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  • A seismic station sits on Mount Upton, in Canada's Yukon.

    UAF researcher to lead four-year project to revolutionize seismology

    September 03, 2021

    A project to unite seismic data analysis and modeling with supercomputing power may help answer some of the biggest questions about the Earth's seismic activity.
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  • A black-and-white image of a man with glasses and a mustache, smoking a pipe.

    Diversity helps a place survive

    September 03, 2021

    UAF Geophysical Institute directors have followed the advice of your financial advisor: diversify your portfolio.
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  • Berries on a bush

    September museum programs explore berries

    August 31, 2021

    The University of Alaska Museum of the North is focusing on berries during family programs in September.
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  • A green aurora borealis shines between spruce trees.

    What does it take to reach 75?

    August 26, 2021

    We just had a party up here, to celebrate the Geophysical Institute's 75th year of existence. Seventy-five years also happens to be the average life expectancy for a human these days.
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  • A bearded seal sits on the ice edge in Kotzebue Sound. Photo by Jessie Lindsay, NMFS MMPA Permit No. 19309.

    Climate change threatens seal hunting by Indigenous Alaskans

    August 24, 2021

    Climate change has severely reduced the length of the seal hunting season in a rural Alaska village, potentially threatening a key feature of the community's Indigenous way of life.
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  • A beaver sits in water while chewing on vegetation.

    Beavers not always to blame for beaver fever

    August 19, 2021

    Beavers usually get the rap for spreading Giardia (beaver fever), but researchers say we blame beavers too often.
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  • Lodgepole pine near Yakutat.

    Pine grove near Yakutat is farthest north

    August 12, 2021

    Gaglioti walked in rubber boots on a green, squishy carpet of muskeg -- a wild garden of water-loving plants growing on acidic soil that has for centuries prevented the encroachment of giant rainforest trees.
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  • Image by James Havens
An adult male woolly mammoth navigates a mountain pass in Arctic Alaska 17,100 years ago. The image is produced from an original life-size painting by paleo artist James Havens. The painting is housed at the University of Alaska Museum of the North in Fairbanks.

    Study takes unprecedented peek into life of 17,000-year-old mammoth

    August 12, 2021

    Using isotopic data in a tusk, an international research team has retraced the astonishing lifetime journey of an Arctic woolly mammoth.
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  • Elvey Building

    UAF Geophysical Institute to mark 75 years with public celebration

    August 11, 2021

    Come help the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute celebrate its 75th anniversary.
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  • Sikuliaq at sea with icebergs

    UAF researcher sails north in search of deep-sea answer

    August 11, 2021

    Geophysics professor Bernard Coakley is trying explain the formation of the large Arctic Ocean feature known as the Amerasia Basin.
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