Big Screen FREEZE

Join the Alaska Society of Media Photographers as they present BIG SCREEN FREEZE: Images From The FREEZE Project. Five media photographers are featured.

Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center auditorium. Admission is FREE to all.

FREEZE & The Alaska Forum

FREEZE is pleased to announce that the Alaska Forum on the Environment, 2009 will be held February 2-6, 2009 using both the Anchorage Egan Convention Center and the new Dena’ina Center for the event.  This year the Alaska Forum will offer over 90 technical breakout sessions and 8 sensational Keynote Events. Join the Forum for a full week of sessions on climate change, energy, environmental regulations, cleanup and remediation, fish & wildlife, solid waste, and much more.  For more information visit www.akforum.com.

FREEZE Ends

Takedown of installations on Park Strip, Elderberry Park and Museum entrance.

Last day of exhibitions at International Gallery.

Lecture: Alaska Native Art and Indigenous Art of the Arctic

Lecture by Ron Senungetuk.

Anchorage Museum Auditorium.  FREE.

Presentation: Northern Ecology

Presentation on the polar bears of the Arctic, by USGS researcher Steven C. Amstrup.

Steven C. Amstrup is a Research Wildlife Biologist with the Unites States Geological Survey at the Alaska Science Center, Anchorage AK. He holds a B.S. in Forestry from the University of Washington (1972), a M.S. in Wildlife Management from the University of Idaho (1975), and a Ph.D. in Wildlife Management from the University of Alaska Fairbanks (1995). He has been conducting research on all aspects of polar bear ecology in the Beaufort Sea for 24 years. His interests include distribution and movement patterns as well as population dynamics of wildlife, and how information on those topics can be used to assure wise stewardship. He is particularly interested in how science can help to reconcile the ever enlarging human footprint on our environment with the needs of other species for that same environment. Prior work experiences include studies of black bears in central Idaho, and pronghorns and grouse in Wyoming. On their honeymoon in New Zealand in 1999, Steven and his wife Virginia helped in a tagging study of little blue penguins. That experience gave Steve the honor of being one of the very few people ever to have been bitten by both polar bears and penguins.

Anchorage Museum Auditorium, FREE.