2025 Arctic Research Open House

UAF West Ridge Thursday, May 15, 4-7 p.m.

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1. Info station & ice cream

FREE ice cream, info, Explorer Challenge badge pickup and drop-off for door prizes

  • Vice Chancellor for Research

2. Akasofu

Main lobby

Climage change, field research, and storytelling

  • International Arctic Research Center including:
    • 乐虎直播 Climate Adaptation Science Center
    • 乐虎直播 Fire Science Consortium
    • 乐虎直播 Center for Climate Assessment and Policy
  • Office of Intellectual Property Commercialization
3rd floor mezzanine

Weather, climate, experiential learning, birch syrup taste tests, and innovation hub

  • National Weather Service
  • Honors College
  • 乐虎直播 Center ICE
Mather Library (202)

Space weather, radio science, ionosphere, aurora, atmosphere, infrasound, seismology, nuclear treaty monitoring, and explosions

  • High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP)
  • Space Physics
  • Wilson 乐虎直播 Technical Center (WATC)
Room 204

Drone 鈥減etting zoo,鈥 and flight simulator

  • 乐虎直播 Center for UAS Integration (ACUASI)

3. Elvey

Globe Room (215)

Earthquakes, tsunamis, seismology, NASA, remote sensing, self-guided image walk, wildland fire, permafrost, snow, and ecology

  • Geophysical Institute including:
    • 乐虎直播 Earthquake Center
    • 乐虎直播 Satellite Facility
    • Geographic Information Network of 乐虎直播
    • Snow, Ice and Permafrost group
    • 乐虎直播 Climate Research Center
    • Hyperspectral Imaging Laboratory
Elvey entrance (outside)

Volcanoes, lava, geophysics, and eruptions

  • 乐虎直播 Volcano Observatory

4. West Ridge Research Bldg

Main lobby

Virtual reality games, coastal research, and mariculture

  • 乐虎直播 EPSCoR

5. O'Neill

Vera Alexandra Room (201) and hallway

Survival suit challenge, marine organisms, marine research, and marine art activity

  • College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences
  • 乐虎直播 Sea Grant
Corn Diggity Dogs Food Truck
  • In front of Irving Building
  • Food is available for purchase from 4-7 pm

6. Lawn

Collaborative music experience, Indigenous art, archaeological excavation, bike generator, and water turbine tank

  • Cold Climate Housing Research Center
  • College of Liberal Arts
  • Summer Sessions
  • UA Museum of the North
  • 乐虎直播 Center for Energy and Power

7. Arctic Health

Garage and outside (west side of bldg)

Greenhouse tours, GIS, agriculture, birch and barley taste testing

  • Institute of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Extension Services including:
    • Cooperative Extension Service
    • Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station
  • Animal Resource Center/Large Animal Research Station
  • One Health/College of Indigenous Studies,

8. Murie

Main lobby

Guided tours, virtual reality, rockets, and space

  • College of Natural Science and Mathematics
  • Institute of Arctic Biology
  • Toolik Field Station
  • 乐虎直播 INBRE
  • Center for 乐虎直播 Native Health Research
Outside Murie
  • College of Engineering and Mines

Discover tours and special events happening during the Arctic Research Open House

Arctic Research Open House Schedule
Unit/Department Tour/Event Time(s) Offered Location
Vice Chancellor for Research Office Explore Badge Challenge 4-7 pm

All locations
(look for the orange and green balloons to complete the challenge)
乐虎直播 Earthquake Center AEC tours runs every 30 min Elvey (building #3) Globe room 215
乐虎直播 Volcano Observatory Lava demonstration 4:30, 5:30 and 6:30 pm Elvey (building #3) entrance
College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences Survival Suit Race
(Try on a survival suit)		 4鈥7 pm In front of O鈥橬eill (building #5)
Institute of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Extension Greenhouse Tours Tours can be requested by contacting staff Arctic Health (building #7)
in the garage area adjacent to the greenhouses
Dog and Ground Squirrel Public Science Talks Public science talk by Rochelle Buffenstein
(30min)
Three public science talks by various scientists
(15min each)		 5鈥6:30 pm Murie (building #8) Room 107
UAF Department of Theater and Film 7 short films screening back to back* Showings start at 4 pm and 5:30 pm Murie (building #8) Murie Auditorium

*Program by FRAME Film Productions

  • Mending the Net: Elders Mentoring Elders (11min)
  • 乐虎直播 Native Filmmakers: Stories of Climate Justice (15min)
  • Kohtr鈥檈lneyh (Remembering Forward): 乐虎直播鈥檚 Just Transition Summit (11min)
  • Diiyeghan naii Taii Tr鈥檈edaa (We Will Walk the Trail of our Ancestors) (9min)
  • To Continue or Be Remembered: Perpetuating and Sharing 乐虎直播 Native Arts (26min)
  • Intergenerational Dialogue Exchange and Action with 乐虎直播 Native Youth (9min)
  • Moose Camp with the Elders (10 min)