The cooperative research training program establishes and maintain cooperative study units, in partnership with federal, state, and local governments, tribes, nonprofit organizations, and institutions…

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Park Service under the Cooperative Research and Training Programs - Resources of the National Park System (CFDA 15.945) will provide $156,250 to the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) to fund Alaska Native science and engineering student internships. The internships will focus on projects that enhance climate change resilience of Alaska social-ecological systems and food security for subsistence users. Key objectives include advancing opportunities for co-stewardship of natural resources with Alaska Native tribes and rural communities, and building National Park Service technical capacity to understand changes in social-ecological systems and their management implications. The award period runs from September 2023 through April 2028.

The cooperative research training program establishes and maintain cooperative study units, in partnership with federal, state, and local governments, tribes, nonprofit organizations, and institutions of higher education, to facilitate multi-disciplinary science and integrated information products related to the resources of the national park system. This agreement will fund alaska native science and engineering student interns that focus on projects that enhance climate-change resilience of alaska social-ecological systems and food security for subsistence users through social and technical capacity-building activities that advance, 1) opportunities for transformational and enduring CO-stewardship of natural resources in partnership with alaska native tribes and rural communities and 2) national park service technical capacity for understanding changes in social-ecological systems and their management implications. Students funded as interns under this agreement will receive training, learn about, and support project components of such projects. Beneficiaries include students and the public.