Dan MacIsaac, Associate Professor of Physics, SUNY-Buffalo State College
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Date: November 15, 2005 2:03:04 PM EST (CA)
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Subject: Physics in Alaska and Related Topics
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AAPT announces invited sessions on Alaska physics and related topics
at its 2006 Winter Meeting, January 21-25, 2006, Anchorage, AK.
Physics and Geophysics in Alaska I
Anupma Prakash, "Alaska: a Natural Laboratory to Learn Physica and
Geophysics"
Jeff Freymuelier, "Plates and Plate Boundaries: Alaska in Motion
Richard Collins, "Noctilucent Coulds - Ice Clouds in the Alaskan Summer"
Physics and Geophysics in Alaska II
Uma Bhatt, "Using Computer Models to Understand Arctic Natural
Climate Variability and Climate Change"
David Newman, "Some of the Interesting Physics of the Polar Ozone Hole"
Dirk Lummerzheim, "The Mysterious Sound of the Aurora"
Hot Topics in Alaska
Martha Shulski, Climate Variability and Change in Alaska
Daniel Solie, Probing the Ice Cap and Deeper Mysteries of Mt. Wrangell,
North America's Largest Active Volcano
Roger Smith, Aurora: A Signature of the Planet
Juan Roederer, From Alaska to Jupiter: Contributions to the Galileo
Mission
Lessons from the Good Friday Earthquake
Kristine Crossen, The 1964 Alaska Earthquake: Underlying Geology and
Resulting Landslides in Anchorage
Peter Haeussler, Geologic Overview of the 1964 M9.2 Great Alaska
Earthquake
Paul Whitmore, Alaskan Tsunamis
Winter, Snow, and Ice
Alan Rempel, Sliding Below the Melting Point: Environmental Effects of
Premelting Ice
Robert Greenler, Deciphering the Sky's Icy Halos
Frontiers in Space Science and Astronomy
John Craven, The Windy Auroral Atmosphere
Robert Herrick, Venus and How Research Evolves After the Big Mission
John Keller, Near-Surface Composition of Mars Revealed Using Gamma Rays