ALL RAP:
Wednesday, April 24
3:30 – 5:00 pm

Wednesday, April 3
1:00 -2:00 pm
Vera Alexander Learning Center (201 O'Neill)
SFOS Fairbanks Fisheries Division Seminar
Fisheries privatization, social transitions & wellbeing in Kodiak
Courtney Carothers and Jesse Coleman, SFOS, UAF

3:30 – 4:30 pm
Vera Alexander Learning Center (201 O'Neill)
Institute of Marine Science Seminar
Toward a contemporary baseline for zooplankton communities in the American
Beaufort Sea
Caitlin Smoot, M.S. student;

Zombie crabs: Distribution, prevalence, temperature controls, and physiology
Leah Sloan, Ph.D. student; and

Using stable isotope analysis to explore the foraging ecology of Kodiak
humpback whales (Megaptera  novaeangliae)
Dana Wright, M.S. student

5:30 -6:30 pm
Schaible Auditorium, Bunnell Building
UAF Research showcase sponsored by the Office of Undergraduate Research
and Scholarly Activity
Encounters in avalanche country, 1880–1910
Diana DiStefano, History Department, UAF

Thursday, April 4
1:00 – 2:00 pm
Schaible Auditorium, Bunnell building
The Revolution will not take place online:  Faculty, the corporate
university and online learning
Bill Lynne, Professor Western Washington State University

1–2 p.m. – 104 Chapman Building
Department of Mathematics and Statistics Colloquium
Irregular samplings in Paley-Wiener and Hardy spaces
Tuan Vu, University of West Virginia

1:30-2:30 pm
501 Akasofu Building (IARC)
International Arctic Research Center Seminar
Discussion: Information learned from the NSF Arctic Science Program review
processes
Facilitated by Xiangdong Zhang and Jennifer Hutchings, IARC, UAF

Friday, April 5
2:30 -3:30 pm
Elvey Auditorium, 214 Elvey Building (GI)
Life Sciences Seminar Series, sponsored by the Institute of Arctic Biology
and the Department of Biology & Wildlife
Resilience anyone? A constructive critique and discussion for real
progress in sustainability and Alaska
Falk Huettmann, Institute of Arctic Biology and  Department of Biology &
Wildlife, UAF

3:30 -4:30 pm
201 Reichardt Building
Department of Geology and Geophysics Seminar
>From initiation to termination—the critical role of magma in rift evolution
Tyrone Rooney, Michigan State University, GeoPRISMS Distinguished Lecturer

3:30 -5:00 pm
214 O'Neill Building
By VCON from Juneau
SFOS Fisheries Division, Juneau Center Seminar
Color plasticity in sculpins: an adaptive strategy in variable habitats?
Carolyn Bergstrom, University of Alaska Southeast

3:30 -5:00 pm
531 Duckering Building
Water and Environmental Research Center Seminar
Title & speaker TBA

5:00 – 7:00 pm
204 Akasofu Building (IARC)
First Friday art show sponsored by the Geophysical  Institute and
International Arctic Research Center
Views of the Boreal Forest
Featuring unique perspectives of northern forests  through the eyes of
local artists.
The event is free and open to the public

Coming soon
Saturday, April 13
Science Potpourri
Families and science fans will trek to the Reichardt Building on the UAF
campus for Science Potpourri, a free annual event where science displays
and experiments thrive around every corner.
>From noon to 3 p.m.  on Saturday, April 13, kids of all ages can create
floods and earthquakes or watch lava flow and volcanoes erupt.   Events
include physics and chemistry demonstrations, slicing rocks, making slime
and lots of hands-on activities. Parking is available behind the building.
 Hosted by the College of Natural Science and Mathematics.

Thursday, April 25th
The Northern Leadership Center is bringing Dr. Alice Eagly, Ph.D to
Fairbanks to give the next lecture for the Susan Herman Distinguished
Speaker Series; Dr. Eagly will also be facilitating a full-day workshop.

REGISTRATION for LECTURE and WORKSHOP
http://www.uafleadership.com/

Evening Lecture: “Women as Leaders: Progress Through the Labyrinth”
Thursday, April 25th
6:30pm to 7:30pm
REGISTER FOR LECTURE

Workshop: “Taking a Fine Balance: The Female Leadership Experience”
Friday, April 26th
8:30am to 3:30pm

RESEARCH OPPORTUNITY
Noatak National Preserve Research Opportunity: Sport Hunter Survey

I am seeking a graduate student interested in assisting with a survey of
sport hunters who have hunted in the Noatak National Preserve (NOAT).
This survey is part of a larger project to examine issues regarding
conflict between nonlocal sport hunters and local subsistence hunters in
the NOAT area.  A mail survey will be administered to sport hunters who
hunted in NOAT during the years 2010 – 2012 and an onsite survey at the
Kotzebue airport will be administered to those hunting in fall 2013.  The
onsite survey will take place from August 15 to September 30.  Depending
on the student’s qualifications, availability and interest, the terms of
the position could range from assisting only with the data collection to a
Graduate Research Assistantship for fall 2013 and spring 2014.

For additional information contact Peter Fix; pjfix@alaska.edu; (907)
474-6926; 323 O’Neill.

ABSTRACTS/MEETINGS/WORKSHOPS/
Applications for the third Conference for Sustainability IGERTs are due
April 15.  The conference will be held September 26-29 in Portland Oregon.
   https://sites.google.com/a/pdx.edu/c4si3/home/about

Call for Applications for the upcoming third national Conference for
Sustainability IGERTs (C4SI3) on September 26-29th, 2013. This graduate
student led conference is hosted by PSU's Ecosystem Services for
Urbanizing Regions IGERT at Portland State University, Portland, Oregon.
IGERT students (and recent IGERT alumni) studying topics related to social
and environmental sustainability are invited to attend (see website for
application details).

C4SI3 targets doctoral students in IGERT programs studying topics related
to the sustainability in social-ecological systems. Conference attendees
will engage the interdisciplinary challenges, obstacles, and benefits of
sustainability research, as well as the utility of the Ecosystem Services
framework as a cross-disciplinary language. This conference will also
explore the specific advantages and challenges of being an IGERT graduate
student and conducting interdisciplinary sustainability research.

The C4SI3 agenda will be focused on group work including interactions
between students and faculty for the development of research
collaborations and publications.  More specifically, the agenda will
consist of self-organized working groups, plenary sessions, poster
sessions, panels with IGERT students, faculty and alumni, and optional
field trips. Working groups will be generated from student application
statements and focus on collaborative learning and applied sustainability
and ecosystem service research.
COURSES
The 2nd Annual IPSA-NUS Summer School for Social Science Research Methods
will be held at the National University of Singapore, July 8-19, 2013.
This year's Summer School offers eleven courses in quantitative,
qualitative, and formal methods. All courses are taught by highly
experienced international faculty and provide participants with rigorous
training in state-of-the-art research methods.

For more information on the various Summer School courses, financial aid,
early registration, discounts, and more, please visit our website
http://methods-school.nus.edu.sg/  or contact us at
methods-school@nus.edu.sg.

Arctic Vegetation Ecology Northern Alaska Field Excursion.  BIOL 495/695
June 6-23, 2013.  For additional information, please go to
http://www.geobotany.uaf.edu/teaching/biol495/

OTHER
Please send suggestions, announcements, etc. to Mary van Muelken,
fyabnp@uaf.edu