2016-2017 Professional Development Seminars

Fall 2016

Date Seminar Title Presenter Credits
9/9/16 Managing and Distributing Large Collections of Elevation Datasets in Alaska Michael D. Hendricks (DGGS) 1.0
9/16/16 Masonry Heaters Jeff Hoffman (UAA) 1.0
9/23/16 Challenges and Opportunities for Co-Robots and Computing George Kamberov (UAA) 1.0
9/30/16 Characterization of Mechanical and Thermal Properties of Permafrost for Engineering Analyses Joey Yang (UAA) 1.0
10/7/16 Monitoring and Predicting Streambed Scour at Alaska Bridges Robin Beebee (USGS) 1.0
10/14/16 Sag River Flooding, North Slope Alaska  Horacio Toniolo (UAF) 1.0
10/21/16 Energy challenges and solutions in rural Alaska  (10/21/16 PowerPoint) Eric Hanssen (ANTHC) 1.0
10/28/16 Alaska Highway Safety Manual Calibration  (10/18/16 PowerPoint) Osama Abaza (UAA) 1.0
11/4/16 Mendenhall River Flood Inundation Mapping Library (11/4/16 PowerPoin) Crane Johnson (NOAA) 1.0
11/11/16 Introduction to Gaussian Processes with Applications to Spatial Data (11/11/16 Presentation) Matthew Kupilik (UAA) 1.0
11/18/16 Sustainable Materials and Design for Alaskan Pavements Jenny Liu (UAF) 1.0
12/2/16 2D Surface Water Modeling in the Colville River Delta, Alaska Garrett Yager 1.0
12/9/16 Environmental Effects of Beaufort Sea Causeways (12/9/16 PowerPoint) Jack Colonell 1.0

Spring 2017

Date Topic Presenter
1/20/17

Introduction into Greenroads®, a Third-Party Sustainable Rating System for Transportation Projects (1/20/17 PowerPoint)

Robert DeVassie (DOT)
1/27/17 Thermal Modeling and Testing of Building Envelope Assemblies (1/27/17 Presentation PDF)  Scott Hamel (UAA)
2/3/17 Water and Sewer CCTV Inspection Methods & Techniques (2/3/17 PowerPoint) Brian Gastrock (Stephl Engineering) 
2/10/17 Spatiotemporal analysis for travel patterns in Alaska  Caixia Wang (UAA)
2/17/17 Challenges of contaminated site remediation in the Arctic; twenty-five years of studies at the former Naval Arctic Research Laboratory (NARL) in Barrow, Alaska  Keith Torrance (UMIAQ Environmental)
2/24/17 Alaska Gasline Development Corporation (2/24/17 Presentation PDF)  Fritz Krusen (AGDC)
3/3/17 Summary of Metocean parameters for portions of the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas (3/3/17 PowerPoint)  Andrew Metzger (UAA)
3/10/17 Assessing Fish Passage Success in Culvert Structures with a 2D Algorithm (3/10/17 Presentation PDF)  Alex West Jeffries (PND)
3/24/16 3D modeling of coastal erosion using SFM (Structure From Motion) (3/24/16 Presentation PDF)  Gennady Gienko (UAA)
3/31/17 Mercury Transport in Cook Inlet, from the Glacier to Knik Arm  (3/31/17 PowerPoint)  Birgit Hagedorn (UAA CAS)
4/7/17 Water Main Cured-in-Place Pipeline Lining & Horizontal Directional Drilling Underneath the Alaska Railroad   James Armstrong (AWWA)
4/14/17 Forecasting coastal flooding and erosion in Arctic Alaska Tom Ravens (UAA)
4/21/17 Temporal Trends in Surface Water Area using the Landsat Archive  Frank Witmer (UAA)
4/28/17 Arctic Oil Spill Modeling  Dana Brunswick (UAA)