UAF Weekly Science Calendar, Sept. 6-10

Submitted by Center for Global Change
Phone: 474-5818
09/03/04

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 - LABOR DAY

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8

9:15 a.m. - 010 West Ridge Research Building (WRRB)
Arctic Region Supercomputing Center Fall Seminar Series
Supercomputing Applications
Jim O’Dell, ARSC Chief Scientist
Information: http://www.arsc.edu

10 a.m. - 010 West Ridge Research Building (WRRB)
Arctic Region Supercomputing Center Fall Seminar Series
A Perspective on Ocean Modeling and Sea Ice Modeling and the Importance of Supercomputer Power to their Evolution
Albert Semtner, Naval Postgraduate School
Information: http://www.arsc.edu

Noon - 401 International Arctic Research Center (IARC)
IARC Integration Seminar Series
Overview of Current Arctic Hydrology Research at Water and Environmental Research Center (WERC)
Doug Kane, Matt Nolan, Daqing Yang, Kenji Yoshikawa, Larry Hinzman and Dan White, WERC, UAF
Information: 474-2662

1:30 - 010 West Ridge Research Building (WRRB)
Arctic Region Supercomputing Center Fall Seminar Series
Development of the Earth System Modeling Framework
Nancy Collins, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Information: http://www.arsc.edu

3:30 p.m. - Elvey Auditorium, 214 Elvey Building
Institute of Marine Science Weekly Seminar
Dissolved Trace Elements in Rivers with Special Emphasis on the Lower Mississippi and the Yukon Rivers
Alan Shiller, University of Southern Mississippi
Information: 474-5585 or -7289

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9

10 a.m. - 010 West Ridge Research Building (WRRB)
Arctic Region Supercomputing Center Fall Seminar Series
Use of Computers for Paleoclimate Research
John Kutzbach, University of Wisconsin
Information: http://www.arsc.edu

12:15 p.m. - 301 Elvey Building (Seismology Lab)
Brown Bag Seminar
Macroseismic Survey of the M7.9, 2002 Denali Fault Earthquake
Artak Martirosyan, Geophysical Institute
Information: http://www.aeic.alaska.edu/denali/Intensity.html

1:30 p.m. - 010 West Ridge Research Building (WRRB)
Arctic Region Supercomputing Center Fall Seminar Series
TBD
Buck Sharpton, President’s Professor, UAF
Information: http://www.arsc.edu

3:30 p.m. - Elvey Auditorium, 214 Elvey Building
Special Lecture Series Sponsored by the Chapman Chair (also ATM 693)
Earth’s Climate: Past Changes and Future Prospects - Lecture #1
John Kutzbach, University of Wisconsin-Madison
For more information on this lecture series see the UAF WebEvent calendar

3:40 p.m. - 183 Arctic Health Research Building (AHRB)
Natural Resources Management Graduate Seminar
Traditional Ways of Knowing and Western Science: New Paradigms from Old Ways
Larry Merculieff, Science Advisor for the Alaska Native Science Commission
Information: 474-7188

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10

10 a.m. - 010 West Ridge Research Building (WRRB)
Arctic Region Supercomputing Center Fall Seminar Series
Little Quarks and Big Computers
Gerry Guralnik, Brown University
Information: http://www.arsc.edu

1:30 p.m. - 010 West Ridge Research Building (WRRB)
Arctic Region Supercomputing Center Fall Seminar Series
On Molecular Sequence Alignment: Some Reasons for Doing It Well
Tom Marr, President’s Professor, UAF
Information: http://www.arsc.edu

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 & Wildlife
Neuroprotection on O2 Track in Hibernation and Arousal
Yilong Ma, Institute of Arctic Biology and the Alaska Basic Neuroscience Program, UAF
Information: 474-7640 or fnlts@uaf.edu

3:30 p.m. - 201 Natural Sciences Facility
Department of Geology and Geophysics Seminar
Latest Holocene and Historic Surface Faulting on the Denali Fault in the Delta River Valley, Central Alaska Range - Implications to the 2002 Slip Distribution
Gary Carver, Humboldt State University and Seismic Assessment Team USGS/Alyeska CRADA
Information: 474-7565 or fnpsh@uaf.edu

3:45 p.m. - Globe Room, 215 Elvey Building
Department of Physics Journal Club
Weekly informal presentation.

For more information: http://ffden-2.phys.uaf.edu/journal_club.htm or 474-7339