Weekly science calendar

Submitted by Center for Global Change
Phone: (907) 474-5818
04/06/07

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

Tuesday, April 10

1-2 p.m. - 201 Irving I
Biobites--Biology Graduate Student Association seminar
Effects of Fire Severity on Site Moisture, Species Composition, and Functional Properties of Black Spruce Forests in Interior Alaska
Emily Bernhardt, graduate student in Biology & Wildlife
Information: James Stone

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
Late Pleistocene Large Mammals: Troubles on the Bering Land Bridge
R. Dale Guthrie, Professor Emeritus, IAB, UAF
Information: Nancy Bigelow (474-5433); http://www.uaf.edu/aqc/bss.htm

5:30 p.m. - 138 Irving II
Sponsored by the Fairbanks student subunit of the American Fisheries Society
Career Street Smarts for Working as a Natural Resource Professional
Michael Fraidenburg, author of the forthcoming book "Intelligent Courage--Natural Resource Careers That Make a Difference" (http://www.IntelligentCourage.com)
Information/RSVP: AFS student subunit

7 p.m. - UA Museum of the North Auditorium
International Polar Year (IPY) Museum Lecture
Alaskan Climate Change in a Global Context
John Walsh, President’s Professor of Global Climate Change, UAF
Information: 474-7505, http://www.uaf.edu/museum

Wednesday, April 11

1:30 p.m. - 417 IARC (room change)
Atmospheric Science Informal Seminar
Variation of Atmospheric Aerosols--In situ Observations with Balloon-borne Particle Counters Masahiko Hayashi, Fukuoka University, Japan
Information: Nicole Molders (474-7910)

3:30 p.m. - Location TBD (check http://www.cgc.uaf.edu/calendar.html)
Freshwater Ecosystems Seminar Series
Careers That Make a Difference
Michael Fraidenburg, author of the forthcoming book "Intelligent Courage--Natural Resource Careers That Make a Difference" (http://www.IntelligentCourage.com)
Information: Mark Wipfli (474-6654)

3:30 p.m. - Elvey Auditorium, 214 Elvey Building
Institute of Marine Science Seminar
Bottom-up Influences on Intertidal Infaunal Clams in Kachemak Bay, Alaska
Carrie Parris, M.S. student in Marine Biology, SFOS, UAF
Information: http://www.sfos.uaf.edu/events/ or Madeline Scholl (474-6786)

4-7 p.m. - UA Museum of the North Auditorium
Flint Hills Undergraduate Research Competition
Ten finalists of the 2006-07 Flint Hills Undergraduate Research Competition will present their work to a panel of judges, competing for one of three top prizes. The event is free and open to the public.
Information: 474-6264, http://www.alaska.edu/ipy

Thursday, April 12

10:30 a.m. - 304 Eielson Building
Department of Anthropology Thesis Defense
Whence These Farmers? El Patano Bioarchaeology and the Advent of Agriculture in West Mexico
Nicholas Corduan, M.A. candidate
Information: Anthropology Department (474-7288)

12:30-5 p.m. - 401 IARC
Sponsored by the Fairbanks student subunit of the American Fisheries Society
Project Planning Bootcamp: Tools and Techniques for Getting the Right Things Done as well as Getting Things Done Right
Michael Fraidenburg, author of the forthcoming book "Intelligent Courage--Natural Resource Careers That Make a Difference" (http://www.IntelligentCourage.com)
There is a $5 registration fee.
Information/RSVP: AFS student sub-unit

1 p.m. - 106 Chapman Building
Department of Mathematics and Statistics Colloquium
Flexible Variogram Models: Survey of Approaches
Ron Barry, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, UAF
Information: http://www.math.uaf.edu/dms/Colloquium.html or David Maxwell

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)
State and Fate of Permafrost in a Warming World
Vladimir Romanovsky, Geophysical Institute and Department of Geology and Geophysics, UAF
Information: Scott Rupp (474-7535)

Thursday and Friday, April 12-13

The third annual University of Alaska Biomedical Research Conference will be held at the Museum of the North, Arnold Espe Auditorium. The UA Biochemistry and Molecular Biology program sponsors the UABRC each year to bring student and faculty researchers together for scientific discussion. Information: Alaska Basic Neuroscience Program
Thursday, April 12
9 a.m.-Noon: Environmental Health Science, Keynote address by Dr. Gerald Mohatt, Director, CANHR;
1-4 p.m.: Cell Biology and Biochemistry, Keynote address by Dr. Carol Lewis, Dean, SNRAS;
4:30-6 p.m.: Poster session all topic areas
Friday, April 13
9 a.m.-Noon: Toxicology and Infectious Disease, Keynote address by Dr. Jasper Rine, Univ. of California Berkeley;
1-4 p.m.: Neuroscience, Dr. Troy Zarcone, University of Rochester, School of Medicine and Dentistry.

Friday, April 13

1-2 p.m. - 138 Irving II
Physiology Seminars
Maintenance of Copper Homeostasis: Effects of Cup1p Overexpression, Mac1p-dependent Gene Expression and Survival of S. Cerevisiae
Summer Engel, UAA graduate student; and
The Effect of Nutritional Status on Adipose Tissue Fatty Acids in Tufted Puffins: Implications for Diet Assessment using Quantitative Fatty Acid Signature Analysis (QFASA)
Cory Williams, UAF graduate student
Information: Cord Brundage (474-5024)

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
Polar Marine Conservation: The Nature Conservancy’s Bering Sea Program
Steve MacLean, The Nature Conservancy
Information: http://www.iab.uaf.edu or 474-7640/7412

3:30 p.m. - 201 Natural Sciences Facility
Department of Geology and Geophysics Seminar
3-D Distribution of Anisotropy and Attenuation in the Hikurangi Subduction Zone, New Zealand
Donna Eberhart-Phillips, University of California, Davis
Information: 474-7565

3:30 p.m. - 531 Duckering Building
Water and Environmental Research Center Seminar
Title TBD
Sarah Seelen, graduate student
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.

Saturday, April 14

Noon-5 p.m. - Natural Sciences Facility
Fourteenth Annual Open House for the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Science Potpourri
This year’s highlights include hands-on activities for all, plus presentations in Science Theater. All are invited!
Information: Marlys Schneider (474-6287) or Jeff Drake (474-7077)

Coming May 31: Field Guide to GenBank and NCBI Molecular Biology Resources
INBRE Supported Faculty and Graduate Students will host a one-day National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) training course, "Field Guide to GenBank and NCBI Molecular Biology Resources" at UAF on May 31, 2007. Pre-registration is required. For technical information contact Heather Huson at fnhjc@uaf.edu. For general information and Registration contact the Alaska INBRE office at inbre@alaska.edu or fnclc3@uaf.edu. Deadline to register is May 1.

Sponsored by the Center for Global Change and Arctic System Research as a service to the UAF community.