"Talk of the Nation: Science Friday" broadcasts from campus

 

"Talk of the Nation: Science Friday" broadcasts from campus

Submitted by Ty Keltner
Phone: (907) 474-6918
05/23/07

Photo caption below.
UAF photo by Todd Paris
Ira Flatow, host of National Public Radio’s "Science Friday," speaks to the crowd in the Davis Concert Hall before beginning a live broadcast, June 8, 2007. The program featured a number of local experts on the impacts of climate change.


Photo caption below.
UAF photo by Todd Paris
National Public Radio’s "Science Friday" broadcasts live from the Davis Concert Hall on the Fairbanks campus June 8, 2007. Host Ira Flatow interviewed a number of local experts on impacts of climate change.

UAF Summer Sessions and KUAC hosted a live broadcast of National Public Radio’s "Talk of the Nation: Science Friday" on June 8 at the Charles W. Davis Concert Hall. The event drew hundreds of local residents to hear host Ira Flatow interview scientific experts on the impact of climate change. The show has more than two million viewers on 281 stations across the United States.

The broadcast is now available online at www.sciencefriday.com/.

First hour guests included:

  • Hajo Eicken, UAF associate professor with the Geophysical Institute
  • F. Stuart "Terry" Chapin, UAF professor of ecology with the Institute of Arctic Biology
  • Torre Jorgenson, senior scientist with ABR Inc.
  • William Harrison, UAF professor emeritus
  • Matthew Sturm, geophysicist with the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory at the Engineer Research and Development Center at Fort Wainwright

Second hour guests included:

  • Fran Ulmer, former director of the UA Institute for Social and Economic Research and current UAA interim chancellor
  • Dr. James Berner, member of the U.S. National Committee for the International Polar Year and director of the community health services with the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium
  • S. Craig Gerlach, associate professor of anthropology and principal investigator with the Alaska Center for Climate Assessment & Policy
  • La’Ona DeWilde, Ph.D. candidate in biology and resident of Huslia, Alaska