Directory of Arctic Researchers

Organization: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Department: Marine Mammals Management

Title: Supervisory Wildlife Biologist

Specialties: mammalogy, walrus, wildlife management

Current Research: Pacific walrus ecology and management, genetic mark-recapture, subsistence harvest co-management, marine ecology, species status assessment.

Organization: University of California, Los Angeles

Department: Departments of Geography and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Title: Associate Chair

Specialties: paleoecology, paleoclimatology

Current Research: Tree-ring analysis of climate change, recruitment and mortality at treeline in Eurasia and Canada.Fossil pollen and stomate analysis of circumpolar treeline history.Climate and vegetation history of the Kola Peninsula.Western Canadian Arctic - Russian Arctic.

Organization: University of Cambridge

Department: CASP, Department of Earth Sciences

Title: Chief Geologist

Specialties: geology

Current Research: Palaeoenvironments of Late Paleozoic ofSpitsbergen and the Barents Shelf (funded in part by US companies).

Organization: University of Calgary

Department: Arctic Institute of North America (AINA)

Title: Research Associate and Lecturer

Specialties: history, arctic policy, social change

Current Research: Native transitions.Circumpolar peoples.Environmental studies.Images of the North.Arctic explorations and travel.Missionaries.

Organization: Nunavut Research Institute

Title: Associate

Specialties: cultural anthropology, oral history, Inuit culture

Current Research: Inuit astronomy.Inuit oral history.

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

Department: Institute of Ocean Sciences

Title: Research Scientist

Specialties: marine biogeochemistry, aquatic pathways, environmental contaminants, stable isotopes

Current Research: Organic carbon cycling, freshwater processes, contaminants and the effects of climate change on these processes. Work is conducted in the Arctic Ocean with special emphasis on the Beaufort Sea and Hudson Bay.

Organization: University of Colorado Boulder

Department: Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)

Title: Post-doctoral Researcher

Specialties: Ice sheet surface mass balance, snow and firn processes, percolation, refreezing, runoff, compaction

Organization: University of California, Santa Barbara

Department: Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology

Specialties: limnology, heat budget analysis, ecosystem science

Current Research: ecosystem ecology, hydrodynamicsPhysical limnology of arctic lakes; role of storm events in regulating primary and bacterial productivity

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

Department: Department of Marine Geology

Specialties: paleoceanography, paleoclimatology, micropaleontology

Organization: Government of Nunavut

Department: Human Resources Department

Specialties: community development, education, rural economy

Organization: UAlberta North (University of Alberta)

Title: Professor Emeritus

Current Research: Captain James Cook
Sir John Barrow
Sir George Back
The British search for a Northwest Passage, 1590–1870
The Lost Franklin Expedition, 1845–1848

Organization: University of Alaska Fairbanks

Department: Institute of Arctic Biology (IAB)

Title: Director, Office of International Programs

Specialties: ecology, plant/herbivore relations, Alaska/Russian relations

Current Research: Effects of temperature and plant chemistry on growth and development of insect herbivores in arctic and subarctic environments.Biogeography of herbivorous insects in the north.Student exchange programs in the Russian Far East, especially Yakutia.

Organization: Energy Solutions Centre

Department: Economic Development

Title: Technical Consultant

Specialties: energy resources, air pollution, engineering

Current Research: Practical energy use reduction strategies and projects.Indoor and outdoor air quality.

Organization: American Museum of Natural History

Department: Department of Mammalogy & Gilder Graduate School

Title: Curator, Ph.D.

Specialties: paleontology, mammalogy, zooarchaeology

Current Research: Siberia.Pleistocene mammal extinctions.

Organization: Retired

Department: Natural Resources and Sustainability

Title: Subsistence Resource Specialist - Retired

Specialties: subsistence, network analysis, resilience, sustainability, natural resources management

Current Research: Socio-economic survey research in Northwest Alaska communities, with emphasis on subsistence.

Organization: University of Wisconsin-Madison

Department: Limnology Laboratory

Title: Professor Emeritus

Specialties: lake ice, river ice

Current Research: arctic lakes and river ice

Organization: Pennsylvania State University

Department: Department of Geosciences

Specialties: ice modeling, glaciology

Current Research: Whole-ice-sheet modeling.

Organization: U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Department: Office of Space Science Sun - Earth Connection Education Forum

Title: Education Liaison

Specialties: education, ecosystem science

Current Research: “Ecosystem” experiment - approach to education and outreach.

Organization: Danish Meteorological Institute

Department: Research and Development Department

Title: Senior Scientist

Specialties: atmospheric sciences, air pollution modeling, environmental sciences

Current Research: "Assessment of Impact of Russian Nuclear Fleet Operations on Russian Far Eastern Coastal Regions" of the Radiation Safety of the Biosphere project."Atmospheric Transport Pathways, Vulnerability andPossible Accidental Consequences from the NuclearRisk Sites in the European Arctic" of the Nordic Arctic Research Program.Radiation risk.Statistical data analysis.Experimental work in the field conditions.Ecological education.

Organization: University of Alaska Fairbanks

Department: Institute of Arctic Biology (IAB)

Specialties: wildlife, caribou, geographic information systems

Current Research: Currently looking at the sex-specific dynamics of caribou in relation to global climate.

Organization: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Department: Refuge Inventory and Monitoring

Title: Data Manager

Specialties: geographic information systems, remote sensing, biology

Current Research: Application of geographic information systems (GIS) and remote sensing technology for ecological modeling and resource management. Land cover mapping.

Organization: Natural Resources Canada

Department: Geodetic Survey Division

Title: Research Officer, Height Systems

Specialties: geodesy

Current Research: Improving height systems.Geoid (gravity field) modeling.

Title: PhD

Specialties: geophysics, climatology, geothermal resources,gas hydrates stability, permafrost stability

Current Research: deriving climating history from inversion of well logs gas hydrates in the Canadian Arctic. ground warming in the Canadian Arctic earth's heat flow in the Canadian Arctic

Organization: Melnikov Permafrost Institute

Department: North-East Permafrost Research Station

Title: Leading Researcher

Specialties: hydrological processes in permafrost environment, dangerous hydrological phenomena, mathematical modelling, climate and landscape changes impact on hydrological regime, engineering calculations of runoff, aufeis, remote sensing data, the transformation of the hydrological regime, groundwater, the influence of the active layer of permafrost on runoff formation, mountainous hydrology

Organization: Vavilov Institute of General Genetics

Department: Laboratory of population genetics

Specialties: animal genetics, fish populations

Current Research: Genetic variability, hybridization and post-glacial colonization of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), brown trout (Salmo trutta) and whitefish (Coregonus)