Ned Rozelle-Journalist Archives - Alaska Native News

Rocket launches from Poker Flat Research Range

By Ned Rozelle-Journalist on Feb 21, 2012 State

Fairbanks, Alaskaâ€”On Saturday, Feb. 18 at 8:41 p.m. Alaska time, scientists launched a NASA sounding rocket from Poker Flat Research Range into a brilliant aurora display. The rocket mission, designed to gather information on space weather conditions that affect satellite communications, was a success.

Eroding islands, disappearing glaciers, lots of greenhouse gases

By Ned Rozelle-Journalist on Jan 26, 2012 Science/Education

The latest meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco in December 2011 featured hundreds of talks about Earth science, some of those relating to Alaska (and some of those comprehensible to a non-scientist). Here are a few items from the notebook I carried around the Moscone Center: