UAF research funding update

A variety of UAF researchers have recently been awarded funding for their work. Please join Vice Chancellor for Research Nettie La Belle-Hamer in congratulating them for their successful proposals. It is through this competitive award process that UAF really shines as leaders in research!

  • Ethan Roth
    • NSF award $70,062 for one year
      Sikuliaq Oceanographic Instrumentation
  • Mark Fahnestock, Dr. Andres Ashwanden.
    • NASA award 68,808 for three years
      Calibrated sensitivity of the Greenland Ice Sheet to major climate changes from next-generation radiostratigraphy and ensemble modeling
  • Daniel Mann, Dr. Nancy Bigelow, Dr. Pamela Groves
    • NSF award $690,185 for three years
      The Lost Pastures of Alaska's Last Megafauna
  • Ronni Grapenthin
    • NSF award $375,448 for three years
      The 2020-2021 Alaska-Aleutian Earthquake Sequence: Cascading Events & Stress Loading of the Shallow Megathrust
  • Ethan Roth
    • NSF award $130,356 for one year
      Sikuliaq Shipboard Scientific Support Equipment 2022
  • Catherine Cahill
    • FPH Group Inc award $19,662 for one month
      ACUASI Mast Payload Study
  • Brenda Konar, Dr. Lee Ann Munk, Dr. Jason Fellman, Dr. Schery Umanzor
    • NSF award $94,665 for one year
      Planning: Glaciers to Gulf Meeting
  • Chris Maio
    • DGGS award $79,889 for 18 months
      Arctic Coastal Hazards
  • Melinda Webster
    • NSF award $304,752 for two years
      Spatiotemporal variability of solar radiation partitioning in the sea ice system: Improving climate models using observations from the MOSAiC field campaign
  • Heike Merkel, Dr. Erin Trochim
    • NSF award $509,124 for three years
      REU Site: Research Experience for Undergraduates in Arctic Renewable Energy Development, Economics, and Integration

The VCR Office would like to congratulate every new UAF award. To submit your successful award, please fill out this form.