SCIENCE IN ALASKA: REPORT NO. 6
By Corol Echols
Geophysics is the physics of
the earth — the solid earth, the
'.ater and the atmosphere. The
field, then, encompasses volcan
clogy. oceanography, meteorol
ogy. geomagnetism, glaciology,
to site a few examples.
In Alaska, scientists are cur
rently studying the glaciers, the
sea. ice in the Arctic ocean, cli
matology and the upper atmos
phere. The two main research cen
ters are the Geophysical Institute
cn the University of Alaska cam
pus a .d the Arctic Research Lab
oratory at Barrow, also operated by
the University of Alaska.
The Geophysical Institute was es
tdbIi!« -<-d to meet the need for re
search to investigate geophysical
problems peculiar to the Arctic re
gion? The work done there is pri
marily basic research although oc
casionally it is necessary to seek
the a iswers to problems which lie
in the field of applied science.
Most of the research program
deals with aolar-terrestrial relap
tionshins concerning auroral zone
phenomena. There is also a limited
program in ice research. The In
stitute's research is conducted in
conjunction with the Department
of Geophysics of the University of
Alaska and is supported by govern
ment contracts.
Six Field Sites
In addition to the Geophysical
institute building on the Universi
ty campus, the Institute maintains
six field sites: At Ballaine’s Lake
sre two radio telescopes for use in
radio star scintillation and ironos
phere refraction studies as well as a
Mini-track station.
The College Road site houses
transmitters and data processing
personnel. There is a radar site on
the r dge behind the campus, and
a VLF site 28 miles west of the
campus for work that can't be car
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ried out in areas whore there is a
high radio noise level.
At Henly, there is an auroral ra
dar used for a height determination
study. An 85-foot data acquisition
antenna and allied facilities for the
National Aeronautics and Space Ad
ministration "Nimbus” satellite ser
ies is located 13 miles north of the
campus on the Steese Highway.
The University of Alaska has con
. tracted with the Office of Naval Re
search to operate the Arctic Re
search Laboratory at Barrow. Here
the laboratory and housing facili
ties are available for teams of sci
entists from universities and other
organizations who wish to conduct
research in Arctic problems.
50 Projects In 1961
j Over 300 scientists made use of
these facilities during the past year
and more than 50 projects are be
ing conducted in 1961. ARL, in ad
dition to maintaining 17 laboratories
and two darkrooms in the main
buildings and eight laboratories in
the vicinity of the camp, operates
permanent laboratories at Umiat,
Lake Peters and the Meade River
Village.
ARL also operates ARLIS-2 (Arc
tic Research Laboratory Ice Sta
tion). a drifting ice island used as
North Pole Will
Got Federal Aid
The North Pole Municipal School
District will soon receive $3,768 to
help meet current expenditures, ac
cording to Senators E. L. “Bob’1
Bartlett and Ernest Gruening. The
monies were given through Public
Law 874. which provides funds
through the Office of Education, for
supplemental operation and main
tenance funds in areas where the
impact of Federal activities has
been severe.
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C. L. LINDBERG
People and food — that's the
story of C. L. Lindberg, known
to most as “Lindy”. After years ;
in the grocery business, Lindy
still takes time to stop and chat
. :th his customers and exchange
th ■ Mme of daw
Owner of Fairbanks well
known grocery store, “Lindy’s",
he originally came from the
“lower 48”. He was born in War
ren. Minnesota where he went
through grade school and grad
uated from high school. After a
semester at Hamline University
in St. Paul he transferred to the
University of North Dakota
which was right across the bor
der from his home town. He fin
ished a year of college there.
When the depression years
came in 1928. he gave up his job
working for a department store
and came West to Washington
Photo by JY Studio
state. Lindy worked for grocery stores on the coast and in the
Puget Sound area and finally opened his own store in Everett
in 1933.
Two years later he had an offer from an acquaintance in.
Alaska whom he met earlier in Washington to come to Fair
banks and work for Piggly Wiggly’s. He accepted, but only for
a two year deal. As many “outsiders” have found who’ve come
to Alaska for only a short time, he liked it here and stayed.
In 1939 he married a Fairbanks girl, Barbara Brewis who
also attended the University of Alaska. He later worked for
the former Fairbanks grocery store. Lavery’s, and then served
in the Army two years at Ladd Air Force Base, now Ft. Wain
wright. from 1943 to 1945.
When he retired from the service in 1945 he and his wife
bought a delicatessen store which they later expanded into a
store at their present location, 609 Fourth.
About four years ago they bought Lindy's College Grocery,
on Hayes and College Road in addition to their other store. The
Lindbergs are partners in their business, she does the book
keeping and the managerial work.
Lindberg is a charter member and past president of Kiwanis
Club and was recently selected to serve on the board of dir
ectors of the First National Bank. He also served two years on
the Fairbanks school board and two terms on the city council.
He is sponsor of the well-known radio serial, “Trapper Don”.
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a scientific research station in the
Arctic Ocean. ARLIS-2 is the sec
ond such station established by
ARL. the first having been aban
doned in March 1961. The scientif
ic program is limited to the field
of geophysics. ,
Work done at ARL includes ma
rine biology, meteorology, ice crys
stallography, sea ice physics, mag
netism and earth potential. The j
studies planned for ARLIS-2 in
clude meteorology, marine biology. J
sea ice characteristics and iee drift,
under water acoustic studies and a
geophysical study of the ice island.
At both the Geophysical Institute |
and the Arctic Research Laboratory. I
the research is limited to problems !
, pertaining to the Arctic regions, for
other work can be done more effi
ciently in lower latitudes. Here in |
Alaska, our geographic location and I
natural phenomena provide many j
interesting problems for the geo- |
physicist to tackle.
Oklahoma Losing
Citizen To Alaska
Goodbye Oklahoma; howdy Alas
ka:
Milo Bilyen. imbued with the pio
neer spirit which has possessed his
folks for three or four generations,
expects to head for Fairbanks later
this year from Gage, Okla.
In a letter to .Tessen's Weekly re- j
questing copies of this great state j
journal, Bilyen says he wants to
“live out on the frontier” and ex- I
pects to move to the Northland with 1 <
his family, lock, stock and barrel.
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