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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Astrophysicist Sabrina Savage of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center gives a "well done" pat to a recovered portion of a rocket launched April 17, 2024, from Poker Flat Research Range as part of NASA's new solar flare sounding rocket campaign. NASA photo

NASA sounding rocket chief praises first solar flare campaign from Poker Flat

May 14, 2024
The head of NASA’s sounding rocket program called April’s first launches of the space agency’s Solar Flare Sounding Rocket Campaign the “perfect...
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A red and rayed aurora was captured in a single 6-second exposure from Racibórz, Poland, May 10, 2024. The photographer's friend, seeing an aurora for the first time, is visible in the distance also taking images of the beautifully colorful nighttime sky. Photo by Mariusz Durlej via NASA APOD

Solar storm – not HAARP – creates intense auroral display

May 13, 2024
Night skies over the weekend erupted with vivid colors and awed people all around the globe as the solar wind from a severe geomagnetic storm...
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The aurora was photographed in 2014 during a series of Hubble Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph far-ultraviolet-light observations taking place as NASA’s Juno spacecraft approached and entered into orbit around Jupiter. Image by NASA, ESA and J. Nichols (University of Leicester)

UAF scientist’s research answers big question about our system’s largest planet

May 3, 2024
New discoveries about Jupiter could lead to a better understanding of Earth’s own space environment and influence a long-running scientific...
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Students from several Alaska communities, most of them remote and off the state's road system, presented their seismology research Wednesday. Photo by Rod Boyce

Alaska high school students present research at seismology conference

May 1, 2024
Radiation monitoring. Sea ice changes. Floodwater alerts. Coastal erosion. Speeding drivers. Landslide warnings. Thawing permafrost. Weather...
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Scientists attending the Seismological Society of America annual meeting in Anchorage view the hazardous Barry Arm landslide area while on a science cruise in Prince William Sound on April 29, 2024. Photo by Rod Boyce

Seismologists get close-up look at hazardous Barry Arm landslide

April 29, 2024
A high point for about 300 seismologists, geologists and other scientists gathering in Anchorage for a weeklong conference came Monday, April 29...
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The mini-science camp on the Beaufort Sea ice two-thirds of a mile north of a thin snow-covered spit above Elson Lagoon, about 10 miles east of Utqiagvik. Photo by Bryan Whitten

UAF researchers use drones to test new instrument for measuring sea ice thickness and its snow cover

April 29, 2024
BEAUFORT SEA ICE, near Utqiagvik, Alaska — The train of 10 snowmachines snaked slowly across the snow-covered sea ice toward the small tent far...
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Lava erupts at Pavlof Volcano, shown in a short-wave infrared false-color image from Jan. 19, 2022. A discussion of research into the eruption is one of more than 1,000 presentations at the Seismological Society of America annual meeting. Image by Hannah Dietterich, Alaska Volcano Observatory

UAF researchers head to Anchorage for nation’s largest seismology conference

April 25, 2024
University of Alaska Fairbanks seismologists, staff and students will be in Anchorage next week for the annual national meeting of the...
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National Science Foundation Director Sethuraman Panchanathan. National Science Foundation/Photo by Stephen Voss

NSF director: 'I am grateful to UAF’s partnership'

April 24, 2024
Dr. Sethuraman Panchanathan became the 15th director of the National Science Foundation in June 2020 when the U.S. Senate confirmed his...
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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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