Timeline

  • 1977
    Trans-Alaska Pipeline Complete
    Researchers with instruments and a piece of the pipeline

    The trans-Alaska oil pipeline is complete and operational. Geophysical Institute scientists install equipment to measure possible electrical current induction in the pipeline due to auroral activity.

  • 1985
    Aurora Color Television Project for Purchase
    Aurora by Norbert Untersteiner

    The Aurora Color Television Project, a 24-minute-long video recording of aurora footage set to Alaskan composer Gordon Wright's "Symphony in Ursa Major," becomes available for public purchase. Geophysical Institute researchers Neal Brown, Tom Hallinan and Dan Osborne collected the footage from the Poker Flat Research Range using supersensitive television camera equipment.

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Since it was established by an Act of Congress in 1946, scientists at the Geophysical Institute have studied geophysical processes from the center of the Earth to the surface of the sun and beyond, turning data and observations into information useful for state, Arctic and national priorities.

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