A presentation (PDF, 5.7MB) by Gunnar Knapp, professor of economics at ISER, to Energies of the High North - Arctic Frontiers 2012, in Tromsø, Norway, January 25, 2012
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Welcome to the ISER News and Announcements page, your hub for timely updates, industry insights, and the latest organizational highlights. Here, you can stay informed about upcoming events, important deadlines, and exciting achievements, all aimed at keeping the ISER community connected and engaged.
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Alaska Journal of Commerce reports on the Institute of Social and Economic Research teaming up with the Alaska Commission on Postsecondary Education to learn more about students as they enter college.
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Amy Lauren Lovecraft of the University of Alaska Fairbanks is studying how climate change in the Arctic affects men and women differently, as well as key differences in the vulnerability of populations to changing climate in the Arctic and in more arid or tropical areas to the south. Please join us to hear Dr. Lovecraft talk about her research.
When: Monday, February 13, 12 to 1
Where: ISER Conference Room, Fifth Floor, Diplomacy Building
Download the PDF announcement (209KB).
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The total value of construction spending statewide in 2012 will be $7.7 billion, up 3% from the level in 2011. That’s the finding of the 2012 Alaska construction spending forecast, prepared by Scott Goldsmith and Mary Killorin of ISER for the Construction Industry Progress Fund and the Associated General Contractors of Alaska. Private spending for construction will be up, and large state capital budgets in recent years have offset the decline in federal construction spending.
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The Center for Alaska Education Policy Research (CAEPR), a center located within UAA’s Institute of Social & Economic Research, is setting up an email list to share news and information about the center, new publications and upcoming events. If you would like to be on this list, please send an email to caepr@uaa.alaska.edu with your name and email address.
For more information on CAEPR, please visit our website at: https://iseralaska.org/caepr/
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Stephen Bezruchka of the University of Washington’s School of Public Health will talk about how early life affects our health as adults—and why changes in health policies for the youngest Americans could make us healthier as we age. Dr. Bezruchka will speak from 12 to 1 in the ISER conference room, on the fifth floor of the Diplomacy Building (4500 Diplomacy Drive). Everyone is welcome to attend this talk, co-sponsored by ISER and UAA’s Department of Health Sciences.
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A new paper by Bob Loeffler, visiting professor of public policy at ISER, examines whether valid assessments of the ecological risks posed by mining projects can be done at the pre-design stage—that is, before a mining company submits a detailed mine design to government regulators. The author draws conclusions by analyzing three existing ecological risk assessments for mining projects in Alaska: post-design assessments for the Kensington and Red Dog mines and a pre-design assessment for the proposed Pebble mine.
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A new book, The Cool 100, published by the Technical University of Denmark, features a chapter by energy economists Tobias Schwörer and Ginny Fay of ISER and Dennis Meiners of Intelligent Energy Systems. The chapter, “The Chaninik Wind Group,” describes an innovative collaboration among village utilities in four southwest Alaska communities.
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Heather Hudson gave a presentation on “Broadband Policies for the North” for the Anchorage chapter of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) on November 16. Her presentation can be found here. This presentation can be found here.
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In its November 23 edition, the Alaska Journal of Commerce reports on ISER's 50 years as an public policy research organization.
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