Weekly science calendar

Submitted by Center for Global Change
Phone: (907) 474-5818
02/23/07

The most current version of this calendar may be found at http://www.cgc.uaf.edu/calendar.html

Tuesday, Feb. 27

1-2 p.m. - 201 Irving I
Biobites--Biology Graduate Student Association seminar
The Biotechnology Computing Research Group and You
Shawn Houston, technical lead, Biotechnology Computing Research Group, INBRE/IAB, UAF
Information: James Stone

1-2:30 p.m. - Globe Room, 215 Elvey Building
UAF Office of Sponsored Programs seminar
Pre-Award Fundamentals
Personnel from UAF’s Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) will provide an introduction to OSP’s procedures, policies, activities and forms.
Information: Office of Sponsored Programs (474-6000)

1:15-2:15 p.m. - Elvey Auditorium, 214 Elvey Building
AQC Bering Sea Seminar series, sponsored by the Alaska Quaternary Center, the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, and the Chapman Professorship
Modern Pacific Throughflow and Links to Thermohaline Circulation and Climate
Eddy Carmack, Fisheries and Oceans Canada; UAF Chapman Chair Professor
Information: Nancy Bigelow (474-5433); http://www.uaf.edu/aqc/bss.htm

3:40-5:15 p.m. - Elvey Auditorium, 214 Elvey Building
Chapman Chair Lecture series
Planetary Atmospheres: A Half-Century of Exploration
Conway Leovy, University of Washington
Information: Uma Bhatt (474-2662)

4 p.m. - 201 Natural Sciences Facility
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry seminar
Regioselectivity and Catalysis of the Diels-Alder Reaction in Aqueous Molecular Hosts
Brittany Dykstra, undergraduate student, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, UAF
Information: Clara Deal (474-1875)

Wednesday, Feb. 28

1 p.m. - 401 IARC
International Arctic Research Center seminar
Tree-ring Research on Driftwood and Ethnoarchaeology of Wood Use in Alaska
Claire Alix, Alaska Quaternary Center, UAF
Information: Jessie Cherry or http://www.iarc.uaf.edu

2 p.m. - 109 Butrovich Building (Regents’ Conf. Room)
Department of Biology and Wildlife thesis defense
The Role of Serotonergic (5-HT) Neuromodulation in Respiratory Chemosensitivity
Deborah Fieldman, M.S. candidate
Information: Deborah Fieldman (474-1127)

3:30 p.m. - Elvey Auditorium, 214 Elvey Building
Institute of Marine Science seminar
Solving the Fish By-Products Puzzle
Cindy Bower, USDA Agricultural Research Service
Information: http://www.sfos.uaf.edu or Madeline Scholl (474-6786)

Thursday, March 1

3:40-5 p.m. - 183 Arctic Health Research Building
Natural Resource Management Seminar Series--Impacts of a Warming Climate on Natural Resource Management in Alaska (also NRM 692)
Why Does Climate Change Matter to Arctic Communities?
Henry Huntington, Huntington Consulting
Information: Scott Rupp (474-7535)

3:40-5:15 p.m. - Elvey Auditorium, 214 Elvey Building
Chapman Chair Lecture Series
Mars: An Emerging Evolutionary Paradigm
Conway Leovy, University of Washington
Information: Uma Bhatt (474-2662)

4 p.m. - 201A Natural Sciences Facility
Biochemistry/Molecular Biology Faculty Candidate Research Seminar
The Biochemistry of DNA Methylation in Oxidative Stress
Mihalis Panagiotidis, University of North Carolina
Information: Sheila Chapin (474-5510)

Friday, March 2

10 a.m. - 109 Butrovich Building (Regents’ Conf. Room)
Department of Biology and Wildlife dissertation defense
Population Ecology of Pacific Common Eiders on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, Alaska
Heather Wilson, Ph.D. candidate
Information: Heather Wilson (907 345-9849

1-2 p.m. - 138 Irving II
Physiology seminar
The Wildlife Toxicology Laboratory: Studying Nutrition and Health of Arctic Species
Sara Moses, Cassie Kirk and Katrina Knott, graduate students in biology and wildlife
Information: Cord Brundage 474-5024

1-5 p.m. - 009 West Ridge Research Building
Arctic Region Supercomputing Center
ARSC spring training: EMACS Part 3 (EMACS as a powerful Integrated Development Environment)
Registration required; see http://www.arsc.edu
Information: http://www.arsc.edu or Anton Kulchitsky

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
Using Forest Structure to Monitor Vertebrate Density
Mike Gillingham, University of Northern British Columbia
Information: http://www.iab.uaf.edu or 474-7640/7412

3:30 p.m. - 201 Natural Sciences Facility
Department of Geology and Geophysics seminar
Seismic Stratigraphy of the Miocene-Pliocene Segitiga Platform, East Natuna Sea, Indonesia: The Origin, Growth, and Demise of an Isolated Carbonate Platform
Steven Bachtel, AAPG Distinguished Lecturer, ConocoPhillips Co., Houston, Texas
Information: 474-7565

3:30 p.m. - 531 Duckering Building
Water and Environmental Research Center seminar
Observation and Rapid Drainage System Development by Thermal Erosion of Ice Wedges--Implications for the Permafrost Landscape
Daniel Fortier, INE postdoc, Institute of Northern Engineering, UAF
Information: Doug Kane 474-7808

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 and to confirm the location.

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The most current version of this calendar is available at http://www.cgc.uaf.edu. Submit information by noon on Wednesday the week before your event to cgc@iarc.uaf.edu, by fax to 474-6722, or call 474-5818. This calendar will announce any lecture, seminar, workshop, thesis or dissertation defense or other campus event with a science focus.

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