Magpies a more common sight throughout Alaska
2012年5月11日 · The magpie sightings on the Alaska Bird Observatory’s website show a pattern that traces the road system and follows the path of rivers like the Yukon and Kuskokwim. Magpies are like their raven cousins in that they will eat almost anything. The birds tend to congregate around people and the food we throw away. -“They’re Dumpster divers ...
Mug shot of a wolf, magpie names, goodbye Rat Island
2012年6月28日 · Ken Tape feels that way, after a time-lapse camera he set up in northern Alaska captured a full-frame portrait of a wolf. Mug shot of a wolf, magpie names, goodbye Rat Island | Geophysical Institute Skip to main content
West Nile Virus and Alaska - Geophysical Institute
2003年5月1日 · Alaska state and federal agencies are preparing for the arrival of an unwanted visitor, the West Nile Virus. The West Nile Virus, spread to the New York metropolitan area from overseas sometime in 1999, has worked its way west by its two main carriers, mosquitoes and birds. The virus, sometimes but rarely fatal in humans, has killed thousands ...
Life endures in hidden, cold worlds | Geophysical Institute
2013年3月21日 · The Alaska Science Forum has been provided as a public service by the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, in cooperation with the UAF research community since the late 1970s. Ned Rozell is a science writer at the institute.
Aurora Forecast - Geophysical Institute
2024年11月11日 · The Space Weather Outlook is the forecast of geomagnetic activity in 27 days. NOAA updates the 27-Day Space Weather Outlook every Monday at 15:00 UTC. Highlighted in blue are 3-Day Forecast data overlaying the 27-Day Forecast. 3-Day Forecast data are updated daily and provides a more accurate forecast. Daily Geomagnetic Data every day at and ...
UAF to offer comet viewing — if the weather cooperates
2024年10月11日 · CONTACTS: • Mark Conde, University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute, 907-474-7741, mgconde@alaska.edu. • Rod Boyce, University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute, 907-474-7185, rcboyce@alaska.edu. The University of Alaska Fairbanks invites the public to view a celestial visitor that hasn’t traveled near Earth in at least ...
A guide to the Alaska that was (is) | Geophysical Institute
2024年9月12日 · A guide to the Alaska that was (is) September 12, 2024 / Ned Rozell. In 1935, in the middle of the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Federal Writers’ Project. His goal was to provide jobs for American writers who found themselves unemployed after the stock market crash of 1929. Merle Colby was one of those writers.
Alaskan Meteorites - Geophysical Institute
2024年11月7日 · In fact, Alaska can boast only one confirmed meteorite. A nickel-iron meteorite, it was raised by a gold dredge at Aggie Creek near Council on the Seward Peninsula. Found in 1942, the main part of the meteorite now resides at the University of Alaska Museum in Fairbanks. A meteorite shower may have been observed many years ago by an Eskimo of ...
Method rapidly determines surface air quality during Alaska wildfires
October 23, 2024 / Rod Boyce. A method of quickly determining surface air quality during Alaska’s sometimes intense wildfire season will benefit urban and rural communities, especially those in Interior Alaska where boreal forest fires often rage. The development of such a method by Tianlang Zhao, a graduate student in associate professor ...
Magma found beneath volcano-less country - Geophysical Institute
2024年1月25日 · Recently, while looking for something else, researchers found a reservoir of what might be magma, 7 miles beneath the muskeg of middle Alaska. The spot intrigues Carl Tape because above it, at the ground surface, are ancient volcanic features. Tape is a seismologist with the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute.