The UAF Marine Advisory Program and Northwest Campus are presenting an International Polar Year Speaker Series in Nome, Alaska. Speakers will include: Susan Sugai, "Sea Ice Monitoring in the Bering Strait," November 27, 2007 Amber Lincoln, "Bering Strait Artifacts, European Museums, and World History," January 15, 2008 David Atkinson, "Bering Sea Storms: Not Just Leftover Typhoons," January 29, 2008 Igor Krupnik, "The Changing Arctic: IPY and Northern Residents," February TBA Terrence Cole, "Mutiny, Murder and Cannibalism: The Tragic Tale of A.W. Greely," February 29, 2008 Gay Salisbury, "Inspiration for the Iditarod: Leonhard Seppala, Nome and the 1925 Serum Run," March 1, 2008 Larry Kaplan, "Eskimo Languages of the Bering Strait and Beyond," April 15, 2008 Jean Carlo, "Arctic Voices: Contemporary Art from the Circumpolar North," April 29, 2008 For more information call 907-443-2201 or visit www.nwc.uaf.edu. |