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.

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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.