Sitka (SIT) Geomagnetic Observatory
Station Id: SIT
Location: Sitka, AK
Latitude: 57.06°N
Longitude: 135.33°W
Elevation: 24 meters
Orientation: HDZF
Sections
Background
Prior to the purchase of Alaska by the United States, the Russians operated a meteorological and magnetic observatory at Sitka from 1842 to 1867. The Geomagnetism Program established an observatory at Sitka, near the historic Russian cemetery, in 1901, when the Program was part of the Coast and Geodetic Survey and under the leadership of Drs Louis A. Bauer and John A. Fleming. The present observatory site was established in 1940.
Other Operations at Sitka
- A seismometer for the Alaskan Tsunami Warning Center of NOAA.
Customers
- The Space Environment Center of NOAA in Boulder.
- The United States Air Force Weather Agency at Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha, Nebraska.
- The International Service of Geophysical Indices.
- The GeoForschungsZentrum in Potsdam, Germany.
- Academic, governmental, and private scientists engaged in pure and applied work.
Photos
The Electronics Building at Sitka.
The Variations Building Which Houses the Flux-gate Magnetometer.
Observer's Residence and Office Building.
Magnetic Observations being made by F. P. Ulrich at Sitka in 1929.
