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Magnetic declination and finding the moon

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on Jan 22, 2023   Featured, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

Magnetic declination and finding the moon

Dan Joling of Anchorage was set to photograph the full moon rising over the Port of Anchorage on Jan. 6, 2023. His research told him the moon would pop over the horizon at a certain number of degrees from north. Guided by the compass feature on his iPhone, Joling aimed his camera that way. He […]

Alaska’s Small Glaciers on the Way Out

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on Jan 13, 2023   Featured, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

Alaska’s Small Glaciers on the Way Out

Glaciers worldwide are withering. Half of them will disappear by the end of this century, and much of the lost ice will vanish from mountains in Alaska, scientists say. Authors of a recent cover story in the journal Science used high-performance computers to predict the fate of 215,547 glaciers on Earth. They excluded the great […]

Seabird deaths part of Arctic Report Card

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on Dec 19, 2022   Featured, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

Seabird deaths part of Arctic Report Card

The Arctic Report Card, a compilation of northern science by researchers from all over the planet — most of them doing work in Alaska — came out in mid-December at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union in Chicago. In summary, what smart people predicted in 2006, during the first report card press conference, […]

The dark season turns on winter solstice

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on Dec 9, 2022   Featured, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

The dark season turns on winter solstice

One winter day not long ago, a reporter from the Sacramento Bee called. She had read a story I wrote about life at 40 below in Fairbanks. Meteorologists in the Sacramento office of the National Weather Service office had forecast a drop to 25 degrees in central California; people were concerned about their pipes freezing […]

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