Alaska Satellite Facility Director Wade Albright, with the Elvey Building behind him at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. ASF is located in the Elvey Building. Photo by JR Ancheta

Wade Albright selected as director of Alaska Satellite Facility

January 24, 2023
Wade Albright has been named director of the Alaska Satellite Facility at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute. Albright has...
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The annual Science for Alaska lecture series returns this year to an in-person format, with the addition of an online audience, after two years of being online only due to the COVID outbreak. In this 2019 photograph, audience members listen during a presentation. UAF Geophysical Institute photo

31st annual Science for Alaska talks and outreach events announced

January 20, 2023
The University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute will host free public talks about tracking space debris, fostering education using the...
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A sign at the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program facility at Gakona, Alaska. Photo courtesy HAARP

NASA and HAARP conclude asteroid experiment

December 29, 2022
A powerful transmitter in remote Alaska sent long wavelength radio signals into space Dec. 27 with the purpose of bouncing them off an asteroid...
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This image from an animation shows the projected path of the asteroid 2010 XC15 as it passes by Earth. NASA/JPL-Caltech image

HAARP to bounce signal off asteroid in NASA experiment

December 21, 2022
An experiment to bounce a radio signal off an asteroid on Dec. 27 will serve as a test for probing a larger asteroid that in 2029 will pass...
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Anushree Badola points to her name on the American Geophysical Union talk schedule. Photo by Rod Boyce

AGU research spotlight: Knowing a forest’s makeup is key for firefighting

December 16, 2022
Wildfires are a natural part of the Alaska boreal ecosystem, but a recent increase in the number of fires with high acreage burned raises the...
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Soumitra Sakhalkar. Photo by Eric Marshall.

AGU research spotlight: Study shows depth of Alaska’s thawing permafrost

December 15, 2022
Permafrost in Alaska has been warming and thawing at an increasing rate. The state is actually sinking a little in places. Soumitra Sakhalkar, a...
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Brooke Kubby

AGU research spotlight: Radar as a crop managing tool

December 13, 2022
Brazil’s Mato Grosso region is that nation’s leading producer of livestock and grains. It is also a region of extensive land cover change. Brooke...
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Franz Meyer discusses the SAR Capacity Building Center. Photo by Nicole Houseweart

AGU research spotlight: UAF helping expand satellite radar’s reach

December 12, 2022
Satellite-based remote sensing by radar can reveal the world around us. It’s called synthetic aperture radar, commonly referred to as SAR, and it...
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In this photo, previously unpublished as far as is known, Charlie McGonagal, left, and Pete Anderson, two of the four-man Sourdough Expedition that ascended Denali’s North Peak, are shown in a mislabeled photograph. Photo from UAF Rasmuson Library archive

Newly found photos shed light on 1910 Denali climb

December 2, 2022
An unexpected find in a University of Alaska Fairbanks archive has revealed more information about the oft-debated April 1910 Sourdough...
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