Weekly science calendar, April 12-16

Submitted by Center for Global Change
Phone: 474-5818
04/09/04

TUESDAY, APR. 13

1:30 p.m. - 306 Natural Sciences Facility
Department of Geology and Geophysics Thesis Defense
High Resolution Sequence Stratigraphy and Geochemistry of Middle and Upper Triassic Sedimentary Rocks, Northeast and Central Brooks Range, Alaska
Landon Kelly, M.S. Geology Candidate
For more information call 474-7565 or e-mail fnpsh@uaf.edu

WEDNESDAY, APR. 14

3:30 p.m. - Elvey Auditorium, 214 Elvey Building
Institute of Marine Science Weekly Seminar
Arctic Ocean Exploration 2002
Katrin Iken, Rolf Gradinger, Russ Hopcroft, Bodil Bluhm, Terry Whitledge, IMS/SFOS
For more information call 474-5585 or 474-7289

4:30 p.m. - 202 Natural Sciences Facility
Chemistry Seminar
Astrochemistry: Evolution of Organic Molecules in Interstellar Clouds
Yorke Rhodes, New York University
There will be a reception at 4 p.m. in the first floor foyer.
For more information call 474-5510 or 474-6287

7 p.m. - Elvey Auditorium, 214 Elvey Building
The Irving-Scholander Lecture Series, Sponsored by the Institute of Arctic Biology
Conserving Australian Marsupials from Knowledge of their Energy and Water Requirements
Ian Hume, Professor Emeritus, University of Sydney, Australia
For more information call 474-7649

THURSDAY, APR. 15

9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. - 401 IARC [Also Friday, April 16]
International Workshop on the North Pacific Rim Mountains
This 2-day workshop will consider ice cores from the high ice-covered Yukon-Alaska mountains in the east and Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula in the west. The geologic, oceanographic and climate setting will be addressed along with results from the ice cores.
For more information call 474-7450 or e-mail benson@gi.alaska.edu

2:30-4 p.m. - Globe Room, 215 Elvey Building
Alaska BRIN Faculty Candidate Seminar
Studies of Proteolytic Specificity
Gary Coombs, Dendreon San Diego LLC, Candidate for Molecular Biologist position.
For more information call 474-5895 or e-mail fndmm@uaf.edu

7 p.m. - Schaible Auditorium, Bunnell Building
UA Museum & UAF Student Activities Office Lecture and Book Signing
The Whale and the Supercomputer: On the Northern Front of Climate Change
Author Charles Wohlforth will talk about his experiences with Inupiaq whalers and climate change researchers striving to understand and adapt to the radically shifting landscape.
For more information call 474-7505

FRIDAY, APR. 16

3:30 p.m. - Elvey Auditorium, 214 Elvey Building
Life Sciences Seminar Series, Sponsored by the Institute of Arctic Biology and the Department of Biology and Wildlife
Responses of the Digestive Tract to the Cold
Ian Hume, Professor Emeritus, University of Sydney, Australia
For more information call 474-7649.

3:30 p.m. - 201 Natural Sciences Facility
Department of Geology and Geophysics Seminar
Minerals, Metals and Molecules: Ore and Environmental Mineralogy in the 21st Century
David J. Vaughan, University of Manchester; Mineralogical Society of America Distinguished Lecturer
For more information call 474-7565 or e-mail fnpsh@uaf.edu

3:30 p.m. - 304 Eielson Building
Anthropology Colloquium Series
Keeping Busy: The Relationship between Subsistence Living and Health in Yup’ik/Cup’ik Women
Scarlett H. Hutchison, Center for Alaska Native Health Research
For more information call 474-7288 or e-mail fyanth@uaf.edu

3:45 p.m. - Globe Room, 215 Elvey Building
Department of Physics Journal Club
Weekly informal presentation. For more information see http://ffden-2.phys.uaf.edu/journal_club.htm or call 474-7339.