Anchorage County, Alaska, funds by National Science Foundation
Listing $6,112,917.00 in stimulus funds from National Science Foundation for Anchorage
Note: For some programs where states do not report where money will be distributed across the state, we do not have the allocation for individual counties. Those programs include: Medicaid, unemployment benefits and food stamps. Those amounts are included in the totals for where the state agency receiving that money is located.
Amount refers to both the amount of stimulus funding going toward the project and the face value of the loan.
| Recipient | Amount | Description | Federal Dept./Agency | Date |
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| ALEUT INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION | $2,499,989 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award will support the continued implementation of the Bering Sea Sub-Network (BSSN), a regional initiative of community-based organizations in Western Alaska and Northeast Russia. The 'Intellectual Merit' of BSSN lies in its operation as a distribut | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA ANCHORAGE | $591,914 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The goal of this project is to maintain the existing ITEX AON and increase the applicability of the data collected to the greater scientific community. The International Tundra Experiment (ITEX) network has collected data on phenology, plant growth, comm | National Science Foundation | 8/14/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA ANCHORAGE | $588,056 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The University of Alaska Anchorage has been awarded a grant to purchase two stable isotope mass spectrometers plus a tunable diode laser system to quantify the processes of change in high latitudes. The instruments will be used to measure the natural abu | National Science Foundation | 8/11/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA ANCHORAGE | $545,143 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award will support the continued implementation of the Bering Sea Sub Network (BSSN), a regional initiative of community-based organizations in Western Alaska and Northeast Russia. The 'Intellectual Merit' of BSSN lies in its operation as a distribu | National Science Foundation | 8/26/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA ANCHORAGE | $502,530 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The Arctic is undergoing structural & functional changes that appear to be the result of climate change, including shifts in vegetation distribution, increases in CO2 & CH4 efflux from ecosystems to the atmosphere, and the acceleration of dissolved organi | National Science Foundation | 7/16/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA ANCHORAGE | $430,063 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Early historical records about people of the Aleutian Archipelago of Alaska emphasized the importance of coastal resources to the cultures, leading Laughlin (1980:20) to conclude 'The interior land surfaces on the other hand were irrelevant to their way o | National Science Foundation | 8/25/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA ANCHORAGE | $306,901 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Biologists are making significant progress in understanding how changes in single genes allow organisms to cope with changing environments. However, it is still unknown how entire genomes - the total genetic information encoded in an organism's DNA - res | National Science Foundation | 6/17/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA ANCHORAGE | $225,072 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Arctic soils have large stores of carbon (C) and may act as a significant CO2 source with warming. However, the key to understanding tundra soil processes is nitrogen (N), as both plant growth and decomposition are severely N limited. The current models | National Science Foundation | 7/09/2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA ANCHORAGE | $196,556 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Marine mammals of the Southern Ocean have evolved diverse life history patterns and foraging strategies to accommodate extreme fluctuations in the physical and biological environment. In light of ongoing climate change and the dramatic shifts in the exte | National Science Foundation | 7/06/2009 |
| ALASKA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY | $79,786 | Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Collaborative research: Nonlinearities in the Arctic climate system during the Holocene. 'The complete abstract for this award is available in Research.gov.' | National Science Foundation | 7/23/2009 |
| NORTH PACIFIC WILDLIFE CONSULTING LLC | $58,330 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The great 15 November 2006 Mw=8.3 and 13 January 2007 Mw=8.1 Kuril earthquakes rup-tured one of the most conspicuous gaps in subduction-zone seismic activity, a 600-km long Ku-ril arc segment that had not experienced a single great earthquake for about a
This spending item is part of a $211,083 allocation.
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National Science Foundation | 7/28/2009 |
| HENRY HUNTINGTON | $56,339 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award supports the continued development of the Exchange for Local Observations and Knowledge of the Arctic (ELOKA). It provides data management and user support to facilitate the collection, preservation, exchange, and use of local observations and
This spending item is part of a $1,968,016 allocation.
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National Science Foundation | 8/13/2009 |
| ALASKA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC | $32,238 |
Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Using a participatory action research model the research team will investigate the roles, strengths, and needs of Alaska Native grandparents residing in rur
This spending item is part of a $1,150,566 allocation.
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National Science Foundation | 8/28/2009 |