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My Turn: A new way forward in the Gulf

...comments@noaa.gov.? Rachel grew up in Naknek and earned a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the University of British Columbia studying catch share programs internationally. She is the Fisheries Program Director for the Alaska Marine...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2013-01-29/my-turn-new-way-forward-gulf
Opinion
Field Guide to Seaweeds of Alaska now available through University of Alaska Press

...oiled shoreline, and bioavailability.The other author, Sandra Lindstrom is a professor of botany at the University of British Columbia. She has studied seaweeds in Alaska for more than thirty-five years.For more information, go online...

http://juneauempire.com/outdoors/2012-07-27/field-guide-seaweeds-alaska-now-avai
Outdoors
Woman survives bear attack

...was just not enough time to get the bear spray out."Stafford is a geological engineering student at the University of British Columbia. She was working as a soil sampler for Pure Nickel Inc., a North American mineral exploration and development...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2012-08-28/woman-survives-bear-attack
State
Wissenz, Loofbourrow wed

Jennifer Wissenz and Hale Loofbourrow wed June 24, 2012 in on the beach at the bride's family home in Crystal Beach, Ontario, Canada. The bride is the daughter of Brenda and Hank Wissenz of Crystal Beach.

http://juneauempire.com/weddings/2012-09-01/wissenz-loofbourrow-wed
Weddings
Southeast fisheries investigate, anticipate ocean acidification

Will the carbon output of a growing world economy transform the oceans into an environment that - thanks to basic chemistry - is hostile to Alaska's famed salmon? Or will Alaskans find ways to mitigate the expected drop in ocean pH?Ocean acidification coincides with certain mass extinction events in the past, according to Jeremy Mathis, professor of chemical oceanography at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.Fishers, shellfish grower and harvesters and non-profit organizations have met at recent roundtable meetings to discuss ocean acidification in Alaska.

http://juneauempire.com/state/2012-03-25/southeast-fisheries-investigate-anticip
State
Nancy Leanne Gustavson

...receiving her master's in library science from USC, she started her long career in libraries, beginning at the University of British Columbia. In 1969, after touring Alaska and liking what she saw, she moved to Juneau to work at the Alaska State...

http://www.legacy.com/Link.asp?I=LS000155777200
Three Alaskans selected in Major League Baseball draft

...of the year and National Baseball Congress World Series MVP Jeff Francis, a left-handed pitcher from the University of British Columbia who threw for the Anchorage Bucs before being picked up by the Anchorage Glacier Pilots for their NBC World...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/060602/spo_akbball.shtml
Sports
Janowiec, Neussl make college selections

Recent Juneau-Douglas High School graduate Callan Janowiec didn't have many scholarship offers in April when she won the Alaska Gatorade Player of the Year Award for leading the Crimson Bears volleyball team to an undefeated season and a state title this past fall. She was hoping to find a spot on a college team in the Northeast region of the country, but had no real scholarship offers.

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/061703/spo_vballers.shtml
Sports
State Briefs

...need to have some population figures for orcas in Alaska waters, said Andrew Trites, a professor at the University of British Columbia. Trites and UBC graduate student Kerry Irish are leading the count, and have established a Web site - http...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/071802/sta_briefs.shtml
News
Playing reindeer games

...per 100-square kilometers to one per 100 square kilometers. But at the same time, Heiko Wittmer of the University of British Columbia said habitat continues to become fragmented. Woodland caribou do poorly when forests are cut up into small...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/122103/out_reindeer.shtml
Outdoors

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