7 November 2009
IAB Programs and Facilities
Alaska Basic Neuroscience Program (ABNP)
(www.iab.uaf.edu/abnp/home.htm)
The Alaska Basic Neuroscience Program (ABNP) seeks to expand, facilitate, and stimulate neuroscience research as part of the human health research initiative at UA. The program incorporates interdisciplinary research to study mechanisms of neuroprotective adaptations, spanning the entire spectrum from behavioral to cellular and molecular aspects. Present research objectives concentrate on circadian rhythms and thermoregulation, hibernation as a model of neuroprotection, and neuronal regeneration and survival with an emphasis on the role of reactive oxygen species. This effort is further supported by strong collaborative research with other institutions and investigators in the United States.
(www.iab.uaf.edu/abnp/home.htm)
The Alaska Basic Neuroscience Program (ABNP) seeks to expand, facilitate, and stimulate neuroscience research as part of the human health research initiative at UA. The program incorporates interdisciplinary research to study mechanisms of neuroprotective adaptations, spanning the entire spectrum from behavioral to cellular and molecular aspects. Present research objectives concentrate on circadian rhythms and thermoregulation, hibernation as a model of neuroprotection, and neuronal regeneration and survival with an emphasis on the role of reactive oxygen species. This effort is further supported by strong collaborative research with other institutions and investigators in the United States.
Alaska Geobotany Center (AGC)
(www.geobotany.uaf.edu)
IAB's Alaska Geobotany Center, located in the Arctic Health Research Building on UAF's West Ridge, is dedicated to understanding northern ecosystems through the use of geographic information systems, remote sensing, and field experiments.
(www.geobotany.uaf.edu)
IAB's Alaska Geobotany Center, located in the Arctic Health Research Building on UAF's West Ridge, is dedicated to understanding northern ecosystems through the use of geographic information systems, remote sensing, and field experiments.
Animal Quarters (AQ)
Animal Quarters (AQ) provides safe and sanitary facilities for animal research projects in accordance with the Animal Welfare Act, Public Health Service Policy, National Institutes of Health Guidelines for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals and the UAF Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee. Housed animals include arctic ground squirrels, laboratory mice, red-backed voles, syrian hamsters, American widgeon, northern shovelers, lesser scaup, greater scaup, northern pintail, green-winged teal, zebrafish, sticklebacks, bettas, and black bears. The labor, care and feeding costs of specific animals are recharged to research projects and selected animal colonies are also maintained. Research personnel from the UAF use the facilities. Projects involve UAF graduate and undergraduate students, UAF faculty and research associates, and visiting scientists. The AQ Faculty Supervisor is Kelly Drew associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry, and associate director of the Institute of Arctic Biology. Email Kelly Drew.
Animal Quarters (AQ) provides safe and sanitary facilities for animal research projects in accordance with the Animal Welfare Act, Public Health Service Policy, National Institutes of Health Guidelines for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals and the UAF Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee. Housed animals include arctic ground squirrels, laboratory mice, red-backed voles, syrian hamsters, American widgeon, northern shovelers, lesser scaup, greater scaup, northern pintail, green-winged teal, zebrafish, sticklebacks, bettas, and black bears. The labor, care and feeding costs of specific animals are recharged to research projects and selected animal colonies are also maintained. Research personnel from the UAF use the facilities. Projects involve UAF graduate and undergraduate students, UAF faculty and research associates, and visiting scientists. The AQ Faculty Supervisor is Kelly Drew associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry, and associate director of the Institute of Arctic Biology. Email Kelly Drew.
Center for Alaska Native Health Research (CANHR)
(canhr.uaf.edu)
The Center for Alaska Native Health Research (CANHR) was established through a five-year grant awarded by the National Institutes of Health, National Center for Research Resources to the University of Alaska Fairbanks. The purpose of CANHR is to investigate weight, nutrition, and health in Alaska Natives. CANHR approaches this thematic focus from a genetic, dietary, and cultural-behavioral perspective. The funding comes through a program for Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE). This project has been and is being developed in partnership with the Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation (YKHC).
(canhr.uaf.edu)
The Center for Alaska Native Health Research (CANHR) was established through a five-year grant awarded by the National Institutes of Health, National Center for Research Resources to the University of Alaska Fairbanks. The purpose of CANHR is to investigate weight, nutrition, and health in Alaska Natives. CANHR approaches this thematic focus from a genetic, dietary, and cultural-behavioral perspective. The funding comes through a program for Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE). This project has been and is being developed in partnership with the Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation (YKHC).
Core Facility for Nucleic Acid Analysis (Core Lab)
(www.core.uaf.edu)
The Core Facility For Nucleic Acid Analysis, located in the West Ridge Research Building (WWRB) on UAF's West Ridge, keeps IAB and UAF at the "cutting edge" of molecular analysis in evolutionary biology, molecular biology, and wildlife and fisheries management. The Core Facility Faculty Supervisor is Bert Boyer, associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biology. Email Bert Boyer.
(www.core.uaf.edu)
The Core Facility For Nucleic Acid Analysis, located in the West Ridge Research Building (WWRB) on UAF's West Ridge, keeps IAB and UAF at the "cutting edge" of molecular analysis in evolutionary biology, molecular biology, and wildlife and fisheries management. The Core Facility Faculty Supervisor is Bert Boyer, associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biology. Email Bert Boyer.
IAB and Biology & Wildlife Computer Resources (Computer Lab)
(mercury.bio.uaf.edu/mercury)
The IAB and B&W computer network (file server, web server, and ftp server) is available to all faculty, students, and staff. Located in room 303 Irving I, the computer lab hosts 13 workstations, 2 flatbed scanners, 1 slide/film scanner, and a laser printer. The lab is used for computer-intensive courses and is available for general computing needs.
(mercury.bio.uaf.edu/mercury)
The IAB and B&W computer network (file server, web server, and ftp server) is available to all faculty, students, and staff. Located in room 303 Irving I, the computer lab hosts 13 workstations, 2 flatbed scanners, 1 slide/film scanner, and a laser printer. The lab is used for computer-intensive courses and is available for general computing needs.
IAB Research Greenhouse (Greenhouse)
(greenhouse.iab.uaf.edu)
The IAB Research Greenhouse provides a reliable environment for growing plants for research and educational projects year-round. Facilities include four separate zones housing research projects and plant collections, and three climate-controlled growth chambers.
(greenhouse.iab.uaf.edu)
The IAB Research Greenhouse provides a reliable environment for growing plants for research and educational projects year-round. Facilities include four separate zones housing research projects and plant collections, and three climate-controlled growth chambers.
Long-Term Ecological Research program (BNZ-LTER)
(www.lter.uaf.edu)
The Bonanza Creek Long Term Ecological Research program is located in the boreal forest of interior Alaska, USA. Our facilities are centered in the city of Fairbanks. Research at our LTER site focuses on improving our understanding of the long-term consequences of changing climate and disturbance regimes in the Alaskan boreal forest. Our overall objective is to document the major controls over forest dynamics, biogeochemistry, and disturbance and their interactions in the face of a changing climate. The site was established in Fairbanks, Alaska in 1987 as part of the National Science Foundation's LTER Program. The Bonanza Creek LTER has two primary research sites located in Alaska's interior: Bonanza Creek Experimental Forest (BCEF), located approximately 20 km south of Fairbanks at 64.8° N, 148.0° W, and Caribou-Poker Creeks Research Watershed (CPCRW), located at 65.16° N, 147.5° W, approximately 45 km north of Fairbanks.
(www.lter.uaf.edu)
The Bonanza Creek Long Term Ecological Research program is located in the boreal forest of interior Alaska, USA. Our facilities are centered in the city of Fairbanks. Research at our LTER site focuses on improving our understanding of the long-term consequences of changing climate and disturbance regimes in the Alaskan boreal forest. Our overall objective is to document the major controls over forest dynamics, biogeochemistry, and disturbance and their interactions in the face of a changing climate. The site was established in Fairbanks, Alaska in 1987 as part of the National Science Foundation's LTER Program. The Bonanza Creek LTER has two primary research sites located in Alaska's interior: Bonanza Creek Experimental Forest (BCEF), located approximately 20 km south of Fairbanks at 64.8° N, 148.0° W, and Caribou-Poker Creeks Research Watershed (CPCRW), located at 65.16° N, 147.5° W, approximately 45 km north of Fairbanks.
Resilience and Adaptation Program (RAP)
(www.uaf.edu/rap/)
The Resilience and Adaptation Program explores the link among cultural, economic, and ecological conditions of Alaska and the North to offer integrative graduate training that prepares scholars, policy-makers, and managers to address issues of sustainability. Students work with UAF faculty in a broad range of interdisciplinary research projects at community, regional, and circumpolar levels. RAP offers master's and PhD degrees in Biology and Wildlife, Anthropology, Resource Economics, Natural Resource Management, Northern Studies, and Interdisciplinary Studies. NSF-funded fellowships are available to PhD candidates entering the program. RAP is sponsored through NSF's Interdisciplinary Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) program. IAB administers the IGERT program at UAF.
(www.uaf.edu/rap/)
The Resilience and Adaptation Program explores the link among cultural, economic, and ecological conditions of Alaska and the North to offer integrative graduate training that prepares scholars, policy-makers, and managers to address issues of sustainability. Students work with UAF faculty in a broad range of interdisciplinary research projects at community, regional, and circumpolar levels. RAP offers master's and PhD degrees in Biology and Wildlife, Anthropology, Resource Economics, Natural Resource Management, Northern Studies, and Interdisciplinary Studies. NSF-funded fellowships are available to PhD candidates entering the program. RAP is sponsored through NSF's Interdisciplinary Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) program. IAB administers the IGERT program at UAF.
Robert G. White Large Animal Research Station (LARS)
(lars.iab.uaf.edu)
IAB's Large Animal Research Station, 2220 Yankovich Road, maintains a colony of muskoxen, caribou, and reindeer available for nutritional, physiological and behavioral research, and provides a location close to the university where research on large wild ungulates in captivity takes place. The LARS Science Director and Faculty Supervisor is Perry Barboza, associate professor of wildlife physiology and nutrition. Email Perry Barboza.
(lars.iab.uaf.edu)
IAB's Large Animal Research Station, 2220 Yankovich Road, maintains a colony of muskoxen, caribou, and reindeer available for nutritional, physiological and behavioral research, and provides a location close to the university where research on large wild ungulates in captivity takes place. The LARS Science Director and Faculty Supervisor is Perry Barboza, associate professor of wildlife physiology and nutrition. Email Perry Barboza.
Spatial Ecology Lab (SEL)
(www.sel.uaf.edu)
IAB's Spatial Ecology Lab is a state-of-the-art laboratory for the spatial analysis of ecological data; and the development, testing, and application of spatially explicit ecological models.
(www.sel.uaf.edu)
IAB's Spatial Ecology Lab is a state-of-the-art laboratory for the spatial analysis of ecological data; and the development, testing, and application of spatially explicit ecological models.
Toolik Field Station (TFS)
(www.uaf.edu/toolik)
IAB's Toolik Field Station, located in the northern foothills of the Brooks Range in northern Alaska on the southeast shore of Toolik Lake (68°37'N, 149°36'W, elevation 720 m, 254.3Km above the Arctic Circle), is a world-renowned Arctic climate change research station. This location affords access to three major physiographic provinces including the Brooks Range, the Arctic Foothills and the Arctic Coastal Plain. The Station also serves as a base camp for researchers working along the ecological transect from tundra to taiga to boreal forest along the Dalton highway, from Prudhoe Bay to Fairbanks, Alaska. The TFS Faculty Supervisors are IAB Director and TFS Science Director Brian Barnes and TFS Associate Science Director and Research Assistant Professor Syndonia (Donie) Bret-Harte. Email Brian Barnes. Email Syndonia Bret-Harte.
(www.uaf.edu/toolik)
IAB's Toolik Field Station, located in the northern foothills of the Brooks Range in northern Alaska on the southeast shore of Toolik Lake (68°37'N, 149°36'W, elevation 720 m, 254.3Km above the Arctic Circle), is a world-renowned Arctic climate change research station. This location affords access to three major physiographic provinces including the Brooks Range, the Arctic Foothills and the Arctic Coastal Plain. The Station also serves as a base camp for researchers working along the ecological transect from tundra to taiga to boreal forest along the Dalton highway, from Prudhoe Bay to Fairbanks, Alaska. The TFS Faculty Supervisors are IAB Director and TFS Science Director Brian Barnes and TFS Associate Science Director and Research Assistant Professor Syndonia (Donie) Bret-Harte. Email Brian Barnes. Email Syndonia Bret-Harte.