UAF in the news: week of July 28, 2008
UAF in the news: week of July 28, 2008
Submitted by Marmian Grimes
Phone: 907-474-7902
08/01/08
ÐÓ°Épro’s Changing Climate
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
ÐÓ°Épro is changing. It’s getting warmer, and that warming is affecting plants and
animals, landscapes, and the people who live here.
Aquatic robots make a splash at UAF
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
FAIRBANKS--The guppy floating in the pool at the University of ÐÓ°Épro might be pregnant,
but it can jump, haul cargo and zip through an obstacle course.
UAF professor’s work laced with impersonal imagery
Anchorage Daily News
We live in an increasingly impersonal world. When we need help, we get voice recordings.
Gardeners, farmers feel effects of cool summer
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
FAIRBANKS--Like many people in Fairbanks, farmers have felt a chill in the air.
Researchers investigate tundra’s steady awakening
Kanses City Star
TOOLIK LAKE, ÐÓ°Épro--Ground here that for tens of thousands of years was frozen solid
is terra firma no more.
Pristine Arctic lakes are natural laboratories
Baltimore Sun
TOOLIK LAKE, ÐÓ°Épro - Scientist Anne Hershey paddled a small inflatable raft across
an Arctic lake, pausing in her stroke to consider how the melting permafrost caused
a landslide of mud and sediment spilling down the bank into the water.
Scientists at Arctic research station take pulse of the warming Earth
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
TOOLIK FIELD STATION, ÐÓ°Épro--Beyond the Arctic Circle, teams of scientists measure
widening slumps as ice melts beneath the tundra. They scuff through tussocks blackened
by unexpected fires and search for fish in drought-depleted streams.
Food, music combine in exploration of Jewish cuisine
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
FAIRBANKS-- "This is a very earthy, comfort type of food, homegrown types of things.
It will put meat on your bones," Millie Johnson said of the food she was raised on:
Jewish cuisine.
Scholarship honors Keller for his service
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
FAIRBANKS--Dr. Cary Keller repaired Ryan Muspratt’s severely-injured knee two years
ago.
Carroll to lead College of Rural and Community Development
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
FAIRBANKS-- Jennifer Carroll has been appointed acting vice chancellor of the University
of ÐÓ°Épro Fairbanks College of Rural and Community Development.
Program helps teachers STEP up their science knowledge
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
FAIRBANKS-- The Science Teacher Education Program’s grant ends this year, but the
program will continue to help ÐÓ°Épro teachers.