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IARC Presentations at UAF Research Day

Mon, 04/23/2012 - 13:48

Join IARC at this year's UAF Campus Research Day, April 24 from 10am to 2pm at Wood Center. Research Day "is an annual event showcasing student (undergraduate and graduate) researchers from across all disciplines at UAF. It features student poster sessions, tours and open houses at labs and studios (celebrating faculty research and student research opportunities), an undergraduate speaker symposium and a keynote address celebrating Alaskan research." Read More

Visit IARC at Morrill Act Anniversary Celebration

Fri, 04/20/2012 - 15:25

The University of Alaska Fairbanks, the Cooperative Extension Service and the School of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences celebrated the 150th anniversary of the 1862 Morrill Act, also known as the Land-Grant College Act. This event was held on Saturday April 21 in the Wood Center Ballroom. Read More

UAV Surveys Sea Ice to Help Fuel Tanker in Nome

Thu, 01/19/2012 - 14:20

IARC researcher Jessica Cherry recently visited Nome, Alaska to survey sea ice between a Russian fuel tanker, the Renda (led by a US Coast Guard icebreaker Healy, which cleared a path for the tanker), and the harbor it needed to reach. It was critical that the tanker reached the harbor quickly, as the town expected to run out of heating fuel by spring after enduring record breaking low temperatures. Read More

North by 2020 Book Launch

Fri, 12/09/2011 - 18:09

Join the official book launch for North by 2020: Perspectives on Alaska's Changing Social-Ecological Systems (UA Press, 2011). The event will be held on Wednesday, December 14 at 7:00 PM at UAF's Geophysical Institute Globe Room (215 Elvey Building). North by 2020 was edited by Amy Lauren Lovecraft, associate professor of political science at UAF and Hajo Eicken, IARC researcher and professor of geophysics at UAF. Read More

American Geophysical Union 2011 Fall Meeting, IARC Posters and Talks

Fri, 11/18/2011 - 12:36

Researchers from the International Arctic Research Center are presenting over 15 posters and talks at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2011, December 5-9. The following is a complete schedule of IARC presentations.

Mon, 10/10/2011 - 16:27

Watch Dr. Jessica Cherry and others demonstrate methods to collect air quality data in interior Alaska, explain how temperature inversions work, and show what climate models predict about temperature inversions in the future. Read More

Aurora Borealis Over IARC

Tue, 09/13/2011 - 14:18

Watch the aurora borealis dance across the sky above the Akasofu and Elvey buildings on UAF's West Ridge. The time-lapse footage was taken on September 12, 2011 and put together by IARC Post-Doctoral Fellow Taro Nakai. Read More

Visit IARC at the UAF Student Job & Research Fair

Tue, 09/06/2011 - 17:07

IARC will be present at the UAF Student Job & Research Fair, Sept. 7-8, 11am - 2pm at Wood Center. The purpose of this fair "is to increase the awareness of undergraduate research, scholarly activities, and student jobs at UAF; to provide opportunities for networking between undergraduate and graduate students and UAF representatives (faculty, staff, researchers) related to the students' field of study or areas of interest." Read More

IARC Research Featured in National Geographic

Fri, 07/29/2011 - 14:11

The article "On Thin Ice" in the July 2011 issue of National Geographic Magazine uses a figure provided by IARC researcher Dr. Xiangdong Zhang (See p. 73). The figure illustrates winter maximum and summer minimum Arctic sea ice extents juxtaposed with the area of the Arctic inhabited by polar bears. Read More

Akasofu Building Summer Tours

Wed, 05/25/2011 - 13:38

Walk through the International Arctic Research Center. IARC is an international center for scientific research on the Arctic System and global climate change. View the Tanana Valley and the Alaska Range from the fifth-floor conference room. Try a hands-on demonstration of Google Earth on a TouchTable. Read More

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