The Department of Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has awarded a firm-fixed-price purchase order to Williwaw Weather and Climate Services, a for-profit small business, to provide non-personal technical support services for the U.S. Climate Reference Network (USCRN) stations in Alaska. The contract is valued at $70,000.00 and has a period of performance from June 1, 2024 to May 31, 2025, with an option year. The services include scheduled and unscheduled...
The USDA NRCS Western Region awarded a $30,070 firm fixed price purchase order to Alaska Land Exploration, LLC for flight services to support snow survey runs in Alaska from February to December 2023. As part of its mission to assess soil, water, and other natural resources, the NRCS utilizes aerial surveys to monitor snowpack levels across Alaska each spring, information critical to managing water resources. Alaska Land Exploration will provide the requested flight services from its base in...
This federal contract award, with ID NNX17AI20A, was granted by the Shared Services Center (an alternate name for the federal agency) to the Alaska Department of Natural Resources (DNR) as the prime contractor. The contract, valued at $150,766.00, is part of the Citizen Science for Earth Systems Program (CSESP) 2017 and aims to build on existing citizen scientist engagement in Alaska to extend this to the Pacific Northwest region, with a focus on studying variations in alpine snowpacks. The...
The University of Alaska Fairbanks Grants and Contracts Administration Division was awarded a $1.8 million cost-no-fee definitive contract by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' National Capital Region Humphreys Engineer Center Support Activity to support ESTCP Project RC20-5050. Under the contract, the University of Alaska will provide Arctic environmental and engineering data and design support services through December 2024. Neptune and Company, Incorporated will serve as a major...
This federal grant award supports the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) to convene the 2016 Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW) and Arctic Observing Summit (AOS) events in Fairbanks, Alaska. The $75,000 grant funds organizational activities, including logistics, meeting rooms, and workshops, to facilitate collaboration among the international organizations engaged in Arctic research. The events are expected to attract 800-1,000 participants from over 20 countries to discuss enhanced...
This is a $129,999.00 firm fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) on July 2, 2018 for ISER RESEARCH services. The contract is for work to be performed in Anchorage, Alaska with a completion date of September 14, 2023. This contract is not set aside. UAA, a U.S. state government entity and state-controlled institution of higher learning, provides a...
This contract was awarded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Humphreys Engineer Center Support Activity to the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) on September 28, 2018, with a total ceiling value of $1,198,812.00. The contract, which has no set-aside designation, is for "PROJECT RC-2507 FOLLOW-ON" and involves the provision of a range of scientific research, technical services, data collection, and educational support activities by UAF to the federal government. As a...
This is a $735,357.58 cooperative agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) to conduct research on environmental disturbances that impact subsistence harvesting and human access to traditional hunting, fishing, and gathering areas in rural Alaska. The research objectives include collaborating with local subsistence harvesters to map travel networks and document traditional ecological knowledge,...
This is a $163,156.51 cooperative agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) to integrate citizen science, remote sensing, and environmental information sources for the Arctic region. The project aims to: (1) place local observations into a broader geospatial framework, and (2) enable the use of local observations as ground truth for evaluating remote sensing products. The project focuses on monitoring sea ice, snow...
This is a grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) to develop a cloud-based automatic data analysis toolbox for processing Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data to map and monitor meteorological and hydrological disasters, such as hurricanes, floods, and landslides. The $711,842 project will integrate the resulting value-added products into end-user decision-making workflows to improve the use of SAR data in disaster...