2021 Research and Creative Activity Days

The recording of the is now available! 

Explore the posters and presentations:

Presenter Title Poster Pre-recorded presentation*
Louis
BASTILLE
Joshua 
MACEACHERN
Zion
ALIOTO

 

Fully Automated Aerial Systems Tether

Grace
BOLT (Honorable Mention)
Matching Excess Renewable Energy Generation with Heat Loads on Microgrids
Nicholas
GOUGH
 
Manageable Vertical Windmill Power Generation Using Existing City Infrastructure 
Joshua
MACEACHERN (Dean Choice Award)
Open-Source Multichannel Microfluidics Pump 

Gerald
MONTUYA

Radiative Sky Cooling

Mirin
MORRIS-WARD

Gregory REYNOLDS

Ethan
MAHONEY

 Automated Malaise Trap Collection System

Matt
PERRY

Logan VANCLIFFORD

Brayden
BAHNKE

Millard
ARNOLD

 Building an Autonomous Lunar Mining Robot for NASA

Peyton
PRESLER (Honorable Mention)

Determining Relative Age of Landslides Using LiDAR-derived Surface Roughness and Field Observations
Jordan
SONDEGAARD
 Wireless Energy Transfer

(Honorable Mention)

Presenter Title Poster Pre-recorded presentation*
Talia
DAVIS (Honorable Mention)
Ocean water and blue mussel (Mytilus edulis; yaak*) samples create baseline for climate change and pollution indicators and strengthen data sovereignty for the Tlingit community of Kake, Alaska

Feyne
ELMORE

Effects of Salinity and Minerals on Zooplankton Abundance and Structure in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska
Amanda
FRANTZ
The influence of acclimation temperatures on the mRNA expression driving thermotolerance in Broad Whitefish Coregonus nasus
Hanna
HELLEN
Differences in stable isotope signatures between Chukchi Sea and Southern Beaufort Sea polar bears

*Google Slide, must be downloaded to play.

Thomas
HOUSE

Differences in Isotopic Signatures Among Arctic Grayling in the Yukon River Watershed

Molly
PISCOYA

Roger MALDONADO

 Histological analyses of male lingcod reproductive tissues in Prince William Sound

William
SAMUEL (Dean Choice Award)

Analysis of the Cripple Creek Restoration Project: Assessing the Effects of Fish Passage Improvements and Habitat Enhancement on Fishes in a Chena River Tributary.
Emily
WILLIAMSON
Phytoplankton Diversity and Abundance Along a Glacial Gradient in Kachemak Bay, Alaska

 

Presenter Title Poster Pre-recorded presentation*

Madeline
ANDRIESEN

Jenna
DREYDOPEL

Taylor
HENDRICKS

Lindsay
MOISAN

Ellie
MARTINSON

Jonathan
LANGER

Ariana
LOPEZ (Dean Choice Award)

Vocal Performance and Music Education 
Kayli
BREUNINGER (Honorable Mention)
Exploring Well-Being During Winter Across Latitudes
Lucille
FARRELL
How do people interpret smileys?

Naomi
GREEN

Sarah
GRIFFEN-LOTZ

Continuing With Massive Collaborative Animation

Michael
HEVEZI

Fire and Morchella: Foraging and Learning in the Alaska Burn

Kyleigh
HUNTSMAN

Two Roads
Jane M.
REILLY 
A Dance of Music & Madness: the interplay of opera and mental illness from 1600 to 1920

 

 
Presenter Title Poster Pre-recorded presentation*
Rya
BERRIGAN
ARcTic Fest - Annual Alaska Art-Science Climate Change Festival

Grace
BURRELL (Honorable Mention)

Climate-driven changes in hibernacula temperature and hibernation physiology of arctic ground squirrels (Urocitellus parryii) in northern Alaska
Hannah
DEULING
Identification of a novel SARS-CoV-2 strain with trucated mutation in ORF8 gene by next generation sequencing

Skye
HART

Using Ground Penetrating Radar to Investigate the Subsurface of a Dry Lake on Kodiak Island, AK

Aidan
HUNTER

Brian
ZHANG

Determining the Auditory Capability of Reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) Using Classical Conditioning

Olivia
HOBGOOD

Mining With Plants: Growing a More Sustainable Future
Sean
MARBLE
Does the Denali Fault Control Pluton Growth?
Michelle
REAUME (Honorable Mention)
Denali Fault - How do we understand the age, magma source, and growth rate of each pluton?  
Amber
SMOLNIK
Organic and Inorganic Fertilizer Applications with Mycorrhizae for Lettuce Growth and Development
Reed
THOMAS
Code Black: A revised look at the ASIP gene in the Hoary marmot.

Lahra
WEBER (Dean Choice Award)
Developing a Method for Quantification of HMS in Ion Chromatography

Eric
ZUCKER

Study Methods, Strategies and Recent Changes in Delivery of Foundation Courses in Veterinary and Medical Schools
 
Presenter Title Poster Pre-recorded presentation*
 Alyssa 
BOULING
Investigation of association between academic achievement and cognitive performance among the undergraduate students of UAF.
Maria
BURKE (Dean Choice Award)
Investigating earthworms in westerns Alaska



*Google Slide, must be downloaded to play.

Presenter Title Poster Pre-recorded presentation*
Craig KYLE
CHYTHLOOK  (Dean Choice Award)
 Water Services Impact on Subsistence