Collaborations
Collaborations with organizations both inside and outside of academia have been key to shaping Fire & Ice research and in sharing project results with a wide audience. Major collaborators across the project include the ; , , and ; and the .
Below find descriptions of key collaborations by each of the project components.
Boreal Fires Collaborations
The most significant Boreal Fires partner is the , a multiagency entity that helps to shape research direction, provide agency contacts, and apply findings. Three members of the consortium are members of the Boreal Fires leadership team, and help facilitate communications with relevant fire and resource managers to assist in integrating Boreal Fires products and outcomes into wildland fire management. Also, biennial consortium workshops have been an invaluable venue for researchers to exchange findings with the fire management community.
The is co-producing research with researcher Todd Brinkman. In particular, TCC personnel have conducted UAV surveys of firebreaks in rural villages, and have also used UAV's to assist in studies of fire impacts on the Upper Chena River. Learn more in this research highlight.
incudes two research sites, Bonanza Creek Experimental Forest and Caribou-Poker Creeks Research Watershed, that are being used to ground-truth hyperspectral remote sensing.
Other major collaborations include:
- The collaborated on research into wildfire impacts on moose harvest
- The collaborates on multiple levels
- The shares weather and lightning data
- The provides data on snow cover, fire ratings and fire danger forecasts
- The collaborates on hyperspectral imaging in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge
Coastal Margins Collaborations
The shares data from their ongoing effort to characterize the oceanography of Cook Inlet. KBNERR also assists with fieldwork, loans gear, and serves as a valuable partner for public dissemination of Coastal Margins work in collaboration with the DEW component.
Other major collaborations include:
- The contributes offshore ocean data to complement nearshore F&I data
- The helps with hindcasting, provides student scholars, and assists with fieldwork, sensor placements, and gear loans
- The monitoring program shares environmental and biological data and samples and assists with fieldwork in Kachemak Bay
- The assists with stream and intertidal fieldwork and shares laboratory facilities and supplies
- The provides project volunteers
DEW Collaborations
The has been a major partner, including providing initial online and in-person instruction of the DEW curriculum through the district's afterschool program.
Other major collaborations include:
- The aforementioned is also helpng to shape and disseminate the curriculum
- The provides and fellowships
- The in Anchorage assisted in the creation of out-of-school curricula and serves as a potential venue for their piloting and implementation
- The statewide has distributed course materials and assisted with events
Other Collaborations
The is an important partner in Fire & Ice economic development efforts. TREND awards “Phase 0†grants to Alaskan entrepreneurs to help them get new projects off the ground and apply for larger amounts of federal Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) funding. TREND has awarded 13 grants to date and also offers online presentations on the topic of applying for SBIR funding.
Other Economic Development collaborations include:
- partners with F&I on the annual Students2Startups internship program
- F&I collaborates with the and on a variety of economic development initiatives
- Fire & Ice partnered with the University of Alaska Foundation to provide a series of workshops aimed at helping UA researchers make connections with private funders
Communications collaborations include:
- The partnered on the creation of the
- The partners on the lecture series
- collaborated on the and the on the
- partnered on the