio and Valerie Wasser of the UAF Geophysical Institute take ground carbon dioxide measurements and ground and atmospheric readings on a Kruzof Island beach. Photo by JR Ancheta.

International science team explores gassing of Mt. Edgecumbe volcano

June 6, 2023

Three pairs of scientists began walking purposefully on one end of a curving Kruzof Island beach on a cloudy, cool and damp Monday, then stopped...

A grizzly is seen from a helicopter bringing scientists to a predetermined study area on Kruzof Island in Southeast Alaska on Sunday. Photo by Taryn Lopez.

Mt. Edgecumbe volcano research starts with a bear encounter

June 6, 2023

The first volcano scientists of an international team deposited on a Southeast Alaska island by helicopter Sunday quickly learned they had an...

The community of Chignik Bay on the Alaska Peninsula. Photo by Chris Maio.

UAF group receives philanthropic grant to aid Chignik region communities

May 22, 2023

A University of Alaska Fairbanks coastal organization has received a $590,000 philanthropic grant to map rapidly changing watersheds of the...

Research assistant professor Louise Farquharson works at an ancient raised marine shoreline on the north shore of Teshekpuk Lake near Alaska’s Arctic Ocean coast in 2013. The ancient shoreline is believed to have formed due to an ice shelf pressing down on the Beaufort Sea coast. Photo by Ben Jones.

UAF scientists to hunt for clues about Arctic Ocean glaciation

May 19, 2023

Evidence indicates a thick ice sheet, not annual sea ice and icebergs, covered the Arctic Ocean at some point during the last 140,000 years. Now...

The map shows infrasound stations and earthquakes considered in this study. Not all stations operated contemporaneously, but all were active for some period between 2018 and October 2022. Image from research paper.

Scientists find novel way to aid earthquake magnitude determination

May 18, 2023

Sensors that detect changes in atmospheric pressure due to ground shaking can also obtain data about large earthquakes and explosions that exceed...

Ph.D. student Sebin John presents his research on observing the impact of ocean storms and sea ice on seismic background noise across Alaska. Photo by Mike West

UAF researchers show work at Seismological Society of America meeting

April 25, 2023

Fifteen people from the Geophysical Institute attended the annual meeting of the Seismological Society of America annual meeting in person in San...

The venue of the European Geosciences Union annual meeting in Vienna, Austria, is shown prior to the start of this week’s meeting. Photo courtesy EGU.

Geophysical Institute research on display at European science meeting