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2025 Science for Alaska Summer Series

The Geophysical Institute Public Information team is pleased to partner with visitors bureau Explore Fairbanks for the 2nd annual Science for Alaska Summer Series. This series is a more casual version of our winter series, furthers the GI’s investment in public outreach to connect with summer visitors in an off-campus location.

All four talks are in-person at the Morris Thompson Cultural & Vistors Center, 101 Dunkel St in downtown Fairbanks. Talks start at 11:30 a.m. and last about 30 minutes with extended time for audience questions. 

Talks will not be streamed to Zoom as in the winter series, but we will try a basic Facebook livestream from the Geophysical Institute Facebook page.

Talk schedule, 11:30 a.m. AKDT, Saturdays:
(download series flyer)

• June 14: Mount Spurr Volcano, David Fee
• July 12: Seismology in Alaska and on Venus, Bryant Chow
• August 9: Alaska Wildfire Monitoring, Jen Delamere
• September 13: Aurora Season Kickoff, Don Hampton
   

2025 Science for Alaska Winter Talks
(in-person and virtual)

The traditional 2025 Science for Alaska lecture series took place Tuesday, Feb. 4, with talks every Tuesday through Feb. 25. View the right side of this page to see talk recordings and descriptions.

• Feb. 4: Aleutians to Arctic Coast: Covering Alaska Science for 30 Years, Ned Rozell, Alaska Science Forum author, Geophysical Institute
• Feb. 11: Alaska Changes as Seen from Space: Leaf Miners, Beavers & Rusting Rivers, Emily Graham, doctoral student, UAF College of Natural Science and Mathematics
• Feb. 18: Why Space Weather Matters to Alaska: A Conversation with UAF Rocket Scientists, Mark Conde, professor, Geophysical Institute, and Kylee Branning, doctoral student, UAF College of Natural Science and Mathematics
• Feb. 25: An Explosive History: Alaska's Mount Churchill Volcano, Jessica Larsen, professor, Geophysical Institute

In addition to the full-length talks, Science for Alaska offered two free outreach events and K-12 science activities prior to the spring talk series. These events were in-person only:

• An Afternoon of Family Science (K-12)
  3-5 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 28
  Nordale Education Center, 397 Hamilton Avenue
  Curious about science done by Alaska researchers? Fairbanks BEST Homeschool joins the Geophysical Institute for an afternoon of exploration, hands-on activities and stargazing inside a planetarium. Bring your family and friends to this free event you don't want to miss!
   
• Science for Alaska Kickoff
  6:30-8 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 30
  Black Spruce Brewing Company, 3290 Peger Road
  Enjoy a storytelling evening of several short, engaging, image-based talks about mountain permafrost, traveling Alaska as a field engineer maintaining seismic instruments, the importance of satellite data in Alaska, Pavlof Volcano and more. Snacks and beverages available for purchase, and food from home or other vendors may be brought into the brewery.

For more information, email uaf-gi-public-info@alaska.edu or call 907-474-5229.

Thank you to our generous sponsors—the Triplehorn Family, Lifewater Engineering Company, and the Dr. Syun-Ichi Akasofu Endowment—for supporting UAF science outreach through the lecture series.

About Science for Alaska:

Science for Alaska is one of the largest public outreach efforts undertaken each year by the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

For over 30 years, the series has brought current scientific research to communities throughout the state. Administrators, faculty, staff and the public weigh-in on possibilities for speakers and topics to be included in the popular lecture series. The result is a well-rounded event that pools expertise from scientists studying in various locales in Alaska, on topics as diverse as satellites to beavers.

Science for Alaska has grown tremendously since its inception in the early 1990s. Today, lectures are offered in Fairbanks and online, as well as on DVDs that are accessible through the Alaska library system. New science outreach events bring local research to Fairbanks K-12 audiences.