Baxter Bond
Alaska Center for Energy and Power, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Presentation: What Happens After the Fault: Investigating Emergency & Disaster Response in Harsh Climate Microgrids
Baxter Bond is a research professional at ACEP. His work focuses on energy balance modeling, marine energy resource assessment, and the development of a fuel usage meter called pump monitoring apparatus (PuMA). The PuMA will help determine heat loads of a building whose main source of heat are fuel oil vented heaters. Bond is Yup’ik from the village of Tununak. He received his B.S. in mechanical engineering in 2018, and his B.A. in Yup’ik, his heritage language, in 2017, both from UAF. Bond is also a photographer and former Yup’ik language and
Iñupiaq/Yup’ik dance instructor. In his free time, he hikes, fishes, hunts, skis, sings, tinkers and enjoys time with his best friend, a labrakita named Ori.