Wednesday, March 14, 2012

UAS fisheries program to offer class to Alaskan high school students

 
The goal of the class is to emphasize to Alaskan students how important fisheries are to the state's coastal communities. The class will highlight regional opportunities while letting students know what they may need to study to take advantage of these prospects.
 
The Fisheries Technology Program hopes to offer the class in interested communities, working with the local school districts and industry sectors. Mentors will be recruited to escort students on field trips, encourage students to ask questions and discuss opportunities amongst themselves. Students will be asked to create a blog so that students in different communities can learn from each other regarding various careers and opportunities statewide.

Thursday, March 8, 2012

Rising city manager selects new deputy | Juneau Empire - Alaska's Capital City Online Newspaper

Rising city manager selects new deputy | Juneau Empire - Alaska's Capital City Online Newspaper

JUNEAU EMPIRE STAFF REPORT
Deputy City Manager Kim Kiefer has selected her replacement for when she moves up to be the manager.

She has selected Rob Steedle, who has worked with the city since 1992 on various projects, and will start April 1, the day after City Manager Rod Swope leaves for retirement.

“I looked for someone within the organization that had budget, supervisory, and project management experience, as well as an understanding of the various departments and division within the CBJ," Kiefer stated in a release. "Rob stood out as being very qualified for the job.”

Steedle started as a program analyst and was promoted four years later to management information systems director. He most recently worked on the city's software conversion project.

Steedle has a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from State University of New York at Binghamton, and a Master of Public Administration from the University of Alaska Southeast.

Kiefer's statement said Steedle has worked with the different departments on technology needs and worked to consolidate dispatch for fire and police, on ambulance billing and telephone replacement.

“I am eager to step into this new role, and I am looking forward to supporting the CBJ’s departments in accomplishing their goals," Steedle said in a statement. "I am confident that Kim and I will be a strong and balanced team that will work effectively in leading the CBJ.”

UAS Ketchikan Announces Honors Lists

February 16, 2012
Thursday AM

(SitNews) Ketchikan, Alaska - University of Alaska Southeast Ketchikan has announced the names of the students who have made the UAS Chancellor’s and Dean’s lists for the Fall 2011 Semester.

Terilyn Hamilton, Forest Haven, Jennie McGarrigan, Dawn Rauwolf, Conan Steele and Kristen Zwicker made the Fall 2011 semester Chancellor’s List.

A student must be admitted to a program, earn a 4.00 grade point average, and complete at least 12 credit hours during the semester to make the Chancellor’s Honor List.

Tuffina Arnold, Tanner Butler, Brandy Diamond, Amanda Dixon, Erin Edwards, Tara Miller, Amanda Newell, Katy Parrott, Rebekah Thomas and Melissa Williams made the Fall 2011 semester Dean’s Honor List.

A student must be admitted to a program, earn a 3.5 grade point average, and complete at least 12 credit hours during the semester to make the Dean’s Honor List.


 


Source of News: 
University of Alaska Southeast Ketchikan
www.ketch.alaska.edu/

University of Alaska regent from Juneau resigns from board

University of Alaska regent from Juneau resigns from board: FAIRBANKS, Alaska - An Anchorage man is the new vice chairman of the University of Alaska Board of Regents. The board this week elected Carl Marrs to replace Bob Martin of Juneau. Martin resi...

Photographer waits, watches for perfect light on Mount McKinley | Anchorage Daily News - The News Tribune

Full article: Photographer waits, watches for perfect light on Mount McKinley | Anchorage Daily News - The News Tribune.  Excerpt from Anchorage Daily News article:

For the past dozen or so years, Matsumoto has camped on glaciers in the Alaska Range in the dead of winter for more than a month at a time -- seeking the perfect photograph of northern lights on Denali, but also something more intangible: the chance for an encounter with the natural world that will make him feel "very small."  View 5 of his beautiful photos here: http://www.adn.com/2012/02/18/2325078/norio-matsumoto.html

In a bookstore at the college where he studied industrial sociology, he stumbled on a book by the famous Japanese nature photographer Michio Hoshino. The photos and stories were of Alaska: caribou in the Arctic, whales in Southeast, tiny details of lichen and vast mountain ranges.

Hoshino was known in Alaska and Japan not only for his photos but for his gentle nature and knack for developing deep friendships. He was killed by a brown bear in Russia in 1996.

Matsumoto knew he wanted to find what Hoshino had found in Alaska, "to be out in the wilderness, camp for a long time and feel the things that he had felt."

So he quit his Japanese college and moved to Fairbanks to attend the University of Alaska. He was shocked by the cold and harsh winters. He moved to Juneau, where he earned a degree from the University of Alaska Southeast. He liked the feeling of a place teeming with rich, mossy life and the way the mountains and ocean met.

UAS mining simulator aims to stimulate Southeast students

 By Libby Stringer |

JUNEAU - Imagine the pressure of operating a piece of heavy underground mining equipment for the first time. One false move could potentially cause injury, equipment down time and thousands of dollars in damage, not to mention shattered pride and a lost job.
 
Thanks to a new state-of-the-art simulator recently acquired by the University of Alaska Southeast, prospective miners can virtually test drive an Atlas Copco Boltec MC bolting rig, an Atlas Copco ST14 mucker or a Sandvik TORO 40D haul truck, all with the security of a restart button.

University of Alaska Southeast Center for Mine Training coordinator Colby Shibler observes as Sen. Mark Begich operates the center's new mine equipment simulator. Photo by Libby Stringer.
The TORO simulator was utilized during a show and tell with U.S. Sen. Mark Begich at the UAS Technical Education Center on March 4. With the guidance of UAS Center for Mine Training coaches, Begich drove a loaded TORO along the virtual mine's main haulage, successfully dumping his ore load at the virtual crusher.
 
Upon completion, Begich received a printout containing an evaluation of his performance. Were he a student enrolled in the mine training program, the printout would go in his file for long-term progress tracking.  Continue reading full article at capitalcityweekly.com here.

UAS Professor helps Green Girls Grow: Energy Education Event for Girl Scouts Across Southeast

Green Girls Grow is an event that toured three communities in Southeast Alaska to bring Girl Scouts a new way to look at renewable energy and conservation.  University of Alaska Southeast Assistant Professor of Construction, Greg Reynolds, made a model specifically for this event to demonstrate conduction and convection in the home.He showed the girls how inadequate insulation can cause mildew, and eventually molding in walls of homes and the weatherization updates necessary to stop the cycle. Read the full article here:
Green Girls Grow: Energy Education Event for Girl Scouts Across Southeast

Alaska Marine Safety Education Association offering free fishing vessel safety and drill conductor course at UAS Ketchikan, March 23-24

From Capital City Weekly:

Alaska Marine Safety Education Association (AMSEA) will offer a one-day, 10-hour fishing vessel safety and drill conductor course in on March 10 at Hydaburg City School. A similar course will be offered in Ketchikan on March 23 and 24 at the University of Alaska Southeast campus, room 305.

These courses meet the U.S. Coast Guard requirements for commercial fishing vessels. They are available free of charge to commercial fishermen thanks to funding from National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health and a support contract from the USCG.
Participants will practice hands-on in the water and on a vessel, with emergency equipment that should be onboard any commercial fishing or other sizeable vessel — personal flotation devicess, life rafts, immersion suits, EPIRBs, fire extinguishers — and practice emergency procedures including man overboard, abandon ship, fire fighting and flooding control.
 
To register, call 747-3287 or visit http://www.amsea.org/. Courses will be cancelled in the event of under-enrollment.

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Join us at the annual UAS Alumni Spring Auction & Dinner on April 6

UAS in the News: March 2012

The goal here is to do a post each time we get a new piece of news, but since we just started we will catch up here.  Here are the headlines from March - click on them to get the full scoop:
 

Life Thus Far: UAS art majors to give their capstone presentations at Sound and Motion event

Left to right, Hollis Kitchin, Boni Parker, Ryan Cortes, Chelsie Harris and Jordan Kendall. the five UAS art students who were the featured speakers at the March 2 Sound and Motion presentation.

Photo by Ryan Cortes


UAS Sitka faculty Jan Straley Honored

Jan Straley of the University of Alaska Southeast was awarded the Marine Research Award. Straley has studied the behavior and population dynamics of large whales in the North Pacific for more than 30 years.

Read more: http://www.alaskajournal.com/Alaska-Journal-of-Commerce/AJOC-February-26-2012/Movers-Shakers-02-26-12/#ixzz1oTruxmLo
 

Jonathan McCormick
Former UAS Student Publishes First Novel
Some of you may remember Jonathan McCormick, who took graduate courses in Diagnositic and Prescriptive Teaching while working on Hoonah Island before transferring to U of Portland.  He has just published his first novel: Wyoming Secrets: A "J" Team Novel, which was released on Amazon.com recently, available in paperback and Kindle verson. Take a look on Amazon to read the synopsis, and check out his author website at web2.bcinternet.net/jm, and on Facebook and Twitter @lazeejjs.

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