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Rockets & Gold: Poker Flat Research Range open house

July 13, 2012

Situated in the gold-mining district of the Interior, Poker Flat Research Range is a research facility dedicated to launching sounding rockets...

John Eichelberger leads a group of students to the rim of the Katmai caldera in the 2011 International Volcanological Field School. To get there, students must traverse the top of a glacier, insulated by a thick layer of pumice from the massive 1912 eruption of the volcano. Photo by Pavel Izbekov.

2012 International Volcanological Field School begins

May 31, 2012

On the centennial of the Novarupta eruption – a cataclysmic event that created the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes in southwest Alaska – a group of...

Science for Alaska hits Anchorage with two public lectures

April 20, 2012

The Science for Alaska Lecture Series will host two public lectures in Anchorage to conclude its 2012 season. On April 24, Greg Walker, manager...

Science Social to offer smorgasbord of UA research

April 17, 2012

Unmanned aircraft, tidewater glaciers, polar-orbiting satellites and biotechnology will be featured in a Science Social at Centennial Hall in...

A view up the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes from the Overlook Cabin above Three Forks in Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska. The valley is filled with 200 meters of ash-flow deposits from the 1912 eruption of Novarupta Volcano. Photograph by G. McGimsey, USGS.

Lecture explores century of study of Novarupta eruption

April 13, 2012

One hundred years ago this June, a three-day explosive eruption at Novarupta on the Alaska Peninsula near King Salmon became one of the five...

West Ridge to host First Friday event

April 3, 2012

The University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute will host a First Friday event in its GeoData Center Map Office Friday, April 6 from 5 –...

PREPARES scales up the successful Arctic Climate Modeling Program that was field-tested in Alaska's Bering Strait School District, providing professional development for teachers, a suite of hands-on lessons and more. UAF Geophysical Institute photo.

Program prepares indigenous students for science careers

March 28, 2012

A new $1.8 million National Science Foundation grant will help the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute expand a program that...

Lecture highlights shaking glaciers of Southeast

February 29, 2012

Icebergs are created when glaciers calve into a body of water. Though scientists who study glaciers often focus on calving and the production of...

Sprite pioneer elected 2012 AGU Fellow

February 17, 2012

University of Alaska Fairbanks professor emeritus Davis “Dave” Sentman has been elected to the 2012 class of fellows for the American Geophysical...

Lecture highlights space research in the North

February 15, 2012

Access to space has been slow and expensive. However, a new trend among research institutions encourages innovative ways to perform space...

Tracking big quakes around the world

February 9, 2012

Descriptions of destructive earthquakes and their effects have been preserved for hundreds of years in oral and written histories of people from...

State recognizes Alaska inventors with proclamation

February 7, 2012

The Alaska Inventors Alliance and the Alaska Patent & Trademark Resource Center will host a daylong event Saturday, Feb. 11 at the University of...

Lecture to detail developing reindeer industry in Alaska

February 3, 2012

More than 90 percent of food consumed in Alaska is imported from Outside. Even the slightest disruption in food availability can result in...

The University of Alaska Unmanned Aircraft Team used a 2.5-pound Aeryon Scout to collect images of sea ice conditions near the Nome harbor. UAF photo by Amy Hartley.

Unmanned aircraft kick off Science for Alaska lectures

January 27, 2012

As the Coast Guard Cutter Healy and the tanker vessel Renda moved slowly through sea ice toward Nome, University of Alaska Fairbanks personnel...

Science for Alaska course for teachers offered

January 25, 2012

The University of Alaska Fairbanks is offering a professional development course for Alaska educators this spring. Teachers can enroll to earn up...

No GI holiday star this year

December 14, 2011

The holiday star usually shining at the top of the Geophysical Institute’s Elvey Building has electrical issues that cannot be addressed safely...

Professor, students collect seafloor data in Arctic Ocean

September 26, 2011

Located at the top of the globe, beneath the Arctic Ocean, the Amerasia Basin is poorly understood. This large depression in the ocean floor was...

UAF names space scientist Geophysical Institute director

August 31, 2011

The University of Alaska Fairbanks has selected Robert “Bob” McCoy as the Geophysical Institute’s new director. McCoy will be the seventh...