The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded $1.5 million to two University of Alaska
Fairbanks’ Alaska Center for Energy and Power projects to advance marine energy research
and education. Read more about the projects.
Join a webinar on Dec. 18 at 11 a.m. to learn about how the National Weather Service’s
Alaska Sea Ice Program supported the U.S. Coast Guard and U.S. Fish and Wildlife /
USGS personnel onboard the research vessel Norseman II with sea ice briefings via
daily annotated satellite imagery in June 2024 when it was partially-disabled and
trapped in sea ice for a two-week period offshore from the community of Shishmaref
in the Bering Strait region of Alaska. Learn more and register for the webinar.
Photos taken during the headshot photo station in the Wood Center held on Dec. 5 are
now available for download. Photos can be retrieved from photos.uaf.edu with SSO login. Miss out on the photo station? Get more info on making an appointment with the photo studio.
The Office of Vice Chancellor for Research is soliciting white papers for the NSF
S-STEM 24-511 call for proposals. UAF can submit two proposals of up to $5,000,000.
White papers are due Jan. 17, 2025.
The prevalence and costs of incivility are on the rise in organizations. When employees
are exposed to incivility in the workplace, they experience diminished self-control,
which creates increased incivility toward co-workers. A session on Thursday, Jan.
9, 2025, from 11 a.m. to noon will help you understand why we act less civil today
and give some suggestions for making sure you don’t exhibit behaviors that are uncivil.
Learn more and register.
I am once again elbow to elbow with thousands of scientists, at a meeting I first
attended 25 years ago. Between Dec. 9-13, 2024, more than 25,000 scientists hung nametags around their necks
at the Walter Washington Convention Center in our nation’s capital. Read more highlights from the AGU24 conference.
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