Building Alaska's STEM Capacity
Alaska NSF EPSCoR improves scientific research capacity and broadens participation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) in Alaska by engaging in research projects supported through National Science Foundation and state funds.
Navigating Variability in Boreal Wildfire Regimes and Subarctic Coastal Ecosystems
Alaska EPSCoR's current five-year project, "Fire and Ice," studies climate-driven changes to wildfire regimes in the Alaska boreal forest and glacial runoff influences on coastal ecosystems in the Gulf of Alaska.
At the Interface of Change
NSF has announced the sixth Alaska NSF EPSCoR Track-1 award
Alaska EPSCoR project director Brenda Konar, left, and postdoctoral researcher Brian Ulaski, right, prepare to survey an oyster mariculture farm in Simpson Bay near Cordova.
The National Science Foundation has awarded $20 million to the University of Alaska to investigate climate change effects on culturally and commercially important marine species in the Gulf of Alaska.
Interface of Change is the sixth five-year, multimillion dollar project directed by the Alaska Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research, a statewide program administered at the University of Alaska Fairbanks since 2001 and funded by the NSF.
The project will unite 23 researchers from UAF, the University of Alaska Anchorage and the University of Alaska Southeast. They will partner with eight Gulf of Alaska communities: Seldovia, Halibut Cove, Homer, Cordova, Valdez, Juneau, Haines and Klukwan.
Fire & algorithm: Predicting fire weather with artificial intelligence
June 12, 2024
Climate change is shifting weather patterns and complicating the Alaskan wildfire season. Artificial intelligence could illuminate our ability to predict each season's unique personality. As we enter the fire season in 2024, we look back on the week of lightning that ignited last year's wildfires and anticipate the development of new prediction and modelling tools.
Barnette Magnet wins first place in Alaska Science Olympiad
February 28, 2024
The Barnette Blazers of Barnette Magnet School in Fairbanks won first place in the 2024 Alaska Science Olympiad on Saturday, Feb. 24.
New way to spot beetle-killed spruce can help forest, wildfire managers
June 12, 2024
A new machine-learning system developed at the University of Alaska Fairbanks can automatically produce detailed maps from satellite data to show locations of likely beetle-killed spruce trees in Alaska, even in forests of low and moderate infestation where identification is otherwise difficult.
Alaska EPSCoR 2024 Spring Travel Awards
April 24, 2024
Alaska NSF EPSCoR is offering travel funding for the 2024 spring and summer seasons. Awards of up to $3,500 are available to support University of Alaska affiliates traveling domestically to STEAM-related conferences, workshops, presentations, meetings, training, or education activities prior to Aug. 31, 2024. Apply by April 26 at 5 p.m.
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