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Photo by Carl Tape. University of Alaska Fairbanks doctoral student Kyle Smith installs a T120 posthole seismometer at a site in the Minto Flats of central Alaska in September, 2015.

Scientists find pre-earthquake activity in central Alaska

June 5, 2018
Earth scientists consistently look for a reliable way to forecast earthquakes. New research from University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical...
Dale Pomraning

Dale Pomraning: Academic tool (in the best possible way)

June 1, 2018
Dale Pomraning carries enough tools to repair most anything. Upon request, he starts pulling them from pockets in his khaki shirt, game vest and...

Life recovered quickly after asteroid impact that killed dinosaurs

May 30, 2018
Life returned to the asteroid-blasted Chicxulub crater much sooner than at some other sites far from the impact point 66 million years ago...
Icefog in front of the Geophysical Institute

Scientists plan study of northern cities’ air quality

May 24, 2018
Atmospheric scientists at the University of Alaska Fairbanks have launched an effort to better understand urban air quality problems in northern...

Kansas joins unmanned aircraft test range run by UAF

May 14, 2018
Kansas has joined the unmanned aircraft system testing range managed by the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Testing programs overseen by Kansas...
A Responder unmanned helicopter, owned by the ACUASI. ACUASI, part of the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute, will participate in a new federal program to help merge drones into the nation’s airspace. Photo courtesy ACUASI.

UAF selected for new federal drone program

May 8, 2018
The University of Alaska Fairbanks will join a new federal initiative aimed at shaping the future of drones in America. The U.S. Department of...
UAF Geophysical Institute researchers will use this ice-drilling system to cut a hole through Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier to the ocean below. The system is shown here disassembled during an earlier project. Photo by Martin Truffer.

UAF scientists will help gauge how Antarctic glacier could collapse

April 30, 2018
University of Alaska Fairbanks researchers will take part in an international collaboration to understand when Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier will...

UAF signs agreement with Sandia National Laboratories

April 24, 2018
The University of Alaska Fairbanks has signed a new agreement with Sandia National Laboratories to conduct basic science, energy and security...
Greg Shipman of the Geophysical Institute holds 3-D printed, one-third scale models of the broken (left) and unbroken femurs of a 12-year-old boy. The GI Machine Shop made the models for Fairbanks Memorial Hospital. Geophysical Institute photo by LJ Evans.

UAF research built upon Machine Shop gadgetry

March 21, 2018
Download text and photo captions here. “I never know what’s going to walk through that door,” said Greg Shipman, the shop manager of the...