UAF in the news: Week of Nov. 27, 2006

Submitted by Marmian Grimes
Phone: (907) 474-7902
12/01/06

UAF to host rifle championships
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Anchorage Daily News and KTVA
The Alaska Nanooks hit the bull’s-eye on Tuesday with one of the biggest shots in school history. Read more ...

3-D computer models aid research of Earth’s core
SITNews and several other publications
"ÂThe work of a University of Alaska Fairbanks post-doctoral fellow will be included in an article appearing in the upcoming issue of the journal, Science. Read more ...

UA outpost brings higher education to Bush
The Northern Light
Katie Cruthers just moved into her office a few weeks ago. The walls and desk are mostly bare, but standing on the desk is a stout, plastic, blue-and-white penguin about a foot high. Read more ...

Fuel cell shows potential
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
A team of researchers at the Alaska Energy Technology Development Laboratory at the University of Alaska Fairbanks have tested a prototype propane fuel cell, a technology they say could someday be used to create efficient, cleaner energy in rural Alaska. Read more ...

Scientists monitor sea ice on the Web
KTVA
The International Arctic Research Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks has launched a new Web site. The Web site allows scientists to monitor sea ice movement in the Beaufort Sea, north of Alaska. The site provides a near real-time map of six Global Positioning System transmitters deployed on sea ice this summer. Read more ...

McHenry has a lot of history
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Kevin McHenry seems to have more connections than a telecommunications company. Read more ...

Burned Alaska may cause more burned Alaska
Alaska Report and SITNews
"ÂFairbanks, Alaska - The blackened scars that Alaska fires leave on the landscape may result in more lightning, more rain in some areas just downwind of the scars, and less rain farther away, according to two scientists. Read more ...

Go behind the scenes at the museum
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
People will get a chance on Saturday to see rooms in the University of Alaska Museum of the North that are usually closed to tourists and other visitors. Read more ...

Researchers probe sea lion population issue
Kodiak Daily Mirror, Anchorage Daily News
Researchers are delving into reasons behind the numbers of Steller sea lions in Alaska waters — declining in some areas but increasing in others — that could lead to an eventual recovery in the future. Read more ...

Hill delays could slow U.S. polar research projects
Infozine
If Congress doesn’t pass the 2007 appropriations bills soon, scientists could lose a unique opportunity for the U.S. to take the lead in global warming response. Spending totaling more than $460 billion for many government programs will be left for the new Democratic congressional leadership to deal with next year if budget matters aren’t dealt with by Dec. 8, when Congress plans to adjourn. Read more ...

Environmentalists bristle over rumor of lifting ban on Bristol Bay drilling
Alaska Journal of Commerce
Word spread like wildfire through Alaska’s environmental community Tuesday of alleged Bush administration plans to lift a presidential moratorium on offshore oil and gas exploration in the North Aleutian Basin. Read more ...

Murkowski angles for the last word
Anchorage Daily News
Beaten and unpopular, outgoing Gov. Frank Murkowski recently mailed more than 100,000 booklets to voters, telling Alaskans what a good job he did in office. Read more ...