We are pleased to announce the Arctic Speaker Series for 2016-17.
Talks are typically held on the 3rd Wednesday of the month.
The talks begin at 4:00pm and are free & open to the public
Please note the NEW LOCATION- Science A room 106
pdf of speaker series schedule
Date | Speaker |
September 14, 2016 | |
October 12, 2016 |
NSTP Student Symposium This will run 4:00-6:00 pm Amy Noel, Mary Cecilia Porter, Sarah St. Germain, |
November 9, 2016 | |
January 18, 2017 |
Ross Coen, University of Washington Owning the Ocean: Salmon, Science, and American Empire in the Pacific World, 1890-1960 |
February 15, 2017 | |
March 15, 2017 |
Chad Farrell, University of Alaska Anchorage Ethnoracial Diversity in the Urban North: A Focus on Anchorage, Alaska |
April 19, 2017 |
Matthew Ayre, Arctic Institute of North America, University of Calgary Considering myself in the bosom of the Arctic: What have corsets got to do with climate change? |
Matt Ayre, April 19, 2017
Matt Ayre, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Arctic Institute of North America Discusses "Considering myself in the bosom of the Arctic: What have corsets got to do with climate change?"
Chad Farrell, March 15, 2017
Chad Farrell, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at the University of Alaska Anchorage discusses "Ethnoracial Diversity in the Urban North: A Focus on Anchorage, Alaska."
Ross Coen, January 18, 2017
Ross Coen, PhD Candidate at University of Washington discusses "Owning the Ocean: Salmon, Science, and American Empire in the Pacific World, 1890-1960"
Dagomar Degroot, November 9, 2016
Dagomar Degroot, Professor at Georgetown University discusses "Arctic Journeys in a Changing Climate, 1590-1650"
NSTP Student Symposium, October 12, 2016
Students presented short talks or posters highlighted their NSTP funded fieldwork.
Presenters were: Amy Noel, Cecilia Porter, Sarah St. Germain, Ellie Bash, James Campbell,
Scott Dumonceaux, Samira Samimi, Julie Thomas, Kent Spiers and Anirudh Bhargava.
Tris Irvine-Fynn, September 14, 2016
Tris Irvine-Fynn, glaciologist at the Centre for Glaciology, Aberystwyth University, Wales discusses "Water on ice: knowns and unknowns of supraglacial hydrology"