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Education and Outreach Session

Education and Outreach Session. Elena Sparrow and Pips Veazy. Education and Outreach. Elena Sparrow, Ph.D. School of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences and The International Arctic Research Center University of Alaska Fairbanks. K-12 Teachers & Students. Outreach to

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Education and Outreach Session

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  1. Education and OutreachSession Elena Sparrow and Pips Veazy

  2. Education and Outreach Elena Sparrow, Ph.D. School of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences and The International Arctic Research Center University of Alaska Fairbanks

  3. K-12 Teachers & Students Outreach to Communities Undergrad, graduate students Education and Outreach Early Career Scientists Outreach to SBIR Outreach to the Public

  4. Research Fellowships and Young Scientist Awards • Undergraduate and graduate students • Postdoctoral fellows • New UA faculty

  5. Strategies for Ecology Education, Development, and Sustainability (SEEDS) program and Bonanza Long Term Ecological Research program.

  6. K-12 Education Programs • Alaska Rural Research Partnership • GLOBE program

  7. A Molecular Phylogenetic Study of Archaea from a Muskeg in Southeast Alaska Stephanie Thompson Mt. Edgecumbe High School Sitka, Alaska identified novel groups of crenarchaea and euryarchaea within the Southeast muskeg system.

  8. Figure 1. Phylogenetic tree of crenarchaea. Branch lengths do not represent evolutionary distance. FFSB Unique Tongass muskeg clade

  9. K-12 Education Programs • High School Summer Research Internship • Rural Alaska Honors Institute

  10. K-12 Education Programs • Alaska Summer Research Academy • Science Potpourri at UAF • Culturally Responsive Biological Science Education

  11. K-12 Education Programs • IPY GLOBE Seasons and Biomes project

  12. Alaska Permafrost Monitoring Program

  13. Summary • Alaska EPSCoR partners and collaborates with other ongoing science education and research programs • Research capacity building starts early, K-12 and continues on through undergraduate, graduate and graduate students as well as early career scientists.

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