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....
The University of Alaska Fairbanks will provide collaborative data stewardship and knowledge mobilization services for Arctic community-driven research and observing under a $248,009 National Science Foundation Project Grant award. The grant was awarded on February 1, 2021 with a completion date of January 31, 2026. The award is part of the NSF's Polar Programs, which provides funding under Assistance Listing Number 47.078 to strengthen understanding of the polar regions through expansion of...
The National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs awarded a $393,692 project grant to The Marine Biological Laboratory under the Polar Programs federal grant program (CFDA 47.078) to support the Arctic Great Rivers Observatory (ArcticGRO) from June 1, 2022 through August 31, 2024. ArcticGRO will investigate changes in water chemistry and discharge from the six largest Arctic rivers - the Yukon and Mackenzie in North America and Ob, Yenisey, Lena, and Kolyma in Siberia. Water samples...
The University of Alaska Anchorage will receive $365,000 from the National Science Foundation under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to conduct collaborative research developing capacity for planning and adapting to riverbank erosion and its consequences in the Yukon River Basin from January 2022 through December 2026. As part of its basic research in atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences, the NSF Geosciences program supports projects that strengthen understanding of integrated Earth...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) provides $791,979 to Trustees of Tufts College (Tufts University) to research infrastructure interdependencies in the rapidly changing Arctic region of Alaska. The project aims to map critical infrastructure service (CIS) interdependencies within hub communities and between urban hubs and rural Alaska Native villages. The research team will leverage interviews, data collection, and...
This $305,340 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports U.S. researchers participating in a multinational Belmont Forum initiative on global environmental change research. The project aims to investigate how indigenous ecological knowledge and diverse technical knowledge can be used to develop adaptation pathways to address climate change challenges. The U.S. researchers will collaborate with partners from at least three other countries...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Integrative Activities awarded a $700,865 Project Grant under the Geosciences CFDA program to the University of Northern Iowa for the research project "SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS TRANSFORMATION IN RIVER BASINS OF THE SUB-ARCTIC UNDER CLIMATE CHANGE (SESTRA)". This 5-year project, running from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2028, aims to analyze the changing interactions between climate, water, and society in the Kuskokwim and Selenge River...
This Project Grant award in the amount of $500,000, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) 47.050 Geosciences program, supports research by the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) to analyze the changing interactions between climate, water, and society in the Kuskokwim and Selenge River basins of sub-Arctic Alaska and Mongolia. The interdisciplinary research project aims to assess the impact of climate and socioeconomic changes on local communities, ecosystems, and infrastructure,...
This $164,961 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Integrative Activities under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will support planning activities to develop novel research ideas and approaches to address the NSF's "Navigating the New Arctic" (NNA) program goals. The project aims to build partnerships for convergent research guided by local and Inuit knowledge, leadership, and expertise in two Arctic regions to study the impacts of underwater...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities provides $916,096 in funding to Alaska Pacific University from January 1, 2023 through December 31, 2026. The award supports research under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which aims to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic research in atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences. Specifically, the university will evaluate near-term and long-term water and sanitation...