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This photograph shows Front Street in Nome, Alaska, during a storm on Oct. 7, 1913. Anvil Bakery, Anvil Coffee Shop, Merchants Cafe and S.L.Lewis clothing store are visible. UAF archive

New research shows flood risk for several Alaska communities

Geophysical Institute
June 10, 2024
Coastal Alaska communities from the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta northward will see more of their buildings exposed to flooding by 2100 if they continue...
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The antenna known as AS2 sits atop the Elvey Building at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. The antenna has a 9.1-meter aperture. UAF photo by Leif Van Cise

Alaska Satellite Facility gets $139 million federal intelligence contract

Geophysical Institute
June 6, 2024
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has awarded a $139 million, five-year contract to the University of Alaska Fairbanks for the global...
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The Elvey Building on UAF's West Ridge houses the Geophysical Institute. Photo by JR Ancheta

Geophysical Institute, Poker Flat offer free summer tours

Geophysical Institute
May 29, 2024
The University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute is offering free public tours from Memorial Day through Labor Day. Two different guided...
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Geophysical Institute graduate student researcher Claire Puleio flies by Mount Edgecumbe. Puleio is one of the speakers in the Science for Alaska Summer Series. UAF photo by JR Ancheta

Geophysical Institute, Explore Fairbanks offer new summer science series

Geophysical Institute
May 24, 2024
The University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute and Explore Fairbanks will host free public Science for Alaska talks this summer at the...
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Astrophysicist Sabrina Savage of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center gives a "well done" pat to a recovered portion of a rocket launched April 17, 2024, from Poker Flat Research Range as part of NASA's new solar flare sounding rocket campaign. NASA photo

NASA sounding rocket chief praises first solar flare campaign from Poker Flat

Geophysical Institute
May 14, 2024
The head of NASA’s sounding rocket program called April’s first launches of the space agency’s Solar Flare Sounding Rocket Campaign the “perfect...
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A red and rayed aurora was captured in a single 6-second exposure from Racibórz, Poland, May 10, 2024. The photographer's friend, seeing an aurora for the first time, is visible in the distance also taking images of the beautifully colorful nighttime sky. Photo by Mariusz Durlej via NASA APOD

Solar storm – not HAARP – creates intense auroral display

Geophysical Institute
May 13, 2024
Night skies over the weekend erupted with vivid colors and awed people all around the globe as the solar wind from a severe geomagnetic storm...
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The aurora was photographed in 2014 during a series of Hubble Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph far-ultraviolet-light observations taking place as NASA’s Juno spacecraft approached and entered into orbit around Jupiter. Image by NASA, ESA and J. Nichols (University of Leicester)

UAF scientist’s research answers big question about our system’s largest planet

Geophysical Institute
May 3, 2024
New discoveries about Jupiter could lead to a better understanding of Earth’s own space environment and influence a long-running scientific...
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Students from several Alaska communities, most of them remote and off the state's road system, presented their seismology research Wednesday. Photo by Rod Boyce

Alaska high school students present research at seismology conference

Geophysical Institute
May 1, 2024
Radiation monitoring. Sea ice changes. Floodwater alerts. Coastal erosion. Speeding drivers. Landslide warnings. Thawing permafrost. Weather...
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Scientists attending the Seismological Society of America annual meeting in Anchorage view the hazardous Barry Arm landslide area while on a science cruise in Prince William Sound on April 29, 2024. Photo by Rod Boyce

Seismologists get close-up look at hazardous Barry Arm landslide

Geophysical Institute
April 29, 2024
A high point for about 300 seismologists, geologists and other scientists gathering in Anchorage for a weeklong conference came Monday, April 29...
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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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