Students take part in a project using unmaned aerial vehicles (UAVs) at Poker Flat Research Range about 40 miles northeast of the Fairbanks campus. (Note: Taken as part of commercial shoot with Nerland Agency. Pretend class -- use with discretion!)

Fisheries professor Trent Sutton, left, works with master's candidate Nick Smith and undergraduate Patty McCall collecting live samples from the Chena River for their research on the life dynamics of Arctic brook lampreys.

Geophysical Institute graduate student Joanna Young sets up a steam drill to install stakes for measuring glacier melt on the Jarvis Glacier, about 35 miles south of Delta Junction.

Art major Ian Wilkinson pours uncooked rice into the top of one of his ceramic pieces in the UAF Fine Arts gallery. His BFA thesis project, Spheres of Influence, raised more than $18,000 for the Fairbanks Food Bank through the sale of his 1,200 bowls.

Kelsey Gordon studies for a quiz in her summer sessions anatomy and physiology lab in the Murie Building.

Graduate student Mukul Chavan pours a sample of heavy crude oil from the Kaparuk field on Alaska's North Slope. Chavan and other students in UAF's petroleum engineering program are using the samples to experiment with ways to recover more oil from existing fields.

Jeremy Kasper, left, and Paul Duvoy, researchers with UAF's Alaska Center for Energy and Power, install testing components on a floating debris diverter designed to block floating logs and other debris from damaging a hydrokinetic generator attached to a barge behind it. The research is taking place on the Tanana River near Nenana.

Associate professor Margaret Darrow, right, and state geologist Ronnie Daanen take a reading from GPS tracking device as they make their way down one of several frozen debris lobes which have appeared along the Deitrich River valley in the southern Brooks Range which could threaten the highway and the nearby trans-Alaska pipeline.

A lidar beam, a combination of radar and a laser, shines approximately 50 miles straight up into the night sky through a bright aurora from a building at UAF's Poker Flat Research Range. The beam measures high altitude temperatures in conjunction with a planned rocket launch.

A German foreign language class holds class on the campus lawn during a warm autumn afternoon.

A research rocket launches from UAF's Poker Flat Research Range about 30 miles north of Fairbanks in January, 2015. The project helped scientists at UAF and elsewhere measure effects of turbulence in the upper atmosphere.

Undergraduate geology major Kailyn Davis, right, research professor Jeff Benowitz, center, and Paul Layer, dean of UAF's College of Natural Science and Mathematics, take a rest stop while hiking during a June 2015 extended field trip near the Nabesna Glacier in the Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve.

Undergraduate geology major Kailyn Davis, left, hikes with Paul Layer, dean of UAF's College of Natural Science and Mathematics, during a June 2015 extended field trip near the Nabesna Glacier in the Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve.

Jeff Benowitz with UAF's Geophysical Institute leads a team of geologists on a rJune 2015 research field trip near the Nabesna Glacier in the Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve.

Research Associate Professor Katey Walter Anthony inspects flaming methane gas seeping from a hole in the ice on the surface of a pond on the UAF campus. The naturally occurring phenomenon is made worse by thawing permafrost and increased plant decay caused by global warming.

Research Associate Professor Katey Walter Anthony and a research assistant set fire to escaping methane gas trapped beneath the ice on a pond near the UAF campus. The naturally occurring phenomenon is made worse by thawing permafrost and increased plant decay caused by global warming.

Ph.D. candidate Amanda Lindoo works in the Reichardt Building petrology lab.

Sunset on 09/09/13

ASF - NASA AS1, AS2, and AS3 antenna systems taken on a late summer / early fall sunset - This image is set at a 2-1 ratio

Students walk out on

Students compete in a ice climbing competition during Winter Carnival on campus.

Associate professor Jack Chen looks on as senior engineering major Shanann Hoyos performs gel electrophoresis to check results from a polymerase chain reaction assay in the Murie Building virology lab.

Catherine Estus adds finishing touches to the 2016 steel bridge model during a practice run in the Duckering Building.

Fire Science Program Coordinator John George instructs student Fabienne Munoz of Anaheim, California in fire extinguisher usage during the 2016 Summer Fire Academy at the University Fire Department’s station on University Avenue.

Daisy Huang, right, a research engineer for the Alaska Center for Energy and Power, works with ACEP intern Luke George to install a meteorological station on a hillside near the Black Rapids Lodge, about 150 miles southeast of Fairbanks. The station will record wind speed and direction, as well as temperatures at different altitudes.

Members of UAF's Indian community celebrate the Diwali Festival in the Wood Center ballroom.

Volunteers from GHEMM, Inc. use a crane to lift the buttresses for this year's student-built ice arch into position in Cornerstone Plaza on campus. The annual ice arch is designed and built by a team of engineering students, a UAF tradition going back more than 60 years.

Tamara Swenson peers inside a skull replica of a Tarbosaurus during the Life in the Age of Dinosaurs lab where they toured the Museum of the North's normally unseen lower level.