Discover Alaska Indoor Air talk
As a part of the UAF Discover Alaska seminar series, Bill Simpson presented “The Air We Breathe: Indoor Air Quality in Alaska”. You can view a recording of the event at this link.
Is that a bird? Is that a UFO? It’s a research balloon!
There has been talk about spotting a UFO in Fairbanks, but we are here to break the myth. A team of researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), in collaboration with institutes from France and Italy, have been conducting experiments using this balloon as a part of the …
Downtown (UAF CTC) Site Virtual Tour
Join us at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 17 for a virtual tour of the downtown air quality research site. Instruments located at UAF CTC are collecting data that will help scientists better understand chemical processing of pollution in cold and dark conditions. What questions do you have? Click below to …
Indoor / Outdoor Air Quality Virtual Open House
This is the recording of a live event in which we described instruments that are collecting data in the Hamilton Acres neighborhood to help improve understanding of impacts of outdoor air quality on the air we breathe indoors. Watch the recording on the Geophysical Institute YouTube channel.
How toxic is your relationship with cooking? We’re here to find out!
When we talk about air pollution, the first thought that pops into most people’s heads is polluted skies & outdoor environments. However, indoor air pollution is an equally important issue for human health. An average person spends 90% of their time indoors, which makes it all the more crucial to …
Plumes over Fairbanks
Ever wonder what happens to the emissions from the power plants in Fairbanks? French researcher Brice Termine-Roussel took this dramatic photograph of the plume from the downtown power plant on the evening of January 22nd. Our study will probe the vertical distribution of these plumes and how they mix vertically …
Fairbanks Winter Air Study
A key component of the Fair Air project is the Alaskan Layered Pollution and Chemical Analysis (ALPACA) 2022 field project. This study brings forty scientists from across the lower 48 and Europe to come to Fairbanks to work with UAF scientists and study air pollution under cold and dark conditions. …
Wildfire Smoke and Health
In the third installment of the FairAir talk series Emily Fischer from Colorado State University, explains how smoke and the health impacts from wildfire smoke specifically are studied in her talk, “Wildfire Smoke and Health”. Missed the talk? You can view the recording HERE. Q&A Session: Q: Is wildfire smoke …