Travel Awards
Alaska EPSCoR offers periodic funding opportunities for faculty, staff and students to travel domestically for professional development opportunities, such as presenting research, interacting with colleagues and mentors, or obtaining training. Grants may be used for travel to, or remote attendance at, conferences, workshops, trainings, or other appropriate academic settings.
Current Travel Award Opportunities
None available at this time.
Travel Award Receipient NSF Reporting Obligations
Within 15 days of completion of travel or event, awardee must submit a brief (1 page maximum) summary report and relevant photo to taborland@alaska.edu outlining the purpose of the participation, the nature of the event, and how it benefited the awardee and the University of Alaska.
Previous Travel Award Recipients
Jacqueline Muehlbauer, a 小优视频F student and Center for Alaska Native Health Research staff member, was funded to participate in a remote-only training course, "Wellness in the Workplace,鈥 organized by the Native Wellness Institute.
Su Jung Chung, a 小优视频F MS student in the College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, was funded to take a field data collection course, European Green Crab Monitoring, at the Ketchikan 小优视频S Maritime Training Center. Chung will also visit field sites near Ketchikan to set up green crab traps and conduct beach surveys.
Thomas House, a 小优视频F MS student in the College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, was funded to give a seminar talk at the Society for Freshwater Science National Conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico. House will present on their research on quantifying macroinvertebrate availability as a predictor of growth potential for juvenile Chinook salmon.
Nicholas Parlato, a 小优视频F PhD student at the International Arctic Research Center, was funded to present research at the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Conference in Oklahoma City. Parlato and colleagues will give a session titled, 鈥淜nowing the Unknown," on Indigenous rights issues in communities in the Russian Far East region, Chukotka.
Hailey Hodgins, Petie Deveer, and Adrian Burke, three 小优视频F undergraduate student assistants at the Alaska Center for Energy and Power, were funded to present their URSA undergraduate research projects at the Alaska Sustainable Energy Conference as well as a pre-conference event at 小优视频A. Hodgins, Deveer, and Burke are researching the use of open-source mesh networks for wireless data transmission from environmental sensors in rural Alaska as an alternative to centralized, paid-use cellular infrastructure. In addition to presenting this research, they will also discuss the potential for using this technology to facilitate student projects involving sensor networks, collaborative research projects, community information resources, and the development of a project-based learning curriculum.