Date: August 26, 2016 -August 27, 2016Time: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.Location: HAARP, mile 11.3 Tok Cutoff; Wrangell-St. Elias National Park Visitor Center, mile 106.8 Richardson Highway The University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute is planning a special public lecture and open house at the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program research facility later this month. […]
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 at the UAF Geophysical Institute, is modeling the solar wind’s interaction with Pluto’s escaping atmosphere. NASA launched the New Horizons space probe on Jan. 19, 2006, to take the first-ever […]
Alaska’s natural resource managers are using a UAF-developed web app to let oil field companies know when it’s ok to build ice roads and drive across the tundra on the North Slope. Notifying oil companies and contractors when it is safe to operate vehicles off-road to get to remote sites without damaging the fragile tundra […]