226 Alaskan students awarded and supported between 2015 - 2021

$1,726,157 in direct student support awarded between 2015-2021

62 Interns placed with NASA centers and Alaska Industry partners between 2015-2021

92% of graduates from 2015-2021 now employed in STEM fields or pursuing advanced STEM degrees

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Funding received from the Alaska Space Grant Program helped obtain the experience and contacts necessary for my current employment.

With the Alaska Space Grant I was able to work on a project that makes me stand out in the aerospace industry as an applicant. It also help foster experience that employers may seem useful. Overall, it help deepen my understanding on how sub-systems are designed.

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Ground Truthing MODIS NDVI Measurements in Remote Areas of Alaska

Global climate warming is amplified near the poles (Cohen et al., 2014) and at higher elevations (Pepin et al., 2015). Using remote sensing in America’s Arctic mountains, the Brooks Range, researchers have observed changes in vegetation types, growing seasons, and plant phenology over recent…

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Russell Wong
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Improving remote sensing based boreal wildfire burn severity and risk assessment, interior Alaska

Christopher Smith, a Master’s student at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, is on a mission. He wants to improve assessing boreal wildlife burn severity using readily available satellite data. Wildfires are a fact of life during Alaskan summers. With climate change, their frequency…

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Christopher Smith

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