Alaska EPSCoR improves Alaska's research capacity by distributing National Science Foundation and state funds. Project research focuses on the rapid environmental and social changes taking place in Alaska and across the world's northern latitudes. For more information, please see Alaska EPSCoR's Project Summary. Alaska EPSCoR also administers a cyberconnectivity grant at the University of Alaska (UA) and the PACMAN grant, which supports a joint Hawaii-Alaska study of precipitation in the North Pacific.

A UA research team recently completed a proposal to fund Alaska EPSCoR from 2012-17. The proposal was submitted to the National Science Foundation in November 2011.

Alaska EPSCoR's 2012 All-Hands Meeting will take place May 24-5 in the Reichardt Building on the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus. It will be preceded by a grant-writing workshop on May 23. Please check back on this site for updates on the agenda, lodging, and other particulars of the conference. 

Congratulations to the UAF Electric Snowmachine Team, which took first place overall in the zero-emissions category at the 2012 Society of Automobile Engineers Clean Snowmobile Challenge, held in Houghton, Michigan. Team members included Alaska EPSCoR grantees Michael Golub and Isaac Thompson.  

Full stories on the event appeared in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner and on the Michigan Tech website.

Alaska EPSCoR is providing travel support for seven people to attend the 2012 International Polar Year Conference, to be held April 22-27 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. EPSCoR-supported attendees are Winslow Hansen, Judy Ramos, Elena Sparrow and Kenji Yoshikawa of UAF, Robin Bronen and Mara Kimmel of UAA, and Abigail Enghirst of the Institute of the North.

Alaska EPSCoR funded nine faculty and students to attend the 2012 Western Alaska Interdisciplinary Science Conference from March 28-31 in Dillingham. EPSCoR supported Hector Douglas, Andres Lopez, Edda Mutter, Amy Rath, Glenn Seaman, Ellen Weiser and Rebecca Young of UAF, Doug Causey and Yoko Kugo of UAA, and Jory Stariwat of the University of British Columbia.  

Three videos featuring Alaska EPSCoR-affiliated permafrost researchers at UAF have recently been posted on the Frontier Scientists website. Vladimir Romanovsky, Sergey Marchenko and Ronald Daanen figure prominently in the videos, entitled "It's a Bore Hole!," "The Permafrost-Twisted House," and "Permafrost Patterns."

Frontier Scientists is a National Science Foundation and National Park Service-funded effort to create and disseminate short videos and other web content showcasing research efforts in Alaska.