Weekly science calendar

Submitted by Center for Global Change
Phone: (907) 474-5818
04/21/06

Monday, April 24

10 a.m. - Elvey Auditorium, 214 Elvey Building
School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences Dissertation Defense
Numerical Method for Tsunami Calculation Using Full Navier-Stokes Equations and the Volume of Fluid Method
Juan Horrillo, Ph.D. candidate in Oceanography
Information: Juan Horrillo

Tuesday, April 25

1-2 p.m. - 201 Irving I
Biobites--Biology Graduate Student Association Seminar
Auklets, Polytomies and AFLPs: Exploring the Tangled Evolutionary History of Four Alaskan Endemic Birds (and one bird that isn’t)
Liz Humphries, graduate student in Biology & Wildlife
Information: Hayley Lanier

Wednesday, April 26

Noon - 401 IARC
International Arctic Research Center Seminar
The Relative Influences of the Responses of Albedo and the Exchange with the Atmosphere of Carbon Dioxide in High Latitude Terrestrial Ecosystems on the Climate System
E.S. Euskirchen, Institute of Arctic Biology, UAF
Information: http://www.iarc.uaf.edu, 474-7569, or Jenny Hutchings

1-2 p.m. - 201 Irving I
Freshwater Ecosystems Seminar Series and Biology & Wildlife Thesis Defense
Utilization of Muskeg Habitats by Juvenile Coho Salmon in the Situk River Watershed, Alaska
Kevin Schaberg, M.S. candidate in Fisheries, UAF
Information: 474-6654, Mark Wipfli

3:30 p.m. - Elvey Auditorium, 214 Elvey Building
Institute of Marine Science Seminar
Ecosystem-Dimethylsulfide (DMS)-Climate/Ice Linkages
Clara Deal, International Arctic Research Center, UAF
Information: http://www.sfos.uaf.edu/events/ or Bodil Bluhm

Thursday, April 27

1 p.m. - 401 IARC
International Arctic Research Center Seminar
The May 26/27 2005 Mount Logan Storm: Implications for Climate Signals in Ice Cores
G.W.K. (Kent) Moore, University of Toronto
Information: http://www.iarc.uaf.edu, 474-7569, or Jenny Hutchings

1:30 p.m. - Elvey Auditorium, 214 Elvey Building
Department of Geology and Geophysics Dissertation Defense
Alaska Landfast Sea Ice Dynamics
Andrew Mahoney, Ph.D. candidate in Geophysics
Information: Andy Mahoney

2:30 p.m. - 304 Eielson Building (NOTE DAY & TIME)
Anthropology Colloquium Series
Impact of Seasonal Food Shortages on Energy Balance and Body Composition in Peasant Adolescents from Calakmul, Campeche, Mexico
Francisco Gurri, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur-Unidad Campeche, Mexico
Information: 474-7288, Anthropology Department

Friday, April 28 - UAF SpringFest

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
Marmots, Microbes and Mandarins: The Geopolitical Uses of the Manchurian Plague of 1910-11
William Summers, Yale University
Information: http://www.iab.uaf.edu/events/events.php or 474-7640

3:30 p.m. - 531 Duckering Building
Water and Environmental Research Center Seminar
Physical Effects of the Tundra Fire in Kougarok, Year 2002, Seward Peninsula
Anna Liljedahl, WERC, UAF
Information: Doug Kane