CA5

What BP is trying to do for the course:

"If we can arrange two days on the slope, we think the participants would enjoy the course more.  There are some limitations with rooms, but if we can arrange for overnights at one of our camps we will try.  If we could get rooms, but how about this:

One day in class room here in our offices in Anchorage,

Day two - fly to slope, lunch, remainder of day field tour, hands on activities

overnight (TENTATIVE - we need to see if there are rooms available on slope)

Day three - more field activities with combination of lectures by Dr. Kelley."

Our Energy in the Arctic, , JOHN KELLEY, University of Alaska Fairbanks, GILBERT YANOW, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, ret., July 14-16, 2010, Anchorage and Prudhoe Bay AK.

Course Fee $500

We have been contacted by BP and told that they will spend two days in Anchorage, and then, what they call, a "long" day at Prudhoe Bay. The problem is lack of lodgings space for us at the Bay. This means the course will be more like 3 1/2 days. We would expect to get back very late on the last day.

At the present time the world supply of oil is a main topic in all of our minds. This course will discuss the advances in energy development in the artic primarily related to oil and gas exploration through a series of lectures and field trips. The first two days of the course will be in Anchorage, Alaska with orientation and lectures provided by BP Exploration (Alaska), Inc. staff and University of Alaska faculty. Lectures will cover problems associated with drilling for oil and gas in permafrost and offshore in ice covered seas, design and engineering technologies, geology of the region and environmental concerns. A “long” one day field trip will be taken to Prudhoe Bay on the Arctic Ocean coast of the North Slope of Alaska.  This field trip is sponsored by BP.  They fly the attendees to Prudhoe Bay(BP pays) from Anchorage and back, provide all transportation while we are there, as well as food.   The field trip will visit production facilities, the start of the Trans Alaska pipeline and the offshore Endicott drill site. Research associated with the extraction of oil and gas will be described including environmental studies and revegetation activities. The Course will terminate in Anchorage.

NOTE: There is a class limit of only 12 people. That is the number of seats we have been giving on the BP charter flight.

For college and secondary teachers of: undergraduate science, math and technology courses. Graduate students in the sciences who are interested in an eventual teaching career are also welcomed.

Prerequisites: none.

Dr. Kelley is Professor of Marine Science in the School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences. He has conducted research on trace gases and contaminants related to climate, hydroacoustics. Dr. Yanow was the Outreach Coordinator for the Genesis and Orbital Carbon Observatory Missions until his retirement. Dr. Yanow is currently the Director for the California Chautauqua Field Center.