Institute of Arctic Biology (33832240658)

The Institute of Arctic Biology or IAB of the

University of Alaska Fairbanks The University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF or Alaska) is a public land-grant research university in College, Alaska, a suburb of Fairbanks. It is the flagship campus of the University of Alaska system. UAF was established in 1917 and opened for c ...

, is located in Fairbanks,

Alaska Alaska ( ; russian: Аляска, Alyaska; ale, Alax̂sxax̂; ; ems, Alas'kaaq; Yup'ik: ''Alaskaq''; tli, Anáaski) is a state located in the Western United States on the northwest extremity of North America. A semi-exclave of the U.S. ...

, USA. The institute was established in 1963 by the Board of Regents of the University of Alaska, with Laurence Irving serving as its founding director. The mission of IAB is to advance basic and applied knowledge of high-latitude biological systems through research, education, and service. The Institute supports faculty, post-doctoral, and graduate research in wildlife biology and

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, bioinformatics, and computational biology. IAB faculty hold joint appointments within other departments at UAF in the College of Natural Science and Mathematics and the School of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences. Important facilities and research programs that the Institute of Arctic Biology supports are: * The Toolik Field Station; part of the LTER network, is a world-renowned Arctic climate change research station located in the northern foothills of the Brooks Range, Alaska, USA. * The Center for Alaska Native Health Research * The Alaska Basic Neuroscience Program * Center for Molecular and Genetic Studies of Hibernation * The Alaska Geobotany Center * The Resilience and Adaptation Program * The Bonanza Creek Long-Term Ecological Research Site * The Alaska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit; administered by IAB, began in 1950 and is part of a nationwide cooperative program to promote research and graduate student training in the ecology and management of fish, wildlife, and their habitats.

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* 1963 establishments in Alaska Arctic research Biological research institutes in the United States Research institutes in Alaska University of Alaska Fairbanks {{ornithology-org-stub

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