NSF director announces $13.5 million award
NSF director announces $13.5 million award
Submitted by George Happ
Phone: (907) 474-5492
08/16/04
Arden L. Bement, acting director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), will tour University of Alaska Fairbanks facilities Aug. 18 - 19. Bement is scheduled to announce a $13.5 million award for Alaska EPSCoR, the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research on Wednesday, Aug. 18, at 1:30 p.m. in the lobby of the new West Ridge Research Building. The award, $9 million from NSF and $4.5 million from the state of Alaska, goes toward upgrading research capabilities in environmental physiology, population genetics of adaptation to arctic environments and mitigations of climate change effects on cold-regions infrastructure.
On Thursday, Aug. 19, the director will join UAF researchers and Chancellor Steve Jones on a day trip to Toolik Field Station, America’s only Long Term Ecological Research station in the Arctic, located at Toolik Lake, 377 miles north of Fairbanks in the foothills of the Brooks Range. Operated by UAF’s Institute of Arctic Biology, each summer Toolik hosts an international array of scientists and students studying the Arctic’s unique ecology and its impact on the global community.
CONTACT: Alaska EPSCoR Director George Happ at (907) 474-5492 or george.happ@alaska.edu; or UAF University Relations Director Debra Damron, Public Information (907) 474-7122 or debra.damron@uaf.edu.