Dr. Bjartmar Sveinbjörnsson
Interim Director, ENRI and
Professor, Biological Sciences
As Interim Director of the Environment and Natural Resources Institute (ENRI), I welcome you to our website. ENRI is a research institute at the University of Alaska Anchorage. Our faculty fellows, ENRI research scientists, and affiliated scientists work on applied and fundamental research in south-central Alaska and elsewhere, asking and answering questions, identifying problems, and contributing to their solutions. Our research funding comes from a variety of sources: national agencies including the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA), and the National Park Service (NPS); state agencies such as the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (ADEC) and the Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADFG); and the University of Alaska. Currently, the ENRI team collectively has more than $7 million in funded research projects. We are committed to strengthening our research capacity to better serve the needs of the south-central region of Alaska, in which the majority of Alaskans live.