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Climate Change Seminar Series – 2011

These seminars feature guest speakers who explore various aspects of climate change.

The seminars are on Wednesdays at 1:00 pm, presented in Juneau and Fairbanks, and shared by video conference.

September
  7 No class Students only – discuss expectations - intros, attendance, grading etc.
  14 No class Student introduction
document not available 21 Glen MacDonald It's a Dry Heat – Climate Warming, the Pacific Ocean and
Drought in Western North America
document not available 28 Phil Mundy Marine environmental controls of the phenology of Chinook salmon populations of the Yukon River and their implications for fishery management under global warming
October
document not available 5 Doug DeMaster Impacts of Climate change in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas
document not available 12 Rick Edwards Potential impacts of climate change on the hydrology and biogeochemistry of coastal temperate rainforest streams
document not available 19 Franz Mueter The (F)Utility of Forecasting Climate Change Impacts on Marine Fish and Shellfish: Approaches and Examples
document not available 26 Amy Breen Vegetation change in western Alaska:
past, present and future scenarios
November
document not available 2 John Walsh Evidence and drivers of recent Alaskan climate change
document not available 9 Dixie Dayo
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Robert Charlie		 An Interior Inupiaq's perspective of climate change
program announcment 16 Georgina Gibson Marine Ecosystem modeling of the Bering Sea:
Predicting the impacts of changing environmental conditions on lower trophic level ecosystem dynamics
  23 No seminar Thanksgiving Break
document not available 30 Caroline Brown*
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Andres Lopez*		 Assessing Agreement about Climate Shifts in Subsistence Fishing Communities: Regional Comparison of Yukon River and Northwest Alaska Community Perceptions of Change

Collaborators:
David Anderson, Caroline Brown, Courtney Carothers, Andres Lopez, Katie Moerlein, and Brittany Retherford.
December
document not available 7 Karsten Hueffer Infectious diseases in a changing Arctic