Dr. Jeff Welker, Director of the University of Alaska Anchorage’s Environment and Natural Resources Institute (ENRI), recently received a $622,000 grant from the Office of Polar Programs at the National Science Foundation (NSF) for his research project associated with the International Polar Year (IPY) investigations. The project will quantify how increases in shrubs have altered the abiotic environment, causing a fundamental change in the functional attributes of these systems in arctic Alaska. Co-principal investigators on this project are Professor Bjartmar Sveinbjornsson and Dr. Paddy Sullivan.
Dr. Roger Harritt was one of five (5) UAA researchers to receive a ICARP II travel assistance award from the University of Alaska's Advisory Research Council (September 2005).
The Cultural Heritage Studies Cooperative Agreement with the Air Force was renewed in June, 2005 to April, 2010. The original agreement was in effect from May, 2000 to April 30, 2005. It comprised a series of 12 projects, two of which are still underway, including : a task order for 'Implementing Government to Government (Activities) at the 611 th ASG, 2004, ' and the 'Point Hope Exhibit Manager and Workshop' project.
