Student Research Seed Award Projects
The Interface of Change project allows for flexibility to incorporate new directions by offering funding for new side project ideas that branch off of the mission and vision of Interface of Change. Below are the recipients of Interface of Change student research seed awards. Click here to learn more about other 91直播EPSCoR award opportunities.
Aeon Russo
Hyrdogeologist and PhD Student
University of 91直播Anchorage
2026 Student Research Seed Awards
Project Title:
Bivalve shell geochemistry as biorecorders of freshwater inputs in glacierized watershed
of Kachemak Bay, Alaska
Aidan Gabriel
PhD Student
UAF Earth System Science
2026 Student Research Seed Awards
Project Title:
Resolving semidiurnal groundwater fluxes in a changing arctic: Heat鈥恡racing fresh
and recirculated water flow paths
Ana Vinson
MS Student
UAF College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences
2026 Student Research Seed Awards
Project Title:
Spatial and environmental drivers of yelloweye rockfish (Sebastes ruberrimus) reproductive
biology in Southeast Alaska
Annette Jarosz
PhD Student
UAF College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences
2026 Student Research Seed Awards
Project Title:
Evaluating saxitoxin as a proxy for paralytic shellfish poisoning to support real-time
screening on 91直播oyster farms
Joyce Sanks
Graduate Research Fellow
UAF College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences
2026 Student Research Seed Awards
Project Title:
Effects of anthropogenic sound on killer whale (Orcinus orca) communication in the
Gulf of Alaska
Lindsay Meyer
MS Student
UAF College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences
2026 Student Research Seed Awards
Project Title:
Assessing contaminant concentration in a culturally important red ribbon seaweed,
Palmaria hecatensis, near the Haines Fuel Terminal
Tanner Van Orden
PhD Student
UAF College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences
2026 Student Research Seed Awards
Project Title:
Do bull trout Mitochondria enhance thermal tolerance in Dolly Varden?
Alex Jenkins
PhD Student
UAF College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences
2025 Student Research Seed Awards
Project Title:
Knowledge Systems and Management of Herring in Sitka, AK
Willa Johnson
MS Student
UAF College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences
2025 Student Research Seed Awards
Project Title:
Quantifying Translocation and Biomagnification of Microplastics in Southeast Alaska
Wild-Caught Marine Fish
Wyatt Matyas
PhD Student
UAF Geosciences
2025 Student Research Seed Awards
Project Title:
Revealing stream water sources and watershed processes with eDNA
Zach Vayder
MS Student
UAF College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences
2025 Student Research Seed Awards
Project Title:
Thermal microhabitat variations and responses to thermal stress in Pacific blue mussels
(Mytilus
trossulus) in the Gulf of Alaska
Arianna Workman
Undergraduate Student
UAS
2025 Student Research Seed Awards
Project Title:
Comparing sampling methods for qPCR detection of Alexandrium catenella
Josianne Haag
PhD Oceanography Student
UAF College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences
2024 Student Research Seed Awards
Project Title:
Tracing the organic matter source of continental shelf surface sediments in the northwestern
Gulf of Alaska