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Fairbanks North Star County, Alaska, funds by National Science Foundation

Listing $169,857,713.80 in stimulus funds from National Science Foundation for Fairbanks North Star

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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
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS $148,070,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (P.L. 111-5). The award is made to the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) for the construction of the Alaska Region Research Vessel (ARRV) based on the approval to proceed rec National Science Foundation 5/27/2009
JOHNSON RIVER ENTERPRISES, L.L.C. $3,900,000 Modification to approve, fund, and provide required clauses for tasking related to 2009 ARRA. Tasks include acquiring traverse equipment for use in Greenland and the design/build of a dining facility at Toolik field Station, Alaska.
This spending item is part of a $7,000,000 allocation. See details
National Science Foundation 9/08/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS $3,000,000 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This project seeks to develop and demonstrate the capability of a Pacific Area Climate Monitoring and Analysis Network (PACMAN). PACMAN is expected to yield a more reliable understanding of the impacts of climate warming on fresh water resources and commu National Science Foundation 8/28/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS $1,859,861 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support There exists no global database that defines the thermal state of permafrost within a specific time interval. Internationally, reported or unpublished temperature measurements have been obtained at various depths and periods over the past five or more dec National Science Foundation 5/21/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS $1,517,928 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Our knowledge of how crustal magma chambers evolve and how these magma chambers relate to plutons and eruptions is inadequate, largely because nobody has yet conducted a comprehensive study of an active crustal magma chamber. This project provides a uniqu National Science Foundation 7/02/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS $1,481,252 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The University of Alaska Fairbanks campus will install a research supercomputer that will be a broadly accessible instrument for investigation of phenomena related to the Arctic as well as a set of other key research areas. The instrument will be utilized National Science Foundation 7/24/2010
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS $772,111 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Recent measurements of the Bering Strait throughflow fluxes find strong seasonal and interannual variability, so far unpredictable ? the heat flux increase from 2001 to 2004 is enough to melt an 800 km by 800 km area of 1 m thick ice, and the internannual National Science Foundation 7/06/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS $699,998 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Sustainable Ecosystem-Based Management of Living Marine Resources (SELMR) at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) supports the education of future leader National Science Foundation 5/07/2010
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS $677,130 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support There is increasing evidence that ecological processes at high latitude are just as sensitive to the timing of events as to their magnitudes. In the boreal forest, moisture availability in summer affects both tree growth and the fire regime. Summers are b
This spending item is part of a $797,130 allocation. See details
National Science Foundation 6/25/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS $638,518 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This multidisciplinary proposal aims to improve understanding of ocean/glacier-ice interactions by linking oceanographic, glacier, and atmospheric measurements in a fjord/glacier system showing recent change to quantify processes occurring at this interfa
This spending item is part of a $726,018 allocation. See details
National Science Foundation 8/11/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS $607,031 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The Chukchi Borderland is a block of extended continental crust embedded in the oceanic crust of the Canada Basin. As the piece that does not fit the simple 'windshield wiper' model for the Mesozoic opening of this basin, it figures prominently in all tec National Science Foundation 8/26/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS $491,178 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This project will digitize and provide internet access to over 2000 Alaska Native language interview tapesrecorded under the 1971 Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act and another 2000 plus recordings selected from the 5000 held by the Alaska Native Languag National Science Foundation 8/28/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS $444,186 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) is a novel suite of infrastructure now being designed to support experimental research in network science and engineering. The majority of this award is to fund 38 subcontractors, consisting of collabo
This spending item is part of a $11,546,106 allocation. See details
National Science Foundation 9/02/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS $432,522 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The glaciers and icefields of coastal southeast Alaska and the adjacent areas of Canada are among the most dynamic on the planet, and they are shedding mass at a dramatic rate due to climate warming and the dynamics of tidewater glacier retreat. Deglaciat National Science Foundation 8/19/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS $400,814 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. See details
National Science Foundation 8/28/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS $379,491 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Funds are provided to determine how arctic zooplankton communities have varied over interannual to decadal periods, from regional to panarctic scales. The PI states the specific hypotheses that zooplankton biomass may be increasing, due to environmental c National Science Foundation 8/03/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS $369,016 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Changes in the magnitude and seasonality of Arctic summer vegetation production over the past several decades have been documented. These changes will likely accelerate and have consequences for the entire Arctic terrestrial system, in particular energy a National Science Foundation 8/20/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS $359,658 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The magnification of climate warming in high-latitude ecosystems poses a variety of challenges to arctic peoples. In Alaska and elsewhere in the Arctic, climate change have been linked to reduced subsistence opportunities and increased difficulties of pre National Science Foundation 9/17/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS $341,008 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support A three-year interdisciplinary research program will be undertaken at Cape Espenberg, located on the northern coast of the Seward Peninsula (Alaska), with a focus on the history of human settlement and response to climate change between AD 800 and 1400. D
This spending item is part of a $991,956 allocation. See details
National Science Foundation 5/28/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS $336,880 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Funds are provided to collect baseline winter information on the overwintering physical and biological characteristics of three important Arctic Seas: The Bering Sea, the Chukchi Sea, and the Beaufort Sea. Understanding of seasonality, and particularly wi National Science Foundation 8/26/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS $327,277 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The Tibetan Plateau is the largest area of high topography on the planet. Is the Tibetan Plateau rising higher today? Is it growing taller due to ongoing contraction as India continues to collide with Eurasia? Is it collapsing due to extension driven by i National Science Foundation 6/17/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS $316,779 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support People across the globe are increasingly facing rapid changes in the resources on which they depend for food and survival. In the Arctic, climate warming is one of several interrelated forces of change that could threaten the livelihoods of indigenous com National Science Foundation 8/03/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS $308,728 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Funds are provided to develop methods of electromagnetically monitoring the internal state of sea ice, the thermal evolution of its microstructure, and the transport processes it controls. The PIs will conduct fundamental mathematical studies, as well as National Science Foundation 8/25/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS $283,374 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This work will document observed changes in the hydroclimatology of the Siberian region, attribute these changes to specific physical mechanisms in the context of climate change, and study the impact of those changes from the regional to the hemispheric w National Science Foundation 8/20/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS $259,559 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The PI proposes to leverage the ongoing ICORTAS (Ice-Covered Ocean Response to Atmospheric Storms) field observations by augmenting the existing scientific goals to include a modeling component that will capitalize on a model?s ability to resolve temporal National Science Foundation 7/17/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS $195,417 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Funds are provided to deploy a single, strategically placed mooring in the core of the western Arctic boundary current east of Barrow Canyon, which will collect measurements permitting estimation of both the alongstream and cross-stream fluxes of importan National Science Foundation 8/04/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS $184,616 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This project by Anna Berge at the University of Alaska is to continue the research that was encompassed in her earlier project on the Aleut language that was funded as an NSF CAREER award. The goals of the original CAREER project were to document aspects National Science Foundation 8/25/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS $172,190 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).This award is an outcome of the NSF 09-524 program solicitation ''George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) Research (NEESR)''
This spending item is part of a $638,327 allocation. See details
National Science Foundation 7/17/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS $161,037 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This project will study the processes that remove nitrogen oxides in high latitudes during winter by measuring near-surface nocturnal nitrogen oxide levels, quantifying their lifetimes through a steady-state analysis, and correlating their loss rate to th National Science Foundation 8/30/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS $156,981 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Funding is provided to obtain new ice core accumulation records from Combatant Col, Mt.Waddington, in southwestern British Columbia (BC), Canada. Combatant Col is located significantly farther south than other existing ice core sites along the west coast National Science Foundation 6/04/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS $124,981 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This project will deploy a new Fabry-Perot interferometer (FPI) at the U.S. Palmer Station located in the Antarctic Peninsula. The FPI will observe mesospheric and thermospheric neutral winds and temperatures using multiple nightglow emissions (OH, 892 nm National Science Foundation 8/18/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS $119,999 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Rapid changes in the arctic climate system that occurred in the relatively recent past can be compared with the output of climate models to improve the understanding of the processes responsible for nonlinear system change. This study focuses on the trans National Science Foundation 7/23/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS $115,305 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support The role of iron as a limiting nutrient in many oceanic regions has been established, and atmospheric deposition has been recognized as a major source of iron in the global ocean. The fraction of iron that dissolves in seawater after its atmospheric depos National Science Foundation 9/14/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS $91,039 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This project consists of test excavations at the Little Delta Dune Site, a Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene site in central Alaska. The cultural remains consist of stone tools and animal remains associated with hearth features. At least four prehistoric oc National Science Foundation 8/14/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS $50,812 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This interdisciplinary study combines efforts from mathematicians and ecologists to develop more suitable models and modeling approaches that address issues of interest to both ecologists and resource managers. The specific objectives of this project are National Science Foundation 8/30/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS $49,818 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This is an award to cover the travel and expenses of 11 rural Alaskan students, most from underrepresented groups (Alaska Native) and 4 university faculty members to attend the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC): COP15 in Copen National Science Foundation 8/27/2009
YUKON RIVER INTER-TRIBAL WATERSHED COUNCIL $41,808 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support WORKSHOP Partnership Proposal: Expanding Climate Change Research through a Multidisciplinary Multi-agency Approach National Science Foundation 8/17/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS $41,135 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Of the planet's ecosystems the Arctic is the most sensitive to climate change. Recent increases in the rate of environmental change in the Arctic pose considerable challenges to the survival of culturally and economically important, arctic-adapted species National Science Foundation 7/24/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS $28,503 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 National Science Foundation 7/28/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS $25,819 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support Archaeologists have long looked to Beringia, the region encompassing Alaska and far northeastern Siberia, for clues about the origins of the first Americans and spread of humans into the Arctic. The traditional view holds that humans first migrated from S National Science Foundation 8/24/2009
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS $23,955 Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).This study will test hypotheses about the responses of marine birds to spatial and temporal variability in ocean processes in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Isla
This spending item is part of a $340,310 allocation. See details
National Science Foundation 6/29/2009