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091412 | Breaking Ice for Arctic Oil

Ross Coen, Author

What the test run of an ice-breaking tanker in the Northwest Passage tells about the impracticality of moving crude oil by icebreaking ships. The 1968 voyage of the Manhattan provides an important historical reference point for marine traffic and resource development in the Arctic.

092112 | Monitoring the Mendenhall Outburst Flood

Eran Hood, Assoc. Professor of Environmental Science, and Jason Amundson, Asst. Professor of Geophysics

Outburst floods from glacier damned lakes are a common occurrence in high mountain regions. A presentation on the origins of the Suicide Basin outburst flood on the Mendenhall Glacier, results from flood monitoring efforts on the glacier in the summer of 2012, and future work aimed at better understanding this local natural hazard.

100512 | Big Arts in a Small Town

Juneau Symphony Music Director Kyle Pickett, Perseverance Theatre Artistic Director Art Rotch, Juneau Jazz and Classics Founder Linda Rosenthal

Art, Kyle and Linda will talk about the audacity of creating large-scale productions in a small community and why it is important. They will also talk about the state of arts in today’s economic and cultural climate and take questions from the audience.

101212 | Collaborative Research in Southeast Alaska

Dr. Allison Bidlack, Director, Alaska Coastal Rainforest Center

ACRC is a relatively new institute within UAS that develops and delivers educational opportunities, facilitates and convenes research, and promotes learning for the community about temperate rainforests. ACRC partners with multiple state, federal, Native and non-governmental entities to achieve this goal. Allison Bidlack will give an introduction to the Center, and facilitate a series of short presentations highlighting several examples of collaborative rainforest research in Southeast Alaska.

101912 | What can the shifty fishes of Auke Creek tell us about adaptation to warming streams in Southeast Alaska?

David Tallmon, Associate Professor of Biology

Physical conditions in Auke Creek and many streams throughout Southeast Alaska are changing.  In collaboration with scientists from NOAA, UAS, UAF, and his students, Marine Biology faculty David Tallmon studies how sculpin and salmon in Auke Creek, Alaska, are adjusting and adapting to a changing environment.  These changes will be described and discussed in light of projected future changes of stream conditions in Southeast Alaska.

October 26 | UAS in Cuba: A Semester-long search for Che, Hemingway, el Papa’, and the Authentic Tourist

UAS Students and Kevin Maier, Assistant Professor of English, Facilitator

Last spring a dozen UAS students travelled to Cuba with four faculty members to hone their Spanish language skills, study the country’s rich cultural history, witness the impact of tourism on the island’s life ways, and contemplate the legacy of the famous American author, Ernest Hemingway, who spent a third of his life living near Havana. Students will share vignettes and photographs from the unique semester-long experience.

110212 | What shall we do with our histories?

Ernestine Hayes, Assistant Professor of English

This address, delivered by Hayes at venues such as the 2012 Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment Conference and the International Polar Year gathering presents the recent history of Lingit Aani and examines its relevance to current circumstances from a perspective unfamiliar to commonly held beliefs.

110912 | Human-Caribou Relations from a First Nation’s Perspective

Randall Tetlichi, Vuntut Gwitch’in First Nation Elder in Residence

Yukon College faculty member Randall Tetlichi is an esteemed teacher, community healer, and tradition bearer, featured in the 2012 UAS One Campus One Book selection, Being Caribou, by Karsten Heuer. Randall will talk about how each of us can make a difference by paying attention. Instead of just co-existing, he suggests, it is now time for all nations to exist with and depend on each other.

111612| Being Caribou: Five Months on Foot with an Arctic Herd

Karsten Heuer, Author

In April 2003 wildlife biologist Karsten Heuer and his filmmaker wife, Leanne Allison, set off on a trek of epic proportions. For five months they skied and walked alongside the 123,000-member Porcupine Caribou Herd from their Yukon winter range to Alaskan calving grounds and back. The couple’s mission? To give the caribou a voice in the decades-old debate on whether or not to develop their 27,000-year-old calving grounds for oil. Being Caribou is the 2012 One Campus One Book selection.