UAF in the news: Week of Oct. 29, 2007

Submitted by Marmian Grimes
Phone: 907-474-7902
11/02/07

Divers find new species in Aleutians
Science Daily and multiple other online publications
There are unknown creatures lurking under the windswept islands of the Aleutians, according to a team of scientific divers from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Read more ...

UAF trails boss Jason Garron digs new gig
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
New University of Alaska Fairbanks trails manager Jason Garron describes himself as a "winter kind of guy." "The whole reason I moved here in 2000 was for winter," said Garron, a 35-year-old transplant from Maine who enjoys ice climbing and skiing. Read more ...

Study reveals lakes a major source of prehistoric methane
Innnovations report and several other online publications
A team of scientists led by a researcher at the University of Alaska Fairbanks has identified a new likely source of a spike in atmospheric methane coming out of the North during the end of the last ice age. Read more ...

Stiver, Strle in a tie for mayor
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
The race for Fairbanks city mayor is still too close to call "" four weeks after the general election. Terry Strle held a 27-vote lead over Vivian Stiver after ballots had been counted in Tuesday’s runoff election, meaning it will fall to absentee and questioned ballots to decide the race. Read more ...

Tweedsmuir Glacier surges toward the Alsek
SITNews
"¨A glacier is poised to dam the only river that cuts through a rugged 500-mile span of the St. Elias Mountains. Tweedsmuir Glacier, born in the Yukon and following gravity’s pull through northern British Columbia, has surged to a point where it might pinch off the Alsek River, which flows into the Gulf of Alaska at Dry Bay. Read more ...

Construction specialists discuss sustainablilty
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Architects, builders and researchers from around the polar regions are gathered in Fairbanks this week to share ideas on sustainable building. Read more ...

Alaska Native leaders granted honorary doctorates"¨
Sun Star
The Gathering of the Wisdom Bearers is a traditional Alaskan custom that has been around since 1968. Forty-three Alaskan Natives have been awarded honorary doctorates for their determination and wisdom that have inspired the Alaskan community. Last Wednesday, 18 elders were praised at the Davis Concert Hall. Read more ...

News from the north
San Diego City Beat
Sometimes the most interesting person in the room is the guy with his mouth shut. On Friday, Oct. 19, in a conference room at the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center in Balboa Park, that guy was Orville Huntington, a 51-year-old wildlife biologist from Huslia, Alaska. Read more ...

Paleontology: Tunnel vision
Nature
Is blasting into a river bluff any way to do paleontology? Alison Abbott reports on an unusual expedition into the Alaskan wilderness in search of the bones of polar dinosaurs. Read more ...

Immersed in Shakespeare
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
All of the high school students at Star of the North Charter School’s North Pole Campus have been immersed in Shakespeare for the past week or so. The school-wide saturation was an experiment of teachers at the school who wanted to tie the students’ study of Shakespeare with the performance of "Two Gentlemen of Verona" in late November at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Read more ...

Arctic warming in the last century, and now
Dotearth blog
The Competitive Enterprise Institute, which is fighting hard against treaties or legislation limiting greenhouse gases, has pointed afresh to old media coverage pointing to "unprecedented" Arctic ice retreats and warming early in the 20th century. Read more ...