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  • 1995
    All-Sky Camera in Eagle, Alaska
    All sky camera with an image

    An all-sky camera inside a new automated observing station in Eagle, Alaska, captures all visible auroras within an 870-mile field-of-view of the remote station for six months. The resulting video footage comprises the most complete continuous long-term data set of the aurora ever made.

  • 1997
    International Arctic Research Center Established
    Japanese government leader signing paperwork

    The U.S. and Japanese governments, with the state of Alaska, jointly agree to establish the International Arctic Research Center on the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus as a project of the Common Agenda, which is signed by President Clinton and Prime Minister Hashimoto in March 1997. Syun-Ichi Akasofu is the first director.