Arctic Visiting Speakers Series | 2001 Visiting Speaker Tours
Orville Huntington and Richard Glenn visit schools in the Port Aransas School District, Texas.
Listed below are completed tours from the year 2001. The most recently completed are at the top.
If you have any questions regarding these tours, please contact avs@arcus.org.
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| Dates: November 27 - December 1, 2001 | |||||||
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Visiting Speakers: David Robinson, Chairman, Department of Geography, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey drobins@rci.rutgers.edu Title: Northern Hemisphere Snow Cover over the Past Century This was a seminar at the IARC. Developing a blended snow cover database This was presented to general public at Geophysical Institute. Know your data: Gathering climatic information of the highest quality Presentation to faculty and students at the Water and Environmental Research Center. Other Activities: He was interviewed by the University press. |
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| Dates: November 13 - 15, 2001 | |||||||
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Visiting Speakers: Patricia Cochran Executive Director, Alaska Native Science Commission, Anchorage, Alaska pcochran@aknsc.org http://www.nativescience.org Title: Contaminants in the Arctic – Native Knowledge and Perspectives This was a lecture held at the Geochemical and Environmental Research Group. About 32 graduate students, scientists, and staff attended. Traditional knowledge in science and policy This was presented to general public. Other Activities: 1. Meeting w/ Native American students (students) 2. Anthropology class (undergraduates) 3. Advisory Council meeting for Sustainable Coastal Margins (faculty, research scientists, and graduate students) 4. Bush School Seminar (graduate students) 5. Neal Elementary School (1st –5th graders and teachers) 6. Cypress Grove Middle School (6th graders and teachers) 7. Geography Department Seminar (graduates, faculty and scientists) |
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| Dates: November 1 - 4, 2001 | |||||||
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Visiting Speakers: Arlene Glenn; Liaison Officer, North Slope Borough, Barrow, Alaska Title: Culture and Language projects from NSB This presentation was given at the Memory and History of the North conference and in a working group. Other Activities: She also met with and discussed her work at GÉTIC, Anthropology, Sociology, and Political Science Departments, and Faculté de théologie et de sciences religieuses of Université Laval and the Multilingual E-Data Solutions. She met with graduate students and staff. |
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| Dates: October 25, 2001 | |||||||
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Visiting Speakers: Steve Forman; Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois slf@uic.edu Title: Key note speaker at school district (K-12) inservice. His presentation was on Arctic research and progression of environmental and climate change. Notes: This inservice was for teachers that were preparing to participate in the national education program called, “Jason Project.” This year’s focus in the Jason Project was the Arctic. Steve was invited to provide background to the teachers so they could launch this project in their classrooms. |
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| Dates: October 15 - 18, 2001 | |||||||
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Visiting Speakers: Ekaterina Belooussova; Researcher, Moscow, Russia Title: The Image of a Spiritual Midwife in Contemporary Russian Urban Folklore This presentation was given at the American Folklore Society Conference. Medieval Russian This presentation was at the UAA geography department to undergraduates. Homebirth and Woman’s Issues in Russia This presentation was at the UAA Languages and Woman Studies Departments to graduates. |
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| Dates: October 15 - 18, 2001 | |||||||
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Visiting Speakers: Noel Broadbent University of Umea, Department of Archeology and Saami Studies - Umea, Sweden nbroadb@pipeline.com Title: The Archeology of Historic Exploration in the Arctic and Antarctic This presentation was given at the American Folklore Society conference. Research Ethics This presentation was at the conference. Other Activities: Participated in a radio interview and high school lecture on Arctic Archeology in Talkeetna, Alaska |
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| Dates: June 18 - June 25, 2001 | |||||||
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Visiting Speakers: Ron Macnab Geological Survey of Canada, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth NS, Canada ron.macnab@ns.sympatico.ca Title: The Arctic Ocean, Article 76, and Alaskan Resources: The Significance of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), and its Anticipated Effect on Resource Jurisdiction North of Alaska This presentation was held for Minerals Management Service staff, Industry (BP/Phillips), and general public. Enlarging Seward's Icebox: How Changes in Climate and International Law Could Offer Alaskans a Greater Share of the Arctic Ocean's Resources This presentation was held at the Loussac Public Library as a general public slideshow and presentation. Notes: Dr. Macnab’s trip to Alaska was a joint application with U.S. Minerals Management Service. He shared presentations with Dr. Garrik Grikurov and focused on international laws and the Arctic Ocean. |
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| Dates: May 28 - July 15, 2001 | |||||||
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Visiting Speakers: Garrik Grikurov Deputy Director, All-Russia Research Institute for Geology and Mineral Resources of the World Ocean "VNIIOkeangeologia", St. Petersburg, Russia grikurov@mail.lanck.net Title: Preliminary results of the Russian earth science research conducted in the 2000 in the high Arctic This presentation was held at the University in Fairbanks for graduate students and professors. Tectonic Structure and Evolution of Sedimentary Basins on the Continental Margin of Northern Eurasia This presentation was held for Minerals Management Service staff, Industry (BP/Phillips), and general public, in Anchorage. The Work of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the Arctic and Antarctic This presentation was held at the Loussac Public Library, in Anchorage, as a general public slideshow and presentation. Notes: Dr. Grikurov's trip to Alaska was a joint application between U.S. Minerals Management Service and University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute. He shared presentations with Dr. Ron Macnab. His presentations were geological in nature. |
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| Dates: May 15 - May 23, 2001 | |||||||
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Visiting Speakers: Richard and Nora Dauenhauer; Consultants and Free Lance Writers, Juneau, Alaska Title: Endangered languages in the North: technical and emotional issues in reversing language shift This presentation was given at the IASSA conference. Endangered languages in the North This presentation was given to staff and students in the sociolinguistics department and Laval University. |
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| Dates: January 29 - February 3, 2001 | |||||||
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Visiting Speakers: Richard Glenn; rglenn@co.north-slope.ak.us North Slope Borough - Barrow, Alaska http://www.co.north-slope.ak.us/ U.S. Arctic Research Commission http://www.arctic.gov/ Orville Huntington; Orville_Huntington@fws.gov U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Huslia, Alaska http://www.fws.gov/" Title: Ways of Knowing Science: An Alaska Native Perspective Notes: These two experts on the effects of environmental change on arctic subsistence lifestyles contributed their perspectives to this cooperative K-12 science education program. The speakers gave classroom presentations at elementary, middle, and high schools in the Port Aransas School District. Topics of discussion were based on themes from the Study of Arctic Change program selected by teachers at the different grade levels. |
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| Dates: January 22 - January 25, 2001 | |||||||
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Visiting Speaker: Wieslaw Maslowski, Research Assistant Professor, Naval Postgraduate School maslowsk@ucar.edu |
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