The Spring Creek Farm on APU’s Kellogg Campus is doing some great work towards local, sustainable agriculture. They collaborate with Alaskan beekeeper Ian Williams. The bees benefit from nectar from the pesticide-free flowers on the farm, and, in turn, naturally pollinate the plants. Ian is currently working on creating a bee population that can survive…
Environmental Science
Octopuses Shed Their Asocial Reputation
Octopuses have generally been viewed as solitary creatures—and their color changing abilities primarily as a means to hide from hungry predators. But, after binge watching more than 52 hours of octopus TV, researchers reporting in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on January 28th have found that octopuses actually do have a social life. And…
Professor Scheel braves big birds in Australia
Professor David Scheel’s internationally recognized octopus research took him to Cairns, Australia, this summer where he participated in a conference and joined a colleague for a bit of recreational diving at Manly, just outside Sydney. David sends this post card: At nearly 5 million people, Sydney is Australia’s biggest and most densely populated city. Our…
Spring Creek
Growing Generously A Visit to Spring Creek Farm on the APU Kellogg Campus By Miriam Mezzetti Alaska Pacific University cares deeply about education and giving back to the community. The students, staff, and faculty on APU’s Kellogg Campus are doing an exemplary job at growing and strengthening the educational community and the greater Alaskan community….
From Ireland to the Great Land
Getting to Know APU’s Visiting Fulbright Scholar: Jay Calvert by Miriam Mezzetti Alaska Pacific University is proud of its remarkable faculty and students. With the quality, personalized educational experience here, we often attract some of the best and brightest students and faculty: not only nationally, but internationally! Jay Calvert, a Fulbright-Marine Institute PhD student awardee,…
Alaska Pacific University Grieves the Loss of Long-time Faculty Member, Dr. Rusty Myers
A year before the alumni in this photo came to APU from all over Africa, Rusty joined the faculty. They were overjoyed to see him again after more than thirty years, especially as only days before, he had not expected to be in town when they were here last week for their reunion. He was…
The Octopus is OUT!
By Lynn Paulson Back in December, I posted a story about The Octopus Scientist, a new addition to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books for Young Readers’ popular and favorably-reviewed “Scientists in the Field” series devoted to a broad spectrum of science-related subjects. As I noted in that post, The Octopus Scientists came from research on the…
Alaska Pacific University Students Practice Professional Skills at Fall, 2014 Poster Session
By Jason Geck, Environmental Science Toward the close of every Fall and Spring semesters, right around the time of Senior Project Presentations, the Environmental Science Department of Alaska Pacific University organizes a student project Scientific Poster Session. We organize these sessions regularly at APU to provide students with an opportunity to advertise the results of…
Roman Dial Meditates on the Fate of the Planet
Global Chorus: 365 Voices on the Future of the Planet is an illustrated collection of 365 daily meditations soon to be released by Rocky Mountain Books. Each of the 365 daily entries was written by a different contributor in response to the following questions regarding the fate of the planet and its inhabitants: Do you…
APU on the Web: Candela explains icefield study for LinkTV viewers
Glacier science undertaken by double-major Sal Candela is showcased in a short film that takes viewers to one of the world’s largest non-polar masses of snow and ice. Candela, ’15, is completing bachelor’s degrees in Outdoor Studies and Earth Science and was selected for summer 2013 fieldwork by the Juneau Icefield Research Program. It recruits…
