Photo courtesy Charlie Parr

Student’s research gets Editor’s Choice Award

February 1, 2022
A research paper by Charlie Parr, a graduate student and former Geophysical Institute research technician who now works at the International...
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A member of an expedition group stands on the edge of a newly formed crater on the Yamal Peninsula in northern Siberia in November 2014. Photo by Vladimir Pushkarev, Reuters via Nova

Nova episode explores Arctic methane explosions

January 31, 2022
Mysterious massive holes have been appearing across the Arctic landscape, and a team of scientists is investigating the cause and the impact in a...
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A sign greets visitors at the "Snow: Tiny Crystals, Global Impact" exhibit in Portland, Oregon. Photo by Molly Schmitz

Traveling museum exhibit shows importance of snow

January 27, 2022
Snow is a key to life on Earth. It reflects up to 80% of sunlight, functioning as an essential cooling radiator for the planet. It becomes liquid...
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A Praxis air quality sensor on the roof of the UAF Community and Technical College in Fairbanks measures gases and particulate matter. Another sensor is at ground level. Photo by Meeta Cesler-Maloney

Dozens of experts arrive in Fairbanks for air quality research

January 26, 2022
Nearly 50 scientists from the U.S. and Europe have arrived in Fairbanks for a seven-week study of the chemical interactions that lead to the...
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2022 Science for Alaska Lecture Series lineup

30th annual Science for Alaska Lecture Series announced

January 24, 2022
The University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute will host free live online public talks about Arctic Ocean exploration, retreating...
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Residents of Utqiagvik return by snowmachine from the lead at the edge of the shore-fast ice. Photo by Andy Mahoney, UAF Geophysical Institute

Scientists aim to improve sea ice predictions' accuracy, access

January 18, 2022
Sea ice predictions have improved markedly since the founding of an international forecasting and monitoring network 14 years ago. “These...
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A student at John Fredson School in Venetie, Alaska, works with one of the drone kits provided by the Alaska Satellite Facility through a NASA grant. Photo by Terri Mynatt

UAF scientists help rural students do science with tiny drones

January 14, 2022
The little airborne drone zipped across a lake near the Interior Alaska community of Venetie in late autumn, destined for a patch of white that...
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Chris Waigl at the American Geophysical Union fall meeting in New Orleans. Photo courtesy Chris Waigl.

AGU research spotlight: Hyperspectral imaging of forests can aid wildfire prevention

December 17, 2021
Airborne hyperspectral imaging can be a valuable tool in wildfire prevention and forest management. That’s the message from a technology...
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Louise Farquharson, a research assistant professor at the UAF Geophysical Institute, checks a borehole near Nome on Alaska's Seward Peninsula. Photo courtesy of Vladimir Romanovsky

AGU research spotlight: UAF scientist finds Alaska’s Arctic coastal towns face extensive inundation

December 17, 2021
Coastal erosion and land subsidence driven by permafrost thawing may lead to extensive seawater inundation in several northern Alaska communities...
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Since it was established by an Act of Congress in 1946, scientists at the Geophysical Institute have studied geophysical processes from the center of the Earth to the surface of the sun and beyond, turning data and observations into information useful for state, Arctic and national priorities.

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