Physics Department
Faculty/Staff
Faculty|Adjunct Faculty|Emeritus Faculty|Staff
Ataur Chowdhury
Associate Professor of Physics
118 Reichardt Building
(907) 474-6109
Chowdhury's Email LinkAcademic Interests: Condensed matter physics, nanotechnology.
Mark Conde
Assistant Professor of Physics
706F Elvey Building
(907) 474-7741
Conde's Email Link
Academic Interests: Auroral processes and space weather.
David Newman
Professor of Physics
112 Reichardt Building(907) 474-7858
Newman's Email LinkAcademic Interests: Complex systems, turbulence, nonlinear dynamics and fusion plasma physics.
Chung-Sang Ng
Associate Professor of Physics
706E Elvey Building(907) 474-7367 (Elvey)
Ng's Email LinkAcademic Interests: Theoretical and computational plasma physics, with applications in space and fusion plasmas
Hans Nielsen
Professor of Physics
Associate Director Geophysical Institute
706G Elvey Building
Nielsen's Email Link
Academic Interests: Rocket investigation, high speed imaging of the aurora.
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John Olson
Professor of Physics
Physics Department Chair
706A Elvey Building
110 Reichardt Building(907) 474-7559 (ELVEY)
(907) 474-6793 (REIC)
Olson's Email LinkOlson's WebPage:
http://gi.alaska.edu/Academic Interests: Plasma wave propagation, atmospheric infrasound, digital signal processing, magnetospheric physics.
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Antonius Otto
Professor of Physics
708C Elvey Building
(907) 474-6169
Otto's Email LinkOtto's WebPage:
http://what.gi.alaska.edu/ao/index.html
Academic Interests: Space plasma theory and simulation.
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Channon Price
Associate Professor of Physics
120 Reichardt Building(907) 474-6106
Price's Email LinkPrice's WebPage:
http://137.229.52.100/%7Eprice/
Academic Interests: Theoretical physics: astrophysics, space plasma physics, nonlinear dynamics
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Dave Sentman
Professor of Physics
108 Reichardt Building
708E Elvey Building
(907) 474-5330
(907) 474-6442
Sentman's Email Link
Academic Interests: Space plasma physics, artificial heating of the ionosphere, atmospheric electricity.
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Curt Szuberla
Assistant Professor of Physics
706D Elvey Building
(907) 474-7347
Szuberla's Email LinkSzuberla's WebPage:
http://www.gi.alaska.edu/~cas/physics/
Academic Interests: Atmospheric infrasound and digital signal processing.
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Martin Truffer
Associate Professor of Physics
401 Elvey Building(907) 474-5359
Truffer's Email LinkTruffer's Webpage:
http://www.gi.alaska.edu/%7Etruffer/
Academic Interests: Glacier dynamics, application of geophysical and borehole techniques to glaciology, numerical modeling of ice flow.
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Renate Wackerbauer
Associate Professor of Physics
106 Reichardt Building(907) 474-6108
Wackerbauer's Email LinkWackerbauer's WebPage:
http://www.faculty.uaf.edu/ffraw1/Academic Interests: Complex systems, nonlinear dynamics and chaos, modeling of biological systems.
Brenton Watkins
Professor of Physics
708A Elvey Building
(907) 474-7479
Watkins' Email LinkWatkins' Webpage:
http://home.gci.net/%7Ebjw/UAF
Academic Interests: Radar studies of the atmosphere and ionosphere
Emeritus Faculty-Teaching
John Craven
Professor of Physics - recently retired
701C Elvey Building
Academic Interests: Thermospheric composition, magnetospheric and auroral physics, instrumentation.
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Charles Deehr
Emeritus Professor of Physics
907-474-7473
cdeehr "at" gi.alaska.edu
Academic Interests: Spectrophotometric studies of atmospheric emissions.
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John Morack
Emeritus Professor of Physics
ffjlm "at" uaf.edu
Academic Interests: Subsea permafrost, ice physics. Thomas Hallinan, Professor of Geophysics
William Harrison, Professor of Physics
Fred Rees, Professor of Physics
Juan Roederer, Professor of Physics
Knut Stamnes, Professor of Physics
Daniel Swift, Professor of Physics
Gunter Weller, Professor of Geophysics
Gerd Wendler, Professor of Geophysics
Adjunct Faculty
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John Petersen
Adjunct Faculty Member
Petersen's Email Link
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David Withoff
Adjunct Faculty Member
:Withoff's Email Link
Staff
Saundra "Sandy" Jefko
Administrative Assistant
102 Reichardt Building
(907) 474-7339
Departmental Email Link
Robert Parsons
Laboratory Supervisor & Safety Officer
114 Reichardt Building( 907) 474-7857
Parsons' Email Link
Academic Interests: Physics, mathmatics, robotics, astronomyThis page last updated on 4/9/2009