Tim Slauson, left, and Liam Forbes install components to increase the capacity of the Chinook computer system in February 2017. Chinook is operated by Research Computing Systems at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute. Photo courtesy of UAF GI Research Computing Systems.

Flexible Chinook computer does more with less power

December 11, 2017
Download text and photo caption here. A computer named Chinook has made scientific calculation at the University of Alaska Fairbanks faster and...
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UAF researchers to share ways to boost women in science

December 8, 2017
University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute researchers will talk about their efforts to involve girls in science during a panel on...
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Research finds that beavers are colonizing Arctic Alaska

December 7, 2017
Beaver activity in Arctic tundra regions may amplify the effects of climate change on permafrost and lead to landscape changes not currently...
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Attendees participate in a synthetic aperture radar training session in Huntsville, Alabama. Photo by Franz Meyer.

Researchers to create radar data literacy center

December 1, 2017
University of Alaska Fairbanks researchers will bring radar imagery training to Central and South America. “Over the past two years, the...
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Matthew Westhoff replaces the battery on a drone aircraft in between course runs, which last three to four minutes. UAF photo by Josh Hartman.

UAF to host drone races

November 27, 2017
The first University of Alaska Fairbanks drone races will be held at the Patty Center ice arena from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 3. The Alaska...
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Margaret Cysewski, an outreach educator with the UAF Geophysical Institute, talks to a Tanana boy as he examines a 30,000-year-old willow stick from the Fox permafrost tunnel in 2016. UAF photo by JR Ancheta.

Permafrost tunnel highlighted at Oregon museum’s exhibit

October 26, 2017
A walk-through replica of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ permafrost research tunnel in Fox, Alaska, will be part of a display opening Nov. 3...
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Icicles adorn the entrance to an ice cellar in the North Slope community of Kivalina. Photo by Ned Rozell.

Students fight ice cellar failure

October 17, 2017
Subsistence hunters across the North Slope will soon use computers to monitor temperatures in several ice cellars. The University of Alaska...
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Hui Zhang, a physics professor and scientist studying the magnetosphere at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, stands in her office on the seventh floor of the Geophysical Institute. Her many conference badges hang on the wall behind her. Photo by Josh Hartman.

Focus on physics defines Zhang’s career journey

October 4, 2017
Deep inside the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Geophysical Institute is Hui Zhang’s office. The building’s air ventilation system fills the room...
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This new 9-meter dish sits atop the Elvey Building at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Photo by Jessica Matthews, UAF Geophysical Institute.

New satellite antenna is operational

September 29, 2017
The new blue antenna that sits atop the Elvey Building at the University of Alaska Fairbanks is now operational. The antenna was installed in...
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