UND joins four-year, $17 million Arctic research project with DoD

UND will work alongside three other universities and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to map, analyze and visualize current and future Arctic terrain

At times it pays to live in North Dakota, a place where many people are comfortable working in winter temperatures that can fall to 25 or 30 degrees below zero. This is one of those times.

The University of North Dakota has been named part of a $17 million cold-weather research effort in collaboration with three other universities and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Cold Regions Research and Engineering Lab (CRREL).

Over the next four years, UND will be working alongside Virginia Tech – the project’s PI or principal investigator – as well as Stonybrook University and the University of Minnesota to conduct Arctic research and develop the Defense Resiliency Platform Against Extreme Cold Weather, for which the initiative is named.

UND’s share of the grant award totals just over $4 million, making it one of the largest in the history of the College of Arts & Sciences. With the goal of enhancing the superiority and effectiveness of the U.S. Army in extreme cold weather environments, UND’s role will bring together multiple North Dakota-based resources and collaborations to create the project’s cyberinfrastructure hub, said Timothy J. Pasch, professor of communication, Arctic researcher and UND’s principal investigator on the project.

For more, read the full story on the UND Today blog.