Jason Mercer - Prime Minister - fsjjm2@uaf.edu

Widely acknowledged as the most recent RMS Prime Minister, Mercer is the '05-'06 recipient of the Forestry Student of the Year. His interests include politics, padding his resume, and being cool. One super-cool, political, resume-padding thing he did recently was the organizing of a gubernatorial panel covering resource management issues. Currently he is conducting research for his Senior Thesis on some forestry related thingy.

Nina Schwinghammer - Minister of Communications - fsnds@uaf.edu

Nina plays violin (or fiddle, depending on how you look at it). And she writes for the Sun Star. And she's on the ASUAF Senate.

Zachary Baer - Minister of Finance - fszlb1@uaf.edu

This 23-year old senior senior is graduating in December, which can't come soon enough. Like Mercer, he also enjoys padding his resume, recently recieving Resource Management Student of the Year and the Fairbanks Garden Club Conservation Award. After finishing up his research on the invasiveness of Vicia cracca and graduating, he will telemark, mountaineer, and rock and ice climb to his heart's content, until he has to go to grad school.

Scott Hillard - Minister of Fundraising - fssch2@uaf.edu

Scott plays bass. "At any given time a bass player is probably up to no good." - Christopher Moore

David Spencer - Concerned Party - fsdls10@uaf.edu

He's from Arkansas, and wears an orange sailor's hat. He's like somekind of post modern Gilligan.

Dr. David Valentine - Advisor - ffdwv@uaf.edu

Dr. Valentine's broad research interest is in ecosystem ecology, biogeochemistry, and element cycling in northern ecosystems. His past research focused on the role of soils in forests, grasslands, and wetlands in generating or consuming trace gasses, especially methane, that control Earth's climate. His recent research has focused on the effects of wildfire on soil respiration and carbon balance. He teaches courses in soils, nutrient cycling, and integrating the major foundations of natural resource management: natural sciences, economics, values/ethics, and policy.

Dr. Peter Fix - Advisor - ffpjf@uaf.edu

(The infamous and rarely photographed) Dr. Fix has focused his research interests to include subjects that relate to the human dimensions of natural resource management, motivations for recreation participation, recreation planning frameworks, recreation research methods, natural resource based tourism, recreation economics, and non-market valuation.