UAF in the news: week of Jan. 29, 2007

Submitted by Marmian Grimes
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02/02/07

World’s scientists to examine poles
Anchorage Daily News
Alaska will find itself in the spotlight this spring when thousands of scientists around the world launch the International Polar Year -- a two-year-long initiative to advance what we know about the polar regions in general and climate change in particular. Read more ...

Research shows UAF among best in nation
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Anchorage Daily News, Juneau Empire
The University of Alaska Fairbanks was recently ranked fifth among small research institutions in a new national study that aims to measure the productivity of a university’s research faculty. Read more ...

Waters not calm for young fishermen
Anchorage Daily News
Lindsey Bloom is so enthused about her budding career as a commercial fisherman that she’s got the "Made in Alaska" emblem and two leaping sockeye salmon tattooed on the small of her back. Read more ...

New teachers make adjustment to classrooms
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Kelly Davies was terrified this fall as she stood in front of 20 or so fourth-graders as a full-time teacher for the first time. The 23-year-old wasn’t expecting to teach this year — she had applied with the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District after graduating from the University of Alaska Fairbanks in May but nothing came of it. Read more ...

Krauss rewarded for language work
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner and KTVA
Michael Krauss, professor emeritus at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the founder of the Alaska Native Language Center, received the Ken Hale Prize for lifetime achievement from the Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the Americas. Read more ...

Augustine volcano as tsunami generator
SITNews
"¬On October 6, 1883, someone wrote this entry in the Alaska Commercial Company logbook at a trading post at English Bay, Alaska, about 50 miles northeast of Augustine volcano: Read more ...

JOULE II rockets launch with success
PressZoom
From Poker Flat Research Range north of Fairbanks, four NASA rockets launched into an aurora display over northern Alaska, starting at 3:29 a.m. Alaska Standard Time. Scientists hope to learn more about electrical heating of the thin atmosphere from about 60 to 120 miles above Earth’s surface with the launch of these rockets. The project is called JOULE II. Read more ...