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fairbanks01EskimoStatue Fairbanks, our new home for the next three years while I attend Graduate School at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. While going to class I actually work at the Geophysical Institute. Kate and I officially arrived in Fairbanks on July 27, 2002. Fairbanks is a nice town that is relatively flat, except the hills around the town. Before even coming to graduate school, I came up for a 2 day visit in march 2002. There is a nice monument near the visitor's center downtown that is dedicated to the Native Americans that I saw during the visit. fairbanks01EskimoStatue
fairbanks02UAFGI The mural on the front of the Elvey Building that houses the Geophysical Institute University of Alaska Fairbanks. fairbanks02UAFGI
fairbanks03GISnow Of course the best part of being this far north is the Aurora Borealis. Our first winter was not as bad as either of us would have expected it to be. There was a couple days where it was about -35 to -39 F, and we didn't get as much snow. When it did snow it made everything look very pretty as seen in this shot of the snow up at the GI, as it is called, when it was snowing one day. fairbanks03GISnow
fairbanks04winterbridge Another shot of the pretty snow with the bridge that leads to Creamer's Field Bird Sanctuary from the Willow Woods Apartments. fairbanks04winterbridge
fairbanks05katesnowangle At the beginning of 2003 Kate and I went to Chena Hot Springs Resort for the weekend. We relaxed, saw a nice sunset, and played a little bit in the snow. Here, Kate is getting up from making a snow angel. fairbanks05katesnowangle
fairbanks06chenahotspringssunset Here is a shot of the sunset later on in the day from one of the ridges around Chena Hot Springs. fairbanks06chenahotspringssunset
fairbanks07yukonq1 In February 2003, we went to see the end of the 2003 Yukon Quest on the Chena River in downtown Fairbanks. This race was almost canceled because of the little amount of snow and not as cold of temperatures. The race alternates starts each year from Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada and Fairbanks, Alaska. The 2004 race will begin in Fairbanks. The only problem with waiting for the mushers to come in was we didn't know when they would arrive, so after waiting a couple of hours for them we had to leave because both of us had very frozen feet from standing on the river. fairbanks07yukonq1
fairbanks08 Some of the cool lights in downtown Fairbanks right next to the Chena River, where the race ends in 2003 and begins in 2004. fairbanks08
fairbanks09doggies March 2003 is probably one of the busier winter months in Fairbanks because so much is going on. This year (2003) was even busier because due to the low snowfall in Anchorage, Alaska the Iditarod Sled Dog Race had to be restarted in Fairbanks for the first time ever. Kate and I went down to the starting line the day before the start and saw one of the teams at the hotel. fairbanks09doggies
fairbanks10icesculpture The next day, Kate had to work and I had a class till 11:30 AM. I went down to the start after class in time to watch the last 9 mushers leave and to get a picture of the mushing ice sculpture that was covered the previous day. fairbanks10icesculpture
fairbanks11iditarodsign The Iditarod Sled Dog Race 2003 starting line on the Chena River near Pike's Hotel. fairbanks11iditarodsign
fairbanks12team60a Here is a shot of Team #60 starting... fairbanks12team60a
fairbanks13team60b ...and Team #60 leaving. fairbanks13team60b
fairbanks14kateicephone Later that week we both went to the 2003 World Ice Art Championships. Kate had to make a call so she went to one of the ice booths nearby. fairbanks14kateicephone
fairbanks15iceangel These people do some great work, as seen in this angel. fairbanks15iceangel
fairbanks16kateandeskimostatue The day after that we went down to the Chena River for the second day of mushing races for the 2003 Open North American Championships. Kate posed in front of the Eskimo Statue by the river. fairbanks16kateandeskimostatue
fairbanks17alaskarange Alaska Range panoramic. fairbanks17alaskarange
fairbanks18P6290605 Summer 2003 was very busy with taking a trip to Katmai National Park for a 9 day hike to several volcanoes in June. In July, I got to attend a National Science Foundation sponsored Student Workshop for a week before also attending the Cities on Volcanoes 3 Conference both in Hilo, Hawai'i. August, I went to my field site for my thesis - Mt. Cleveland volcano. This volcano was one of the most recent of the Alaskan volcanoes to erupt in February to March 2001. Before leaving for Mt. Cleveland, though, Kate and I went to Denali National Park for a day to do a dry run for when we have more time to camp in the park. When we were heading back to Fairbanks we stopped off at a viewing area that was near train tracks. I snapped this nice photo of Kate before we left the area. fairbanks18P6290605
fairbanks19KateandIFarMtP9272595 Right after one of the first snowfalls of the 2003 winter season, Kate and I went back to Chena Hot Springs for the afternoon to do some hiking. We went up one of the trails to the top of Bear Claw Butte. From there we took a photo that was used on our 2004 Calendar that we gave to relatives. Far Mountain is in the distance in the photo. fairbanks19KateandIFarMtP9272595
fairbanks20P4103658 The April 2004 UAF College of Natural Science and Mathematics Science Potpourri was put on for the general public to demonstrate some of the cool things you can do with science. Courtney Kearney (pictured left), Jennifer Adleman (pictured right), Andrea Steffke, Jim Dixon, and I all took some time out on the Saturday to run a table for the Alaska Volcano Observatory. We passed out information on Alaska's volcanoes, and other volcano info. fairbanks20P4103658
fairbanks21P4103674 Ben Andrews, another volcanology graduate student (now a Ph.D. student at the University of Texas, ran the volcanology talk at one point while we demonstrated an explosive volcanic eruption with our compressed air volcano. Ben's talk provided a cool explosion simulated by pouring liquid nitrogen into soapy hot water. The experiment produces many bubbles that get frozen from the liquid nitrogen. fairbanks21P4103674
fairbanks22P6234218 Though it was taken on June 25, 2004 I had to include this cool photo of a red fox that can be found on the UAF campus. fairbanks22P6234218
fairbanks23P6284269 The main part of the 2004 summer was filled with smoke from the many forest fires that burned in Alaska and the Yukon Territory of Canada. At one point there was over 100 active forest fires in Alaska alone that burned over 5.6 million acres (equal to about 12,684 square miles or the size of Maryland and Delaware combined). One of the days up at school I took a picture of the Sun through the smoke with no filters on the camera. fairbanks23P6284269
fairbanks24P6304272 I also took a photo of the area to show what the visibility looked like - which was bad. fairbanks24P6304272
fairbanks25P7044273 My sister Stella came up to visit in early July 2004 while the smoke was around the area. Fortunately, the smoke cleared enough around the 4th of July so that we could take in a parade at Pioneer Park. Kate and Stella had fun posing on a sled in the park. fairbanks25P7044273
fairbanks26P7064333 One of the final things we did while she was here was go to the Gold Dredge #8. This is where some of the gold mining took place near Fairbanks. fairbanks26P7064333
fairbanks27P1226586 The moon through the trees at Willow Woods Apartments on January 22, 2005. fairbanks27P1226586
fairbanks28P1016559 Photo of the sunlight off of the trees near the apartments on January 2005. fairbanks28P1016559
fairbanks29P5150009 May 15, 2005 was the day of my graduation ceremony from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Kate took a photo of the mascot in his garb. fairbanks29P5150009
fairbanks30P5150041 Kate took this photo of me right after the ceremony in the Carlson Center in Fairbanks, Alaska. fairbanks30P5150041
fairbanks31P6237446 Arriving in the Fairbanks area after visiting Pittsburgh in 2005, I got a great glimpse of the Willow Woods Apartment complex where Kate and I live. Of the 4 buildings in lower right part of this photo, the building that we live in is the one in the lower center of the photo. fairbanks31P6237446
fairbanks32P6237447 This is a more zoomed out view of the apartment complex. The circular building in the photo is Joy Elementary School. The open field in the lower half of the photo is Creamer's Field. This is the field where most of the aurora photos were taken from. fairbanks32P6237447
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