1. Education and Outreach Session Elena Sparrow and Pips Veazy

3. Education and Outreach Elena Sparrow, Ph.D. School of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences and The International Arctic Research Center University of Alaska Fairbanks

4. Undergrad, graduate students K-12 Teachers & Students Outreach to Communities Education and Outreach Outreach to SBIR Early Career Scientists Outreach to the Public

5. Research Fellowships and Young Scientist Awards Undergraduate and graduate students Postdoctoral fellows New UA faculty

6. Strategies for Ecology Education, Development, and Sustainability (SEEDS) program and Bonanza Long Term Ecological Research program.

7. K-12 Education Programs Alaska Rural Research Partnership GLOBE program

8. A Molecular Phylogenetic Study of Archaea from a Muskeg in Southeast Alaska Stephanie Thompson Mt. Edgecumbe High School Sitka, Alaska identified novel groups of crenarchaea and euryarchaea within the Southeast muskeg system.

9. FFSB Unique Tongass muskeg clade Figure 1. Phylogenetic tree of crenarchaea. Branch lengths do not represent evolutionary distance.

10. K-12 Education Programs High School Summer Research Internship Rural Alaska Honors Institute

11. K-12 Education Programs Alaska Summer Research Academy Science Potpourri at UAF Culturally Responsive Biological Science Education

12. K-12 Education Programs IPY GLOBE Seasons and Biomes project

14. Alaska Permafrost Monitoring Program

15. Summary Alaska EPSCoR partners and collaborates with other ongoing science education and research programs Research capacity building starts early, K-12 and continues on through undergraduate, graduate and graduate students as well as early career scientists.