UAF in the news: week of Dec. 3, 2007

Submitted by Marmian Grimes
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12/07/07

Yup’ik degree approved by UA Board of Regents
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
A new bachelor’s degree in Yup’ik language and culture has been approved by the University of Alaska Board of Regents. The four-year program will be offered at the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Kuskokwim Campus in Bethel. Read more ...

Alaska women look to build on strong start
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Players were laughing, chest bumps were flying and Kari Reabold was offering to break out some interpretive dance. Suffice it to say, in Thursday’s practice, their last before heading to Anchorage for Glacier Classic games against Mesa State College and Chaminade University, the Nanooks were feeling loose. Read more ...

Justice maintains SoCal style in chilly north
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Vanessa Justice is living proof that people don’t get used to Fairbanks winters. “Everybody says, ‘You get used to it,’” she said Sunday afternoon. “No, you don’t. You learn to be OK with it, that’s it.” Read more ...

Where’s the crab?
Kodiak Daily Mirror
In hopes of reversing a decades-long slump in wild king crab production, the Alaska King Crab Research and Rehabilitation Program (AKCRRAB) was formed as an Alaska Sea Grant partnership with fishermen and coastal communities. Read more ...

Rutgers to study ocean circulation in Bering Sea
Dutch Harbor Fisherman
Bristol Bay will be the site of a federal project designed to modify an ice-ocean circulation model, according to the Interior Department’s Minerals Management Service. Read more ...

Summit helps gear new, young fishermen for market side of industry
Kodiak Daily Mirror
With the goal of educating young fishermen and those new to the industry, the second Alaska Young Fishermen’s Summit is Dec. 10 to 12 in Anchorage. Alaska Sea Grant Marine Advisory Program organized the summit and more than 60 people from Alaska are signed up to attend. Read more ...

Alaska: Fishermen collect red king crab for science
FishUpdate
Fishermen last month harvested boatloads of giant red king crab from Bristol Bay, Alaska where stocks of the tasty crustacean have been increasing. Read more ...

Climate change topic of watersheds council meeting
Newport News Times
Dr. Gordon Kruse, a professor in the School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, will present “Climate Change and Its Influence on North Pacific Fisheries” at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 6 during the MidCoast Watersheds Council meeting at the Central Lincoln PUD building in Newport."¨ Read more ...