Early Monday morning view of UAF and west Fairbanks from high atop the Geophysical Institute on Troth Yeddha'. Looking pretty brown now, but that will be changing in the coming week. 🍃🍃 Image courtesy Alaska Climate Research Center. #akwx#UAF#Fairbanks#Spring2024@leahwrenn@CarrieinFbx@anisian
Here's what I"ll be up to next month in #Fairbanks! I'm looking forward to interesting conversations and deepening our own questions. Maybe you'll join us?
I think this is still, after many years, my favorite water reflection shot. Taken just after sunset at Ballaine Lake, the soft ambient light gently washes the scene, highlighting the near-perfect mirror image of the silhouetted trees in Fairbanks, Alaska. I think it's the symmetry that gets me. Taken in August of 2014.
Happy Solstice, everyone! As we mark the shortest day of the year, I certainly look forward to gradually longer days ahead. In Fairbanks, the sun will rise at 10:58 am and set at 2:39 pm today. I captured this sunset scene on the solstice in 2021 at 2:25 pm, just before the day's light faded while exploring the University of Alaska Fairbanks trail system. Here's to the returning light!
This morning at 10 a.m., I captured the quiet blue hour that precedes our late 10:56 a.m. sunrise here in Fairbanks, Alaska. With the winter solstice just two days away, these photos show the deep snow and frost enveloping the trees, a common sight due to our still air as we edge toward the return of longer days.
The wyf and I have been considering hosting a foreign-exchange student a year from now. But I think I would be too embarrassed — about #Fairbanks and about #Alaska. As a people, we continue to devalue education and impoverish the public sphere. It's not just #Wasilla; SO MANY Alaskan cities are dismally ugly and unwalkable. How could I invite somebody to spend a year in this ANTI-COMMUNITY OF A STATE?
The wind shifted and we just went from almost blue skies to post-apocalypse here in #Fairbanks. It'll be interesting to see what the AQI sensors detect. Also, I'm really sure I heard a good thunderclap a few minutes ago, which has me checking my network equipment to make sure the UPSs are in place.
At the #Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival Jazz Concert at Goldie’s and it’s great. People have canned wine (for sale here) and the friend I’m here with is laughing with me about the Great Canned Wine Tasting we participated in and how it was hilariously awful. @mivox was there, she can confirm.
This jazz is great. I hope the canned wine has improved!
A sizable bag of rhubarb has been procured from Bob Eley’s garden. If you’re in #Fairbanks and know me, there’s quite possibly a piece of crisp or pie in your future. #rhubarb#pie#baking #
Hiiii alaskan.social! I live up near #Fairbanks#Alaska (keeping it vague because I’m really hoping to move to the other side of town soon, and also it’s the internet).
Mostly posting political & day to day stuffs over on @mivox and posting art over at @knezek. Currently following all alaskan.social folks back from my mivox.net account.
So what's all this about a #Rocket#launch you say?
We're designing the Solar eruptioN Integral Field Spectrograph instrument (aka #SNIFSrocket). This is a telescope and UV spectrograph which will launch next March from #PokerFlatResearchRange just north of #Fairbanks#Alaska.
We're not working on the engines or anything. We're building the payload, which is 17 inches diameter and about 6 ft long. It'll be plugged onto a nosecone and engines from #NASA.