UAF researchers to share ways to boost women in science

December 8, 2017

University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute researchers will talk about their efforts to involve girls in science during a panel on gender equity Wednesday at the 2017 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in New Orleans.

Laura Conner, a research assistant professor, and Joanna Young, a doctoral student, lead programs at UAF that give girls and young women hands-on field and lab experience. Their programs reveal the normally invisible aspects of field science and use biology and art to open up new areas of interest.

The panel will be streamed live for media Wednesday, Dec. 13, at 6 a.m. Alaska Standard Time, 9 a.m. CST.

NOTE TO EDITORS: Alaska journalists and those not at the meeting can participate in the press briefing virtually at the AGU press events webpage: http://live.projectionnet.com/AGUPress/FM2017.aspx. Reporters can visit this site throughout the meeting to watch press events in real time and ask questions via an online chat. For more information and instructions, click on the “Webstreaming” button in the meeting's media center website at https://fallmeeting.agu.org/2017/media-center/.

If, for some reason, the streaming does not work, the AGU press team will immediately switch to making the briefing available via teleconference. To call into the teleconference, dial 877-709- 0939. The participant passcode is 192-424-7921. The teleconference will only be available if streaming goes down.

ADDITIONAL CONTACTS: Laura Conner, UAF Geophysical Institute, ldconner@alaska.edu; Joanna Young, UAF Geophysical Institute, jcyoung6@alaska.edu