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New CIFAR Administrator
(1/27/2012) In October 2011, we added Susie Carson to our staff. She is the new CIFAR Administrator and comes to us from the UAF School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences. Her contact information can be found on the staff page. Welcome, Susie!
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CIFAR Funds Five Global Change Student Research Grant Awardees
(5/5/2011) All four of the NOAA mission goals require highly trained scientists and managers, and NOAA human resource needs include research scientists with interdisciplinary training in the physical, environmental, and social sciences. In response to these needs, CIFAR has placed specific emphasis upon competitively supporting graduate and undergraduate students (in addition to those supported on CIFAR research projects) whose research addresses issues critical to both NOAA and the Alaska region. As part of this ongoing commitment, we are pleased to announce that CIFAR has invested Task I funds (both federal and University of Alaska match) to support five graduate students among the recently announced 2011 awardees of the Global Change Student Research Grant Competition. The students and their departments and proposal titles are listed here. |
James Partain joins CIFAR Executive Board
(11/16/2010) CIFAR is pleased to announce that James Partain, who was recently appointed NOAA Regional Climate Director for Alaska, is the newest member of the CIFAR Executive Board. Partain served as one of CIFAR's Fellows under the previous cooperative agreement, and we are very happy to welcome him back in this new capacity. |
Ocean acidification in the Gulf of Alaska
(11/16/2010) Jeremy Mathis, a University of Alaska Fairbanks assistant professor and ocean acidification (OA) expert, has received support from NOAA Fisheries (Alaska Fisheries Science Center, Juneau, AK) through CIFAR to deploy the first moored surface and deep water measurements of OA in Alaska’s marine ecosystems. Mathis and co-workers are currently designing the moorings that will be deployed at long-term monitoring sites GAK-1, in the Gulf of Alaska, and M-2, in the southeastern Bering Sea, in March and May 2011, respectively. Data from these moorings will be returned in real-time via satellite, so the atmospheric measurements of CO2, and surface and deep measurements of pH, will become available shortly after deployment.
For more on this story, read the related NOAA hot item.
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New and improved Proposals page available
(9/22/2010) Prospective PIs are invited to visit our newly revamped proposals page, which provides basic information about submitting a proposal to CIFAR as well as some important post-award information. |
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See the CIFAR news archives
NOAA "Hot Items" featuring CIFAR:
http://www.nrc.noaa.gov/ci/hotitems/ 2010/11_cifar.html
http://hotitems.oar.noaa.gov/storyDetail_org.php?sid=5912
http://www.nrc.noaa.gov/ci/hotitems/ 2008/10_climate_course.html
http://www.nrc.noaa.gov/ci/hotitems/ 2008/05_climate_change.html |
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| Founded in 2008, the Cooperative Institute for Alaska Research (CIFAR) conducts ecosystem and environmental research related to Alaska and its associated Arctic regions, including the Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Chukchi/Beaufort Seas, and Arctic Ocean. READ MORE... |
| In the Alaska region, where rapid environmental and socio-economic changes are occurring, CIFAR places priority on education and two-way outreach between scientists, managers, communities, and local stakeholders. READ MORE... |
2009 RUSALCA Cruise
The 2009 RUSALCA (Russian-American Long Term Census of the Arctic) cruise took place in the Bering Sea and Arctic Ocean in August and September. Exciting photos, stories and more can be found here. Several RUSALCA research projects (UAF PIs Katrin Iken, Brenda Norcross, Russ Hopcroft, Tom Weingartner and Terry Whitledge) are funded through CIFAR.
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CIFAR Research Priorities
CIFAR research focuses on a number of high priority issues for the Alaska region, specifically, marine ecosystems, coastal hazards, and climate change and variability. READ MORE... |
| Submitting a proposal to CIFAR? Find out useful information to help in preparing your proposal. READ MORE... |
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