Scientists in the Schools

Scientists in the Schools

Scientists in the Schools

Past SIS Units

Scientists in the Schools

Scientists in the Schools

Scientists in the Schools

Past SIS Units

Kindergarten


SeaBirds

Alexis Will

 

1st Grade


Whales

Don Sineti, Steve Lewis

Intertidal Studies

Ali Bayless, NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center

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, SSSC Research Coordinator

Fungi

Callie Simmons, SSSC Research Coordinator

5th Grade


Aquaculture – Food Webs

Angie Bowers, Fisheries Professor, University of Alaska Southeast, Sitka

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

Sediment Stories

Rachel Lauer, Geophysicist at University of Calgary

Shrimp in Hot Water

Jamie Musback, Graduate Student, University of Alaska Southeast, Juneau

8th Grade


Stable Isotopes and Trophic Levels

Lauren Wild, PhD candidate University of Alaska Fairbanks School of Fisheries

Landslide Geology and Social Networks

Ronald Daanen, Geologist with United States Geological Survey; Ryan Hill and Max Izenburg, Social Scientists with RAND

 

9th Grade


Diversity of Life – Squid Ecology

Ben Burford, Hopkin Marine Lab, Stanford

Little Inverts, Big Appetites

Lauren Bell, PhD candidate University of California Santa Cruz kelp Forest Ecology

Bioenergetics

Ellen Chenoweth, PhD Candidate University of Alaska Fairbanks School of Fisheries

 

Grade 10


Measuring Metabolic Requirements of Invertebrates

Kristy Kroeker, Professor of Climate Ecology, UCSC

Microbiology of Soils

Joanna Green, PhD candidate

Geology of Landslides

Adam Booth, Professor at Portland State University

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

Antioxidants in Alaskan Berries

Arleigh Reynolds, UAF professor of Veterinary Medicine

Fish Sampling Workshop

Andrew Cyr, University of Alaska Fairbanks

Ocean Acidification

Esther Kennedy, Sitka Tribe of Alaska; Lori Gildehaus, University of Alaska Fairbanks; Sarah Mastroni and Lauren Strope, University of California Irvine

Physics of Landslides

Annette Patton, Geologist University of Oregon