http://dl1.yukoncollege.yk.ca/ipy/newsItems/departments/educationAndOutreach Items about education and outreach matters and projects. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:20:02 GMT Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:20:02 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss UserLand Frontier v9.5 60 (Carleton University press release, 16 April 2012) -- The Royal Canadian Geographical Society has honoured Carleton’s Christopher Burn for his ... http://www2.carleton.ca/fass/2012/christopher-burn-presented-with-queen-elizabeth-ii-diamond-jubilee-medal b5b633134aad65303c1c9e3a3395c11a Wed, 18 Apr 2012 06:54:02 GMT Awards, etc. Education and outreach News Amanda Graham (CBC News, 29 March 2012) -- The Tlicho Community Services Agency has teamed up with language experts at the University of Victoria to create a ... http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/story/2012/03/29/north-tlicho-language-app.html 9f2a3ca443d226da4d7734154bc1ebce Fri, 06 Apr 2012 20:54:39 GMT Education and outreach News Amanda Graham University of Zurich press release, 21 February 2012) -- Thawing permafrost will have far-reaching ramifications for populated areas, infrastructure ... http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112478651/global-permafrost-zones-shown-in-high-res-google-earth-images/ e59eda0f7192aae0eb874823c998453f Wed, 22 Feb 2012 06:24:30 GMT Arctic Education and outreach News Polar research: Reports and findings Amanda Graham (UPI, 7 February 2012) -- DURHAM, N.H. - Americans' knowledge of the world's polar regions has increased since 2006 but has not translated into more ... http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2012/02/07/Study-measures-concern-in-polar-issues/UPI-49911328647461/ a990ea7848958fc3ca0789eaa765517a Tue, 14 Feb 2012 06:04:46 GMT Education and outreach News Amanda Graham (Elena Kovachich, Voice of Russia, 3 January 2012) -- A floating university for Arctic research and Arctic staff training will be created in the ... http://english.ruvr.ru/2012/01/03/63352991.html cc9133f72b4c4a5cff7331a77a83a5fc Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:08:58 GMT Arctic Education and outreach News Research Amanda Graham (Barents Observer, 7 December 2011) -- Students at the Northern (Arctic) University of Arkhangelsk will get a unique opportunity to study the Arctic ... http://www.barentsobserver.com/floating-university-for-arctic-students.4996021-116321.html 10a1c268846243ff42f92259bfb4adc7 Sun, 11 Dec 2011 22:54:25 GMT Education and outreach News Research Amanda Graham (Iceland Review, 25 November 2011) -- Reykjavík University (RU) has received international accreditation for the MBA program offered by its School of ... http://www.icelandreview.com/icelandreview/daily_news//MBA_at_Reykjav%C3%ADk_University_Internationally_Accredited_0_384835.news.aspx a27fcae83eabb94b6c33c60b4952d8a8 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 07:15:34 GMT Education and outreach News Amanda Graham ( Dechinta students and faculty via Northern Clipper, 15 July 2011) -- During their recent tour of Canada, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visited ... http://mediamentor-circumpolar.blogspot.com/2011/07/yzf-nwts-dechinta-bush-university.html 84fce35840b31d84f4bf3aa7c248733a Sun, 24 Jul 2011 22:44:32 GMT Arctic Education and outreach History News NorthernU Amanda Graham (Geo Mission Ltd., press release via PRWEB UK and Yahoo! News, 15 July 2011) -- The physical and mental tenacity of a team of Arctic scientists ... http://news.yahoo.com/philippe-cousteau-extreme-science-arctic-adventure-140026067.html a33ba3aca2cffc7e6336a359b1e38944 Fri, 15 Jul 2011 17:59:21 GMT Education and outreach News Research Amanda Graham (Conference Board of Canada/Centre for the North via nunavutcircumpolar , 9 February 2011) -- The Centre for the North hopes to change the national ... http://www.centreforthenorth.ca/tool f86a37acb2c854e4a547e3aaf94118ea Sun, 13 Feb 2011 21:42:44 GMT Arctic Data Education and outreach News Research infrastructure Amanda Graham The International Polar Year (IPY) has now come to a close. At the start of the latest IPY education, outreach and communication activities (EOC) ... http://apecs.is/ipy-outreach-assessment 9c72e6e0aeb6aa300d0c75049bbeff30 Sat, 05 Feb 2011 20:15:36 GMT Education and outreach IPY project IPYLegacy News Research Amanda Graham (Victoria Barber/The Arctic Sounder, 11 December 2010) -- Want to know where climate change is happening? You might want to check out Google maps. ... http://www.thearcticsounder.com/article/1049putting_climate_change_on_the_map 5a9bf4d7e008ab9a979b2c313678e9cd Sun, 12 Dec 2010 19:11:48 GMT Arctic Data Education and outreach News Amanda Graham (IcelandReview, 15 October 2010) -- “We don’t need to worry that bats will settle here, although I’m of the opinion that it would be a fun addition ... http://icelandreview.com/icelandreview/daily_news/?cat_id=16539&ew_0_a_id=368946 bca6ced0ebf48fb356a85f13fc47fc6b Fri, 15 Oct 2010 23:57:20 GMT Education and outreach News Amanda Graham (ExpressNews, 5 October 2010) -- Edmonton - The University of Alberta is celebrating fifty years of polar research with a museum exhibition that ... http://www.expressnews.ualberta.ca/en/NewsArticles/2010/10/CircumpolarInstitutemarks50yearsofresearchingthepoles.aspx 980e210690bd9d3fc56385e0bde35b38 Tue, 12 Oct 2010 02:41:04 GMT Education and outreach History News Public events and conferences Amanda Graham (Claire Eamer/Your Yukon, 24 September 2010) -- Science can be a messy business. Just ask Tyler Kuhn. ... http://taiga.net/yourYukon/col2043.html 3a39738a8a031b2a6e8c255dd03e856e Mon, 04 Oct 2010 21:09:31 GMT Arctic Education and outreach News Amanda Graham (Mike Wolterbeek/Nevada News, University of Nevada, Reno, 9 September 2010) -- Attacked by hungry mosquitoes the size of small birds, stranded in ... http://www.unr.edu/nevadanews/templates/details.aspx?articleid=5528&zoneid=40 58f99e8e930b42c4f6481b06e74811fd Mon, 13 Sep 2010 04:17:53 GMT Arctic Education and outreach News Research Amanda Graham (Jenny Baesman/APECS, 14 July 2010) -- As you may be aware, the International Council for Science (ICSU) awarded a small grant to APECS, the ... http://apecs.is/apecs-news/1880-ipy-education-and-outreach-lessons-project-assistant-hired f95eb72794b57094863f08746c555b1f Sat, 17 Jul 2010 18:40:59 GMT Education and outreach IPYLegacy News Amanda Graham (CBC News, 14 July 2010) -- A Parks Canada team is at the top of Ellesmere Island this week to build a virtual re-creation of Fort Conger, a research ... http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2010/07/13/fort-conger-parks-canada-virtual.html cffffe8b7639d6a22acdefb4e2b09682 Thu, 15 Jul 2010 07:36:52 GMT Education and outreach History News Amanda Graham (The Norway Post, 8 June 2010) -- 2000 scientists from 70 nations are gathered when the Polar Information Commons (PIC) will be officially launched ... http://www.norwaypost.no/news/polar-conference-opens-in-oslo.html dc9190d8fb7a2664d084fcd4cbe49b7a Wed, 09 Jun 2010 00:57:59 GMT Education and outreach IPYLegacy News Amanda Graham (Jim Bell/Nunatsiaq News, 4 June 2010) -- At least 25 Nunavut residents who hoped to study law by September 2011 may now be forced to make other ... http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/stories/article/98789_gn_rejection_leaves_nunavut_law_school_in_the_lurch/ eeaa67b8d51a78eb831a15226cf97719 Mon, 07 Jun 2010 08:19:08 GMT Education and outreach News NorthernU Amanda Graham (Fran Golden/Washington Post, 9 May 2010) -- A $40 million Alaska Native collection is debuting in Anchorage this month, representing a homecoming ... http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/06/AR2010050605690.html c8921fbd38af2bcd48b9994bdfb602e4 Sun, 09 May 2010 17:50:15 GMT Arctic Education and outreach News Public events and conferences Research infrastructure Amanda Graham Photo courtesy of the Time Capsule Project (Julia Christensen/Time Capsule Co-Organizer via IASSA.Net, 9 April 2010) -- For the past three years, a ... http://www.ipytimecapsule.com/ c1e1cb7e4d904b8aa850ac18b79c4695 Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:53:32 GMT Education and outreach IPY project News Amanda Graham ( George Lessard, The MediaMentor/ Circumpolar Blog, 16 March 2010) -- [excerpts] Fewer than 5 percent of aboriginals in the Northwest Territories ... http://mediamentor-circumpolar.blogspot.com/2010/03/yellowknives-dechinta-bush-university.html 3e245e2bc9d6beef8276e83a2d176a2d Sun, 04 Apr 2010 22:44:41 GMT Education and outreach News NorthernU Amanda Graham The International Polar Year science and education community warmly encourages you to join us next week, from the 15th to 19th March to celebrate our ... http://www.ipy.org/hidden/item/2293-march-polar-week-2010-what-happens-at-the-poles-affects-us-all 8dc6c8fa290f4e92d1611ac2412fea5a Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:54:22 GMT Education and outreach IPYLegacy News Amanda Graham It's been active for four months now, but I only just learned of this collection of (currently just over 60) little bits of video from the Alaska ... http://www.youtube.com/user/alaskafilmarchives ace20b363d0b5453697150468ca0a246 Mon, 22 Feb 2010 01:55:26 GMT Arctic Education and outreach News Amanda Graham (Arctos Canadensis, 22 January 2010) --  The Nunavut Planning Commission hosts an interactive mapping tool for understanding and learning about ... http://northernwaterways.com/news/?p=1971 3f5b535a2592413dbd16e2ea9361613a Sat, 23 Jan 2010 06:17:50 GMT Arctic Education and outreach News Amanda Graham (Purdue University press release, 11 January 2010) -- WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Video footage of life near the North Pole can be found on a new Web site ... http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/research/2010/100111ShepsonArctic.html 4fcb72519c7ed912fb9369b567686c70 Wed, 13 Jan 2010 05:32:29 GMT Arctic Education and outreach News Research Amanda Graham (Bruce Owen/Winnipeg Free Press, 4 December 2009) -- A $31-million injection from the Selinger government toward a new Arctic exhibit at Assiniboine ... http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/31m-for-city-polar-bear-hub-78501932.html 5abc05ce8b3ed6303d3288d5db7eda9b Sat, 05 Dec 2009 23:47:03 GMT Arctic Education and outreach News Research infrastructure Amanda Graham (Science Poles, 26 November 2009) -- Since the mid-1970s, Dr. John Hobbie from the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, has ... http://www.sciencepoles.org/index.php?/articles_interviews/the_arctic_lter_project_john_hobbie_discusses_arctic_tundra_ecosystem/&uid=1665&lg=en 15b2c17dd9b04b51b557f996d977597a Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:11:54 GMT Arctic Education and outreach News Amanda Graham (BBC Radio 4, 30 November 2009) -- The Royal Society celebrates its 350th anniversary next year, launching a new website featuring some of the most ... http://dl1.yukoncollege.yk.ca/ipy/discuss/msgReader$1176 fc0471524241b7f27620a9844acf748d Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:59:01 GMT Education and outreach History News Amanda Graham The Ultima Thule, Adventures in America’s Northernmost Lands, is a website and anthology dedicated to education about and preservation of Alaska’s ... http://www.theultimathule.org 4229359ef78bbda3fc6d4e5dd1c4b31f Sun, 29 Nov 2009 10:17:26 GMT Arctic Education and outreach News Amanda Graham A new public exhibition and accompanying website devoted to the role of indigenous peoples and intermediaries, including interpreters and guides, in ... http://hiddenhistories.rgs.org/ ec524eb15f765d7aaf339ba8bc9069b3 Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:28:53 GMT Arctic Education and outreach History News Amanda Graham (Canadian Institutes of Health Research, 3 November 2009) -- Convenience foods, lifestyle changes and global warming are putting Northerners' ... http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/40544.html 55328a52286d3ceef1c208503afeb3ca Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:17:30 GMT Education and outreach News Research Amanda Graham American Journal of Botany, Vol. 96, No. 10, October 2009 Special Invited Papers-Year of Science (all papers are freely available) Christopher H. ... http://www.amjbot.org/content/vol96/issue10/#SPECIAL_INVITED_PAPERS_YEAR_OF_SCIENCE e6eacb22c593707a6c7822cca3d18988 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:50:53 GMT Education and outreach News Amanda Graham GEOTRACES is a group of scientists, and educators who are on-board a ship that is currently conducting research in the Arctic Ocean. ... http://cruise.pointgreysoftware.com/project 7f4465da1dacdeaf466b722d336ac7ed Fri, 28 Aug 2009 21:40:33 GMT Arctic Education and outreach News Amanda Graham (IPY EOC, 24 August 2009) -- As you know, we have been celebrating IPY Polar Days since March 1 st , 2007. ... http://www.ipy.org/index.php?option=com_k2&id=1113&view=item&Itemid=47 62aaa0a27cf3a1553e90c45b5e086610 Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:55:13 GMT Education and outreach IPYLegacy News Amanda Graham (Elise Sereni Patkotak/The Arctic Sounder, 13 August 2009) -- Ilisagvik College, Tagiugmiullu Nunamiullu Housing Authority (TNHA) and the Cold ... http://www.thearcticsounder.com/news/show/6896 84779ffca3443d9a1d53c99b52607274 Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:35:34 GMT Arctic Education and outreach News Research Youth Involvement Amanda Graham (Padma Nagappan/Technology Digital, 29 July 2009) -- The Yukon is home to one of the most beautiful and untouched natural environments in Canada, ... http://www.technology-digital.com/Yukon-College--Combining-research-and-technology_30042.aspx 66683454364de57ee913708e026abb2b Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:05:44 GMT Arctic Education and outreach News Amanda Graham (Students on Ice press release via Marketwire, 24 July 2009) -- Ottawa - The official launch of the 2009 Arctic Expedition organized by Students on ... http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Canadian-Museum-Of-Nature-1021708.html 23824721761593b2daaae32bc44e38f6 Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:23:13 GMT Education and outreach News Youth Involvement Amanda Graham After "Are you crazy?", the most common question you'll get as a participant in the Polaris Project will likely be "Why would anyone want to go to ... http://thepolarisproject.org/index.shtml 73f5869df69a89b09a4b7455a13b1b2a Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:28:31 GMT Education and outreach News Research Youth Involvement Amanda Graham (Mindy/Antarctic Conservation Blog, 6 July 2009) -- July 1st is Canada Day. As a Canadian currently living in Antarctica reflecting on polar history, ... http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/earth/antarctica/blog/?p=320 d517bd14c00af9cb4e077f52a9c1403f Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:26:47 GMT Education and outreach History News Research Amanda Graham (Karen Edwards/EOC Development Google Group, 22 June 2009) -- A group of young, international, polar researchers with a shared commitment to outreach ... http://dl1.yukoncollege.yk.ca/ipy/prbookcall 6e90de107fba5514af463150d9ba425a Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:20:40 GMT Education and outreach IPYLegacy News Amanda Graham (Newsminer.com, 22 June 2009) -- FAIRBANKS - The Arctic Region Supercomputing Center in Fairbanks is opening its Discovery Lab for public tours every ... http://dl1.yukoncollege.yk.ca/ipy/discuss/msgReader$995 7123bb749feb48f52a5a6141dbfb9c63 Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:52:05 GMT Education and outreach News Public events and conferences Amanda Graham (Washington University in St. Louis press release via EurekAlert! 4 June 2009) -- If you're clueless about petrology, paleobiology and plate ... http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-06/wuis-wes060409.php f69ca2171f43fba0a53b71b5e3b1766f Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:50:25 GMT Education and outreach News Amanda Graham (Jørgen Chemnitz/News from Greenland Newsletter, 8 June 2009) -- Last week saw the arrival of Crown Prince Frederik to Greenland, together with his ... http://dl1.yukoncollege.yk.ca/ipy/royals f41c70f468b650855857049f9b2f1c5f Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:48:49 GMT Education and outreach News Public events and conferences Amanda Graham (Anita Thorolvsen Munch/polararet.no, 27 May 2009) -- Three weeks with hands-on activities, field-work, group work and lectures in a high arctic ... http://www.polararet.no/artikler/2009/1242807417.15 f61eeb25352ec1f68bde477504ac2733 Sat, 30 May 2009 19:58:21 GMT Education and outreach News Amanda Graham (Alexander Panetta/The Canadian Press via Toronto Star, 28 May 2009) ** -- CLYDE RIVER, Nunavut – Michaelle Jean has delivered a sharp criticism of ... http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/642053 7cf80d74775f9b04032d86f35c009b4e Fri, 29 May 2009 16:17:55 GMT Education and outreach News NorthernU Amanda Graham (The Arctic Sounder, 30 April 2009) -- Three Alaska community health projects will be showcased in an international broadcast of the Canadian series, ... http://www.thearcticsounder.com/news/show/5818 ca9728d933cc51fa2d663430a80f936c Fri, 01 May 2009 17:40:28 GMT Education and outreach IPY project News Public events and conferences Amanda Graham (ArcticInfo, 29 April 2009) -- The Bering Sea Project, jointly funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the North Pacific Research Board ... http://bsierp.nprb.org 82787d59b830b37c9576537e6a9a1aa3 Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:43:19 GMT Education and outreach Research Amanda Graham (Press advisory via MSNBC, 17 March 2009) -- OTTAWA, ONTARIO - "Oceans and Marine Life Polar Day", an International Polar Year (IPY) webcast event, ... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29739146/ 915129457d222a916e214320667c7314 Thu, 19 Mar 2009 04:45:31 GMT Education and outreach IPY project News Amanda Graham