Alaska Science Forum: Searching for secrets within the Alaska sled dog
By nrozell [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu (Ned Rozell)
Mike Davis lives in Oklahoma, but he travels to Alaska all the time to work with our greatest athletes.
“I’m up here about once a month, about half around Anchorage and half around Fairbanks,” the Oklahoma State University veterinarian and exercise physiologist said on the phone from Wasilla. “If I could settle on a single address, I could get a Permanent Fund Dividend.”
GeoCare Basket Auction on April 6, 2012
The 8th annual GeoCare Basket Auction will be held Friday, April 6 in the Geophysical Institute Globe Room. All proceeds will go to the GeoCare Employee Assistance Fund. The suggested general basket theme is Springtime (think fresh, flowers, green, etc.), although you may choose to pick your own theme.
Best fiction award goes to Sue Ann Bowling for Tourist Trap
Tourist Trap, a novel by North Pole resident and former Geophysical Institute researcher sbowling [at] mosquitonet [dot] com (Sue Ann Bowling), was named best Fiction Book of the Year by Reader Views.
Alaska Science Forum: More news on bird noses
By nrozell [at] gi [dot] alaska [dot] edu (Ned Rozell)
After reading a recent column about whales’ ability to smell, a few people wanted to know more about the same sense in birds.
"Every bird that’s been studied has a sense of smell,” said Julie Hagelin, a biologist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks who has pondered that overlooked ability in birds for years.
