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ANSEP Meetings from earlier semesters at UAF

FALL 2010 SCHEDULE
DATE	Speaker	Topic
9/7/2010	Tom Clausen Robin Weinant Brian Rasley	Information about ANSEP for coming year. Introduction of Tom Clausen, Robin Weinant, Brian Rasley, Olga Skinner, Bill Schnabel and Mandy Roberston Signing of ANSEP Contracts
9/14/2010	Mandy Roberson Brian Rasley	Study group organization by Mandy Good study practices by Brian Rasley
9/21/2010	Ty Keller US Navy	Career opportunities and Academic support with the Navy will be discussed.
9/28/2010	Career Services Michael Golub (migolub@alaska.edu)	Discussion of how to write a good resume/ cover letter.... It is important that you have your current resume in good order and on file with career services Michel Golub from the mechanical engineering department has been active with designing an electric snowmachine. See www.alaska.edu/uaf/cem/me/news/zero_emission_snowmachine.xml. He will make a brief announcement and will give a more formal presentation on Oct 26th. We will also be visited by a Dr. Vantipa Roadrangler who is a Professor of Education From Thailand. She is interested in inovative ways to teach science in K-12 schools. She may be particularly interested in chatting with students who went through the ANSEP Precollege and Bridging programs.
10/5/2010	Sigourney Weaver Sue McCullough Early College Coordinator Interior Aleutions Campus	Sigourney is an ANSEP student and will talk about her experiences in El Salvador last academic year. Sue McCullough is seeking ANSEP students to help students at Effie Kokrin Charter School do a Lego project that is part of a program to prepare students for University studies.
10/12/2010	Dr. Sue Hills sue.hills@alaska.edu	Sue Hills has been very active in the past in helping ANSEP students obtain internships (such as summer research in UAF Laboratories) through INBRE (IDeA Network for Biomedical Research).
10/19/2010	Professor Kelly Drew Chemistry/Biochemistry/IAB kdrew@alaska.edu	Kelly has mentored a number of ANSEP students and has been a regular attendee at our meetings. Kelly will be talking informally about her hibernating ground squirrel research and hopes to bring one to the meeting to get the conversation going. It should be fun!
10/26/2010	Dr. Michael Golub migolub@alaska.edu Shiva Hullavarad (Advanced Materials Group with INE) 455-2017 shiva.h@alaska.edu	Dr. Golub is with UAF's mechanical engineering program and will give a talk on his electric snowmobile project. For a cool preview, see: http://www.alaska.edu/uaf/cem/me/news/zero_emission_snowmachine.xml Dr. Shiva is interested in recruiting 2-3 ANSEP students to work on research projects in UAF's Acdvanced Materials department. Projects can be pursued either over the academic year or as summer internships.
11/2/2010		We plan to do a group photo shoot for an ANSEP Christmas card to be sent to our alumni, partners, and other friends of ANSEP
11/9/2010	Professor Hajo Eicken Geophysical Institute	The Arctic Ocean's ice cover has undergone big changes over the past three decades, with record low summer ice extent recorded in the past few years. The largest changes in ice extent and thickness anywhere in the Arctic have been observed in Alaska's Arctic seas. The presentation will discuss what this means for different uses of the ice cover in coastal Alaska, for example as a platform for hunting and travel or industry operations. A brief introduction to the Barrow coastal ice observatory (seaice.alaska.edu/gi) will highlight potential opportunities for students to get involved in this research
11/16/2010	No formal presentations will be made this meeting.	.ANSEP social event. One of our activities will be to sign holiday ANSEP cards to send to our sponsors and other friends over the Christmas break.
11/23/2010		There will be no meeting scheduled this week to allow students to better prepare for the Thanksgiving weekend- Enjoy!
11/30/2010	Robin Thompson Alyeska Pipeline Co robin.thompson@alyeska-pipeline.com	Alyeska is a strong supporter of ANSEP and is interested in hiring a number of interns for the coming summer. The drop dead deadline to apply is February 15th. Robin Thompson would like to schedule to meet with interested students before our 1-2 meeting. To download the application, go to www.alyeska-pipeline.com and follow the links. You will need an official transcript that is current (including fall 2010 grades) and that can be requested prior the the end of the semester.
2/7/2010		End of semester potluck. This will be our last meeting of the semester.

SPRING 2011 SCHEDULE
Date	Speaker	Topic
1/25/2011		New Contracts Discuss Anchorage Banquet (in 3 days) Study group organization
2/1/2011	Hank Statsecwich Institute of Marine Science	Center for Island, Maritime, and Extreme Environment Security (CIMES) discussion
2/8/2011	Aaron Marten US Fish & Wildlife Subsistance Fisheries Branch 456-0418 Aaron_E_Martin@FWS.gov	US Fish & Wildlife is interested in hiring up to 3 summer interns to work on various stretches of the Yukon River. Deadlines to apply will be shortly after his talk.
2/15/2011	Mike Williams	Mr Williams will be recruiting for summer interns (with ANSEP stipends) to study Northern Fur Seals in the Priblof islands.
2/22/2011	Bill Schnabel weschnabel@alaska.edu 474-7789	Bill Schnabel is the director of the Water & Environmental Research Center at UAF and is also heading the graduate student component of ANSEP at UAF. He and ANSEP graduate students will talk about graduate school opportunities. The discussion will continue during our meeting on March 8th.
3/1/2011	Mindy Krzykowski	Mindy is an ANSEP student and will be giving a presentation on her summer internship with NASA last year. For more info see http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/09/photogalleries/100908-racetrack-rock-mystery-moving-pictures/ Representatives from NASA will also be in attendance
3/8/2011	Bill Schnabel	This will be a continuation of our Feb 22nd meeting
3/15/2011		No meeting is scheduled: Spring Break
3/22/2011	Keith Cox (NOAA)	Keith will be descibing a position that he will be interviewing students for on the next day (Wed March 23)
3/29/2011	Kristen Dullen	Kristen is an ANSEP student and will be talking about her research in Kristin O'Brien's lab.
4/5/2011	Dawn Holt Nathon Blackburn	Dawn and Nathon are ANSEP students and will talk about their experiences of getting into professional schools such as dentistry and pharmacy.
4/12/2011	Mark Hamilton (former UA President) from the "Make Alaska Competitive" coalition.	Mark Hamilton will be speaking on the looming problems of the State loosing revenue from declining oil production and our need to be proactive in this matter. We may also be visited by Cynthia Henry who is a UA Board of Regent. We should thank Ruth Osborne for being willing to move her scheduled talk to make this presentation possible.
4/19/2011	British Petroleum (BP)	Representatives from BP will speak about upcoming internship opportunities.
4/26/2011	Courtney Carothers School of Fisheries & Ocean Sciences clcarothers@alaska.edu	Dr. Carothers will present some of her research and discuss undergraduate and graduate opportunities for students in UAF's Fisheries Program.
5/3/2011	Potluck or field trip to UAF's Water Treatment and Power Plants.	We will have a vote to decide which event will be done