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:
    • Alaska Climate Adaptation Science Center
    • Alaska Fire Science Consortium
    • Alaska 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
  • Alaska 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 Alaska Technical Center (WATC)
Room 204

Drone “petting zoo,” and flight simulator

  • Alaska 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:
    • Alaska Earthquake Center
    • Alaska Satellite Facility
    • Geographic Information Network of Alaska
    • Snow, Ice and Permafrost group
    • Alaska Climate Research Center
    • Hyperspectral Imaging Laboratory
Elvey entrance (outside)

Volcanoes, lava, geophysics, and eruptions

  • Alaska Volcano Observatory

4. West Ridge Research Bldg

Main lobby

Virtual reality games, coastal research, and mariculture

  • Alaska 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
  • Alaska 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
  • Alaska 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
  • Alaska INBRE
  • Center for Alaska 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)
Alaska Earthquake Center AEC tours runs every 30 min Elvey (building #3) Globe room 215
Alaska 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)		 4–7 pm In front of O’Neill (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)		 5–6:30 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)
  • Alaska Native Filmmakers: Stories of Climate Justice (15min)
  • Kohtr’elneyh (Remembering Forward): Alaska’s Just Transition Summit (11min)
  • Diiyeghan naii Taii Tr’eedaa (We Will Walk the Trail of our Ancestors) (9min)
  • To Continue or Be Remembered: Perpetuating and Sharing Alaska Native Arts (26min)
  • Intergenerational Dialogue Exchange and Action with Alaska Native Youth (9min)
  • Moose Camp with the Elders (10 min)