We’re looking Forward to this year’s Scientists in the Schools.
Kindergarten
SeaBirds
Alexis Will
1st Grade
Whales
Don Sineti, Steve Lewis
Intertidal Studies
SIRF Dr. Gilly, Hopkins Marine Lab
2nd Grade
Animal Adaptions and Biomimicry
Lara Rockenetz, Univ of Akron Field Station
3rd Grade
Volcanoes (All About Ash)
Cheryl Cameron, Alaska Volcano Observatory
4th Grade
Geomorphology – The Power of Water
Jacqueline Foss/KK Prussian, USFS, soil scientist/hydrologist
Invasive Species (Intertidal citizen science)
Callie Simmons, NPS monitoring project coordinator
5th Grade
Aquaculture – Food Webs
Angie Bowers, SSSC Aquaculture Director
6th Grade
Invasives (Smithsonian Platewatch Program – Tunicates)
Marnie Chapman, UAS Professor of Biology
7th Grade
Extreme Arctic Events – Predicting Arctic Sea Ice
Alek Petty, NASA at University of Maryland
Exploring Magnitude
Rachel Rosen, professor at Columbia University
8th Grade
Stable Isotopes and Trophic Levels
Lauren Wild, PhD candidate UAF School of Fisheries
9th Grade
Diversity of Life – Squid Ecology
Ben Burford, Hopkin Marine Lab, Stanford
Little Inverts, Big Appetites
Lauren Bell, PhD candidate UCSC, kelp forest ecology
Grade 10
Bioenergetics
Ellen Chenoweth, PhD Candidate UAF School of Fisheries
Measuring Metabolic Requirements of Invertebrates
Kristy Kroeker, Professor of Climate Ecology, UCSC
Microbiology of Soils
Joanna Green, PhD candidate
Grades 11 & 12
Marine Mammal Necropsies
Margaret Castellini, UAF professor of Biology and Wildlife and
Natalie Rouse, Alaska SeaLife Center
Microplastics
Veronica Padula, Ecosystem Conservation Office of the Aleut Community of St. Paul Island
Cross-cutting Ideas of Physics
Solomon Endlich, professor at Stanford University
Antioxidants in Alaskan Berries
Arleigh Reynolds, UAF professor of Veterinary Medicine