The National Science Foundation (NSF) has made a $5.6 million, five-year grant to establish a Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) site along the northern Alaskan coast that will focus on the interactions between land and ocean that shape coastal ecosystems in the Arctic over different time scales. Researchers at the Beaufort Sea Lagoons LTER site will […]
Seattle — Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation has been recommended to receive approximately $2.5 million in Clean Air Act Targeted Airshed grant funds to help improve air quality in Fairbanks, Alaska. Grant awards will be made upon successful completion of the award application process. Targeted Airshed […]
Alaska State Troopers investigated multiple incidents in the community of Emmonak at the end of the week, the trooper dispatch reported. On Friday, troopers were informed of the theft of an ATV in the community. Before troopers could investigate the incident however, the ATV owner was able to locate and retrieve the all-terrain vehicle and […]
JUNEAU – SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC) recently received two grants from the State of Alaska totaling $575,000. The first is a four-year grant from Indian Health Service, Methamphetamine, and Suicide Prevention for $200,000 per year, totaling $800,000. SEARHC will use this funding to promote early intervention strategies and implement positive youth development programming to […]