The University of Alaska Anchorage received a three-year, $889,359 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs under the Polar Programs federal grant program (CFDA 47.078). The grant will support collaborative research examining the complex effects of interconnected human and environmental dynamics in the changing Arctic region. Key products and services will include expansion of fundamental scientific knowledge and understanding of polar environmental...
The National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs awarded $133,435 under the ELOKA PHASE V: COLLABORATIVE DATA STEWARDSHIP AND KNOWLEDGE MOBILIZATION FOR ARCTIC COMMUNITY-DRIVEN RESEARCH AND OBSERVING project grant to Calista Education And Culture, Inc. from February 1, 2021 to January 31, 2026. The project grant funding will support collaborative data stewardship and knowledge mobilization for Arctic community-driven research and observing as part of the NSF Polar Programs....
This Project Grant award of $199,448 from the National Science Foundation's Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) supports a collaborative research effort titled "Co-Creating Research for Just Arctic Future Infrastructure Transformations, Resilience, and Adaptation (CRAFT)." The project brings together researchers and indigenous community members in the Arctic regions of Alaska, Norway, Greenland, and Canada to study challenges and best practices for co-producing knowledge on critical...
The National Science Foundation awarded $167,634 under the Polar Programs federal grant program (CFDA 47.078) to the University of Alaska Fairbanks for the period of March 1, 2022 through February 28, 2025. The award will support collaborative research to better understand divergent tree growth patterns in Arctic treeline forests relative to temperature variability. The grantee will leverage an existing tree ring dataset and conduct fieldwork at key Alaskan and Canadian sites showing unusual...
The University of Alaska Fairbanks was awarded a $1.7 million project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs to conduct research titled "Submarine Basins, Steppe, and Sea Ice: Paleoclimate and Paleoecology of the Late Pleistocene and Holocene Bering Sea Shelf" from August 2021 through July 2024. The research funded under this award will investigate the paleoclimate and paleoecology of the Bering Sea shelf through the late Pleistocene and Holocene...
This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Polar Programs will support the creation of a geographic information system (GIS) database and map of marine and terrestrial glacial features related to mid- to late-Pleistocene Arctic Ocean glaciation. Funded at $229,955, the award was issued on May 1, 2023 to the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) to be completed by April 30, 2026. Under the grant, UAF researchers will synthesize existing datasets from marine surveys,...
The University of Alaska Fairbanks was awarded a $918,722 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs' Polar Programs federal grant program (CFDA 47.078) for the period of June 1, 2021 through May 31, 2024. The grant funds research titled "ANT LIA: Hypoxia Tolerance in Notothenioid Fishes," which will strengthen understanding of fundamental knowledge about the Antarctic region through studying how certain Antarctic fish species tolerate low-oxygen...
The University of Alaska Anchorage received a $200,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs on June 15, 2021 to support research titled "RAPID: Fingerprinting New Water-Carbon Interactions in the Arctic: Isotopic Measurements through the Northwest Passage and in Baffin Bay." The research aims to strengthen understanding of fundamental polar science by collecting isotopic measurements to study interactions between water and carbon in the...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs supports research understanding impacts of extreme events on Arctic peoples. With $481,923 in funding from October 2021 through September 2024, William Paterson University will conduct basic research best performed in the polar regions. The NSF Polar Programs aims to expand fundamental polar knowledge and understanding through supporting such field-based scientific inquiry. Additionally, Columbia University will...
The University of Alaska Anchorage will receive $298,128 over five years from the National Science Foundation under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to conduct the project "Arctic Cities: Measuring Urban Sustainability in Transition (MUST)." Through this funding, the University will collaborate with other organizations to strengthen understanding of integrated Earth systems through basic research on atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences. Specifically, the University aims to...