Directory of Arctic Researchers

Organization: University of Alaska Fairbanks

Department: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Specialties: survey research

Organization: U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Department: Earth Sciences Directorate (GSFC)

Title: Senior Research Scientist

Specialties: radiation remote sensing, atmospheric sciences

Current Research: Remote sensing of clouds from snow in polar regions.Surface bidirectional reflectance of snow, sea ice, and tundra surfaces.Determination of the spectral absorption of solar radiation in arctic stratus clouds.

Organization: University of California, Santa Barbara

Department: Department of Geography

Title: Professor

Specialties: biogeochemistry, greenhouse gases, soil processes, terrestrial ecosystems

Current Research: Photodegradation, ecosystem carbon cycling, biotic and abiotic processes.

Organization: Desert Research Institute

Department: Quaternary Sciences Center

Title: Associate Research Scientist

Specialties: archaeology

Current Research: Upper Kolyma Region, Northeastern Siberia. Terminal Pleistocene and early Holocene prehistory of western Beringia.

Organization: C-CORE Centre for Arctic Research Development

Department: Ice/Geotechnical Group - C-CORE

Title: Director, Ice Engineering

Specialties: ice engineering, modeling

Current Research: Geological engineering.Iceberg risk modeling.Pipeline routing.Iceberg scour.Dynamic properties of soils (i.e., shear-wave velocity).

Organization: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Pacific Biological Station

Department: Pacific Science Groundfish Section

Title: Research Scientist

Specialties: fish ecology, marine ecology, fisheries management

Organization: Royal Roads University

Department: Environment and Sustainabiity

Title: Professor

Specialties: environmental sciences, global change, economic policy

Current Research: First Nations resource management.Long-term cumulative environmental impacts.Institutional dynamics in global environmental management.Airshed planning and management.Arctic contaminants.

Organization: Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

Department: Environmental Sciences

Title: Professor

Specialties: hydrology and glaciology

Specialties: highway engineering, permafrost engineering, frozen soil compaction

Current Research: Using geogrids as base course stabilization.Highway drainage studies.Effect of tire pressures on pavements.Stabilization of house foundations on permafrost terrain: triodctic foundations, helical anchor foundations, thermal stabilization techniques

Organization: Murray State University

Department: Geosciences

Title: Professor Emeritus

Specialties: biogeochemistry, limnology, CO2 chemistry

Current Research: Arctic LTER project at Toolik Lake.

Organization: University of Delaware

Department: School of Marine Science and Policy

Title: Maxwell P. and Mildred H. Harrington Professor

Specialties: marine microbiology, biogeochemistry, biological oceanography

Current Research: Control of bacterial biomass and growth; prokaryotic community structure; role of archaea vs bacteria; DOC fluxes. Shelf-Basin Interaction (SBI) program

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

Department: Historical Ecology Department - Institute of Ecology and Evolution

Specialties: paleogeography, soil science, quaternary stratigraphy

Current Research: History of near-sea ecosystems of Chukotka, Alaska, Aleutian Islands

Organization: Ocean Policy Research Institute

Department: Marine

Title: Senior Research Fellow

Specialties: ice engineering, snow engineering, hydrology

Current Research: Sustainable development of Arctic

Title: Research Coordinator

Specialties: Indigenous harvesting, Inuit land use, subsistence

Current Research: Climate change vulnerability, impacts and adaptation. Understanding the impacts of multifaceted and multi-scale changes on Inuit and northern Canadian Indigenous communities. Focused on changes to patterns of harvesting in light of socio-cultural and economic changes, climate change and altered patterns of knowledge transmission.

Organization: University of Oulu

Department: Thule Institute

Title: Researcher

Current Research: Renewable energy resources (biomass based).

Organization: Lomonosov Moscow State University

Department: Earth Cryosphere Institute

Specialties: geomorphology, geography, environmental geology

Current Research: surface and coastal dynamic (ACD), active layer dynamics (CALM) in permafrost regions

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

Department: Koldewey Station

Title: Station Manager and Meteorologist

Specialties: atmospheric sciences, climate change, paleoclimatology

Organization: University of Gothenburg

Department: Deep Sea Research Project Group

Title: Researcher

Specialties: benthic ecology, crustacean biology

Current Research: Deep sea research in the Fram Strait at a long-term deep sea station (2500 m). Use of ROV. Causes and effects of physico-chemical gradients at the seafloor and their relevance for biodiversity in deep sea sediments.

Organization: Norwegian University of Life Sciences

Department: Department of Biology and Nature Conservation

Title: Professor

Specialties: botany, ecology

Current Research: The effect of Dryas octopetala on species diversity along natural environmental gradients on Svalbard and Finse (alpine south-Norway)

Organization: Natural Resources Canada

Department: Canadian Geodetic Survey

Title: Director and Chief Geodesist, Canadian Geodetic Survey

Specialties: geodesy, geodynamics, geophysics

Organization: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Department: Office of Subsistence Management

Title: Division Chief

Specialties: fisheries management, anthropology

Current Research: Fisheries monitoring, including stock status and trends, harvestmonitoring, traditional ecological knowledge

Organization: University of Alaska Fairbanks

Department: Northern Studies Program

Title: Professor Emerita

Specialties: human adaptation, education, human behavior

Current Research: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: Methods of Educating Children with FAS/FAE.Education in small, remote schools.Adult development in northern settings.

Organization: University of Minnesota

Department: Department of Earth Sciences

Specialties: geology, tectonics and sedimentary basin analysis, sedimentology, geodynamics, structural geology

Current Research: Oblique rifting in Svalbard and the Late Eocene-Oligocene demise of Laurasia with inception of Molloy Ridge
Evolution and deformation of Forlandsundet Basin, Svalbard
Early Cretaceous sedimentation and Tertiary deformation if the Braents Shelf in north-central Spitsbergen: Bohemanflya, Isfjorden, Svalbard
Tectonically vesus climatically driven Cenozoic exhumation of the Eurasian plate margin, Svalbard: fission-track analyses.
Syn-glacial rebound and origin of fjords: Intraplate mountain belts and isostatic uplift due to surface processes.

Organization: Stanford University

Department: Department of Geophysics

Title: Professor

Specialties: geophysics, geographic information systems, marine geophysics

Current Research: Crustal-scale tectonics, geology and geophysics of the Beringian and Chukchi shelves, utilizing new deep seismic reflection data that form two complete transects from the Pacific Ocean to the Arctic Ocean.GIS compilation of relevant geological and geophysical data of the Beringian and Chukchi shelves and adjacent land areas (Alaska, Chukotka) to aid in these interpretations.

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

Department: Department of Geodesy/Bathymetry

Specialties: bathymetry, geographic information systems, remote sensing

Current Research: Creation of a high-resolution digital elevation model and bathymetric chart of the Fram Strait using Seabeam and Hydrosweep data from R/V Polarstern cruises between 1984 and 1999.