The ALOS-1 satellite, which carried PALSAR and other sensors, operated from 2006 to 2011. Illustration © JAXA, METI.

Researchers gain access to data at satellite facility

September 24, 2015
A new agreement between the United States and Japan gives international researchers unrestricted access to a type of radar imagery data archived...
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An example of a remote Alaska Transportable Array seismic site.

Alaska benefits from growing number of seismic stations

September 23, 2015
Alaskans can plan better for earthquakes following the installation of almost 90 new high-grade seismic instruments capable of measuring minute...
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Rhett Foster from CompassData pauses on a ridge leading to the 17,000-foot base camp on Mount McKinley in June 2015. UAF photo by Tom Heinrichs.

Revised Denali elevation announced

September 2, 2015
Denali has been downsized by 10 feet as a result of data captured during an expedition this past summer. The elevation of North America’s tallest...
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UAF professor leads Arctic ecosystem science initiative

August 19, 2015
University of Alaska Fairbanks professor Vladimir Romanovsky has been named chief scientist for a U.S. Department of Energy initiative to study...
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UAF professor leads Arctic ecosystem science initiative

August 19, 2015
University of Alaska Fairbanks professor Vladimir Romanovsky has been named chief scientist for a U.S. Department of Energy initiative to study...
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UAF will host the next EarthScope National Office

August 4, 2015
The University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute is the new host of the EarthScope National Office, the National Science Foundation has...
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Rhett Foster from CompassData pauses on a ridge leading to the 17,000 foot base camp. Photo by Tom Heinrichs, UAF Geophysical Institute.

Team returns from Mount McKinley elevation survey climb

July 17, 2015
A team of four climbers has recently returned from the highest point in North America with new survey data to determine a more precise height of...
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An artist’s rendition of the New Horizons space probe to Pluto. Image NASA/Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute.

UAF researcher works on mission to Pluto

July 7, 2015
A researcher from the University of Alaska Fairbanks is part of a NASA mission to get close-up photos of Pluto. Peter Delamere, a space physicist...
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Mount McKinley, also known as Denali. Photo by Todd Paris.

Highest peak in North America to be surveyed

June 15, 2015
Several researchers plan to update the height of Mount McKinley this summer by climbing it with a global positioning system device. Tom Heinrichs...
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Savant ice road. Photo courtesy of Alaska Department of Natural Resources Division of Mining, Land & Water.

App tells when it’s OK to build ice roads

June 4, 2015
Alaska’s natural resource managers are using a web app developed at the University of Alaska Fairbanks to let oil field companies know when it’s...
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A sea otter munches a snack in this photo taken with a camera on an Aeryon Scout unmanned aircraft. Photo courtesy of ACUASI.

Researchers study sea otters with unmanned aircraft

June 3, 2015
Watching marine life to gather data about behavior and abundance can be tedious and time-consuming for researchers, but recent studies indicate...
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Federal certificate smoothes way for unmanned aircraft missions

May 28, 2015
A new federal certificate will allow the unmanned aircraft center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks to respond more rapidly to clients’...
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This topographic map of the ice north of Barrow in April was shared with whaling crew captains. UAF map by Eyal Saiet.

Unmanned aircraft used to survey ice for whalers

May 20, 2015
Researchers used an unmanned aircraft to map the sea ice north of Barrow in April as part of a cooperative effort between the Native community of...
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Researcher helps understand vast under-ocean waves

May 18, 2015
The University of Alaska Fairbanks lent both brain and supercomputing power to a recently published international study of the life cycle of...
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Eyal Saiet, a researcher with the Alaska Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration, works with the Ptarmigan unmanned aircraft in Barrow, Alaska.

Unmanned aircraft group part of FAA Center of Excellence

May 8, 2015
The University of Alaska Fairbanks is part of the team selected by the Federal Aviation Administration as a new National Center of Excellence for...
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The HySpex imaging system will support data acquisition, processing and analysis for resource exploration and ecological research. Graphic by C. Haselwimmer.

Hyperspectral device will benefit ecology, mineral research

May 4, 2015
A new mapping instrument at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute creates such detailed images of the landscape that...
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Blue boxes represent some of the areas in and around Nepal for which the Alaska Satellite Facility has made synthetic aperture radar images available in the wake of a major earthquake in the region. Image courtesy Alaska Satellite Facility.

UAF aids Nepal relief effort with satellite information

April 29, 2015
Relief efforts in Nepal have a new source of vital satellite information through the University of Alaska Fairbanks. The Alaska Satellite...
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Lecture explores changes among hunters, wildlife, habitat

February 18, 2015
Climate and landscape play a large part in successful large-game hunting across Alaska, and changes have challenged common hunting practices...
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