EPSCoR Program Director - Brenda Konar
Brenda Konar
Established Program to Simulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) Program Director
EPSCoR
225 O'Neill, Fairbanks, AK, 99775
Website: www.alaska.edu/epscor/
Konar is a professor of marine biology with the UAF College of Fisheries and Ocean
Sciences. She has served since 2018 as a co-PI of Fire and Ice, an interdisciplinary
effort to study climate-driven changes to Alaska’s boreal fire regimes and its coastal
ecosystems.
Konar holds a B.S. in biology from San Jose State University, an M.S. in marine biology
from Moss Landing Marine Labs in California, and a Ph.D in biology from UC-Santa Cruz.
She has worked at CFOS since 1999 and been a full professor since 2009. She serves
as co-lead of the Fire and Ice coastal margins component and will continue to do so
in addition to her PI role.