Directory of Arctic Researchers

Organization: University of Colorado Boulder

Department: Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR)

Specialties: glaciology, climate change, icebergs

Current Research: Sea-level rise due to arctic and global glacier fluctuations.Glacier dynamics.Iceberg calving and calving/dynamics interactions.

Organization: University of Colorado Boulder

Title: Senior Research Scientist

Specialties: sea ice remote sensing, sea ice dynamics, data processing/analysis

Current Research: Development of sea ice climate data records.Analysis of passive microwave-derived ice concentration algorithms.Investigation of impact of changes in arctic sea ice cover.

Organization: University of Hamburg

Department: Institute of Oceanography

Specialties: physical oceanography, climate change, ocean circulation

Current Research: Arctic Ocean - North Atlantic exchanges.

Title: Ph.D., Director

Specialties: paleobiology, archaeology, quaternary zoology

Current Research: Science management.

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

Department: Institute of Petroleum Geology

Specialties: paleontology, biostratigraphy, paleogeography

Current Research: Jurassic ammonites of the northern parts of West and East Siberia.

Organization: Leipzig University

Department: Institute for Geophysics and Geology

Title: Professor for Geology / Quaernary Geology

Specialties: paleolimnology, paleoclimatology, paleoecology

Current Research: Pliocene to Quaternary climatic and environmental history ofnortheastern Siberia.Late Quaternary climatic and environmental history of East Greenland.

Organization: Institute of Ocean Sciences (Fisheries and Oceans Canada)

Department: Ocean Sciences Division

Specialties: air-sea-ice interactions, sea ice dynamics, fjord/shelf oceanography

Current Research: Ventilation of the Arctic halocline.Development and decay of seasonal sea ice.Thickness distribution of pack ice.Freshwater cycling in the Arctic Ocean.

Organization: Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory

Specialties: hydrology, biogeochemistry, heat budget analysis

Current Research: Seasonal methane (CH4) dynamics in wetlands.Beaver pond heat budget.Landscape carbon balance.Snowmelt infiltration and runoff.

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

Department: Institute of Oceanology

Title: Polar Biologist, Biological Oceanology Dept

Specialties: biology, sea ice biota, ecosystem science

Current Research: Arctic sea ice ecosystem in global change.Sea ice dynamic in the coastal zone of the White Sea.Ecology of the Antarctic Sea Ice Zone.

Organization: Aarhus University

Department: Department of Bioscience

Title: D.Sc.

Specialties: avian ecology, wildlife management, environmental monitoring, Arctic biodiversity, climate effects

Current Research: Monitoring of year-to-year variability as well as long-term change in Arctic bird populations, distribution, reproductive phenology, and success.

Title: Geographer

Specialties: permafrost, geomorphology, geographic information systems

Organization: Yukon Flats School District

Specialties: Athabaskan studies, education

Organization: Columbia University

Department: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO)

Specialties: seismology

Current Research: Gakkel Ridge seismic experiment using ice-moored PASSCAL seismometers.

Organization: Musée de l’Homme

Specialties: linguistics, Inuit culture

Current Research: Field linguistics.Linguistic description.Linguistic typology.Lexicography.Inuit languages.Siberian languages.East Greenlandic language.

Organization: Center for International Environmental Cooperation (Russian Academy of Sciences)

Department: Global Changes Impacts on Environment

Title: Dr., Prof., Director of Science

Specialties: climate change, boreal forests, environmental impact assessment

Current Research: 1.Regional climate changes caused by global warming. 2.Climate change impacts on natural terrestrial vegetation, crops,hydrological phenomena and water resources, permafrost degradation. 3.Empirical analysis of current changes of meteoprological parameters. 4. Turbulence, energy and matter transport modeling in vegetation and atmospheric boundary layer over it.

Organization: Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research

Department: Department for Biological Oceanography

Specialties: biogeochemistry, aquatic chemistry, aquatic microbiology

Current Research: Transport and Transformation of DOM in coastal environments Bacteria-DOM interaction in aquatic environments Characterization and fluxes of DOM in aquatic environments

Organization: Arizona State University

Department: Department of Anthropology

Specialties: physical anthropology, paleopathology, forensic anthropology

Current Research: Northern Hudson Bay region.Archaeology.Sadlermiut.Thule culture.

Specialties: data management, education, library/information specialist

Current Research: Manager, NERC Arctic Environmental Metadata Centre from 1997 to 1999. Listed all arctic grants and studentships funded by Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) since 1969. Represent the UK on IASC ADD (Arctic Environmental Data Directory) Council.

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

Department: Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology

Title: Researcher

Specialties: cultural anthropology, traditional knowledge and wisdom, Native studies

Current Research: Traditional meanings of maintaining the health in aboriginal cultures of the North of Russia.Use of the wild plants in aboriginal cultures.Grant from Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences: " The peoples of the North; the problems of survival (environmental aspects) and their historic knowledge in connection with modern physiological and botanical findings as the key to the future."

Organization: University of Saskatchewan

Department: Department of Biology

Title: Professor and Head

Specialties: wildlife

Current Research: Population ecology of polar bears and population ecology of barren ground grizzly bears.

Title: Assistant Professor

Current Research: Medicine.Cardiovascular epidemiology.Cardiology.World Health Organization (WHO).Multinational MONItoring of trends and determinants of CArdiovascular disease (MONICA).

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

Department: Institute of Geology

Title: PhD

Specialties: paleomagnetism, tectonics, geodynamics

Current Research: Paleomagnetism of Taimyr peninsula and Severnaya Zemlya islands, including geodynamic interpretation.Geodynamic evolution of Kara Plate (North Taimyr and Severnaya Zemlya) on Early Paleozoic: paleomagnetic aspect (“RFBR project”).

Organization: University of Alaska Fairbanks

Department: Department of Mining and Geological Engineering

Specialties: geotechnical engineering, exploration geophysics, geochemistry

Current Research: Mineral economic modeling of University of Alaska trust lands.P+ - group element dispersion associated with Alaska-type ultramafic intrusive rocks.

Title: Dipl.-Biol.

Specialties: zoology, tourism

Organization: U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Department: Astrobiology Discipline Scientist - Code SR

Specialties: algae, ecology, microclimatology

Current Research: Microbes in extreme environments.Models of ice-covered lakes.Physical ecology of the local/microenvironments.