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Education and OutreachSession
Elena Sparrow and Pips Veazy
Education and Outreach
Elena Sparrow, Ph.D.School of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences and
The International Arctic Research CenterUniversity of Alaska Fairbanks
Undergrad, graduateUndergrad, graduatestudentsstudents
K-12K-12Teachers & StudentsTeachers & Students
Outreach to Outreach to CommunitiesCommunities
Education Education and Outreachand Outreach
Outreach toOutreach toSBIRSBIREarly Career ScientistsEarly Career Scientists
Outreach to theOutreach to thePublicPublic
Research Fellowships and Young Scientist Awards
• Undergraduate and graduate students
• Postdoctoral fellows
• New UA faculty
Strategies for Ecology Education, Development, and Sustainability (SEEDS) program and Bonanza Long Term Ecological Research program.
K-12 Education Programs• Alaska Rural Research Partnership
• GLOBE program
A Molecular Phylogenetic Study of Archaea A Molecular Phylogenetic Study of Archaea from a Muskeg in Southeast Alaskafrom a Muskeg in Southeast Alaska
Stephanie ThompsonStephanie Thompson
Mt. Edgecumbe High SchoolMt. Edgecumbe High School
Sitka, AlaskaSitka, Alaska
identified novel groups of crenarchaea and euryarchaea identified novel groups of crenarchaea and euryarchaea within the Southeast muskeg system.within the Southeast muskeg system.
FFSBFFSB
Unique Unique Tongass Tongass muskeg muskeg cladeclade
Figure 1. Phylogenetic tree of crenarchaea. Branch lengths do not represent evolutionary distance.
K-12 Education Programs• High School Summer Research Internship
• Rural Alaska Honors Institute
K-12 Education Programs
• Alaska Summer Research Academy• Science Potpourri at UAF• Culturally Responsive Biological Science
Education
K-12 Education Programs• IPY GLOBE Seasons and Biomes project
Alaska Permafrost Monitoring Program
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.