Curriculum and videos are available from our Reburns Alaska project

Are you a middle school or high school teacher? Are you a parent of a middle or high school student?

Our NSF-funded project, affectionately called “Reburns Alaska”, created four videos with hands-on activites that algn with state standards in collaboration with SciLive. Each of the four, 3 min videos are posted below, and we’ll be releasing the curriculum in late January. DM if you’d like more information.

Carbon and the boreal forest

https://vimeo.com/723047365

Forest adaptations

https://vimeo.com/723047365 

Permafrost

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3HZjbAMOWk

Soil respiration

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgDDNG_EBEo

Tom teaches at a summer camp in Alaska!

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Postdoctoral Research Scientist in our lab, Dr. Tom Brussel, led a virtual course for 12 middle school students with 365 SMART Academy of the University of Alaska-Fairbanks in August 2021 titled “Alaska on Fire”. The course’s content was geared to share knowledge of boreal forest succession and how these ecosystems interact and are impacted by climate change and wildfire. Participants were guided through these topics through interactive lessons and discussions, which were then reinforced in activities outside of the meeting time. Click here to learn more.

Videos about our DoD grant on Fort Bragg

Our lab collaborated with DoD, NC State, Harvard Forest, and WalkWest to create videos about Fort Bragg and our grant to work there.

Watch all four videos here:

DOD Case Study - Video One - Fort Bragg Ecosystem

DOD Case Study - Video Two- Fort Bragg's Red-cockaded Woodpecker

DOD Case Study - Video Three - The Value of Fire on Fort Bragg

DOD Case Study - Video Four - Fort Bragg's Ecosystem Forecast

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Outreach with middle school students in Fairbanks, Alaska

Burning Forests of Alaska

Shelby Weiss, PhD student in our lab, led a module with the Alaska Summer Research Academy for two weeks in July of 2019. This module was targeted at middle school students and focused around the theme of boreal forests and wildfires. We had nine students participate in the module and used a combination of interactive activities and field trips to learn about fires in Alaska and how we can measure their effects in the boreal forests around Fairbanks, AK. Many of the students were from the Fairbanks area.

More details here on Shelby’s blog:

https://www.reburnsak.com/alaska-summer-research-academy

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