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The Alaska CESU is a collaborative effort between universities, institutions, and federal agencies designed to facilitate research.

The Alaska CESU achieves the highest level of integrity and leadership expertise in unique circumpolar north, boreal and marine ecosystem science critical to the future of state, national and global issues by establishing:

  • An integrated structural partnership that functions seamlessly to meet science needs
  • A quality assurance and peer review mechanism that assures the integrity of the process, bringing accurate and current science to bear on policy issues
  • A collaboration that is publicly visible in making connections and communicating research impacts at the state and national levels
  • A program that draws from all cultures in Alaska, builds both agency and partner human resource capacity in Alaskan expertise for the future and connects this capacity with the national arena
HOST University of Alaska, Fairbanks

University of Alaska, Fairbanks

ESTABLISHED 2003
WEBSITE https://www.uaf.edu/afes/research/cesu/
DIRECTOR Peter Fix
323 O'Neill Bldg
PO Box 757200
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Fairbanks, AK 99775
PHONE: (907) 474-6926
EMAIL: pjfix@alaska.edu
ADMINISTRATIVE DOCUMENTS

Cooperative and Joint Venture Agreement (2003)
Amendment 1 adding the Natural Resources Conservation Service
Amendment 2 adding the Minerals Management Service
Amendment 3 adding the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Amendment 4 adding the Alaska Pacific University and Denali Education Center

Cooperative and Cooperative and Joint Venture Agreement (2008)
Amendment 1 adding the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense - Installations and Environment
Amendment 2 adding U.S. Army Corps of Engineers – Civil Works and Alaska Geographic
Amendment 3 adding Alaska Bird Observatory and Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences
Amendment 4 adding Wildlife Conservation Society, Idaho State University, and Montana State University

Cooperative and Cooperative and Joint Venture Agreement (2013)
Amendment 1 adding Sitka Sound Science Center
Amendment 2 adding Bureau of Indian Affairs

Cooperative and Cooperative and Joint Venture Agreement (2018)
Amendment 1 adding Alaska Conservation Foundation, Sealaska Heritage Institute, and Wildlife Management Institute
Amendment 2 adding Texas A&M AgriLife Research
Amendment 3 adding Prince William Sound Science Center

Cooperative and Cooperative and Joint Venture Agreement (2023)

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UNIT PARTNERS
TECHNICAL REPRESENTATIVE ADMINISTRATIVE REPRESENTATIVE
FEDERAL PARTNERS
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - Civil Works Jennifer Seiter-Moser
Acting Technical Director
Civil Engineering Programs
Engineer Research and Development Center
jennifer.m.seiter-moser@usace.army.mil
Sherry Whitaker
CESU Program Manager
sherry.l.whitaker@usace.army.mil

Chelsea Whitten
Lead Contract Specialist
Chelsea.M.Whitten@usace.army.mil
Bureau of Indian Affairs John Mosley
Branch Chief, Tribal Climate Resilience
Office of Trust Services
john.mosley@bia.gov
Jo Ann Metcalfe
Grants Management Specialist
jo.metcalfe@bia.gov
Bureau of Land Management Tina Boucher
Natural Resource Specialist/Ecologist
Renewable Resources Branch
tvboucher@blm.gov
Amy Marshall
Grants Management Officer
amarshall@blm.gov
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Vacant/TBD

Jennifer Ewald
Science Communication Outreach Liaison
Division of Environmental Sciences
jennifer.ewald@boem.gov
Department of Defense Matt Sprau
Resource Planning Branch Chief
DPW Environmental Division
matthew.h.sprau.civ@army.mil

Liz Galli-Noble
Program Manager, DoD Legacy Resource Management Program
elizabeth.j.galli-noble.civ@mail.mil
Lori Kruse-Johnson
SWD CESU Program Manager
Lori.M.Kruse-Johnson@usace.army.mil
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Vacant/TBD

Anna-Marie York
Grants Management Specialist
Science Applications
anna-marie_york@fws.gov
U.S. Forest Service Teresa Hollingsworth
Research Ecologist
Boreal Cooperative Research Unit
teresa.hollingsworth@usda.gov
Vi Ta
Grants and Agreements Lead
PNW Research Station
vi.ta@usda.gov
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Robert Foy
Director, Alaska Fisheries Science Center
robert.foy@noaa.gov
Michael Liddel
CESU Program Manager
Acting Branch Chief, Commercial Fishery Statistics
michael.liddel@noaa.gov
National Park Service Magaret McKluskie (Acting)
Program Manager, Central Alaska Inventory and Monitoring Network
maggie_maccluskie@nps.gov
Erica Cordeiro
Grants Specialist
erica_cordeiro@nps.gov
Natural Resources Conservation Service Weihuan “Mark” Xu
Director, Resource Inventory and Assessment Division, SSRA
weihuan.xu@usda.gov

David Lindbo
Director, Soil and Plant Science Division
david.lindbo@usda.gov
Aileen Anderson
Grants Management Specialist
aileen.anderson@usda.gov
U.S. Geological Survey Vacant/TBD

Faith Graves
CESU Contract Specialist
fgraves@usgs.gov
UNIVERSITY PARTNERS
Alaska Pacific University Brad Harris
Associate Professor, Marine and Environmental Sciences
bharris@alaskapacific.edu
Rhonda Sandvik
Grants Director, Office of Advancement and Sponsored Programs
rsandvik@alaskapacific.edu
Idaho State University Ben Crosby
Assistant Professor
Department of Geosciences
crosby@isu.edu
Patricia Spotts
Director of Contracts, Office of Sponsored Programs
spotpatr@isu.edu
Montana State University Stephanie A. Ewing
Assistant Professor
Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences
stephanie.ewing@montana.edu
Sandy Sward
Director, Office of Sponsored Programs
ssward@montana.edu
Texas A&M AgriLife Research Mathew Kramm
Project Director
Natural Resources Institute
Mathew.Kramm@ag.tamu.edu
Debbie Danford
Grants Manager
Natural Resources Institute
dedanford@ag.tamu.edu
University of Alaska, Anchorage Peter Fix
Chair, Department of Natural Resources Management
Director, Alaska CESU
pjfix@alaska.edu
Contact your sponsored programs office
University of Alaska, Fairbanks Peter Fix
Chair, Department of Natural Resources Management
Director, Alaska CESU
pjfix@alaska.edu
Kim Cox
Director, Office of Grants and Contracts Administration (OGCA)
kwcox@alaska.edu
University of Alaska, Southeast Peter Fix
Chair, Department of Natural Resources Management
Director, Alaska CESU
pjfix@alaska.edu
Contact your sponsored programs office
University of New Hampshire Kelly Giraud Cullen
Associate Professor, Department of Natural Resources and the Environment
kelly.cullen@unh.edu
Louise Griffin
Senior Director, Research and Sponsored Programs Administration
Louise.Griffin@unh.edu
OTHER PARTNERS
Alaska Geographic Andy Hall
Exeutive Director
andyh@alaskageographic.org

Caitlyn Tetterton
Education Program Director
ctetterton@akgeo.org
Alaska Conservation Foundation Aaron Poe
Network Officer
apoe@alaskaconservation.org
Alaska SeaLife Center Tara Riemer
President and CEO
tarar@alaskasealife.org
Manomet, Inc. Stephen Brown
Vice President for Shorebird Conservation
sbrown@manomet.org
Prince William Sound Science Center Katrina Hoffman
President and CEO
khoffman@pwssc.org
Sealaska Heritage Institute Chuck Smythe
Director, Culture and History Department
chuck.smythe@sealaska.com
Sitka Sound Science Center Lisa Busch
Executive Director
lbusch@sitkascience.org
Wildlife Conservation Society Martin Robards
Regional Director
mrobards@wcs.org
Wildlife Management Institute Christian Smith
Western Field Representative
csmith@wildlifemgt.org