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Arctic Visiting Speakers Series | 2002 Visiting Speaker Tours

Listed below are completed tours from the year 2002. The most recently completed are at the top.

If you have any questions regarding these tours, please contact Tina Buxbaum.

Image: A Barrow High School Student holds a Steller's Eider, captured during a band drive in 2002 at Izembek National Wildlife Refuge, Cold Bay, Alaska.

A Barrow High School Student holds a Steller's Eider,
captured during a band drive in 2002 at Izembek
National Wildlife Refuge, Cold Bay, Alaska.

Arctic Visiting Speakers' Tours 2002
Dates: October 14 - November 6, 2002
Host: John Trent: John_Trent@fishgame.state.ak.us Jim Dau: jim_dau@fishgame.state.ak.us Kate Persons: kpersons@fishgame.state.ak.us Pat Valkenburg: pvalkenburg@fishgame.state.ak.us Host institution: Alaska Department of Fish and Game Fairbanks and Kotzebue, Alaska http://www.state.ak.us/adfg/adfghome.htm				Visiting Speaker: Leonid Baskin, Chief Scientist, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia baskin@orc.ru Title: He covered the following topic, “How you can manage reindeer (Indigenous people science of herding)” with a variety of audiences. General audience: “Herding reindeer: principles and methods used indigenous peoples in Russian North: managing single animal, small and large groups, leaders of reindeer groups and managing their behavior, reindeer dogs as helpers”. Scientific audience (students, teachers, scientists): “Behavioral principles of reindeer herding: managing motivation and stimuli of behavior, causes and routes of migrations, basic methods of fattening”. Ethnographer (students, teachers, scientists) audience: “Herding systems of reindeer indigenous people in Russian North: types of reindeer herding, specificities of management”. Herders and manager’s audience: “Development of reindeer managing from hunters to herders: routine life of herders through seasons, regulation of sex and age composition of herds, private and state ownership, status of domestic and wild reindeer populations”.
Dates: September 13 - September 16, 2002
Host: Philip Martin: Philip_Martin@fws.gov Host institution: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Ecological Services, Fairbanks, Alaska				Visiting Speaker: Peter McRoy, Professor, Institute of Marine Science, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska ffcpm@uaf.edu Presentations: Dr. McRoy traveled to Cold Bay, Alaska with 5 Barrow High School students, a science teacher, and a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist. The trip was part of a ecological field trip to Izembek National Wildlife Refuge to address eelgrass bed ecology. At Izembek Lagoon, Dr. McRoy worked with the students and showed them the eelgrass beds. Students learned how to collect eelgrass samples and process them. A follow up visit by a FWS biologist and Dr. McRoy is currently being planned for a post-journey lesson. This would include Dr. McRoy working with the students to finish up the eelgrass processing. Also the data would be analyzed and the results discussed.
Dates: July 11 - July 13, 2002
Host: Karen Clarkson: mwilliamsclarkson@apexmail.com Host institution: Northwest Aquatic and Marine Educators (NAME) 2002 Regional Conference, Juneau, Alaska				Visiting Speaker: Henry Huntington, President, Huntington Consulting, Eagle River, Alaska hph@alaska.net Title: Keynote speaker at the NAME - 2002 Regional Conference regarding the convergence of science and folklore to explain the Arctic climate and environmental changes.
Dates: May 13 - June 18, 2002
Hosts: Claudia Fyodorova Host institution: Department of Foreign Languages, Yakutsk State University Sakha Republic, Russia http://www.ceebd.co.uk/ceeed/un/ru/ru064010.htm				Visiting Speaker: Kathleen Osgood-Dana; Senior Fellow, Center for Northern Studies Wolcott, Vermont http://www.sterlingcollege.edu/CNS/, Title: "On some problems in recent arctic and Antarctic research" Other Activities: Literatura Borealis: How Far South is North? The Cultural Lens: Bogoras and the Raven. Giela ja gova: Nils-Aslak Valkeapää Authority and Gaze: Who's Writing? Who's Reading? Who's Telling the Stories? Other Activities: Assist in planning for Anthology of Northern Literature for University of the Arctic.
Dates: May 28 - June 8, 2002
Host: Ole Marquardt: om.unigreen@greennet.gl Host institution: International PhD School for Studies of Arctic Societies, University of Greenland, Nuuk, Greenland				Visiting Speaker: Lawrence Kaplan Director, Alaska Native Languages Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska ffldk@uaf.edu http://www.uaf.edu/anlc/ Title: Co-referent for panel discussion on Politics and Ethics of Research in the Arctic at theInternational PhD School for Studies of Arctic Societies (IPSSAS) 2002 Seminar Lecture at IPSSAS on Lexical evolution and relationships among Eskimo-Aleut languages
Dates: May 18 - June 2, 2002
Host: William Harbert: harbert@pitt.edu Host institution: Department of Geology and Planetary Sciences, University of Pittsburgh http://www.pitt.edu/~Eharbert/ Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania				Visiting Speaker: Dmitriy Alexeiev; Researcher, L.P. Zonenshain Laboratory of Paleogeodynamics, Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia Title: Possible Cenozoic fossil localities of interest, northeastern Russia—Lunch Seminar, Carneige Museum of Natural History Tectonics of Kamchatka--Geology and Planetary Science, University of Pittsburg staff Working in the 'Stans', a geologist's 20 year perspective --Center for International Studies at the University of Pittsburgh Structural evolution of the Kamchatka - Aleutian arc junction area in the Late Mesozoic and Tertiary - presentation at the American Geophysical Union conference in Washington, D.C. Other Activities: Planning and general meetings with Geology and Planetary Science, University of Pittsburgh staff
Dates: April 1 - 2, 2002
Host: Daniel Odess: ffdpo@uaf.edu Host institution: University of Alaska Fairbanks, Department of Archeology Fairbanks, Alaska http://www.uaf.edu/museum/collections/archaeo/				Visiting Speakers: Vera Kingeekuk-Metcalf; Bering Strait Foundation, Nome, Alaska vera@beringstraits.com Title: Bridging the Gap – Documenting History and Culture Across the Bering Strait. This presentation was held for the general public at the University of Alaska Museum. Notes: Her presentation was shared with Dr. Igor Krupnik of the Smithsonian’s Arctic Studies Center.