Ice fog blankets parts of Fairbanks as seen from the West Ridge viewpoint at the University of Alaska Fairbanks on Feb. 2, 2024. UAF photo by Leif Van Cise

UAF will buy instruments to expand Fairbanks air studies

August 7, 2024
A $702,000 National Science Foundation grant to the University of Alaska Fairbanks will pay for two science instruments to expand the study of...
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Exhibit panels on display at the Museum of the Aleutians in Unalaska describe storms and tsunamis. Photo courtesy of Chris Maio

Museum exhibit, video series to explain Aleutian Island storm history

August 2, 2024
A 2022 science cruise to the Aleutian Islands to learn about ancient storms and tsunamis has generated a traveling museum exhibit and video...
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Research associate professor Pavel Izbekov photographs students on the return from a day hike with Novarupta in the background. Photo by Seth Adams

UAF volcano field school explores 20th century’s biggest eruption

August 1, 2024
In the southern mountains of Katmai National Park and Preserve sits Novarupta volcano, which in 1912 belched the 20th century’s largest eruption...
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Franz Meyer receives the Education Award at the Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society meeting in Athens, Greece, in July 2024. Photo courtesy of Franz Meyer

UAF remote sensing scientist receives international award

July 24, 2024
Remote sensing professor Franz Meyer of the University of Alaska Fairbanks has been honored by an international society for his education and...
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Pavlof Volcano, on the Alaska Peninsula, emerges from clouds on Aug. 20, 2021. Photo courtesy of Ben David Jacob.

UAF researcher creates way to detect elusive volcanic vibrations

July 23, 2024
A new automated system of monitoring and classifying persistent vibrations at active volcanoes can eliminate the hours of manual effort needed to...
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Photo by Andy Aschwanden

International Summer School in Glaciology 2024 — A great success

July 9, 2024
Twenty-eight graduate students from nearly a dozen countries gathered in the small Alaska community of McCarthy in mid-June to participate in UAF...
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Research Professor Craig Heinselman. Photo by Bryan Whitten

UAF physicist receives top honor from European science association

July 8, 2024
Research Professor Craig Heinselman of the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute has been named the recipient of the 10th Beynon...
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Sergey Marchenko stands off the Nome-Council Road on the Seward Peninsula during one of his early Alaska fieldwork travels. Photo courtesy Vladimir Romanovsky.

Remembering Sergey Marchenko: Internationally known geocryologist

July 2, 2024
The Geophysical Institute lost a longtime member of its permafrost team last week with the death in Fairbanks of Research Associate Professor...
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Elisabeth Nadin holds her signed copy of “Eruption.” She assisted author James Patterson with information about volcanoes. Photo by Brian Whitten

UAF science communicator gets an explosion of literary notoriety

June 28, 2024
A little bit of fame can be just an email or phone call away. That happened for Elisabeth Nadin, communications manager at the Alaska Earthquake...
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Poorly understood multiscale ripples in the lower thermosphere-ionosphere regionh, as depicted in the gray-scale ground track, are the result of atmospheric wave forcing from below. Image by University of Colorado Boulder, Johns Hopkins APL

UAF on team in NASA-funded space weather project competition

June 25, 2024
The University of Alaska Fairbanks is part of a team led by the University of Colorado Boulder and Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory that...
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Guy Doré, president of the Canadian Permafrost Association, at the International Conference on Permafrost. The weeklong conference in Whitehorse, Yukon, began June. 16, 2024. Photo courtesy Guy Doré

Canadian Permafrost Association president: We need universities such as UAF

June 20, 2024
WHITEHORSE, Yukon — Universities play an essential role in advancing permafrost science, the president of the Canadian Permafrost Association...
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Graduate student Emily Graham shows her work about rusted rivers at the International Conference on Permafrost in Whitehorse, Yukon, on Monday, June 17, 2024. Photo by Rod Boyce

UAF scientists present research at international permafrost conference

June 18, 2024
Nearly two dozen University of Alaska Fairbanks researchers — faculty, technicians and students — are among the several hundred scientists at the...
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Students explore the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory's Permafrost Tunnel in Fox, Alaska. Several University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists use the tunnel for research projects. UAF photo by Leif Van Cise

UAF scientists heading to international permafrost conference

June 13, 2024
About 20 University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists will present research at the quadrennial International Conference on Permafrost, which opens...
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Yuan Tian, a co-author on the beetle research paper, stands next to a dead spruce tree near Cantwell, Alaska. Photo by Simon Zwieback

New way to spot beetle-killed spruce can help forest, wildfire managers

June 12, 2024
A new machine-learning system developed at the University of Alaska Fairbanks can automatically produce detailed maps from satellite data to show...
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This photograph shows Front Street in Nome, Alaska, during a storm on Oct. 7, 1913. Anvil Bakery, Anvil Coffee Shop, Merchants Cafe and S.L.Lewis clothing store are visible. UAF archive

New research shows flood risk for several Alaska communities

June 10, 2024
Coastal Alaska communities from the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta northward will see more of their buildings exposed to flooding by 2100 if they continue...
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The antenna known as AS2 sits atop the Elvey Building at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. The antenna has a 9.1-meter aperture. UAF photo by Leif Van Cise

Alaska Satellite Facility gets $139 million federal intelligence contract

June 6, 2024
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has awarded a $139 million, five-year contract to the University of Alaska Fairbanks for the global...
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The Elvey Building on UAF's West Ridge houses the Geophysical Institute. Photo by JR Ancheta

Geophysical Institute, Poker Flat offer free summer tours

May 29, 2024
The University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute is offering free public tours from Memorial Day through Labor Day. Two different guided...
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Geophysical Institute graduate student researcher Claire Puleio flies by Mount Edgecumbe. Puleio is one of the speakers in the Science for Alaska Summer Series. UAF photo by JR Ancheta

Geophysical Institute, Explore Fairbanks offer new summer science series

May 24, 2024
The University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute and Explore Fairbanks will host free public Science for Alaska talks this summer at the...
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Since it was established by an Act of Congress in 1946, scientists at the Geophysical Institute have studied geophysical processes from the center of the Earth to the surface of the sun and beyond, turning data and observations into information useful for state, Arctic and national priorities.

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