UAF signs agreement with Sandia National Laboratories

April 24, 2018
The University of Alaska Fairbanks has signed a new agreement with Sandia National Laboratories to conduct basic science, energy and security...
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Greg Shipman of the Geophysical Institute holds 3-D printed, one-third scale models of the broken (left) and unbroken femurs of a 12-year-old boy. The GI Machine Shop made the models for Fairbanks Memorial Hospital. Geophysical Institute photo by LJ Evans.

UAF research built upon Machine Shop gadgetry

March 21, 2018
Download text and photo captions here. “I never know what’s going to walk through that door,” said Greg Shipman, the shop manager of the...
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A glacial icefall spills through a steep valley in the Alaska Range, home to thousands of glaciers covering an area of roughly 13,900 square kilometers. Photo courtesy of Regine Hock.

Declining glaciers may affect water availability this century

February 2, 2018
The annual volume of water from melting glaciers has begun to drop in almost half the 56 large river basins investigated in a recent study, a...
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UAF researchers collaborated with a composer to meld original music with remotely sensed imagery of wildfires, such as this example from the 2014 Funny River Fire burning north of Tustamena Lake on the Kenai Peninsula. Photo courtesy of U.S. Geological Survey/NASA/Landsat.

Science and art combine to convey wildfire’s effects

December 14, 2017
University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists are presenting their work at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in New Orleans this week. Here...
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Rising permafrost temperatures could bring widespread thawing

December 14, 2017
University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists are presenting their work at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in New Orleans this week. Here...
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Twilight arrives at the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program’s antenna array and instrument shelters near Gakona. Photo by Jessica Matthews.

HAARP provides power to Copper Valley

December 13, 2017
One of five diesel engines at the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program facility in Gakona, Alaska...
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Scientists work with locals to study Chukchi ice

December 13, 2017
University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists are presenting their work at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in New Orleans this week. Here...
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Image courtesy Alaska Satellite Facility SARVIEWS automatically provides usable hazard information using existing notification systems and Sentinel-1 satellite data, as seen in this interferogram from the magnitude 7.2 earthquake Dec. 12 on the Iraq-Iran border.

SARVIEWS provides free hazard data quickly

December 13, 2017
University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists are presenting their work at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in New Orleans this week. Here...
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Researchers represent UAF at vast science meeting

December 11, 2017
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting is the place to be for many of the nation’s geoscientists. As usual, the University of Alaska Fairbanks’...
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NOAA, partners to reveal 2017 Arctic Report Card

December 11, 2017
University of Alaska Fairbanks permafrost researcher Vladimir Romanovsky will join fellow scientists at a news conference Tuesday, Dec. 12, to...
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Tim Slauson, left, and Liam Forbes install components to increase the capacity of the Chinook computer system in February 2017. Chinook is operated by Research Computing Systems at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute. Photo courtesy of UAF GI Research Computing Systems.

Flexible Chinook computer does more with less power

December 11, 2017
Download text and photo caption here. A computer named Chinook has made scientific calculation at the University of Alaska Fairbanks faster and...
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UAF researchers to share ways to boost women in science

December 8, 2017
University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute researchers will talk about their efforts to involve girls in science during a panel on...
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Research finds that beavers are colonizing Arctic Alaska

December 7, 2017
Beaver activity in Arctic tundra regions may amplify the effects of climate change on permafrost and lead to landscape changes not currently...
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Attendees participate in a synthetic aperture radar training session in Huntsville, Alabama. Photo by Franz Meyer.

Researchers to create radar data literacy center

December 1, 2017
University of Alaska Fairbanks researchers will bring radar imagery training to Central and South America. “Over the past two years, the...
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Matthew Westhoff replaces the battery on a drone aircraft in between course runs, which last three to four minutes. UAF photo by Josh Hartman.

UAF to host drone races

November 27, 2017
The first University of Alaska Fairbanks drone races will be held at the Patty Center ice arena from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 3. The Alaska...
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Margaret Cysewski, an outreach educator with the UAF Geophysical Institute, talks to a Tanana boy as he examines a 30,000-year-old willow stick from the Fox permafrost tunnel in 2016. UAF photo by JR Ancheta.

Permafrost tunnel highlighted at Oregon museum’s exhibit

October 26, 2017
A walk-through replica of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ permafrost research tunnel in Fox, Alaska, will be part of a display opening Nov. 3...
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Icicles adorn the entrance to an ice cellar in the North Slope community of Kivalina. Photo by Ned Rozell.

Students fight ice cellar failure

October 17, 2017
Subsistence hunters across the North Slope will soon use computers to monitor temperatures in several ice cellars. The University of Alaska...
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Hui Zhang, a physics professor and scientist studying the magnetosphere at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, stands in her office on the seventh floor of the Geophysical Institute. Her many conference badges hang on the wall behind her. Photo by Josh Hartman.

Focus on physics defines Zhang’s career journey

October 4, 2017
Deep inside the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Geophysical Institute is Hui Zhang’s office. The building’s air ventilation system fills the room...
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