Uploaded May 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
If you’re currently living in Alaska, and even if you’re located elsewhere, you may have heard that the sun is entering a period known as the “solar maximum,” and that this will have implications for aurora viewing. But exactly how are the two connected? In this Science for Alaska talk, C. Alex Young discusses heliophysics and how solar activity affects Earth infrastructure and aurora viewing.
C. Alex Young, associate director for science, Heliophysics Science Division of NASA, presented the talk “Here Comes the Sun: Solar Maximum and the Aurora" on Feb. 20, 2024, in Fairbanks, Alaska, and virtually as part of the 32nd annual Science For Alaska talk series.
For more information and talk summary: https://www.gi.alaska.edu/events/science-alaska-lecture-series/5640
Science for Alaska is sponsored by the Triplehorn family, Lifewater Engineering, Alaska EPSCoR and the UAF Geophysical Institute.
Filmed by UAF Geophysical Institute staff: Daniel Walker, Courtney Holtzclaw and Eric Marshall.
If you’re currently living in Alaska, and even if you’re located elsewhere, you may have heard that the sun is entering a period known as the “solar maximum,” and that this will have implications for aurora viewing. But exactly how are the two connected? In this Science for Alaska talk, C. Alex Young discusses heliophysics and how solar activity affects Earth infrastructure and aurora viewing.
C. Alex Young, associate director for science, Heliophysics Science Division of NASA, presented the talk “Here Comes the Sun: Solar Maximum and the Aurora" on Feb. 20, 2024, in Fairbanks, Alaska, and virtually as part of the 32nd annual Science For Alaska talk series.
For more information and talk summary: https://www.gi.alaska.edu/events/science-alaska-lecture-series/5640
Science for Alaska is sponsored by the Triplehorn family, Lifewater Engineering, Alaska EPSCoR and the UAF Geophysical Institute.
Filmed by UAF Geophysical Institute staff: Daniel Walker, Courtney Holtzclaw and Eric Marshall.
