
The language link between central Siberia and Alaska
Apr 24, 2012 · The Ket people were the only remaining hunter-gatherers in Siberia, in part because the swampy land that surrounded their villages was teeming with mosquitoes. The Ket call July “sujdoqqip,” or “mosquito flying month,” a time they sometimes shoved off with houseboats into the Yenisei River — similar in size to the widest parts of the ...
Alaska Native Languages - Geophysical Institute
Apr 10, 2025 · More people now speak these languages than at any time in history. Yet, in Alaska, these languages are only holding even or are declining. One language family, Eskimo-Aleut is spoken by 95% of the 18,000 Canadian Eskimos and by essentially all 42,000 Greenlander Eskimos.
Atmospheric Sciences - Geophysical Institute
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Seismology & Geodesy - Geophysical Institute
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UAF student wins award from national chemistry organization
Mar 3, 2025 · In Fairbanks, our Troth Yeddha' Campus is located on the ancestral lands of the Dena people of the lower Tanana River. Facebook Twitter YouTube Instagram The University of Alaska is an equal opportunity/equal access employer and educational institution.
Human Behavior Before Earthquakes | Geophysical Institute
The Italian earthquake scientist Luigi Bossi wrote after the earthquake of April 2, 1808, in the valley of Pelice, that the more sensitive people were seized by a peculiar, indescribable restlessness some time before the tremors and that they suffered from some kind of trembling or, in some cases, a severe pounding of the heart.
Alaska forests in transition | Geophysical Institute
Dec 19, 2012 · In Fairbanks, our Troth Yeddha' Campus is located on the ancestral lands of the Dena people of the lower Tanana River. Facebook Twitter YouTube Instagram The University of Alaska is an equal opportunity/equal access employer and educational institution.
Krusenstern's Chenier Plain - Geophysical Institute
Mar 27, 2025 · Based on the number of ridges and the 5,000 year time span, such storms must have occurred roughly every 45 to 50 years. Each time, the local residents must have abandoned their homesites and built new homes on the new ridge. Over the course of the years, the people migrated about two miles leaving behind the artifacts that describe their ...
The UFOs Are Back - Geophysical Institute
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Sleuthing the Source of Washboard Roads - Geophysical Institute
Jun 27, 1996 · While driving Alaska's graveled highways, countless people have no doubt wondered how an unpaved road surface turns into a bouncing bed of corduroy. Keith Mather, former director of the Geophysical Institute and UAF vice chancellor for research, wondered the same thing, and in 1963 he published a paper on a subject near and dear to many ...