University of Alaska Fairbanks
Fairbanks, AK·Public
7 labs on PI Pages. It spends $246M a year on research and awards 31 research doctorates a year.
- Students
- 11,023: 9,814 undergraduates, 1,209 graduate
- Postdocs
- 39
- Faculty
- 283 full-time
- Campus
- Primarily non-residential
Labs here
Elizabeth Allman
Mathematics & Statistics
Prove parameter identifiability theorems under the Network Multispecies Coalescent Model, showing which features of complex semi-directed networks can be recovered from summary distributions of genomic data.
Alexander Kholodov
Earth & Environmental Science
Measure long-term active-layer thickness, ground temperature and thaw subsidence at standardized sites along three climatic and ecological transects in northern Alaska, and compare how site conditions control seasonal thaw.
Emily Seelen
Earth & Environmental Science
Develop river-erosion forecasting tools for Alaskan permafrost rivers using satellite imagery analyzed with sub-pixel and machine-learning change detection, combined with theory on permafrost erosion and mud transport.
Jessica Larsen
Earth & Environmental Science
Estimate magma storage depths beneath Mt. Edgecumbe by combining experimental petrology and melt inclusion analyses of rock samples with InSAR satellite measurements of ground deformation.
Peter Delamere
Physics
Compare how plasma is transported outward at Jupiter and Saturn and inward at Earth, focusing on the shared region where the magnetic field changes from a dipole shape to a stretched shape.
Where its research money goes
A year of research spending, from the NSF survey every research university fills in.