Arctic Greening Linked to Retreating Sea IceFairbanks, Alaska—An interdisciplinary group of scientists led by Donald “Skip” Walker of the Institute of Arctic Biology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks has strongly linked sea ice changes to changes in Arctic land-surface temperatures and increased tundra greenness. more... UA Young Researchers’ Network Sponsors IPY Photo and Video Contest Fairbanks, Alaska—The UA International Polar Year Young Researchers’ Network is sponsoring a photo and video contest to encourage photographers and videographers to document today’s Alaska. more... Ninth International Conference on Permafrost to attract 800 scientists and researchers More than 800 scientists and researchers will convene on the UAF campus next week for the Ninth International Conference on Permafrost to be held June 29 through July 3, 2008. more... Freshwater runoff from the Greenland Ice Sheet will more than double by the end of the centuryThe Greenland Ice Sheet is melting faster than previously calculated according to a scientific paper by University of Alaska Fairbanks researcher Sebastian H. Mernild published recently in the journal “Hydrological Processes.” more... Local students participate in IPY pole-to-pole videoconferenceChildren near both poles will have a chance to talk to each other and scientists about changes they are seeing in their own environments and how people are adapting to those changes during an International Polar Year pole-to-pole videoconference Tuesday, April 8, at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. more...
UAF professor creates musical composition for International Polar Year What started as a quick idea to spice-up an International Polar Year event has resulted in a full-length musical composition in celebration of polar science and the uniqueness of the north. more...
UAF hosts Inuit tribal funk bandThe UA International Polar Year office will host a concert by tribal-funk band Pamyua on Friday February 1, at 7 p.m. more
UA launches IPY educator resource guideThis week the UA International Polar Year outreach office launched its K-12 educator resource guide, which aims to help teachers integrate IPY into their lessons. The guide was mailed to every school in the state. more... U.S. Postal Service to Issue 41-Cent Commemorative IPY Stamps. On October 1, 2007 at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum in Washington, D.C., the U.S. Postal Service will mark National Stamp Collecting Month by issuing 41-cent commemorative IPY stamps in two designs. more... UA researchers featured in New York Times articleUAF researchers were featured in an October 2 article in the New York Times titled "Arctic Melt Unnerves the Experts." more... New York Times environment reporter and author to lecture at UAF
Andrew Revkin, author of an award-winning family book about climate change, will kick off this year's University of Alaska International Polar Year visiting author series with a lecture on Sept. 20, at 7 p.m. in the Charles W. Davis Concert Hall on the UAF campus. more... Arctic AAAS conference to focus on IPY More than 200 scientists are expected to attend the 58th annual American Association for the Advancement of Science Arctic Division conference in Anchorage, Alaska Sept. 24-26 2007. more... UAF IPY researcher featured on National Public RadioIn August, UAF researcher Katey Walter brought a National Public Radio crew to Alaska's North Slope, hoping to show them examples of what happens when methane is released when permafrost thaws beneath lakes. more... |
