Hannah Chapman-Dutton, Anika Pinzner and Serina Wesen at work. Photo by Jennifer Delamere

Utqiagvik, where there’s still snow in June

June 20, 2022
A group of University of Alaska Fairbanks faculty, students and staff has been conducting Arctic fieldwork in Utqiagvik since mid-April to...
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A data collection station sits at the Kuzitrin River ground temperature monitoring site on the Seward Peninsula, one of several sites in the Geophysical Institute Permafrost Laboratory’s monitoring network. Scientists have observed talik development at the site. Photo by Vladimir Romanovsky.

UAF scientists find new indicators of Alaska permafrost thawing

June 6, 2022
More areas of year-round unfrozen ground have begun dotting Interior and Northwest Alaska and will continue to increase in extent due to climate...
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Event participants gather around the Sentry unmanned aircraft of the UAF Alaska Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration after a successful flight May 22, 2022, at Fairbanks International Airport. Photo by JR Ancheta/UAF Geophysical Institute

UAF makes Alaska’s first large drone flight from international airport

May 23, 2022
An unmanned aircraft owned and operated by the University of Alaska Fairbanks flew from the general aviation area of Fairbanks International...
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A NASA satellite captured the explosive eruption of Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha‘apai in the South Pacific. Image by Joshua Stevens/NASA Earth Observatory, using GOES-17 imagery courtesy of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service

Hunga volcano eruption provides an explosion of data

May 12, 2022
The massive Jan. 15, 2022, eruption of the Hunga submarine volcano in the South Pacific Ocean created a variety of atmospheric wave types...
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Annual UAF Arctic Research Open House set for May 19

May 10, 2022
Come learn about the incredible research happening at the University of Alaska Fairbanks during the 2022 Arctic Research Open House from 4-7 p.m...
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Image shows Simeonof 2020 quake slip model contours in black. Chignik 2021 contours are shown in purple. Contour outlines of two updated 1938 model estimates are shown in light and dark blue. Red shows rupture areas for major quakes. Stars show epicenters of magnitude 7-plus quakes in past century.

Major 2020 Alaska quake triggered neighboring 2021 temblor

May 4, 2022
A study of two powerful earthquakes in adjacent areas off the Alaska Peninsula in 2020 and 2021 shows a connection between the two. It also...
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Sedimentary rocks of the Cantwell Formation, representing a prehistoric floodplain environment, are shown in this June 2017 photograph. Dinosaur tracks are visible at the base of the thick, upper sandstone bed. Photo by Paul McCarthy

Precipitation helped drive distribution of Alaska dinosaurs

April 29, 2022
Precipitation more than temperature influenced the distribution of herbivorous dinosaurs in what is now Alaska, according to new research...
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The image shows the distribution of surface ice at the moon’s south pole (left) and north pole (right), detected by NASA’s Moon Mineralogy Mapper instrument in 2009. Blue represents the ice locations, and the gray scale corresponds to surface temperature. Photo courtesy of NASA

Earth’s atmosphere may be source of some lunar water

April 27, 2022
Hydrogen and oxygen ions escaping from Earth’s upper atmosphere and combining on the moon could be one of the sources of the known lunar water...
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Gabriel Low talks about earthquake facts and information to a group of West Valley High School students in Fairbanks during a presentation by the Alaska Earthquake Center on Monday, March 6, 2022. UAF/GI photo by JR Ancheta.

UAF student gets K-12 classrooms jumping with seismology project

April 8, 2022
In Quinhagak, a village nearly 600 miles from Fairbanks in Southwest Alaska, a small seismometer sits on a corner counter in the classroom of...
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