Times

Wednesday — 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Friday — 9:00 am – 10:00 am
Friday — 10:00 am – 11:00 am

Please plan to arrive 10 minutes early to be ready for the safety briefing to start on time.

Website

Address

2126-2166 Steese Hwy
Fairbanks, AK 99712

Description

The CRREL Permafrost Tunnel is located in Fox, Alaska, about 15 km north of Fairbanks. 150 meters of Tunnel was originally constructed in the mid-1960s but expansion efforts over the past 7 years have doubled the size of the original facility. The Tunnel exposes Pleistocene ice and carbon rich "yedoma" permafrost that ranges from 18,000 to 43,000 years old. Massive ice features, mammoth and bison bones, and a variety of permafrost soils are exposed in the Tunnel walls. Ongoing projects in the Tunnel range from engineering and geophysics work to Mars analog studies to biogeochemistry and microbiology of permafrost soils.

*Foreign nationals and “Green Card” holders (aka US Legal Permanent Residents) should contact Tom.Douglas@erdc.dren.mil to obtain pre-clearance to enter the Permafrost Tunnel. Deadline 27 April.

Transportation

Please coordinate your own transportation.

Times

Tuesday — 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Thursday — 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Website

Address

2156 Koyukuk Drive
Fairbanks, AK 99775

Description

ASF is the Alaska Satellite Facility and is the NASA Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) for many Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data from a variety of sensors, as well as a member of the NASA Near Earth Network (NEN) and will be offering tours of the ASF data center and ground station facilities. The tour will include a short introduction to ASF and its activities, a visit to the ASF operations room and ASF rooftop antenna (including group photo), and a walk through ASF's premises on the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus. Two tour time slots are available in the agenda with a maximum of 20 participants each.

Transportation

A short walk from the Murie Building.

Times

Thursday — 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Website

Address

3700 Airport Way
Fairbanks, AK 99709

Description

The Division provides fire protection services and related fire and aviation management activities on 150 million acres of land throughout Alaska, including the state's most populous areas. The field trip will include a welcome from Division Director Helge Eng and tours of the dispatch, GIS, aviation, and logistics facilities. If DOF staff are unavailable due to significant fire activity, an alternate field trip will be to the nearby 2021 Yankovich Road fire site.

Transportation

Shuttle buses will be arranged. Details to follow.

Times

Tues. – Sat. — 10:00 am – 5:30 pm
Admission Sales/Doors Close at 5:00 pm
Website

Address

1962 Yukon Drive
Fairbanks, AK 99775

Description

The University of Alaska Museum of the North is a thriving visitor attraction, a vital component of the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and the only research and teaching museum in Alaska. The museum’s research collections – 2.2 million artifacts and specimens – represent millions of years of biological diversity and thousands of years of cultural traditions in the North. The collections are organized into 10 disciplines (archaeology, birds, documentary film, earth sciences, ethnology/history, fine arts, fishes/marine invertebrates, insects, mammals, and plants) and serve as a valuable resource for research on climate change, genetics, contaminants and other issues facing Alaska and the circumpolar North. The museum is also the premier repository for artifacts and specimens collected on public lands in Alaska and a leader in northern natural and cultural history research.

Transportation

A short walk from the Murie Building.