Directory of Arctic Researchers

Organization: Heidelberg University

Department: Institute of Environmental Physics

Specialties: physics of terrestrial systems, chaotic and complex systems, data assimilation and knowledge fusion, modeling and numerical simulation, ground-penetrating radar

Current Research: monitoring permafrost sites on Tibetan plateau (Qinghai and Xinjiang provinces) and on Svalbard; multi-channel ground-penetrating radar (GPR); modeling of thermal and hydraulic dynamics of permafrost; developing methods for knowledge fusion in soil hydrology;

Organization: University of Alaska Fairbanks

Department: Mathematical Sciences Department

Specialties: modeling

Current Research: Visualization of Volcanic Ash Clouds.Advanced Visualization System for CRAY T3D.

Organization: Self

Department: Department of Communication Studies

Title: Retired

Specialties: communications, community development, cultural policy

Current Research: Broadcasting policy and history.In the process of completing a history/policy book on First Peoples Television in Canada.

Organization: University of Washington

Department: Polar Science Center - Applied Physics Laboratory

Specialties: sea ice, remote sensing, sea ice dynamics

Current Research: POLES:Polar Exchange at the Sea Surface (NASA).Surface Heat Flux from AVHRR Ice Surface Temperature (ONR).Science Working Group of Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic (NSF). 

Organization: Golder Associates, Inc.

Department: Marine Sciences

Title: Senior Marine Biologist

Specialties: Marine mammals, fisheries, underwater noise

Current Research: Industrial noise impacts on marine mammals

Organization: McMaster University

Department: Department of Geography and Geology

Specialties: climatology, climate change

Current Research: Energy balance, water balance, and soil carbon cycling regimes in Arctic and sub-Arctic areas.

Organization: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique / French National Center for Scientific Research

Department: Department of Physical Geography

Specialties: geomorphology, hydrology, geographic information systems

Current Research: Fluvial pattern changes in the proglacial area In south of Iceland.

Department: North American and Arctic Collections

Title: Curator

Specialties: circumpolar cultures, ethnohistory, Yup'ik culture

Current Research: Native art.Shamanism.Material culture.

Organization: Norwegian Institute of International Affairs

Title: Senior Research Fellow

Specialties: political geography, international relations, Russian studies

Current Research: I am currently heading a research project exploring the formation and influence of science and business networks in Arctic environmental governance. I am also updating my research on Russia's approach to Arctic sustainability.

Organization: New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology

Department: Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences

Specialties: seismology, geophysics, volcanology

Current Research: Collection and analysis of Alaska earthquake data.Periodic earthquake swarms and their relationship to nearby glaciers.Glacier-generated seismic signals.Attempting to find quantitative means of discriminating between small, glacier-generated seismic signals and long-period volcanic signals on glaciated volcanoes as an aid to monitoring potential volcanic hazard.

Organization: University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Department: Department of Geosciences

Specialties: climatology

Current Research: Surface energy fluxes over the Greenland ice sheet.Climate variability from ice core records.

Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station

Department: Department of Oceanography

Specialties: benthic ecology, ecosystem modeling, marine ecology

Current Research: Northeast Greenland Polynya (NEWP) studies supported by US NSF.

Organization: University of Puget Sound

Department: Chemistry Department

Specialties: atmospheric chemistry, remote sensing, trace gases

Current Research: Remote sensing of the Arctic atmosphere by infrared radiometry.

Organization: University of Alaska Fairbanks

Department: Institute of Arctic Biology (IAB)

Specialties: endocrinology, comparative physiology, wildlife

Current Research: Reproductive endocrinology of caribou, muskox and reindeer.Muskox qiviut growth and nutrition.Endocrinology of antler growth and developmentand morphology of pedicle and first antler growth.

Specialties: archaeology, history

Organization: Minot State University

Department: Division of Science

Title: Coordinator

Specialties: entomology, biogeography

Current Research: Distribution and speciation in Arctic and Subarctic butterflies, particularly in the genera Boloria, Oeneis, Erebia and Colias, especially in transitional habitat/intergrade zones.

Organization: Old Dominion University

Department: Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography

Specialties: oceanography, climatology, ocean circulation

Current Research: Long-term climate monitoring/change.Long term ocean climate change in relation to fisheries fluctuations.History of North Pacific oceanography with emphasis on early Russian works.

Organization: The Physical Meteorological Observatory in Davos

Specialties: atmospheric chemistry, atmospheric physics, atmospheric sciences

Current Research: Ozone evolution over Arctic area, influence of the aerosol on the radiation budget in the Arctic

Department: Earth Observations Laboratory

Title: Project Leader

Specialties: air-sea-ice interactions, ice geophysics, snow hydrology

Current Research: Atmospheric effects on microwave remote sensing of sea ice.Assimilation of remote sensing observations of snow cover into surface water run-off models.Icing.

Organization: Dalhousie University

Department: Department of Oceanography

Title: Professor

Specialties: physical oceanography, ocean circulation

Current Research: Double-diffusive layers and intrusions.

Specialties: physical oceanography, ocean circulation, climate modeling

Current Research: Deep water formation.Convection.Mixing processesWater mass transformations.Global thermohaline circulation.

Organization: U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Department: Alaska Fisheries Science Center - National Marine Fisheries Service

Title: Wildlife Biologist, Cetacean Assessment and Ecology Program, National Marine Mammal Laboratory

Specialties: wildlife management, whale habitat, zoology

Current Research: Research on abundance and distribution of bowhead, gray, and beluga whales around Alaska.

Organization: University of Oklahoma

Department: Department of Geography

Title: Associate Professor of Geography

Specialties: geography, Inuit culture, mapping

Current Research: Cultural geography of the Inuit, including place-names and Inuit-environment relations.

Organization: Johns Hopkins University

Department: Applied Physics Lab - Space Department

Specialties: magnetospheric physics, ionospheric physics

Current Research: Auroral physics.Convection of plasma in the high-latitude ionosphere.

Organization: University of Alaska Fairbanks

Department: Scenarios Network for Alaska & Arctic Planning (SNAP)

Title: Professor of Forestry, Director of Scenarios Network for Alaska & Arctic Planning (SNAP)

Specialties: ecosystem modeling, fire ecology, global warming