Weekly science calendar

Submitted by Center for Global Change
Phone: (907) 474-5818
04/20/07

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

Monday, April 23

2-3 p.m. - 138 Irving II (VCON from Seward)
School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences Dissertation Defense
Organochlorines in Steller Sea Lions (Eumetopias jubatus)
Matthew Myers, Ph.D. Marine Biology candidate, SFOS, UAF
Information: http://www.sfos.uaf.edu/events/ or Madeline Scholl (474-7289)

Tuesday, April 24

1-2 p.m. - 201 Irving I
Biobites--Biology Graduate Student Association Seminar
Mushroom-munching Maculatas...a Look at Fungal Specificity in the Non-photosynthetic Orchid Corallorhiza maculata
Sarah Hopkins, Biology and Wildlife graduate student
Information: James Stone

1-2 p.m. - 010 West Ridge Research Building (WRRB)
Arctic Region Supercomputing Center
High Performance Computing (HPC) Faculty Camp Informational Meeting and Open House
Information: http://www.arsc.edu or Tom Logan

1:15-2:15 p.m. - Elvey Auditorium, 214 Elvey Building
AQC Bering Sea Seminar Series, sponsored by the Alaska Quaternary Center
Historical Contacts and Contemporary Communities around Bering Strait
Peter Schweitzer, Dept. of Anthropology, UAF
Information: Nancy Bigelow (474-5433); http://www.uaf.edu/aqc/bss.htm

Wednesday, April 25

3:30 p.m. - 201 Irving I
Freshwater Ecosystems Seminar Series
Yukon River Chinook Salmon: Sex, Size, Politics and Lies
Chris Stark, School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, UAF
Information: Mark Wipfli (474-6654)

3:30 p.m. - Elvey Auditorium, 214 Elvey Building
Institute of Marine Science Seminar
Modeling Circulation in the Landfast Ice Zone
Jeremy Kasper, Ph.D. student, SFOS, UAF
Information: http://www.sfos.uaf.edu/events/ or Madeline Scholl (474-7289)

Thursday, April 26

1 p.m. - 106 Chapman Building
Department of Mathematics and Statistics Colloquium
The Set Covering Problem and Related Topics
John Gimbel, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, UAF
Information: http://www.math.uaf.edu/dms/Colloquium.html or David Maxwell

3:30 p.m. - 201 Natural Sciences Facility
Special Seminar
My Life at the University of Alaska: 1958-2007
Syun-Ichi Akasofu, Professor of Physics and Founding Director, IARC
Information: Helga Wilm (474-6016)

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)
Climate Change and High-latitude Agriculture
Stephen Sparrow, SNRAS, UAF
Information: Scott Rupp (474-7535)

Friday, April 27 (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 and Wildlife
Cardiac Function at Near Freezing Body Temperatures in Hibernating Mammals
Matt Andrews, University of Minnesota Duluth
Information: http://www.iab.uaf.edu or 474-7640/7412

3:30 p.m. - 531 Duckering Building
Water and Environmental Research Center Seminar
Attenuation of Herbicides in Cold Soils
Stacey Frutiger and Will Rhodes, WERC, INE, 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.

Coming May 14: Responsible Conduct in Research Workshop
Registration is now available for the Responsible Conduct in Research Workshop, sponsored by the UAF Office of Research Integrity. This year’s workshop is scheduled for May 14 and will focus on issues related to authorship and research collaboration; the keynote speaker is Frank Macrina from Virginia Commonwealth University. An agenda and other information is available on the registration page.

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. For general information and Registration contact the Alaska INBRE office. Deadline to register is May 1.

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