Weekly science calendar

Submitted by Center for Global Change
Phone: 474-5818
04/14/06

Tuesday, April 18

1-2 p.m. - 201 Irving I
Biobites--Biology Graduate Student Association Seminar
Sexist Moths and Skewed Sex Ratios: Pollinator-Influenced Epistasis among Nuclear and Cytoplasmic Genes in Silene vulgaris
James Stone, graduate student in Biology & Wildlife
Information: Hayley Lanier

Wednesday, April 19

8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. - McGown Room, Fairbanks Memorial Hospital (1st Floor)
UAF Geriatric Education Behavioral Health Care Seminar
Healthy Paths to Successful Aging: The Psychology of Aging
Presenters are Jacob Stone and Bob Parr, UAF; and Scott Luper, Alaska Center for Natural Medicine
Register by calling the UAF Social Work Department at 474-7240. For general information call the Northern Region Geriatric Education Center at 456-1380.

1-2 p.m. - 201 Irving I
Freshwater Ecosystems Seminar Series
Field Estimation of Energy Content of Yukon River Salmon
Joe Margraf, Alaska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, UAF
Information: 474-6654, Mark Wipfli

1:30 p.m. - 401 IARC
Atmospheric Science Informal Seminar
Projections of Arctic Change: Too Uncertain to be Useful?
John Walsh, International Arctic Research Center, UAF
Information: 474-7910, Nicole Molders

Thursday, April 20

7 p.m. - Schaible Auditorium, Bunnell Building
UA Museum of the North Free Public Lecture
Avian Influenza in Alaska
Kevin Winker, Curator of Birds, UA Museum of the North
Information: http://www.uaf.edu/museum/ or 474-7505

Friday, April 21

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
Topic and Speaker TBA
Information: http://www.iab.uaf.edu/events/events.php or 474-7640

3:30 p.m. - 201 Natural Sciences Facility
UA Museum of the North Earth Science Search Candidate / Department of Geology and Geophysics Seminar
Responses of Late Cretaceous Vertebrate Paleocommunities to Climate Change in Southern North America
Julia Sankey, California State University, Stanislaus
Information: 474-6945, Dan Odess

3:30 p.m. - 531 Duckering Building
Water and Environmental Research Center Seminar
Removal of Arsenic(V) from Water by Chitin/Chitosan
Hong Zhang, Engineering Ph.D. student, UAF
Information: Doug Kane

3:45 p.m. - Globe Room, 215 Elvey Building
Department of Physics Journal Club
Check http://ffden-2.phys.uaf.edu/journal_club.htm or call 474-7339 to see if there’s a presentation scheduled for this week.