UAF in the news: Week of Oct. 1, 2007

Submitted by Marmian Grimes
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10/05/07

Digging for Alaska dinosaurs
Far North Science
Using a technique never attempted before in North America, a team of mud-scoured paleontologists sifted frozen ground inside a mine tunnel in the ancient permafrost of an Arctic riverbank - and uncovered a trove of 100 buried dinosaur fossils at least 70 million years old. Read more ...

Researcher recalls impact Sputnik had on Fairbanks, University of Alaska
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Sputnik launched the space age in the thinking of most people. And the University of Alaska and good old Alaska know-how was there. Read more ...

Is battered arctic sea ice down for the count?
Science
A few years ago, researchers modeling the fate of Arctic sea ice under global warming saw a good chance that the ice could disappear, in summertime at least, by the end of the 21st century. Then talk swung to summer ice not making it past mid-century. Now, after watching Arctic sea ice shrink back last month to a startling record-low area, scientists are worried that 2050 may be overoptimistic. Read more ...

Nanooks open season with Blue-Gold game
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
First-year head coach Doc DelCastillo gets to further gauge the Alaska Nanooks tonight at the Patty Center, while some lucky fan gets a chance to admire the gauges of a new car. Read more ...

Augustine Volcano stirs from slumber
Alaska Report and Far North Science
One of the most active volcanoes in the Far North has been muttering in its sleep, raising the possibility that the population center of Alaska may get ashed for the second time in less than two years. Read more ...

Trivial pursuit puts philosopher in Jeopardy!
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
This assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Alaska Fairbanks recently accomplished his long-time dream of appearing on the hit game show Jeopardy! Read more ...

Sustainability center gets up and running
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
A group of Fairbanks business and political leaders is close to starting a nonprofit center to help carry renewable energy projects and technology to the market with an eye on lowering energy costs inside and outside Alaska. Read more ...

Nenana River Project
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Teachers from all three schools in the Denali Borough will undergo special training this weekend, as they prepare for their classes to participate in a continuing International Polar Year science project. Read more ...

Arctic melt unnerves the experts
New York Times
The Arctic ice cap shrank so much this summer that waves briefly lapped along two long-imagined Arctic shipping routes, the Northwest Passage over Canada and the Northern Sea Route over Russia. Read more ...