The Shuttle Red Aurora | Geophysical Institute
Apr 12, 1981 · By glowing red on Sunday night, April 12, 1981, the heavens over the United States displayed their pleasure with the successful flight of the shuttle Columbia. Perhaps …
Big stretch on the Denali Fault | Geophysical Institute
Regan began his quest after reading a 1993 paper by researchers at the University of Alberta and University British Columbia and published in Geology . That paper asserted similarities in the …
Meet graduate student researcher Sebin John - Geophysical Institute
May 15, 2025 · Graduate student researchers are the future of science and an integral part of our Geophysical Institute family.So let’s meet some of them.Here’s Sebin John from the GI’s …
History - Geophysical Institute
Tape, a seismologist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Geophysical Institute, has driven me to two Alaska ghost towns on this smoky midsummer night.
Dangerous cold across the land | Geophysical Institute
The Dalton Highway winds through the Jim River and Prospect Creek valleys in northern Alaska, where an official thermometer registered Alaska’s all-time low of minus 80 degrees F on Jan. …
The Thin Line Between Alaska and Canada - Geophysical Institute
Oct 30, 2025 · The boundary between Alaska and Canada is 1,538 miles long. The line is obvious in some places, such as the Yukon River valley, where crews have cut a straight line through …
Ice Worm Habitats | Geophysical Institute
Oct 30, 2025 · Ice worms are numerous in the warmer glaciers of southeastern Alaska, British Columbia and Washington State, but they cannot tolerate temperatures much below zero. …
Exporting Water | Geophysical Institute
Jul 11, 2025 · Suppose that there were a means to collect a part of the rainfall from a portion of southeast Alaska or British Columbia the size of the Queen Charlotte Islands, about 4,000 …
The Alaska-Siberia Telegraph | Geophysical Institute
Oct 30, 2025 · The plan for the Alaska-Siberia Telegraph was originated by Perry McDonough Collins, while undertaking a commercial venture in the Amur Valley of Siberia. Collins …
Where the Oil's Going---and Why | Geophysical Institute
Oct 23, 2025 · The current begins with the heavy precipitation in British Columbia and southeastern Alaska. As the freshwater runoff discharges into the sea, the effect of the earth's …