8:00am REGISTRATION & COFFEE – NWC Education Center

ENERGY – Grand Hall, NWC Education Center 8:30am Safely heating when the power goes out
8:50am Energy efficiency design: Insulation for Interior Alaska 9:10am Biochar in Alaska- the new black gold!
9:30am Coffee Point Wind
9:50am Geothermal development at Pilgrim Hot Springs

EDUCATION – Room 102, NWC Education Center
8:30am Involving undergraduate students in research at UAF
8:50am AK Science Olympiad, a state STEM competition for middle school students in Alaska
9:10am American Society for Microbiology: Information and resources for Alaskan students, communities and researchers 9:30am Resources and methods for K-12 outreach in a transitioning world
9:50am Climate change lessons for tribal students

LAND + WILDLIFE – Grand Hall, NWC Education Center
10:20am Reindeer husbandry education in the Circumpolar North: Experiential learning
10:40am Nunivak Island then and now; A review of 10 permanent vegetation monitoring locations through the last 32 years and applicability to the rest of the island resources
11:00am A statewide survey for Aleutian terns
11:20am Nest observations reveal hygienic nest architecture and behavior in an Arctic bumble bee species 11:40am Urban muskoxen in Nome: The role of early summer forage

12:00pm CONFERENCE WRAP-UP AND CONCLUSION – Grand Hall