USGS Alaska Science Center

The USGS Alaska Region has the largest geographic extent of the seven regional units within the USGS and represents a dynamic landscape of great natural wonder. It is a transforming landscape shaped by volcanoes, earthquakes, major rivers, and glaciers and a strategic landscape of yet untapped mineral and energy resources. The Region conducts research to help inform management of the extensive national parks and wildlife refuges of the far north and the international birds, fish, and marine mammals that migrate to these lands and waters; informs national Arctic energy policy through research on the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska and the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf; and provides science to understand, help respond to and mitigate impacts from natural hazards. This work is accomplished in part by the Region's two Science Centers headquartered in Anchorage, the Alaska Science Center and the Volcano Science Center.

美国地质调查局阿拉斯加地区拥有美国地质调查局七个区域单位中最大的地理范围，它展现了一片充满自然奇观的动态景观。这是一个正在转变的景观，由火山、地震、主要河流和冰川塑造，同时也是一个尚未充分开发的矿产和能源资源的战略区域。该地区通过开展研究，旨在为遥远北方广阔的国家公园和野生动物保护区，以及迁徙至这些土地和水域的国际鸟类、鱼类和海洋哺乳动物的管理提供信息；通过针对阿拉斯加国家石油储备和美国大陆架的外部大陆架的研究，为国家北极能源政策提供信息；并利用科学知识来理解、协助应对和减轻自然灾害的影响。这些工作部分是通过位于安克拉治的两个科学中心——阿拉斯加科学中心和火山科学中心——完成的。