UAF Geophysical Institute

Millions of dollars of research and operations come through the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Director Bob McCoy talked to local business leaders this week about how that impacts the community.

Earthquakes in the Nenana Basin last longer and feel much stronger than quakes of comparable magnitude in other places. University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists are studying why.

Scientists in Alaska will bounce radio signals off an asteroid today from the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program research site in Gakona. The experiment will be preparation for a more spectacular near-Earth asteroid fly-by in six years.

The blue satellite dish atop the University of Alaska Fairbanks Elvey building has long been iconic of the scientific research focused West Ridge part of…

A National Science Foundation grant will expand operations at the University of Alaska Fairbanks High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program or HAARP…

A new compound found in Fairbanks’s winter air might reveal new strategies for fighting air pollution. Researchers at University of Alaska Fairbanks have…

The Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly approved a resolution Thursday that established a task force that will put together a plan to deal with the…

The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program or “HAARP” facility is gearing up for its busiest season since the University of Alaska Fairbanks…

Internet connectivity and phone service is mostly up again today for University of Alaska campuses around the state, though some sporadic problems…

A possible connection between climate change and noctilucent clouds …Early August is prime time here in the far north for viewing those luminous…