Fostering collaboration between NOAA, the University of Alaska, and others doing research in Alaska and its associated Arctic regions

CIFAR IPY Student Traineeships

IPY student traineeship awards funded 10 undergraduate and 12 graduate students working on a wide variety of NOAA polar issues in the physical, biological, and social sciences during the Fourth IPY. As part of the IPY legacy, these student traineeships supported students doing research in areas important to NOAA missions and for capacity building in Alaska. Project reports can be found in the Cooperative Institute for Arctic Research's annual report to NOAA for FY2008.

IPY awards to faculty to support undergraduate students

• Robert Boeckmann (UAA); Alice Smith: Cultural identity, geographical attachment, and indicators of behavioral health among Alaska Native students
• Rolf Gradinger and Falk Huettmann (UAF); Melanie Bakker and Cortney Pylant: Assembling the pan-Arctic distribution of sea ice fauna in relation to ice algal biomass, a contribution to the Arctic Ocean Diversity (ArcOD) project
• Katrin Iken and Bodil Bluhm (UAF); Dominic Hondolero: Russian-American Long-Term Census of the Arctic: Adding caloric content and spatial resolution of seafloor communities
• David Tallmon (UAS); Micaela Ponce, Amina Ashraf, Brenda Bruggeman and two students TBD: Undergraduate involvement in studies of adaptive and neutral genetic variation in Alaskan species sensitive to global climate change

IPY award to faculty to support an undergraduate and a graduate student

• Brian Barnes (UAF) and Ian van Tets (UAA); Jeff Mayfield and Kalb Stevenson: Do arctic vertebrates defend bone mineral stores during hibernation?

IPY awards to faculty to support graduate students

• Perry Barboza (UAF); David Gustine: Monitoring winter body condition of barren ground caribou from the Bering Sea to the Hudson Bay
• Matthew Carlson (UAA); Theresa Rzeczycki: Effects of an arctic biological pollutant on rare Alaskan habitats
• Hajo Eicken (UAF); Matthew Druckenmiller: Sea-ice use during IPY 2007-2008: Exploring past and present local activities through research and education and outreach in Barrow and Wales, Alaska
• Bruce Finney (UAF); Jason Addison: Late Quaternary environmental change in the Gulf of Alaska
• Nicole Molders (UAF); Morgan Brown: Investigation of the impact of western Arctic volcanic eruption on weather and climate
• Maribeth Murray (UAF); Jennifer Newton: Retrospective study of sea ice, marine & human system interactions in the North Pacific and Western NA Arctic
• Bill Simpson (UAF); Dan Carlson: Role of sea salts in catalyzing the deposition of mercury in Arctic spring
• Martin Truffer (UAF); Jason Amundson: Understanding the causes and future direction of the present rapid thinning of Jakobshavns Isbrae
• Donald Walker (UAF); Martha Raynolds: Greening of the Arctic: Synthesis and models to examine pan-Arctic vegetation change: climate, sea-ice, and terrain linkages
• Matthew Wooller (UAF); Yiming Wang: Late Quaternary climate dynamics inferred using the stable oxygen isotope composition of aquatic insects (Chironomidae: Diptera) from Idavain Lake, southwest Alaska
• Diana Wolf (UAF); Jessica Beecher: Adaptation to cold in the far north
• David Yesner (UAA); Kristin Scheidt: Zooarchaeology and climate change: Implications of high-resolution faunal records from the outer Kenai Peninsula coast, southcentral Alaska