Summer Course Announcement 2013 Arctic Vegetation Ecology: Northern Alaska Field Course University of Alaska Fairbanks June 6-23, 2013
For questions, please contact: Skip Walker Email: *[email protected]* This course will be offered through Summer Sessions at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. This 18-day, 3 credit course will be taught at the university campus, Toolik Field Station and remote localities in northern Alaska from June 6-23, 2013. The course is limited to ten finishing undergraduate or graduate students. The cost of meals, lodging and travel between the field sites is included in the course fee. Students are expected to pay for their travel to Fairbanks and meals while in Fairbanks. Students will need to bring all-weather clothing including winter jackets and rubber boots, a warm sleeping bag, and a tent. The excursion will follow the Elliott and Dalton Highways in northern Alaska, focusing on the vegetation and Arctic ecosystems north of the Brooks Rangewith emphasis in the Galbraith, Toolik Lake, Happy Valley, and Prudhoe Bay areas. An interdisciplinary approach will examine vegetation, soils, permafrost, geology, land-use and climate-change issues in a wide variety of habitats and settings along the climate gradient. Students will learn methods of vegetation, soil, and environmental sampling required for vegetation analysis. The course is appropriate for vegetation scientists and botanists, as well as students interested in an overview of the Arctic, its ecosystems, and its role in contemporary discussions of climate change and land-use change. For further information, please go to: *http://www.geobotany.uaf.edu/teaching/biol495/* The 2013 Arctic Vegetation Ecology Northern Alaska Field Course (BIOL 495/695), is one of a series of vegetation science courses offered at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. For more information about the series go to: *http://www.geobotany.uaf.edu/teaching/*. -- Amy Breen, Ph.D. Assistant Research Professor International Arctic Research Center Scenarios Network for Alaska & Arctic Planning University of Alaska Fairbanks http://www.snap.uaf.edu/ phone: (907) 474-6927 fax: (907) 474-7151
