UAF in the news: week of June 18, 2007

Submitted by Marmian Grimes
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06/22/07

Hotspots of life surround drifting icebergs near Antarctica
International Herald Tribune and more than 100 other publications worldwide
Icebergs that break off Antarctica and drift away turn out to be hotspots of life in the cold southern ocean, researchers report.
Climate warming has led to an increase in the number of icebergs breaking away from the Antarctic in recent years, and a team of researchers set out to study the impact the giant ice chunks were having on the environment. Read more ...

Camp Finberg to Fairbanks, he never stopped climbing
The Sun Chronicle
What goes around comes around, even if it’s tentatively on the sheer face of a craggy rock cliff or a solid glacial ice wall. Read more ...

Mysterious "sprites" light shows captured on film
National Geographic News and several other outlets
Blink during a thunderstorm and you may miss the unusual phenomenon of "sprites" resplendent bursts of light that, for less than a second, burn brighter than Venus. Read more ...

Insects plague Interior trees
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
The sequel to the current "Invasion of the Spruce Budworms"? raining out of Interior spruce trees will be followed in a week or 10 days by the "Invasion of the Spruce Budworm Moth,"? the final stage of the pesky insects. Read more ...

Designs to adorn new Dena’ina center unveiled
Anchorage Daily News
More than a half-million dollars in public art will adorn the new $107 million Dena’ina Civic and Convention Center. Read more ...

Rural students get boost into college with UAF program
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Earlier this summer, the 60 or so high school students attending the Rural Alaska Honors Institute went on a day hike out to Angel Rocks and down to the Chena Hot Springs. Read more ...

VanGilder commits to Nanooks hockey
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Doc DelCastillo hasn’t arrived yet in Fairbanks from Omaha, Neb., but the new Alaska Nanooks head hockey coach has started building for the team’s future. Read more ...

Love story: Deborah Zylstra and Joshua Brewer
The Daily Herald (Everette, Wash.)
Deborah Zylstra and Joshua Brewer had jobs at Warm Beach Christian Camps and Conference Center in Stanwood while they were in high school. She worked in the kitchen. He worked in the dining room. Read more ...

Jones appointed to Arctic board
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
The Council of the University of the Arctic recently appointed University of Alaska Fairbanks Chancellor Steve Jones to serve a three-year renewable term on its board of governors. Read more ...

Student artists
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Shae-lyn Probert was busy Wednesday afternoon working in the metalsmithing shop at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. The 12-year-old was making a pendant out of highly-polished fossilized dinosaur feces. At least that’s what her metalsmithing instructor told her it was, she didn’t look too convinced, but thought it made for a good story. Read more ...

Librarians retire, leaving void at KCKCC library
Kansas City Kansan
For 17 years, Mary Fenlon and Helen Parker have dealt with books for students in the Kansas City Kansas Community College library. Now they’re going to enjoy them. Read more ...

Neighborhood improvement project in new hands
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Cathy Persinger is the new coordinator of the Fairbanks Weed and Seed program, a federally funded endeavor to make downtown Fairbanks a better place to live. Persinger, a University of Alaska Fairbanks graduate, began the job on Monday, said the executive director of the United Way of the Tanana Valley. Read more ...

Sentinel-Standard names new managing editor
Ionia Sentinel-Standard
IONIA - The Sentinel Standard announces the appointment of Amanda Cairo as managing editor, effective Mon., June 25."¬"¬Cairo will be in charge of directing news coverage for the paper, all news content, and overall layout and design of the newspaper. Cairo will also be responsible for the Weekender and a host of specialty publications."¬ Read more ...

Bourne leads Alumni to 3-on-3 title
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
As expected, a team keyed by University of Alaska Fairbanks alumni claimed the Midnight Sun 3-on-3 State Championship basketball tournament Sunday on sunny Second Avenue. Read more ...

Parks chief looks forward to challenges
Anchorage Daily News
WASILLA -- Wayne Biessel has had a lifetime in state parks, spending the last 24 years working his way up from leader of a youth crew near Fairbanks to heading up the Kodiak district. Read more ...