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Alaska EPSCoR is dedicated to improving Alaska's research capacity. Our project, "Interface of Change," investigates Gulf of Alaska ecosystems, marine subsistence and mariculture species, and coastal communities. linktr.ee/alaskaepscor
A group photo outside in the snow with Christmas lights along a fence in the background.
The Interface of Change team had a great time convening in Fairbanks at the University of Alaska Fairbanks for our All Hands Meeting. On the first day of the meeting, we bundled up for temperatures of -30 F. On the second day of the meeting, it snowed several inches!
Josie Sam sits in one of three purple chairs. The paint on the chairs is peeling. Josie holds a clip board and a pen, slightly smiling, leaning in and listening to a man seated opposite of her. Sam is wearing a brimmed hat with sunglasses on top of the hat, a white t-shirt, jeans, and hiking boots. The man sits against the wall. He is holding a paper. He may be smiling a little or he is just talking. He wears shorts and a bright yellow short-sleeved, buttoned, collared shirt with a brown pattern. The shirt is unbuttoned at the top, revealing some of his chest, suggesting a hot environment. Lines in his face suggest he is maybe middle-aged, but not elderly. A third person sits in another of the purple chairs, but all we can see is their knees and fingers. The room they are in is small. The thick concrete walls are painted white on top and bright blue on the bottom up to window height. The paint is a bit textured with age. A large window, which is an open section of wall -- no glass or screen, allows light in, washing out the photo somewhat.
“Each community is unique.”
Josie Sam, professor and co-chair of the UAF Dept of Alaska Native Studies and Rural Development and co-founder of nonprofit the Nyarkoa Foundation, joins the Interface of Change project leadership team.
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A tray of clams with jack-o-lanterns faces.
Happy Halloween! We made some clam-o-lanterns...! 🎃
Curious about Interface of Change research on clams in Kachemak Bay? Learn more...! Visit: www.alaska.edu/.../interfac...
📨 Catch up on Alaska EPSCoR news in our October newsletter!
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📸 L to R: Erica Ebert, Tara Borland, Brenda Konar, Davin Holen, and Courtney Breest traveled to Hydaburg to organize a Mini Alaska Science Olympiad event for Hydaburg School.
Women in a panel presentation audience a conference room turned around listening and smiling.
Registration is now open for IGNITE 2026! 🔥
IGNITE: Individual Growth & New Ideas Through EPSCoR/INBRE will take place Jan. 7, 2026 at the BP Energy Center in ANC.
✈️📅 Register by Nov. 19 to be considered for travel funding to attend. alaska.edu/ignite
Two small Cessna airplanes are parked beside a rural Alaska airstrip with spruce trees and mountains in the background. Light snow covers the ground, trees, and mountains. The mountains are backlit by a twilight winter sun.
✈️ Alaska EPSCoR’s Interface of Change project is offering up to $1,500 for spring travel to present at a conference or attend a training. Open to students, staff & faculty from any Alaska higher ed institution. Apply by 5 PM AKDT, October 24! Info: alaska.edu/epscor/opportunities/travel-funding/
More information on the program and application at: www.uaf.edu/cfos/academi...
3-year PhD student fellowships are available through UAF College of Fisheries & Ocean Sciences for prospective students have received the distinction of NSF EGRFP Honorable Mention. Fellowships begin in May or Aug. 2026, and the application window is open now through Jan. 15, 2026.
Now that the red seaweeds team completed their first year of field sampling, grad student Lindsay Meyer is visiting UAA to work with postdoc Monica Brandhuber on assessing the metabolomics of red seaweeds that were grown in different environmental settings! 🌿🔬
Alaska EPSCoR Interface of Change researchers are studying clam ecology and population dynamics in Kachemak Bay in partnership with the Seldovia Village Tribe. This week, SVT environmental scientists Katrina Hecks and Stephen Payton are sampling clams at a beach near Seldovia.
#FieldworkFriday
📢 Call for Artists: Coastal Transitions 🌊
Alaska EPSCoR + In a Time of Change invite artists to apply for a new 2-year art-science collaboration. Selected artists work with scientists & communities to investigate coastal social-ecological themes in the Gulf of Alaska.
Apply by 8/29
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The red seaweeds near Haines, Alaska are getting bigger! 😍
#phycologyfriday #fieldworkfriday
🦪🎈 We threw a Kachemak Bay bivalves party this year for the University of Alaska Fairbanks Arctic Research Open House!
#AROH #AROH2025 #UAF #ArcticResearch #NanookNation
Do you receive the Alaska EPSCoR newsletter? It's full of Interface of Change project highlights, news, and funding opportunities.
Check out the May newsletter and subscribe:
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Juneau CFOS UAF MS student Lindsay Meyer, UAF Mariculture Lab tech Maribel Vera, and their field team "snap freeze" red seaweed samples on dry ice immediately to preserve them for liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry for metabolomics analysis.
#PhycologyFriday #fieldworkfriday
It's hooligan season, and the Chilkoot Indian Association are studying the threatened fish's population year to year.
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Red seaweeds shine like brilliant garnets across the intertidal near Haines, Alaska. 😍
@uafairbanks.bsky.social College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences Juneau grad student Lindsay Meyer is collecting samples near Haines over the course of its spring growing season.
#phycologyfriday #fieldworkfriday
🌱Have a great idea for community-based research or education in the Gulf of Alaska?
Apply for one of our Interface of Change seed awards by May 30!
👇 Missed our 'how to apply' webinar? Watch the recording.
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📅 Deadline reminder: Applications for our professional development travel awards are due this Friday, April 18 at 5 p.m. AKDT!
www.alaska.edu/epscor/oppor...
Young woman holding up a net of some kind, smiling, on a dock. There is a snowy hill in the background and she is dressed warm.
Want to learn about mariculture and marine environmental science research happening in Valdez?
Catch the 3rd annual PWSC Environmental Sciences Symposium May 2 in person at the main PWSC campus in Valdez or online via Zoom.
More info:
pwsc.alaska.edu/pwsc-news/pw...
A vial of a baby red seaweed.
Two women collecting seaweed samples on rocky show. It is overcast, and they are dressed warm.
Wet red seaweed growing on a rock on a rocky beach.
Red seaweed fieldwork is underway for the Interface of Change project! 🌿✨
🧪 Samples of red ribbon (Devaleraea mollis), red stiff ribbon (Palmaria hecatensis), and seawater are collected bimonthly March through June at two red seaweed harvest sites near Haines, AK. #phycologyfriday #fieldworkfriday
Have you met @soffox.bsky.social? They are one of the awesome graduate students conducting research with @uafairbanks.bsky.social fisheries genomicist @jessicaglass.bsky.social, one of the Interface of Change research leads!
Town buildings nestled in front of large spruces and a snow-tipped mountain. It is dusk, and the full moon is high in the sky. One large building is most prominent; it has many windows, and the bottom of the building is stone-walled. Mounted upon the stone wall are the words, “Welcome to Cordova” with five large salmon around the words.
✈️ Alaska EPSCoR’s Interface of Change project is offering up to $2,500 for spring travel to present at a conference or attend a training. Open to students, staff & faculty from any Alaska higher ed institution. Apply by 5 PM AKDT, April 18! Info: www.alaska.edu/epscor/oppor...
The Interface of Change project began July 2024 following 2 years of engaging with #GulfOfAlaska communities to develop research relevant to the needs of #Alaskans. Our leadership team met to reflect on our first year of initiating research, holding community meetings, and sparking innovation.
🌱 We are now accepting applications for #SeedFunding for #research & #education projects that expand our Interface of Change project or develop new directions from #GulfOfAlaska community members. 🐟🦪🌿
Deadline: May 30, 2025, 5 pm AKDT.
👉 Learn more: alaska.edu/epscor/opportunities/seed-funding