February 22, 2016 Community Happenings
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‘We Eat Fish!’
Film to Show
The Southeast Alaska Conservation Council will premier its new film “We Eat Fish!” 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 25, at the Larkspur.
Shot partly in Sitka, the film celebrates the clean waters and healthy fisheries of Southeast Alaska and highlights the work being done to protect them. It is free to the public.
A fish special will be served.
UAF Seminars
Teleconferenced
Through February, UAS Sitka Campus will broadcast seminars from UAF on topics in environmental and human health.
The next will be 4:30 p.m. today in room 106 at the UAS campus. Dr. Falf Huettmann, associate professor of biology, will speak on Himalayan biodiversity conservation during climate change.
The public is invited to attend.
Satellites, Glaciers
Talk at UAS-Sitka
The next Natural History seminar features Dr. Allen Pope presenting “How Satellites are Changing What we Know about Ice” 7:30 p.m. Feb. 25 at UAS-Sitka, Room 229.
Pope, scientist-in-residence fellow at the Sitka Sound Science Center, will talk about how satellite data are used to study and monitor glaciers and ice fields in Alaska and polar regions. Pope is a post-doctoral research associate working at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado, and the Polar Science Center in Seattle.
His current research projects include studying Landsat 8 applications to the cryosphere as well as investigating drivers of elevation change in West Antarctica. More about his work is at on NASA’s Earth Obseratory website “Shades of Blue on the Greenland Ice Sheet’’ at http://earthobservatory.nasa.gove/IOTD/view.php?id=86564
Funding for the seminar series is provided by a grant to the Sitka Sound Science Center by the Sitka Alaska Permanent Charitable Trust in partnership with the University of Alaska Southeast. Contact Kitty LaBounty at 747-9432 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with questions.
Story Time Set
‘‘Whaley Whale’’ by Rascka will be one of the readings during the next story time at the Sitka Public Library 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 25.
Rhymes, songs and a craft project will be part of the preschool program. For more information, call the library at 747-8708.
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20 YEARS AGO
December 2004
Photo caption: David Voluck reads a blessing while lighting a menorah during a community gathering observing the eight-day Chanukah festival. Honored speakers included Woody Widmark, STA president, and Assembly member Al Duncan.
50 YEARS AGO
December 1974
From On the Go: More college students home for the holidays – Bill and Isabella Brady have a houseful. Ralph is here from the Southwest Indian Polytechnic Institute, along with his fiancee Grace Gillian; Louise is here from the University of New Mexico, and Jennifer, who’s working with IEA in Anchorage is home with her fiance Lance Ware.
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