UAF Weekly Science Calendar, February 24 - 28

Submitted by Center for Global Change
Phone: 474-5818
02/21/03

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24

3:30 p.m. - Geophysical Institute Auditorium (214 Elvey)
Geophysical Institute Lecture Series
Toward the Near-Real-Time Global Assessment of Volcanic Hot Spots
Luke Flynn, University of Hawaii, Hawaii Institute of Geophysics
A reception will precede the lecture at 3:00 p.m. in the Globe Room
For more information call ext. 6077

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25

1 p.m. - 304 Eielson
UAF Social Science Faculty Research Seminar
Mobilizing Art for War: The German Nailing Monuments of World War I
Tim Pursell, History Department, UAF
Sponsored by the UAF Social Sciences Research Group
and the International Arctic Social Sciences Association
For more information call 474-6367, fyiassa@uaf.edu

3:30 p.m. - Geophysical Institute Auditorium (214 Elvey)
Special Lecture Series Sponsored by the Chapman Chair
Sea Ice in Climate Models - Basic Structure
Cecilia Bitz, University of Washington

7 p.m. - Chena River Convention Center
Science for Alaska Free Public Lecture Series
The Sun-Earth Connection
Shannon Lucid, NASA; with Arthur Poland, NASA, and
Nicola Fox, Johns Hopkins University
For more information see
http://www.gi.alaska.edu/InfoOffice/Science_for_Alaska.html
or call ext. 5823

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27

Noon - 351C IARC (National Weather Svc Conf Room)
Sponsored by the National Weather Service
New Approaches to Parallel Computer Processing (40 to 60 node
PC systems) in Support of Large Scale Data Analysis
Jim Simpson, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
For more information call 458-3704

1 p.m. - 300 Natural Sciences (Runcorn Room)
Center for Nanosensor Technology Seminar Series
Membrane-Organized Integrated Chemical Nanosystems for
Optically Switchable Supramolecular Ionic Devices
Rafail Khairoutdinov, Chemistry & Biochemistry, and
the Center for Nanosensor Technology, UAF
For more information call ext. 2616 or visit http://www.uaf.edu/cnt

3:30 p.m. - Geophysical Institute Auditorium (214 Elvey)
Special Lecture Series Sponsored by the Chapman Chair
Sea Ice in Climate Models - Survey of Different Models in Use
Cecilia Bitz, University of Washington

3:45 p.m. - 183 Arctic Health Research Building
School of Agriculture and Land Resources Management
Faculty/Graduate Seminar
The Fox Permafrost Tunnel: What the Ice Tells Us
Yuri Shur, Civil & Environmental Engineering, UAF
For more information call ext. 7188 or e-mail fnfdb@uaf.edu

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28

Noon - 351C IARC (National Weather Svc Conf Room)
Sponsored by the National Weather Service and the Geophysical Institute
Informal Synoptic Weather Briefing and Discussion (Also ATM693)
A weekly presentation by NWSFO-Fairbanks and UAF/GI Personnel.
Come and learn more about Fairbanks’ weather and get a weekend forecast.

3:30 p.m. - Geophysical Institute Auditorium (214 Elvey)
Life Sciences Seminar Series
Title TBA
Knut Kielland, Institute of Arctic Biology, UAF
For more information call ext. 7640

3:30 p.m. - 201 Natural Sciences
Department of Geology and Geophysics Seminar
The Klondike Goldfields: A 3 Million Year Archive of
Environmental Change in Eastern Beringia
Duane Froese, Simon Fraser University
For more information call ext. 7565

3:45 p.m. - Globe Room, Geophysical Institute
Department of Physics Journal Club
Weekly informal presentation.
For more information, see
http://ffden-2.phys.uaf.edu/journal_club.htm
or call ext. 7339