On Dec. 4, 2020, Syun-Ichi Akasofu will celebrate his 90th year on the planet. Akasofu has lived in Fairbanks since that frigid evening of his arrival, back when Alaska was not even a state.

On Dec. 4, 2020, Syun-Ichi Akasofu will celebrate his 90th year on the planet. Akasofu has lived in Fairbanks ever since that frigid evening of his arrival, back when Alaska was not even a state.

Syun-Ichi Akasofu, who ran the International Arctic Research Center and Geophysical Institute, helped develop the northern lights tourism market, especially among Japanese tourists.

Syun-Ichi Akasofu Founding Director, International Arctic Research Center As director of the Geophysical Institute (1986-1999), Dr. Akasofu concentrated his effort on establishing the institute as a ...

The story of Syun-Ichi Akasofu and his studies of the aurora borealis. Syun-Ichi Akasofu always had a curiosity for the aurora borealis. One day at the library, he discovered an essay about ...

Explore Fairbanks is inducting Syun-Ichi Akasofu into its tourism hall of fame. Leaders there cited Akasofu’s work in developing the local aurora tourism market, especially among Japanese people.

The University of Alaska Board of Regents gave their formal approval for a $4.4 million project to re-purpose the Syun-Ichi Akasofu Building on the campus of the University of Alaska, Fairbanks ...

In an elegantly staged ceremony in Tokyo last November, representatives from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, and from Japan's Committee for Energy Policy Promotion (CEPP) made history. Seated at ...

Emeritus Professor Syun-Ichi Akasofu of Alaska's International Arctic Research Center says he has trouble seeing any man-made warming: An almost linear global temperature increase of about 0.5Â ...

Edited by Syun-Ichi Akasofu, Benson Fogle and Bernhard Hourwitz. Pp. xiii + 230. (University of Colorado Press: Boulder, Colorado, 1968.) $2.95 paper; $5.95 boards. Physics of Geomagnetic ...

From Mark Landsbaum: “When millennial climate change patterns are mentioned, many people point to the ‘2,500 scientists from 130 countries’ who have agreed that global warming is … ...