View the webcam display originating from atop the Kuskokwim Campus Main Campus Building. View looking towards the south across the facility of KYUK Radio and TV station in Bethel, Alaska.
Must use INTERNET EXPLORER BROWSER to view.
http://137.229.228.127/img/main.cgi?next_file=main_fs.htm
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Follow-up information for Martin’s presentation at the ANSEP dissemination conference.
Power Point slides presented individually as a flickr set archive. YouTube video of running presentation. YouTube video of ‘fun faces’ from the conference. Enjoy!
Quyana for coming to Alaska! Nice to see you all and looking forward to working with you.
Contact Martin at martinl(at)bethel.uaf.edu for more info.
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link to .jpg images of slides BRIDGING
Running Slide-show from Martin’s Bridge .ppt
Fun Faces From the Conference
Here are photos compiled during the ‘07 College Bridging Program season…lots of fun…lots of work! Link here!
College Bridging Students on their weekend jaunt…paddling the Kuskokwim River and visiting Alessa Poe’s family camp just down river from Bethel.
Here’s the link to Chris’s presentation on Information Fluency!
http://community.uaf.edu/~cde/wiki/ITS07/HomePage
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As part of their Natural History of Alaska class, the Ellikarrmiut Summer Science students have been participating in a limited (but very productive) dig on the site of an old kiiyaq, or men’s house. Exciting artifacts from the dig could eventually prove that humans have been inhabiting and using Nunivak Island and the Yukon-Kuskokwim delta for much longer than has previously been proven.
It turns out that our camp here at Nash Harbor isn’t at the site called Ellikarrmiut at all. That village site sits on a spit of land just across the river, while we’re camped on the site of a different, higher village called Qimugglugpagmiut (loosely translated as “people of Big Bad Dog”). Oral tradition maintained that Ellikarrmiut was the older village, and an earlier dig at Nash Harbor focused almost exclusively on that side of the river. However, two afternoons of a tightly focused and supervised student dig at the Qimugglugpagmiut kiiyaq have already turned up artifacts very likely to prove older than anything found during two summers of digs across the river.
Allowing for students to complete testing for Information Technology certificates in their own Bethel hub community.
KuC Summer Science Program – The Ellkarmiut Summer Science Field Camp is one of the programs offered to encourage Y-K Delta high school juniors and seniors to consider education and careers in Science and Technology.
The camp is located in a remarkable wilderness environment on the shores of the Bering Sea’s Nunivak Island. The camp provides a learning environment that is a hands-on and adventure-based.
Students can earn six college credits if upon successful completion of the course of study as well as winning stipends and other incentives based on performance in the course. The program instructors are Dr. Rick Knecht and Skip Snaith. Courses offered include Biology, Field Videography and Anthropology.
The development of the facility has spurred economic development activities within the local Native community of Mekoryuk inciting business, local jobs as well as training for young people in the community.
Link to the Alaska Journal of Commerce Article
Link to economic development project as part of Summer Science field station.
KuC Talent Search Program – Recruitment – KuC hosts over 200 students at the Bethel Campus each summer. Students participate in career and academic pathway exploration as well healthy lifestyle activities. Advanced students participate in Rocket Science curricula with TCUP faculty; instructors Dan Solie and Bob Brown.
These students are nutured and hopefully leave the campus with a positive ‘first’ college experience. Watch as Drs. Brown and Solie nurture our students through their first ’serious’ rocket experience.
ANSEP Pre-college Program –targeting local high school juniors. All participating students are required to contract with us to enroll and successfully complete chemistry, physics, and trigonometry. In the lab, juniors assemble the computers and learn to use AutoCAD, MS Office, and other appropriate software. These software tools are needed within our industrial partner organizations. Instructor mentor is Martin Leonard III, Matt Calhoun and Dennis Deshion.
Students completing the program have priority access to other ANSEP core activities like the Bridging Program. Most students live up to their contracts and you will find many of these students performing to top standards at Pacific Alliance Campuses.
TCUP STEM capacity building at the Kuskokwim Campus.
ANSEP Building was dedicated the last week of October in Anchorage on the UA Campus.
The first Cruisewest Cruise tour ship of the year, the Spirit of Oceanus, landed at Nash Harbor on Sunday the 25th of June.
Students had the opportunity to mingle with the tourists and get to know these visitors, many of whom were visiting from different places around the world. I’m not sure who learned more, the students, the tourists or the NIMA employees…it was a good cross cultural exchange.
The tours included a cultural tour (led by NIMA youth from Mekoryuk, Ben
Weston and Amanda), an extended hike up the ridge (led by Wayne Don – NIMA board), history tour (w/ Elder, Joe David and Dr. Rick Knecht) and some Bering Sea kayaking (led by aoc voluteers Steve Carr and Chris Pike) for the adventourous at heart.
About 65 people disembarked from the boat and landed ashore…NIMA corporation officials and Cruisewest administrators viewed it as a success as everyone involved seemed pleased with the outcomes…the tourists left with a better understanding of Nunivak and the people of Alaska, the students got a chance to interact with new and interesting folks and NIMA corporation brought some tourist $ to their island community.
More information on the CruiseWest tours can be found on the Cruisewest blog and on their websites.
http://www.cruisewest.com/blog/voyage/voyage_06210601.aspx
http://www.cruisewest.com/cruisewest/experience/ships/soo.aspx
click here to download
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The NSF TCUP KuC Summer Bridging Program runs for 7 weeks each summer and is based on the highly successful ANSEP Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program model. A typical weekday for a Bridging student begins with an 8 am Calculus prep class at the KuC Campus. The class runs until 10am and the students then report for their intern jobs.
Each job teams a student with an engineer or scientist at a local Bethel organization. We ask the companies to give the students jobs that they think the students can’t do. The sponsoring company challenges the students with projects that will take nine weeks to complete. Lunch is at noon and they are back at work at 1pm.
At 5pm the students travel back to the University residence hall where they eat and then work collaboratively on Calculus prep with peer mentors from the Pacific Alliance University Retention Program until bedtime. Weekends are dedicated to cohort building and students enjoy a joint outing; fishing, plane ride, hovercraft excursion, etc. The pace of the summer is tough, but students enjoy it and rise to the challenge year after year. Students are awarded 4 college credits upon completion of the Mathematics course.
Here is a short (7min) video about the College Bridging students on their retreat / trip to Platinum, AK.
Click image below to view.
Don’t forget we have a photo archive for
Nunivak Summer Science ‘06.
There are lots more photos on the archive!
You can find the archive at…flickr.com
clickety click to the flickr archive here!
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Students are on their way to spike camp at Miqsarmiut. There will be lots of hiking and living out of our backpacks for the next few days.
We will however be out of communication link but will be back online in a few days once returning to Nash Harbor.
There will be more photos and new stories to tell…wish us luck!
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…from the SSF 04 and 05 seasons, the Edward Curtis collection – circa 1928 and a solo kayak trip around the Island…Martin’s slide-show presentation of Nunivak Island.
NIA stands for Network Innovation Associates
http://www.getnia.com
In addition to providing satellite broadband, they also provide a full range of internet and IT solutions.
http://www.getnia.com/products/internet/satellite/index.html
The satellite network they use is provided by ViaSat with the gateway earth station in Atlanta, GA. http://www.viasat.com/
Service is provided on the Horizons 1 satellite at 127 degrees west longitude with the service speed being 256×256 kbps.The terminal equipment is the ViaSat DVB/RCS LinkStar modem with a 2 watt Ku band transmitter mounted on a 1.2 meter satellite dish. The VOIP adapter is as Digium IAXY using the IAX2 protocol.
VOIP service is provided through the Microcom IP switch in Anchorage using an open source Asterisk IP software package. The VOIP adapter is as Digium IAXY using the IAX2 protocol.
A big thanks to Mr. Tom Brady of Anchorage-based Microcom for facilitating the support from NIA and to Chip Carpenter, KuC ITS student, for putting the system together w/ Tom and organizing the deployment at Nash Harbor.
Thanks to Shortie Salzbrun for welding-up the non-penetrating mount…it blew 40 last night and the dish didn’t move an inch.
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