Posted April 6th, 2021 for Geophysical Institute April 06, 2021 / Rod Boyce A five-year, $9.3 million National Science Foundation grant will allow the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute to establish a new research observatory dedicated to exploring Earth’s upper atmosphere and geospace environment. The Subauroral Geophysical Observatory for Space Physics and Radio Science will be housed at the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program site in Gakona, Alaska. The facility’s 33-acre Ionospheric Research Instrument will be the centerpiece of the new observatory. A second NSF-funded project will add a lidar at the site, which will allow the study of other regions of the upper atmosphere. A lidar sends pulses of laser light to determine the composition, temperature and structure of regions of the upper atmosphere from 90 to 150 kilometers.
Melting glaciers in Alaska causing frequent earthquakes, study finds
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