Seminars 2012-2013

page last updated: 11 September 2012

About

Each Friday during the academic year we have seminars where faculty and students present information of interest. It's an excellent opportunity to hear about current research and for students an introduction to the academic exchange of information with peers.

We meet in Duckering 531 from 3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Previous Years' Archives

2009 - 2010: http://ine.uaf.edu/werc/seminars-2009-2010/

2010 - 2011: http://ine.uaf.edu/werc/seminars-2010-2011/

2011 - 2012: http://ine.uaf.edu/werc/seminars-2011-2012/archive/

Submitting Seminar Info and Reservations

When you have your talk organized or would like to reserve a date please submit an image or graph that will be used at your talk, along with caption, abstract, title, and the date you'd like to give the talk using our seminar request form. Final decisions about the schedule are made by the Director.

Academic Year Schedule for 2012-2013

This is our working schedule for the seminar this semester. Please use this as a tool to plan for your presentation. Linked dates point to a synopsis and any archived materials for each seminar.

Date Presenter Title
September 14 Phil Loring Wild, Natural, Sustainable? - An ethnoecological perspective on Alaska fisheries.
September 21 Vance Holliday The Earliest Colonizers of the New World: An Abrupt Cultural and Environmental End?
September 28 Jessie Cherry and Amy Jacobs Hydroclimate Observations in Arctic Alaska: Analysis of Past Networks and Recommendations for the Future
October 5 Nicole Misarti Cause and Effect: discerning the roles of the Aleut through 4500 years of changing North Pacific ecosystems
October 12 Sam Herreid Looking out for the ice you can’t see: a simple method for estimating regional glacier melt reduction under supraglacial rock debris
October 19 Jessie Cable Boreal forest water cycling: Deciduous trees put the Eco in Ecohydrology
October 26 Joel Homan Improved Sampling Strategy for Arctic Snow Distribution
November 2 Michelle Barnes Macrodispersion of Groundwater in Discontinuous Permafrost
November 9 Henry Penn Seasons of stress: developing a comprehensive framework for planning and responding to climate change impacts
November 16 Erica Betts Linking North Slope Climate, Hydrology and Fish Migration
November 23 Thanksgiving Holiday No Seminar
November 30 Ben Gaglioti Radiocarbon Ages Offsets in Arctic Lake Sediments Describe the Vulnerability of Permafrost Carbon to Past Climate Warming
December 7 NO SEMINAR  
December 14 NO SEMINAR Finals Week
December 21 thru January 11 NO SEMINARS Winter Break
January 18 Simon Filhol Winter Evolution of the Boreal Snowpack 2011-2012 Revealed By Terrestrial LiDAR, Time-Lapse Photography and Snowpits
January 25 Sveta Yamin-Pasternak Built Environments and Subsistence in Arctic Communities: Examples from Ethnographic Research in the Bering Strait
February 1 Priyamvada Sharma Biodegradation of Crude Oil in Cold Climate Terrestrial Environments
February 8 Katey Walter Anthony Geologic vs. ecologic gas seeps in Alaska and Greenland lakes
February 15 Daqing Yang WMO Solid Precipitation Intercomparison Experiment (WMO-SPICE) and the Canadian Contribution
February 22 Edda Mutter Utilizing Pharmaceutical and Microbial Tracers to Identify Human Pollution Sources in Rural Alaska Waters
March 1 Nathan Stephan Utilizing Dye Tracers to Estimate River Discharge
March 8 Chas Jones Connecting the dots…Permafrost, upwelling, and ice thickness
March 15 NO SEMINAR Spring Break
March 22 Aaron Dotson Ceramic Membranes for Protein Recovery and Salt Rejection in Wastewater from Fish Meal Production
March 29 Erica Lamb An Assessment of Suspended Sediment Transport in Arctic Alaskan Rivers
April 5 Jessica Bay Starsman Assessing the Potential for Rhizoremediation with Native Willows for Soils Contaminated with Diesel and 1-Chlorooctadecane in an Alaskan Village
April 12 NO SEMINAR
April 19 Karla Martinez-Cruz Methane cycling in aquatic ecosystems: Alaska and Mexico as case studies