WRRA projects at UAF

Latest: 2025

• • Fairbanks Water Challenges
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  • Keywords:
    water safety, water security, water distribution systems, water infrastructure, Fairbanks, Alaska
• • Beavers on the Tundra
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  • Keywords:
    Arctic, beaver, beaver ponds, DNA, streams, lakes, fish, tundra, invertebrates in arctic streams
• • Tidal Survey in the Snake River Estuary
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  • Keywords:
    Alaska, Snake River, Norton Sound, Nome port expansion, water level, salinity
• • Alaska water infrastructure web tool
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  • Keywords:
    web tool, water infrastructure, water data, Alaska

2023

• Analysis of a persistent late-freezing open water zone on the Tanana River
• Determining the potential of glacial discharge for hydropwer
• Feasibility of measuring salmon DNA to estimate salmon abundance
• Securing access to household water and wastewater across Alaska

2022

• Drinking water quality in Alaskan and Arctic utilidor systems
• Fire and permafrost effects on boreal forest streams
• Carbon transport in boreal forest watersheds
• Recovery of rare earth elements from mine wastewater
• Evaluating the effluent quality of wastewater lagoons in remote Alaska communities

2021

• Exploring morphological impacts of snow and ice bridges used by seismic surveyors on the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
• Evaluating Water Quality Impacts of COVID-19 Building Closures in Above-Ground Distribution System Water Mains and Tap Water at a University Campus
• Tracking the fate of mercury in downstream freshwater habitats affected by rapid deglaciation in Alaska using stable isotopes
• Calculation of sublimation from tundra snowpack in Alaska
• Development of sulfidogenic bioremediation technology for the treatment of sulfate and metal-rich industrial wastewater in Alaska

2020

• Application of Large-Scale Particle Image Velocimetry (LSPIV) in Wide Rivers
• Constructing a strontium isotope map with broad applications for hydrologic and wildife research
• Tracking deposition of microplastics in Alaska
• Climate change impacts on mass movements threatening the Parks Highway, Alaska

2019

• Quantification and partitioning of evapotranspiration in Arctic Tundra
• Rural Alaskan households’ economic energy-water nexus
• Remediation of adsorbed contaminants using Guar gum and Xanthan gum
• Photochemical reactivity of permafrost natural organic matter and its implications on surface water biogeochemistry

2018

• Using sawdust to mitigate heavy metal and phosphorus contamination in water
• Snowmelt Hydrology in the Upper Kuparuk Watershed, AK
• Photochemical reactivity of sub-Arctic permafrost natural organic matter and its Implications of surface water biogeochemistry
• How do nitrogen and phosphorous affect glacier algae growth and snowmelt in an Alaskan watershed?

2017

• Surface Water Runoff and Connectivity in the National Petroleum Reserve - Alaska
• Mass Balance of Eklutna Glacier
• Investigating Non-Newtonian Fluids for Effective Remediation of Persistent Contaminants
• Groundwater Hydrology in Thermokarst Lakes

2016

• Lake-level Fluctuations in Interior Alaska
• Investigating the Use of Nanomaterials for Removing Heavy Metals from Mine Runoff
• Mass Balance of Eklutna Glacier
• Developing a better understanding of the hydrology in Alaska’s discontinuous permafrost aquifers

2015

• Investigating ancient permafrost to better understand today’s world
• Finding the connections between stream temperature and landscape
• Understanding the inputs and effects on the water quality of glacier fed streams
• Recording lake level fluctuations at Quartz Lake