UAF in the news: Week of May 29, 2006

Submitted by Marmian Grimes
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06/02/06

Alaska the ’poster state’ for climate concerns
USA Today
FAIRBANKS, Alaska — To the untrained eye, Bonanza Creek forest is breathtaking, a vibrant place alive with butterflies and birds, with evidence of moose and bear at every turn. Read more ...

Global warming seen in Alaska`s greening
Monsters and Critics and UPI wire
FAIRBANKS, AK, United States (UPI) -- A forest ecologist in Alaska is warning that the state is losing its forests to global warming and could soon turn out to be a state of grasslands. Read more ...

Conference focuses on brain research
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Nearly 200 scientists from around the country are gathering in Fairbanks starting today for the sixth annual National Conference of Specialized Neuroscience Research Programs. Read more ...

Conference-goers brainstorm Native health-care solutions
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Dr. Allison Kelliher told, in Inupiaq, the more than 200 scientists gathered in Fairbanks for a neuroscience conference that she honors the deep connection all humans have to the Earth. Read more ...

Mammoth ivory excavated in Alaska for jewelry, curios
Associated Press
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - In downtown ivory shops, alongside whale-baleen baskets and walrus-tusk statuettes, tourists finger curios made from the fossils of shaggy Ice Age beasts that died on the tundra thousands of years ago Read more ...

Hordes of caterpillars invade Fairbanks
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
After working in her yard planting flowers all day Thursday, Kathy Carlin decided to take in a movie. But when she returned home on Red Fox Drive, it was Carlin who thought she had stepped into a horror film. Read more ...

Nanooks release hockey schedule
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
There’s an unprecedented exhibition game in Anchorage, but it’s not against intrastate rival University of Alaska Anchorage. There are two regular-season Central Collegiate Hockey Association road trips rather than the typical one, and Tavis MacMillan’s third season as head coach begins with an opponent he faced as a Nanooks forward. Read more ...

Earthquakes near and far shake up Alaska wells
SITNews
"ÂThe great Alaska earthquake of March 1964 jarred Earth’s plumbing system far beyond Alaska. More than 700 groundwater wells in the continental United States showed water-level changes, including a 12-foot rise in a South Dakota well. A well in Australia fluctuated more than two feet after the 1964 earthquake. The Denali Fault earthquake of 2002 caused a well in Wisconsin to rise more than two feet. Read more ...

Gardeners beware: Cold front ahead
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Gardeners may want to break out the blankets, bedsheets and milk jugs this weekend. Read more ...