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Engineering solutions for the world's cold regions and beyond

Alaska Center for Energy & Power energy analyst Markus Mager conducts fieldwork in support of the Pilgrim Hot Springs Geothermal Resource Assessment Project.

Photo courtesy of ACEP.

Faculty in the Advanced Materials Group demonstrate use of the laser deposition system and explain microfabrication processes to undergraduate students.

Photo by K. Hansen.

Researchers in the Alaska University Transportation Center check the temperature of a hot mix asphalt, part of a project to test which mixtures perform best in Alaska’s different regions.

Photo courtesy of Jeny Liu.

Members of the UA Society of Automobile Engineers Zero Emissions team took first place in the 2012 SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge Zero Emissions Category. Co-captain Isaac Thompson, electrical engineering senior in the College of Engineering and Mines, will travel with the winning sled to Greenland as part of an NSF-funded research project.

UAF photo by Todd Paris.

Computer scientist Jon Genetti with an image of the aurora he created for the space show "Cosmic Collisions" at the Hayden Planetarium in New York.

UAF photo by Todd Paris.

The Mineral Industry Research Laboratory conducts research in ultra-clean processing. Here student researchers prepare coal dust samples for testing.

Photo courtesy of R. Ganguli.

Dr. Bandopadhyay accepting the 2011 Percy N. Nicholls Award from SME Coal & Energy Division Chair, Michael A. Trevits.

Photo courtesy of the Society of Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration.

Undergraduate Kyle Emery (foreground) works with ACEP researchers Jack Schmid (background, left) and Paul Duvoy (right) collecting data on current and sediments, part of a larger study to explore in-river hydrokinetic applications.

Photo by K. Hansen.

Mat Wooller (Alaska Stable Isotope Facility), Jim Shobe (PhD student) and Terry Smith (North Pole high school student intern) (left to right) test a new vibra-coring system through a hole in lake ice to sample long cores of sediment beneath a thaw lake near UAF.

UAF photo by Todd Paris.

Alaska Stable Isotope Facility staff member Norma Haubenstock works on a process to extract fatty acids to track individual compounds through food webs and ecosystems.

UAF photo by T. Paris.

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May

Alaska’s Bridge Preservation Innovation

Preserving infrastructure assets in Alaska is fraught with extreme challenges, most often borne by the region’s harsh and variant climates. Bridge decking has become an increasingly important area of interest for Alaska DOT&PF and multiple partnered studies with INE’s Alaska University Transportation Center (AUTC). It has also risen to the fore of national transportation policy as one of seven target areas for Congress’ recently enacted funding under Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21).[1] (more…)

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May

Modeling the Behavior of Porous Media

Please join us for a special seminar as Dr. Chloe Arson from the Georgia Institute of Technology will present her work on the “Thermodynamics of Rock Damage and Energy Applications” on Wednesday, May 22th, 2013 at 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm. The seminar will be held in Duckering 531. (more…)

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Apr

Save The Date: Alaska Airships Conference, July 10-12

Co-Sponsored by NASA, the Institute of Northern Engineering, AUTC and others, the third annual Alaska Airships Conference, Cargo Airships for Northern Operations Workshop, will be held in Anchorage, July 10-12th. Visit the event’s website here. (more…)

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Mar

Climate Change and Alaska’s Infrastructure Vulnerabilities

The latest issue of TR News (No. 284) features a full-length story by AUTC Director Billy Connor and Communication Specialist James Harper, describing Alaska’s struggles to manage infrastructure in the face of climate change. (more…)