UAF in the news: week of June 15, 2009
UAF in the news: week of June 15, 2009
Submitted by Marmian Grimes
Phone: 907-474-7902
06/19/09
Alaska researchers study the science of fire
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
NENANA RIDGE--Fire managers, forestry scientists and firefighter crews teamed Wednesday
for the first leg of a project aimed at deciphering more about how fire behaves in
Alaska’s boreal forests. Read more ...
Timely science
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Government officials have been doing what they think will help protect Fairbanks and
other towns from severe wildfires in recent years. Read more ...
Scientists lock horns over moose classification
Canada.com
A bid to reclassify moose in Canada and Alaska as a distinct species--separate from
their Eurasian cousin--has ignited some scientific head-butting, with a U.S. biologist
launching his own campaign to prove the antlered beasts from both hemispheres are
one of a kind. Read more ...
University of Alaska Fairbanks landscape supervisor takes care of business all Day
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
FAIRBANKS--Learning, planning and innovating are all in a day’s work for Jennifer
Day, landscape supervisor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Read more ...
In the fight against viruses, Alaska has a new headquarters
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
FAIRBANKS--Herpes, HIV, rabies and influenza are a few of the diseases scientists
at a laboratory in Fairbanks pin down by examining tens of thousands of specimens
each year. Read more ...
Beating the bugs
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
The state of Alaska has just completed a major investment to ensure one facet of its
public health duties will be well-attended for many years to come. Officials dedicated
the new Alaska State Public Health Laboratory on Monday. Read more ...
Bering Sea flights prove viability of university’s unmanned aircraft
SITNews
Fairbanks, Alaska--Researchers can chalk up another accomplishment for the University
of Alaska’s Unmanned Aircraft Program. Read more ...
Shell gives University of Alaska Fairbanks $175,000 for arctic research
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
FAIRBANKS--Shell Alaska gave $175,000 to University of Alaska Fairbanks on Tuesday
to further arctic research programs. Read more ...
UAF researcher studying climate change in Greenland
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
FAIRBANKS-- Sebastian H. Mernild has determined the Greenland ice sheet is melting--and
sliding into the ocean--faster than it was only a decade and a half ago. Now he’s
setting off to learn how and why. Read more ...
SEARHC, UAF host free garden workshops
Capital City Weekly
SITKA - Do you want to grow some of your own food this summer, so you can have more
fresh food choices and eat healthier dinners? Then the third in a continuing series
of garden workshops is for you. Read more ...
Alaska scientists contribute to national climate change report
Redorbit
Two University of the Alaska Fairbanks researchers are among key contributors to a
new national report that details visible effects of climate change in the United States
and how today’s choices stand to affect the future. Read more ...
Massive shuffle might just be what collegiate hockey needs
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
By the start of the 2010-11 season, the Alaska Nanooks could be a member of the Western
Collegiate Hockey Association. Or they could have Alabama-Huntsville as a scheduling
clustermate in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association. Read more ...