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Goodbye to a Raffish Glacier Scientist

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on Nov 7, 2020   Featured, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

Goodbye to a Raffish Glacier Scientist

  Will Harrison, who knew the world’s bumpy plains of ice as well as his old neighborhood in Saint John, New Brunswick, has died. He was 84. From his arrival at the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska Fairbanks in January 1972, the Canada-born Harrison mapped out and executed studies of glaciers from Antarctica […]

Did Plants Cause one of Earth’s Great Extinctions?

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on Mar 5, 2018   Science/Education  

Did Plants Cause one of Earth’s Great Extinctions?

Several times in the distant past, our home planet has been cleansed of its residents, with the exception of a few plucky survivors. Perhaps the best known and most spectacular extinction was that of the dinosaurs, caused when a meteorite six miles in diameter crashed into Earth about 65 million years ago. There was another […]

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