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Aerial view over the Alaskan tundra showing patches of snow, ice, and bare land
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Methane-Releasing Tundra Soils Freezing Later Each Year

by Sarah Stanley 18 September 20192 November 2021

Scientists find links between delayed freezing of Alaskan soils and higher atmospheric methane concentrations during the cold season.

Photo of a protest of University of Alaska budget cuts
Posted inNews

University of Alaska Faces Budget Crisis

by Randy Showstack 8 July 20193 November 2021

The state legislature decides this week whether to override the governor’s $130 million cuts that could devastate the university and its world-class research.

The 17 October 2015 landslide at Tyndall Glacier Alaska
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Study of Alaskan Landslide Could Improve Tsunami Modeling

by E. Underwood 26 April 201911 February 2022

A rare submarine landslide provides researchers with a reference point for modeling the biggest tsunamis.

Sunset from the R/V Sikuliaq, July 2018, with broadband ocean-bottom seismometers arranged on deck
Posted inScience Updates

Examining Alaska’s Earthquakes on Land and Sea

by G. A. Abers, A. N. Adams, P. J. Haeussler, E. Roland, P. J. Shore, D. A. Wiens, S. Y. Schwartz, A. F. Sheehan, D. J. Shillington, S. Webb and L. L. Worthington 26 March 20198 November 2021

The Alaska Amphibious Community Seismic Experiment is taking a close look at seismic activity along the Alaska Peninsula to understand earthquakes in this little-studied region.

Researchers look at space storm data to understand how they caused fluctuations in Earth’s surface geomagnetic field
Posted inResearch Spotlights

How Two Massive Space Storms Zapped Alaska

by E. Underwood 6 August 201816 November 2021

New study reveals how space weather causes rapid fluctuations in Earth’s surface geomagnetic field.

A grid-like pattern in the permafrost in the National Petroleum Reserve–Alaska.
Posted inNews

Senior USGS Official Quits over Request for Advance Alaska Data

by Randy Showstack 23 February 20188 November 2021

The official objected to providing results of an Alaskan energy assessment to Interior Secretary Zinke before the report was public. The department says Zinke acted within his authority.

Posted inNews

Faults off Alaska Look Akin to Those Behind 2011 Japan Disaster

by Katherine Kornei 21 September 201711 January 2022

In a seismically quiet segment of Alaska’s subduction zone lie faults with structures similar to those of the system that caused the deadly Tohoku earthquake and tsunami.

Southern Alaska’s Lisianski Inlet, near the site of a systematic survey of the Queen Charlotte-Fairweather Fault.
Posted inScience Updates

A Closer Look at an Undersea Source of Alaskan Earthquakes

by D. S. Brothers, P. Haeussler, Amy E. East, U. ten Brink, B. Andrews, P. Dartnell, N. Miller and J. Kluesner 15 August 20178 November 2021

A systematic survey offers a striking portrait of movement along a 500-kilometer-long undersea section of the Queen Charlotte–Fairweather fault off the coast of southeastern Alaska.

Posted inEditors' Vox

Mesmerized by Gracefully Gliding Albatrosses

by U. ten Brink 18 July 20176 October 2021

Despite avian distractions and dreadful weather, a research cruise to map the seafloor off Alaska revealed new insights into the Queen Charlotte Fault.

Kīlauea is one of the volcanoes fingerprinted in a new study.
Posted inNews

“Fingerprinting” Volcanic Tremors May Help Forecast Eruptions

by L. Joel 10 April 201711 May 2022

Volcano seismic waves produce distinct tremor patterns, or "fingerprints," shared by different kinds of volcanoes.

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