UAF in the news: week of March 26, 2007

Submitted by Marmian Grimes
Phone: (907) 474-7902
03/30/07

Dance festival heats up the Alaska night
Indian Country Today
FAIRBANKS, Alaska - Dance groups throughout Alaska gathered in Fairbanks March 1 - 3 for the 34th Annual Festival of Native Arts. Each night, from 6 p.m. until midnight or later, different groups entertained on the stage at the Charles Davis Concert Hall on the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus while Native artists sold a wide variety of crafts in the UAF Great Hall. Read more ...

IPY: When the ice quakes
Far North Science
The grinding, crackling ice of the Arctic Ocean never stops moving, not even in the grip of polar winter. Read more ...

Jackets sign Alaska-Fairbanks D Darcy Campbell
WANE TV
COLUMBUS, OHIO - The Columbus Blue Jackets have signed University of Alaska-Fairbanks defenseman Darcy Campbell to a two-year entry level contract, club President and General Manager Doug MacLean announced today. Campbell is expected to join the Blue Jackets immediately. Read more ...

A strong foundation for Fairbanks
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Interior buildings require strong foundations and innovative design to remain solid in the area’s constantly changing permafrost conditions. Read more ...

Culprit still elusive in the whodunit of missing crab
Alaska Journal of Commerce
KODIAK "" A quarter of a century after the demise of Kodiak’s once lucrative king crab fishery, University of Alaska Fairbanks researcher Bill Bechtol is still uncertain whether it was overfishing or several other factors that led to disappearance of the kings. Read more ...

’Climate skeptic’ questions conventional thinking
Alaska Report
Fairbanks, Alaska - Syun-Ichi Akasofu’s greatest successes in a career of studying the aurora came when he questioned the conventional ideas about the phenomenon. Read more ...

Juneau man named Kootznoowoo trustee
Juneau Empire
JUNEAU - Marshall Lind of Juneau, a longtime leader in Alaska education, has been appointed to the Kootznoowoo Permanent Fund Settlement Trust’s board of trustees, Jodi Mitchell, chairman of the organization, announced Tuesday. Read more ...

Time flies
Salt Lake City Weekly
Time really has flown for Jimmy and Beth Miklavcic. Their performance group Another Language is set to present its fifth "InterPlay"? in as many years. The group, founded in 1985, has always tried to present experimental works that pushed the frontiers of artistic expression, but these recent performances have showcased the cutting edge of technology as well. Read more ...

Engineering inspiration
Peninsula Clarion
UAF students show Kenai kids how to build their dreams
Students at Mountain View Elementary School in Kenai learned what engineering was all about with a visit from the University of Alaska Fairbanks chapter of the Society of Women Engineers earlier this month. Read more ...

Scientists find that lightning is good indicator of volcanic activity
CCN Magazine, Science Daily and several other online publications
Although it’s been more than a year since Mount Augustine had its memorable eruption, work continues for University of Alaska Fairbanks researchers. The work of Alaska Volcano Observatory employees from UAF’s Geophysical Institute will be appearing in the upcoming issue of the journal Science. Read more ...

Models play role in understanding Alaskan weather
HPC Wire and other online publications
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, March 28 -- Weather is a hot topic here in Interior Alaska and a quick way to get anyone talking. Not a day goes by in winter months without some observations of temperatures, air inversions, or even a mention that the Sun budged another degree above the horizon. Read more ...

Of sharks, seals and ocean perch
Alaska Report and Far North Science
Scientists will tackle the mysteries of Bering Sea sharks and the decline of northern fur seals with studies funded by the Pollock Conservation Cooperative Research Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Read more ...

Measuring changes in arctic sea ice
Science Daily and WMDT-TV
Arctic sea ice is in constant motion. It rides on the ocean, absorbing energy from the circumpolar weather systems. Read more ...

Film free in Fairbanks
IPGOnline
When University of Alaska-Fairbanks Printing Services added its new Agfa :Acento II E thermal computer-to-plate device in the fall, it arranged to keep its Agfa SelectSet 7000 imagesetter around for three months, just in case the transition from film to CTP didn’t go well. Read more ...