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HAARP antenna array

Polar Aeronomy and Radio Science summer school returns to HAARP

More than 50 researchers will be in Alaska in August for the resumption of a science summer school that culminates with experiments at the High-frequency Active Aurora Research Program facility operated by the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute.


Robin Shoaps mentors undergraduate student Meredith McMahon (Spring 2023 Student Project Awardee).

URSA 2023 Mentor Awards now accepting applications

Faculty, researchers, staff, and graduate students from all disciplines and all UAF-affiliated campuses are invited to apply for an URSA Mentor Award of up to $6,000. This award is an opportunity for mentors to receive funding to engage undergraduate students on their current research and creative projects.

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Two people on the left side of the photo walk along a boulder-strewn gravel moraine partly covered with white wildflowers. A water body lies to the right of the hikers and flowers. Evergreen and deciduous trees grow on gravel benches between the hikers and the jumbled, dirt-covered lower end of a glacier.  Snow-covered mountains and glaciers rise in the background.

Long-pondered return to a pile of rocks

FIREWEED ROCK GLACIER -- "I've been thinking of this stuff for the last 20 years," says Adam Bucki. My friend, soon to be 50, was in his 20s the last time he stood on this massive pile of pointy rocks that oozes slowly downhill.


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