Press registration for Alaska National Lab Day now available

April 30, 2018

Press registration is open for Alaska National Lab Day events May 29 – 31 in Fairbanks, Alaska.

The event, hosted at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, will draw representatives from the U.S. Department of Energy’s national labs, as well as scientists, industry leaders and elected officials, including Sen. Lisa Murkowski, chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.

Events on Tuesday, May 29, will include afternoon tours of UAF’s research facilities, information tables from several national labs and evening talks focused on energy in Alaska. Plenary sessions throughout the day on May 30 will highlight research activities in Alaska and in the national labs, Alaska industry’s energy requirements and collaboration between universities and national labs. The agenda on Thursday, May 31, includes six panel discussions:

• Developing locally and globally relevant energy solutions
• Fossil energy's Arctic challenges
• Natural hazards and defense/aerospace
• Energy and defense systems in the North
• Enabling and empowering the energy of Alaska's entrepreneurs
• Navigating the changing Arctic

Post-conference tours kick off Thursday afternoon. Local tours include visits to power generation and energy research facilities, Poker Flat Research Range and Chena Hot Springs, as well as a tour of the Fairbanks area to see impacts of a changing climate on permafrost, infrastructure and the ecosystem, and a visit to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ permafrost tunnel. Two out-of-town tours are also scheduled: A daylong visit to atmospheric and environmental research sites in Utqiaġvik (formerly Barrow) on June 1 and a three-day drive/fly excursion to Toolik Field Station and Prudhoe Bay June 1-3.

Press registration for regular conference activities is free. Visit http://bit.ly/labdaypress2018 for an agenda, travel and hotel information, registration and to sign up for post-conference tours. The deadline to sign up for out-of-town post-conference tours is Friday, May 11.