University of Alaska Anchorage
Anchorage, AK·Public
4 labs on PI Pages. It spends $25M a year on research and awards 3 research doctorates a year.
- Students
- 17,753: 16,920 undergraduates, 833 graduate
- Postdocs
- 4
- Faculty
- 413 full-time
- Campus
- Primarily non-residential
Labs here
Jennifer Schmidt
Earth & Environmental Science
Improve urban snow prediction in Anchorage using an enhanced WRF-Urban atmosphere–urban–land-surface model, so that rooftop snow-load warnings reflect conditions in the city rather than in distant mountain stations.
Eric Klein
Earth & Environmental Science·Early-career
Measure water-cycle components in permafrost watersheds in High Arctic Greenland that range from heavily glaciated to glacier-free, to track how sources of river water shift as glaciers shrink.
Erin Hicks
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Measure the distribution and motions of molecular, ionized, and coronal gas within the central 500 parsecs of 90 nearby active galactic nuclei, using adaptive-optics near-infrared integral-field spectroscopy from Keck/OSIRIS and VLT/SINFONI.
Marie Lowe
Earth & Environmental Science
Estimate riverbank erosion rates in the warming Yukon River basin and their effects on water quality and infrastructure, using numerical landscape evolution models and monitoring stations.
Where its research money goes
A year of research spending, from the NSF survey every research university fills in.