UAA PADM Grad Students Robert Onders: Climate Change and Vector-Borne Disease – Adam Schoffstall: Principles of Sustainable Land Use and the Formation of an Alaska Commission on Sustainable Development – Lane Smith: Glenn Highway and Emissions Reduction Alaska State Policy Makers’ Panel Larry Hartig, Commissioner of the Alaska Dept. of Environmental Conservation Craig Fleener, Special…

Lessons learned from climate change action plans and strategies in the Western states: what has worked and has not worked. Bill Ross, Former Alaska DEC Commissioner, Principal of Ross Strategic

Recorded on November 13, 2015, Writers’ Showcase: Ingenuity takes us all over Alaska from a floating house on the tumultuous waters of southeast, to a ragtag group of kids navigating their lives in rural Kenai. Writers are Melinda Moustakis, Ed Sasser, Vivian Faith-Prescott and John Straley. Actors are Donnie Gott, Brandon Demery and Frank Katasse.

On behalf of Southeast Conference, Meilani Schijvens presents critical insights into current and past Southeast Alaska economic and socioeconomic trends, and tells the story of changes that are taking place in the areas of population and employment. Key drivers of the economy are explored, including the public sector and the visitor, seafood, mining, construction, and…

Filipinos were part of waves of foreign-born laborers coming for the salmon canning industry and mining booms in the early 20th century. Since the 1990s, the Philippines has been the most common country of origin among Alaska’s foreign-born population, according to the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development. The U.S. Census Bureau estimates Alaska’s…