2013 Science Fair Awards

The recipients of the 2013 Science Fair Awards are listed below.  I believe there were multiple entomology-related projects at each of the three regional science fairs.

Southeast Alaska Regional Science Fair – Gabriel Cohen, “How Sediment Slug Size Porosity Affects Benthic Macroinvertebrate Communities.”

Alaska Science & Engineering Fair – Crystal McNeilly, “A Survey of Biodiversity of Aegialites beetles in Sitka Sound.”

Interior Alaska Science Fair – Aspen and Riley French, “House Cricket Habitat Selection.”

More on the award is available on our Science Fair Award page.

New Publication: Unexpectedly high among-habitat spider (Araneae) faunal diversity from the Arctic Long-Term Experimental Research (LTER) field station at Toolik Lake, Alaska, United States of America

Appearing in a special issue of the Canadian Entomologist on arctic entomology in the 21st century, the authors compared species diversity predictions of a three-year study of spider diversity with a single-season sampling effort using multiple methods, finding surprisingly high diversity (75 species).

The abstract is available via the URI below.

http://dx.doi.org/10.4039/tce.2013.5