Directory of Arctic Researchers

Organization: Norwegian Polar Institute

Title: Dr. Philos.

Specialties: ecophysiology, bioenergetics, modeling

Current Research: Reindeer, seals, and polar bears: modeling multispecies dynamics encompassing the properties of individuals.

Organization: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Freshwater Institute

Department: Arctic Research Division

Title: Arctic Stock Assessment

Specialties: aquatic biology, whale habitat, animal behavior

Current Research: Whale behaviour, satellite telemetry of beluga and narwhal

Organization: University of Manitoba

Department: Departments of Internal Medicine, Medical Microbiology and Community Health Sciences

Title: Professor

Specialties: medical sciences, epidemiology, microbiology

Current Research: Tuberculosis, determinants of health, housing and health, health of indigenous peoples, food security, resistance and susceptibility to infectious diseases

Organization: Barcelona Supercomputing Center

Department: Department of Earth Sciences

Title: Co-leader of the Climate Prediction group (BSC)

Organization: University of Washington

Department: Polar Science Center - Applied Physics Laboratory

Title: Oceanographer

Specialties: data management, data processing/analysis, atmospheric sciences

Current Research: SSM/I, ERS-1 SAR, TOVS Path-P

Organization: The George Washington University

Department: GW Sustainability Collaborative

Title: Research Director, GW Sustainability Collaborative

Specialties: political science, urban sustainability, oil and gas development

Current Research: Promoting Arctic urban sustainability in Russia; energy development; NSF Research Coordination Network and Partnership on International Education and Research (PIRE).

Organization: Natural Resources Canada

Department: Energy Geoscience Subdivision

Title: Head, Energy and Environment Subdivision

Specialties: petroleum geology, geology, resource assessment

Current Research: -Currently involved in both field and laboratory studies related primarily to the characterization, analysis and resource assessment of petroleum systems, both conventional and unconventional, with a special interest in gas hydrates

Title: Senior Project Engineer

Specialties: electrical engineering, auroral studies, science management

Current Research: Low light imaging, black and white and color.Magnetic observations.Infrasonic studies.Red Sprites and Blue Jets (above lighting storms).Phontonics.Northern engineering.Rockets and missiles.

Organization: U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

Department: Marine Biogeochemistry Section

Title: Research Chemist

Specialties: biogeochemistry

Current Research: Influence of the Mackenzie River on the optics and geochemistry of the Beaufort Sea.

Organization: University of Alberta

Department: Canadian Circumpolar Institute

Title: Research Associate

Specialties: cultural anthropology, environmental perception

Current Research: Health.Perception of risk associated with environmental contaminants in northern aboriginal communities.

Organization: University of California, Santa Barbara

Department: Marine Science Institute

Title: Research Scientist

Specialties: law, environmental policy, Native rights

Current Research: Tracing cultural change in northwestern Siberia (in cooperation with ethnographer/anthropologists from Russia).Social and cultural impact of expanded use of the Northern Sea Route.Transformation of property rights in Russia.Sustainable development in the Peipsi (Chudskoye) Lake watershed in the Russian/Estonian borderlands.International institutions and legal regimes for shared resources.People and protected areas (new models for protecting land/water for traditional activities).

Organization: Canadian Space Agency

Department: Space Sciences

Specialties: geology

Current Research: Participant in the NASA-led Haughton-Mars Project (www.arctic-mars.org) over the last 3 years. Currently halfway through a 4-year PhD program focused on the geology of the Haughton meteorite impact crater.Devon Island.Nunavut.Canada.

Organization: Earth Cryosphere Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences Siberian Branch

Department: Institute of Cytology and Genetics

Title: Head, Ph.D.

Specialties: genetics, evolution, demography

Current Research: Human population genetics.Immunogenetics.Ecological genetics.Physiological genetics.Pharmacogenetics.Arctic Research Polar Programs International - U.S./Russia joint collaborative research Y chromosome variation in native human populations of Siberia.

Organization: University of Iceland

Department: Environmental Department

Title: Research scientist

Specialties: biogeochemistry, wetland ecology, climate change

Current Research: Biogeochemistry of Icelandic peatlands and effects of landuse

Specialties: ionospheric physics, atmospheric physics

Current Research: Ionospheric absorption.Auroral and Polar Cap.Arctic climatology.Permafrost and frozen soil engineering.

Organization: University of Alaska Fairbanks

Department: Geophysical Institute

Specialties: permafrost, geocryology, ice

Current Research: -Thermal state of permafrost-Thawing of warm permafrost and formation of thermokarst terrain in response to climate change and human activities-Influence of the active layer and snow cover on the thermal regime of permafrost-Subsea permafrost-Ice in lakes and rivers

Organization: U.S. Geological Survey

Department: St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center

Title: Geologist

Specialties: climate change, micropaleontology, paleoceanography

Current Research: Analyses of environmental and coastal change using benthic foraminifers.

Organization: Earth Observatory of Singapore

Title: Technical Director of the Geochemical Laboratories

Specialties: Laboratory design, instrumentation, stable isotopes, micropaleontology, sediment traps

Current Research: 13-year time series sediment trap study NE of Iceland.

Organization: University of Miami

Department: Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences

Specialties: oceanography, marine chemistry

Current Research: Radioactive tracers in oceanography and meteorology.

Organization: McMaster University

Department: School of Geography and Geology

Title: MSc Student

Specialties: climatology

Current Research: Energy and water balance of lakes in the Mackenzie River Basin, NT.

Organization: Harvard University

Department: Harvard Forest

Specialties: paleoecology, palynology, ecology

Organization: University of Alaska Fairbanks

Department: Geophysical Institute (GI)

Specialties: space physics, auroral studies, magnetospheric physics

Current Research: Linkage-induced magnetic reconnection at the dayside magnetopause.Magnetic reconnection in the presence of sheared flow: applications to the Earth's magnetosphere.Generation of field-aligned currents and Alfven waves by 3-D magnetic reconnection.Magnetic transients at the dayside magnetopauseFormation and evolution of thin discrete auroral arcs.

Organization: National Center for Atmospheric Research

Department: Climate Change Research

Specialties: climate modeling, paleoclimatology, global change

Current Research: Climate modeling of past climates.

Organization: University of Cincinnati

Department: Geography Department

Title: Adjunct Professor

Specialties: permafrost, soil processes, geomorphology

Current Research: Permafrost Research in Northern and Interior Alaska.Modeling earth surface processes.

Organization: Natural Resources Canada

Department: Geological Survey of Canada - Applied Geochemistry Subdivision

Title: Research Scientist

Specialties: biogeochemistry, trace metals, pollution

Current Research: Historical trends of metals in marine biota.Teeth and shells as biomonitors of metal exposure or soft tissue concentrations.Tissue chemistry as a stock discrimination tool for marine mammals and fish.Stable lead isotopes in Arctic lake sediments.