Uploaded May 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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This is a recording of Dr. Syun-Ichi Akasofu's lecture "Aurora through the Ages" in the University of Alaska Fairbanks Elvey Auditorium on October 3, 2023. The Fairbanks aurora expert described historical events in auroral science and its latest developments.

Dr. Syun-Ichi Akasofu is a well known international authority on the aurora. He became director of the Geophysical Institute in 1986 and later founded the International Arctic Research Center, becoming its first director in 1999.

Read more about Dr. Akasofu here: https://www.uaf.edu/centennial/uaf100/akasofu.php