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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 […]

GINA provides a guiding hand in Arctic Ocean research

By Rod Boyce | Geophysical Institute on Nov 12, 2021   Featured, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

GINA provides a guiding hand in Arctic Ocean research

The research vessel Sikuliaq navigated among and around the chunks and slabs of Arctic sea ice above Alaska for several weeks on two voyages this fall, breaking through frozen slabs when it had to just as its sturdy hull is designed to do.  Satellite imagery produced at the Geographic Information Network of Alaska, or GINA, at the University […]

Carbon dissolved in Arctic rivers affects the globe

By National Science Foundation on Nov 8, 2021   Featured, North Slope/Northwest Alaska, Science/Education  

Carbon dissolved in Arctic rivers affects the globe

New research shines light on poorly understood processes Geoscientist Michael Rawlins of the University of Massachusetts Amherst is improving the understanding of the Arctic’s carbon cycle — the way carbon is transferred among the land, ocean and atmosphere. To better understand future trends in atmospheric carbon dioxide and climate change, a fuller picture of how carbon cycles […]

North Pacific Right Whale Research in Alaska

By NOAA Fisheries on Sep 10, 2021   Featured, NOAA Fisheries and Alaska Fisheries Science Center  

North Pacific Right Whale Research in Alaska

Alaska Fisheries Science Center’s Marine Mammal Laboratory conducts research to manage and recover this critically endangered population. The North Pacific right whale is the rarest of the large whales. Only about 30 individuals are estimated to remain of the Eastern stock that lives in Alaskan waters. Scientists at the Alaska Fisheries Science Center’s Marine Mammal Laboratory […]

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