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In the crosshairs of an atmospheric river

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on Mar 25, 2022   Featured, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

In the crosshairs of an atmospheric river

Because of where Southeast Alaska sits — at the wetted lips of the planet’s widest expanse of blue — it is often soaked by atmospheric rivers, firehoses of moisture flowing up from the tropics. And even though the forests and muskegs of Southeast Alaska have evolved to drink up and shed stunning amounts of rain, […]

NASA rocket launches from Poker Flat in search of aurora answers

By Rod Boyce | Geophysical Institute on Mar 7, 2022   Featured, Interior Alaska, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

NASA rocket launches from Poker Flat in search of aurora answers

A NASA Black Brant IX sounding rocket soared high out of Poker Flat Research Range north of Fairbanks at 2:27 a.m. Saturday to learn more about pulsating aurora. The Loss through Auroral Microburst Pulsations, or LAMP, experiment seeks to determine whether the pulsating aurora is connected to another phenomenon called microbursts, higher-energy electrons from the Earth’s magnetosphere driven […]

Scientists aim to improve sea ice predictions’ accuracy, access

By Rod Boyce | Geophysical Institute on Jan 23, 2022   Featured, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

Scientists aim to improve sea ice predictions’ accuracy, access

Sea ice predictions have improved markedly since the founding of an international forecasting and monitoring network 14 years ago. “These forecasts are quite encouraging in their increasing accuracy,” said Uma Bhatt, an atmospheric sciences professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute. Bhatt spoke about the Sea Ice Prediction Network at the American Geophysical […]

Diversity helps a place survive

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on Sep 3, 2021   Featured, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

Diversity helps a place survive

Last week, I wrote about some of the breaks the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska Fairbanks has enjoyed during its 75-year existence. Another key for this place where a few dozen researchers study things “from the center of the Earth to the center of the sun” is that its directors have followed the advice of […]

What does it take to reach 75?

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on Aug 27, 2021   Featured, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

What does it take to reach 75?

We just had a party up here, to celebrate the Geophysical Institute’s 75th year of existence. Seventy-five years also happens to be the average life expectancy for a human these days. A workplace for volcanologists, glaciologists, seismologists, aurora-ologists and other types of scientists, the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska Fairbanks has endured since […]

UAF’s Unmanned Aircraft and Research Highlighted for Alaska Senate

By Rod Boyce | Geophysical Institute on Mar 21, 2021   Featured, Southeast Alaska, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

UAF’s Unmanned Aircraft and Research Highlighted for Alaska Senate

Leaders at the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska Fairbanks delivered strong support of Alaska as an aerospace state in remarks Wednesday to the Alaska Senate Labor and Commerce Committee. Lt. Gov. Kevin Meyer had announced that Wednesday, March 17, 2021, was Aerospace Day at the Alaska State Capitol. Alaska’s recognized leadership in the […]

High time for lynx in Alaska’s Interior

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on Jan 15, 2021   Featured, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

High time for lynx in Alaska’s Interior

Mike Taras has worked for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game for many years, but this is the first time he has said the words “nuisance lynx.” Taras, a wildlife education and outreach specialist, said people are seeing a lot of lynx in Alaska’s Interior. “I don’t remember people calling in telling us about […]

Heading Farther North than She has ever Been

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on Mar 13, 2020   Featured, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

Heading Farther North than She has ever Been

    On the cusp of Interior Alaska’s springtime, Melinda Webster will not experience it this year. She’ll miss most of summer, too. Webster will soon head north of Earth’s landmasses, to spend the next half year cradled in ice. Webster, a sea-ice specialist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute, will in a […]

Dirty Glaciers all over the World

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on Nov 19, 2019   Featured, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

Dirty Glaciers all over the World

When my boss, Sue Mitchell, was in Tibet recently, she asked a local guide if the glaciers there were shrinking. The guide told her no, the glaciers were fine. When she returned to Alaska, Mitchell asked the same question of glaciologist Martin Truffer, who also works at UAF’s Geophysical Institute. He said no, Himalaya glaciers […]

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