Summer 2012 Course Available
Arctic Vegetation Ecology Excursion
University of Alaska Fairbanks
7-20 June 2012
Registration deadline: Tuesday, 1 May 2012
For questions, please contact:
Skip Walker
Email: dawalker [at] alaska.edu
Edie Barbour
Email: embarbour [at] alaska.edu
Organizers announce that an Arctic Vegetation Ecology Excursion course
will be offered through Summer Sessions at the University of Alaska
Fairbanks. This 15-day, 2 credit course will be taught 7-20 June 2012 at
the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Toolik Field Station, and various
remote localities in northern Alaska.
The course is limited to ten finishing undergraduate or graduate
students. The cost of food, lodging, and travel between the field sites
is included in the course fee, but students are expected to pay for
their travel to Fairbanks, Alaska. The students will need to bring
all-weather clothing including winter jackets and rubber boots, a warm
sleeping bag, and preferably a tent.
The excursion will follow the Elliott and Dalton Highways in northern
Alaska, focusing on the vegetation and arctic ecosystems north of the
Brooks Range with emphasis in the Galbraith, Toolik Lake, Happy Valley,
and Prudhoe Bay areas. Instructors will use an interdisciplinary
approach to examine vegetation, soils, permafrost, geology, land-use,
and climate-change issues. Students will visit a wide variety of
habitats and settings along the climate gradient and learn the methods
of vegetation, soil, and environmental sampling required for vegetation
analysis. The course is appropriate for vegetation scientists and
botanists, as well as students interested in an overview of the Arctic,
its ecosystems, and its role in contemporary discussions of climate
change and rapid land-use change.
The course is one of a new series of vegetation science courses offered
at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. For more information about the
series go to: http://www.geobotany.uaf.edu/teaching/. To register for
the summer, visit http://www.uaf.edu/summer/. International students
will need to request the International Student Summer Application from
Edie Barbour (embarbour [at] alaska.edu).
Registration deadline: Tuesday, 1 May 2012.
For further information, please go to:
http://www.geobotany.uaf.edu/teaching/biol495/.
For questions, please contact:
Skip Walker
Email: dawalker [at] alaska.edu
Edie Barbour
Email: embarbour [at] alaska.edu
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