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Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, University of Alaska,
Fairbanks
The first Fridays in May, June, July and August at 2 p.m. finds members
of the OLLI program at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, taking part
in a Summer Lecture Series. Lectures are free to members and $5 for
all others. Topics to be covered this summer include:
May – eBay and the US Postal Service –
The US Postal Service has teamed up with eBay on a national level to
bring the skills to each and every citizen who’s been interested
and thought about selling on eBay. Some of the topics covered during
the presentation will be registration, listing an item, photography,
product line, buying and selling, writing skills, opening bids, buy
it now, paypal, and shipping. Each attendees will receive an eBay/Postal
DVD called “The Basics,” with step-by-step instructions
by the #1 trainer at eBay.
June – Mushrooms Demystified – A color
slide-rich presentation of what fungi do and the interdependence so
many organisms demonstrate to keep our forests fit. Participants will
examine the cycles in the forest, including the roles and associations
of mammals, mycophagy, mushrooms and mycorrhizae in sub-arctic environs.
July – Aurora Effects on Humans: Myths and Facts
– Participants will review the general physics of aurora phenomenon,
then concentrate on the facts and fictions about the aurora’s
effects on living beings including human mental and physical health.
August – Spying on Volcanoes from Space –
There are approximately 75 historically active volcanoes in Alaska and
on the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia. When these volcanoes erupt they
can generate lava flows, fountains of fire or giant columns of airborne
ash. Few people live in the immediate vicinity of these volcanoes so
the greatest danger is from airborne ash that drifts into air traffic
routes over the Bering Sea, Gulf of Alaska and across Alaska. Satellite
imagery is an important source of information to spy on these volcanoes
to detect eruptions and to track the movement of the airborne ash. These
images are used by scientists to detect hot spots caused by lava flows
and fountains of fire, and to detect ash ejected high into the atmosphere.
The presentation will show what these volcanoes and eruptions look like
from space and how they affect our lives.
Taken from their spring/summer 2006 course catalog.
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October 11, 2008
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