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Research

APU partners Indigenous Arctic communities with scientific researchers for climate resilience

September 15, 2022

APU partners Indigenous Arctic communities with scientific researchers for climate resilience Featured Image

Collaborative effort, backed by $2.98 million grant from the NSF, will collaboratively address water and sanitation challenges in Alaska’s Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A new National Science Foundation (NSF) grant of $2.98M will support a three-year collaboration with University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass) and the University of Alaska Fairbanks to bring academics from across…

Filed Under: Community, Environmental Public Health, News Page, Press Releases, Research

APU boreal forest research published in top-tier journal Nature

August 12, 2022

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For the past several years, Dr. Roman Dial has researched tree line in northern Alaska. His undergraduate students may spend 99 days straight in the backcountry, gathering data by foot and by packraft from Canada to Kotzebue. That hands-on research has now produced an open-access publication in Nature, one of the world’s most renowned, most…

Filed Under: Active Learning, Earth Science, Environmental Science, Faculty, Outdoor Studies, Research, World Class

“The value of this connection is unexplainable:” EPH students visit Napaskiak

April 30, 2022

“The value of this connection is unexplainable:” EPH students visit Napaskiak Featured Image

In March, four environmental public health students from Alaska Pacific University (APU) traveled to the Native Village of Napaskiak in southwest Alaska, a traditional Yup’ik community just up the Kuskokwim River from Bethel. Cultural practices and language are important to Napaskiak. Residents enjoy a subsistence way of life, hunting, fishing, and gathering with the seasons….

Filed Under: Active Learning, Alaskan Culture, Environmental Public Health, Research

Artificial Intelligence in the Amazon

February 24, 2022

Amazon Blackwater

New APU-affiliated research shows how artificial intelligence can play a role in sustainable development, specifically in the Amazon. There are at least 158 dams in the Amazon basin, with 351 more in development. Each project has its own environmental drawbacks and economic advantages, but those impacts are compounded across the region. If the eight Amazon…

Filed Under: Active Learning, Research Tagged With: Earth Science, Environmental Science, Environmental Science Department, FAST Lab, Marine Biology

Sharks in Alaska: Search Opens for a Postdoctoral Researcher

April 26, 2021

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Improving Catch Estimation of Sharks Using Electronic Monitoring The Fisheries, Aquatic Science, & Technology (FAST) Lab at APU and the NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center have teamed up to find a postdoctoral researcher interested in sharks and electronic monitoring. This unique project will involve field work, development of fisheries monitoring tools, and integration of new…

Filed Under: FAST Lab, Marine Biology, Research, World Class Tagged With: Environmental Research

APU establishes community office for a national Arctic research initiative

February 3, 2021

Researchers walk on winter shorefast sea ice in the Chukchi Sea

As climate change warms the Arctic more than twice as fast as the rest of the planet, new challenges abound for the communities that live in the region, including food sovereignty, coastal erosion, increasing shipping traffic and more. The National Science Foundation’s Navigating the New Arctic (NNA) initiative aims to improve our understanding of the…

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Alaska Pacific University Eklutna research published in Journal of Hydrology

August 27, 2019

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Three APU researchers from the Institute of Culture and Environment – Associate Professor of Geology Amanda King, Emeritus Professor Jim Brown, and MSES graduate James Meyers – recently published their work on the hydrogeology of Eklutna Basin in the Journal of Hydrology. Eklutna Lake is the primary water supply for the city of Anchorage. With…

Filed Under: Earth Science, Featured Item, Geology, Newsletter, Research

Interactions between Atlantic spotted (Stenella frontalis) and bottlenose (Tursiops truncatus) dolphins off Bimini, The Bahamas 2003 –2007

March 9, 2012

Interactions between Atlantic spotted (Stenella frontalis) and bottlenose (Tursiops truncatus) dolphins off Bimini, The Bahamas 2003 –2007. Published in Aquatic Mammals, Oct. 1, 2011 Kelly Melillo, MSES, 2007 Interspecific interactions have been observed in a variety of social animals. Functional explanations include foraging, antipredatory and social advantages. These behaviors are little understood in marine mammals…

Filed Under: Marine Biology, MS Environmental Science, Recently completed theses, Research

Breeding bird density and habitat selection across western Kenai Peninsula wetlands, Alaska

March 9, 2012

Breeding bird density and habitat selection across western Kenai Peninsula wetlands, Alaska Erika McDonald, MSES, 2008 Distance sampling was used to survey breeding birds on the Kenai Peninsula between May 7and June 29, 2007. Twelve wetlands within each of five ecosystem types designated by The Wetland Mapping and Classification of the Kenai Lowland (Gracz et…

Filed Under: MS Environmental Science, Recently completed theses, Research

CO2 exchange along a hydrologic gradient in the Kenai Lowlands, AK: feedback implications of wetland drying and vegetation succession

March 9, 2012

CO2 exchange along a hydrologic gradient in the Kenai Lowlands, AK: feedback implications of wetland drying and vegetation succession, Published in Ecohydrology, Dec. 13, 2011 Susan L. Ives, MSES, 2010 Boreal wetlands hold vast stocks of soil carbon (C), which may be vulnerable to changes in climate. In Southcentral Alaska, wetlands of the Kenai Lowlands…

Filed Under: Earth Science, MS Environmental Science, Recently completed theses, Research

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