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 After almost 14 years, the Alaska Center for Energy and Power will undergo a leadership
change. Gwen Holdmann, the founding director of ACEP, will step down on May 9. ACEP
Deputy Director Jeremy Kasper will serve as interim director.
Andy Bassich lives on the south bank of the Yukon River, about 12 miles downstream
from Eagle, Alaska, the first community in America along the largest waterway in Alaska.
Like all of the few-thousand people who live along the big river in Alaska, Bassich
hopes that river ice formed by the cold air of winter will continue to disappear in
a mushy fashion, one that does not cause flooding.
On a sunny spring Earth Day in Fairbanks, over 60 K-12 students gathered from across
Alaska to participate in a research symposium. The event was part of Global Learning
and Observations to Benefit the Environment, a worldwide science and education program.
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Southeast Alaska communities are spread out over hundreds of miles and accessible
only by plane or boat. When Sarah Lewis, the Juneau-based home, health and family
development agent for the University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service,
started planning classes in remote communities in summer 2021, she realized planes
were out because she carries so much gear.
