UAF in the news: week of March 19, 2007

Submitted by Marmian Grimes
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03/23/07

Millions of hatching crab may form the future of restored fisheries
"¬Alaska Journal of Commerce
A researcher monitoring the care and feeding of more than 2 million red king crab larvae hopes her efforts will produce answers to help rebuild lucrative commercial crab stocks. Celeste Leroux, an Alaska Sea Grant graduate student at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, is watching over the larvae at the Alaska King Crab Research and Rehabilitation Program at Seward’s Alutiiq Pride Shellfish Hatchery. Read more ...

Saipanpreneur profile: The Mérchant of venison
Saipan Tribune
Saipan has a new entrepreneur and his name, coincidentally enough, is Mérchant."¬"¬With a passion for cooking, Mérchant Thompson has taken the leap to become the CNMI’s newest "Saipanpreneur" as owner proprietor and chef extraordinaire of Cheap Cut, Saipan’s newest barbecue joint. Read more ...

Climate change: rethinking ice sheet time scales
Science
According to glaciology textbooks, glaciers respond to climate change on time scales that vary from a decade or more for nonpolar glaciers to millennia for polar ice sheets. These numbers have lured the scientific community into thinking that while small glaciers undergo rapid changes, the big ice sheets adjust at a leisurely pace. Read more ...

Diving for knowledge
Homer News
Think it’s been cold lately? Try going underwater.
That’s exactly what about 20 students did last week at Kasitsna Bay as part of a scientific dive program offered by the University of Alaska Fairbanks School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences. Read more ...

Disappearance of red king crab in Kodiak still a mystery
Kodiak Daily Mirror and KTVA
Once the king crab capital of the world, Kodiak remains mystified at the loss of its crown. Researchers and scientists are still probing for an explanation, but also attempting to determine if ever again there will be enough crab to harvest for bigger profits. Read more ...

A sign of success
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
The University of Alaska Fairbanks should make an addition to the signs at the campus entrances: “Home of the 2007 NCAA rifle champions.” For the ninth time, UAF has won the national rifle title, an accomplishment that is worth publicizing for those who enter the flagship campus of the University of Alaska. Read more ...

Bugs’ winter hideouts
Juneau Empire
Most insects aren’t active in cold weather, but if you know where to look, you can find their winter hideouts. Read more ...

Deep freezers: The cool and the supercool survive Alaska’s subzero winters
Juneau Empire
Surviving Alaska’s subzero winters requires some special adaptations. Bears are well-known hibernators, but some creatures take hibernation to a "supercool" level. Read more ...

Fanfare for the polar year
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Could you describe Alaska in 30 seconds? What if, at the same time, you had to also describe the International Polar Year and all the work the scientists in Alaska and around the world will be doing in the next two years as part of this international push? What if you had to do it without words? Read more ...

Frier loves to make mark with tasty finger foods
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Quality hors d’oeuvres can make a good party better, and if Sara Frier is nearby, tasty finger foods are just about guaranteed. Read more ...

The Holland Center? "¬
Sun Star
In the summer of 1971, with the initiation of a draft and the demand for manpower overseas, a war in Vietnam raged. The voting age in the country was lowered from 21 to 18. And on the University of Alaska campus a new student union building rose next to historical Constitution Hall. Read more ...

Henrichs named new UAF provost"¬
Sun Star
Although the temperature March 7 was colder than average, it was still warmer than the day before, part of the Earth’s yearly transition into summer warmth. Read more ...

Lessons from McCall Glacier
Alaska Report and Far North Science
It may be the most studied tongue of ice in the Arctic, visited by both aircraft and mountaineer, almost every yard of its half-century-long meltdown measured, zapped with radar, and photographed by scientists. Read more ...

Bush budget leaves Alaska Native education behind
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
President Bush’s education budget does not include any money for two programs specifically designed to enhance the education of Alaska Natives. Read more ...

Adding the 49th state to the map - the weather map
Associate Press and KTVA
Greg Newby wants to put Alaska on the map - on the weather map, that is. He’s the acting chief scientist of the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Read more ...

Rocket launches to examine Alaskan auroras
Science Daily, Physorg.com and Yubanet
It may have been 40 degrees below zero at the Poker Flat Research Range in Alaska, but aurora and weather came together one recent winter night in a perfect match for Clemson University researchers and students who launched four rockets to study heat in the upper atmosphere. Read more ...