UAF professor leads Arctic ecosystem science initiative

August 19, 2015
University of Alaska Fairbanks professor Vladimir Romanovsky has been named chief scientist for a U.S. Department of Energy initiative to study...
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UAF professor leads Arctic ecosystem science initiative

August 19, 2015
University of Alaska Fairbanks professor Vladimir Romanovsky has been named chief scientist for a U.S. Department of Energy initiative to study...
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UAF will host the next EarthScope National Office

August 4, 2015
The University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute is the new host of the EarthScope National Office, the National Science Foundation has...
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Rhett Foster from CompassData pauses on a ridge leading to the 17,000 foot base camp. Photo by Tom Heinrichs, UAF Geophysical Institute.

Team returns from Mount McKinley elevation survey climb

July 17, 2015
A team of four climbers has recently returned from the highest point in North America with new survey data to determine a more precise height of...
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An artist’s rendition of the New Horizons space probe to Pluto. Image NASA/Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute.

UAF researcher works on mission to Pluto

July 7, 2015
A researcher from the University of Alaska Fairbanks is part of a NASA mission to get close-up photos of Pluto. Peter Delamere, a space physicist...
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Mount McKinley, also known as Denali. Photo by Todd Paris.

Highest peak in North America to be surveyed

June 15, 2015
Several researchers plan to update the height of Mount McKinley this summer by climbing it with a global positioning system device. Tom Heinrichs...
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Savant ice road. Photo courtesy of Alaska Department of Natural Resources Division of Mining, Land & Water.

App tells when it’s OK to build ice roads

June 4, 2015
Alaska’s natural resource managers are using a web app developed at the University of Alaska Fairbanks to let oil field companies know when it’s...
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A sea otter munches a snack in this photo taken with a camera on an Aeryon Scout unmanned aircraft. Photo courtesy of ACUASI.

Researchers study sea otters with unmanned aircraft

June 3, 2015
Watching marine life to gather data about behavior and abundance can be tedious and time-consuming for researchers, but recent studies indicate...
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Federal certificate smoothes way for unmanned aircraft missions

May 28, 2015
A new federal certificate will allow the unmanned aircraft center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks to respond more rapidly to clients’...
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