Directory of Arctic Researchers

Organization: ETH Zürich

Department: Versuchsanstalt für Wasserbau, Hydrologie und Glaziologie (VAW)

Title: Senior research associate

Specialties: glaciology, ice sheet geophysics, permafrost

Current Research: Numerical modelling of Laurentide ice sheet Dynamics of glaciers and ice sheets

Organization: University of Colorado Boulder

Department: Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences - National Snow and Ice Data Center (CIRES/NSIDC)

Specialties: cryospheric remote sensing, data management, environmental monitoring

Current Research: USAF Defense Meteorological Satellite ProgramCryospheric applications.

Organization: Louisiana State University

Department: Center for Energy Studies

Title: Assistant to Vice Chancellor, Academic Affairs

Specialties: energy resources, economics, environmental policy

Current Research: Oil and gas:Competitive costs, taxes, royalties, operating costs in the Arctic vs. other geographic areas.

Organization: Durham University

Department: Biological and Biomedical Sciences

Title: Associate Professor

Specialties: physiological ecology, climate change, air pollution

Current Research: Soil-plant-atmosphere interactions in arctic environments, including snow manipulation studies, trace gas (carbon dioxide and methane) studies using chamber and eddy covariance approaches. Particularly interested in scaling issues across landscapes in relation to landscape heterogeneity. Also interested in snow-vegetation feedbacks in empirical and modeling contexts.

Organization: Aarhus University

Department: Botanical Museum

Specialties: plant/herbivore relations

Current Research: Arctic phytogeography (Greenland).Vegetation mapping and interactions between arctic plants and mammalian herbivores.

Organization: Heidelberg University

Department: Institute of Environmental Physics

Organization: Roskilde University

Department: Department of People and Technology

Title: Professor, Ph.D. et Dr. Scient. Soc

Specialties: Coping strategies, regional development, modes of life, tourism, culture.

Current Research: Tourist Place Design

Organization: Uppsala University

Department: Department of Cultural Antropology and Ethnology

Title: Chair Professor Emeritus

Specialties: cultural anthropology, circumpolar cultures, ecology, reindeer herding, ethnicity, Post-Soviet Transformations among the "small peoples of the north" of Russia.

Current Research: Managing the Wilderness, the politics of ecology in Swedish Laplandexpertise: circumpolar peoples, Saami, reindeer herding, indigenous rights.
The effects of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster for the Swedish Saami.
I have been engaged in and continue to lead an inter-disciplinary and international research project, the American National Science Foundation funded project Dynamics of Circumpolar Land Use and Ethnicity (CLUE): social impacts of policy and climate change.

Organization: University of British Columbia

Department: Department of Geography

Title: Graduate Student

Specialties: plant ecology, geographic information systems, mapping

Current Research: Masters Project: Mapping the vegetation of a high-arctic oasis using digital and scanned infrared aerial photographs and studying the spatial patterns of diversity and phenology using GIS.

Organization: International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas

Department: Survey Development

Title: Coordinator

Specialties: biological oceanography, biostatistics, climate change

Organization: University of Calgary

Department: The Arctic Institute of North America

Title: Professor

Specialties: geology, stratigraphy, energy resources

Current Research: Canadian Arctic.Sverdrup Basin.Carboniferous and Permian geology.Oil and gas potential.Stratigraphy and sedimentology.

Organization: Joint Research Centre EU Science Hub

Title: Scientific Project Officer

Specialties: vegetation ecology, remote sensing

Current Research: PHENOCLIM project http://project.itek.norut.no/phenology/

Specialties: soil science, agriculture, forestry

Current Research: Mycorrhizal fungi (Tripartite association).Malting barley.

Organization: National Institute of Standards and Technology

Department: Hollings Marine Laboratory

Title: Program Leader

Specialties: environmental contaminants, environmental monitoring, science management

Current Research: Research on temporal and geographic distribution of anthropogenic contaminants in circumpolar regions and the use of environmental specimen banks to conduct such research.

Organization: Alaska Department of Fish and Game

Department: Division of Wildlife Conservation

Title: Wildife Biologist III - M.S., D.V.M., Ph.D., Wildlife Veterinarian

Specialties: veterinary medicine, marine mammals, toxicology

Current Research: Immunotoxicology of pinnipeds.Pathology of wildlife.Immobilization of arctic ungulates.

Organization: Natural Resources Canada

Department: Terrain Sciences Division - Geological Survey of Canada

Title: Research Scientist

Specialties: quaternary geology, glacial geomorphology

Current Research: Quaternary geology and sea level history of Bathurst Island, Nunavut Territory.Surficial mapping of southern Yukon and Northwest Territories.

Organization: U.S. National Ice Center

Department: Department of Applied Science

Title: Visiting Scientist

Specialties: meteorology, NSF arctic system science, sea ice navigation

Current Research: Validation and analysis of the Navy's NOGAPS weather prediction model in the Arctic.Seasonal forecast of ice conditions in Baffin Bay.Analysis of interannual and regional variations in Arctic cloudiness.Arctic climate system studies.

Organization: University of Alaska Fairbanks

Department: Alaska Volcano Observatory / Geophysical Institute

Specialties: quaternary geology, volcanology, periglacial environments, natural hazards

Current Research: Tephrochronology of the Bering Land Bridge National Park, NW Alaska (National Park Service and NSF).Climatic Impact of High Latitude Tephra Eruptions (NSF).Geomorphology of the Bonanza Creek Long-Term Ecologic Research Site, Alaska (NSF).Glacial Isostacy and Neotectonic Uplift in SE Alaska (NSF).Volcanic Hazards in the Aleutian Arc (DOI-AVO), river behavior and flood hazards in the Arctic.

Organization: Institut national de la recherche scientifique

Department: Centre d’etudes nordiques

Title: Collaborator

Specialties: dendrochronology, geomorphology, hydrology

Current Research: Long-term fluctuations of lake levels.Climatic impact of large water bodies.Long-term assessment for hydro-electric power.Assessment of current isostatic rebound.Reconstruction of past hydrography associated with differential isostatic rebound.Dendrochronological analysis of climatic trends, variability and extremes in the Subarctic.

Organization: University of Alaska Fairbanks

Department: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Specialties: environmental engineering, environmental chemistry, groundwater

Current Research: Municipal solid waste management in cold and remote regions.Arctic watershed characterization.

Organization: University of Rhode Island

Department: Graduate School of Oceanography

Title: Marine Research Scientist

Specialties: physical oceanography, remote sensing

Current Research: Ocean fronts of the Bering, Chukchi, and Beaufort seas.

Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland

Department: Department of Geography

Title: Professor

Specialties: sea ice, permafrost, coastal environments, Quaternary glaciation, sea level change

Organization: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Department: Circumpolar Affairs Reporter

Organization: Australian Marine Mammal Centre

Department: Scottish Association for Marine Science

Specialties: aquatic ecology, benthic ecology

Current Research: The biomass in extreme lacustrine systems is dominated by microbial communities of Protozoa, algae and bacteria which are governed by microbial loop dynamics. The most successful of these organisms employ strategies that give them a competitive advantage. My research interests lie in testing the hypothesis that one such strategy, the well-known phenomenon mixotrophy, promotes survival in such extreme aquatic environments, through the identification, enumeration and investigation of trophodynamics in mixotrophic protists.Mixotrophic protists from a number of lakes on Axel Heiberg Island, Canadian High Arctic have been collected, identified and enumerated. Growth and grazing experiments were conducted to determine the relative fitness and grazing rates of mixotrophic and obligately heterotrophic/autotrophic protists. Complementary experiments to determine the relative contribution of mixotrophs to primary production and their consumption of bacterial production were also conducted. In concert with existing sampling programs at Potsdam University in other extreme lacustrine ecosystems and existing data collected by the applicant in Antarctica, the data gathered is hoped to add to our understanding of extreme system functioning and elucidate a potential gradient of increasing importance of survival strategies such as mixotrophy in increasingly extreme aquatic environments. Such knowledge will help us to understand how organisms adapt and survive anthropogenically modified (often increasingly extreme) lacustrine environments.

Organization: Idaho National Laboratory

Department: Environmental and Life Sciences

Specialties: natural resources management, landscape ecology, environmental engineering