UAF in the news: Week of April 10, 2006

Submitted by Marmian Grimes
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04/14/06

Karr still has mountains to climb
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
With sports competition at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks finished for the current school year, it’s time for Forrest Karr to take a little vacation, right?
Not a chance--there’s still way too much to do. Read more ...

Warming climate adds to woes in Alaska
Helena Independent Record
ANCHORAGE, Alaska--The internal time clock for Alaska’s boreal forest calls for a good, healthy forest fire every 150 years or so.
The trouble is, fires in the forest that covers Alaska from below the Brooks Range to above the Panhandle have been coming fast and frequently. Climate warming has accelerated conditions ideal for conflagration, contributing to record fire seasons in America’s largest state and starting a trend that forest managers fear has changed the forest into the next century. Read more ...

Panel reverses cuts to public TV, radio
Associated Press
JUNEAU -- Most of Alaska public broadcasting’s operating budget for next year has been restored after a panel recommended drastic cuts. Read more ...

Grad student completes milestone glacier study
SITNews
"ÂTraveling from all over the world to study at the Geophysical Institute at UAF, graduate students liven up the place for a few years before dispersing and taking their new, larger brains with them. Anthony Arendt grew up in Edmonton, but during the last five years he has pedaled Alaska on his road bike, climbed mountains in the Wrangells, and studied glaciers all over the state. He recently defended his doctorate thesis in front of an auditorium of his peers and professors, and gave a conclusion that’s worth repeating: Alaska’s glaciers are getting smaller, fast. Read more ...

UA funding caught in state budget duel
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
JUNEAU--A tug of war in the Senate committee in charge of determining the state operating budget has University of Alaska officials worried about shrinking funding levels. Read more ...

Daniel DeRoux has fun with classics
Anchorage Daily News
People born and raised in Alaska tend to go Outside to test their mettle against the world. Daniel DeRoux was no different. For a time, he left his hometown of Juneau to live and paint in San Francisco, where he soaked in the scene and entered art competitions and shows. Read more ...

Arctic ice pack losing ground
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Arctic Ocean ice pack has not rebounded from record minimums recorded last summer, causing scientists to worry that the planet’s global warming "canary in the coal mine" is in a tightening spiral of decline. Read more ...

Fairbanks scientist Davis launches into history of Poker Flat
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
ROCKET RANGE: The crash of a B-52 bomber in Greenland in 1968 helped launch the Poker Flat rocket range.
Just how this happened is told in a fascinating new book by Neil Davis, an emeritus professor of geophysics who played a large part in the planning and early operation of the world’s only rocket range owned by a university. Read more ...

Student official abandons plan to cut budget of student paper"Â"Â
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A student government member at the University of Alaska Fairbanks rescinded his initiative to reduce the student newspaper’s budget and said he was wrong to think less funding would translate to better editorial content. Read more ...

Cave art may have been teen graffiti
Discovery News
Testosterone-fueled boys created most prehistoric cave art, according to a book by one of the world’s authorities on this type of art. Read more ...

Playing the recruiting game
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Recruiting--it’s an extraordinarily time-consuming, labor-intensive, even tedious aspect of college athletics.
The pursuit of an athlete may involve countless phone calls and e-mails, trips to games and tournaments, dissections of videotape. Read more ...

Team sports out to fill needs
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
There’s a big difference between "team" and "individual" sports at UAF, and each program’s recruiting strategy reflects that. Read more ...