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--- SPEAKER BY NAME --- ALIA, Valerie BASKIN, Leonid BELOOUSSOVA, Ekaterina BILLSON, Janet Mancini BRET-HARTE, Syndonia BROADBENT, Noel D. BURNS, William CAHILL, Charles CLINE, Don COCHRAN, Patricia CORELL, Robert CRATE, Susan A. CRUMP, John DARBY, Dennis DE VROEDE, Jan DOMBROWSKI, Kirk FORMAN, Steven FEELY, Richard GLENN, Richard GORDON. Bryan GRADINGER, Rolf GRANTZ, Arthur GRIKUROV, Garrik E. HELENIAK, Timothy HUNTINGTON, Henry HUNTINGTON, Orville HUSKEY, Lee IL'INSKII, Vladimir V. IPELLIE, Alootook IRNIQ, Peter T. KELLER, Andrew M. KELLY, Brendan P. KLEIN, David R. KOIVUROVA, Timo KOKORIS, Moki KOZLOV, Mikhail LOBO, Susan LYBERTH, Angaangaq MACNAB, Ron MCGHEE, Robert MCROY, C. Peter MUKASA, Samuel B. MERCULIEFF, Larry OKKONEN, Steve OSGOOD DANA, Kathleen PACI, Christopher PAPUSHA, Alexander Nickolaevich POMEROY, John PUNGOWIYI, Caleb PUTILOV, Arcady A. RINNE, Arto ROBINSON, David A. ROE, Stephen SCHNEIDER, William SFORMO, Todd SMITH, Frank TAPE, Ken WENDLING, Neesha WILSON, Elana WOHLFORTH, Charles WOO, Ming-ko YANG, Daqing ZHANG, Tingjun ZARNKE, Randall L ZIKER, John

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Syndonia Bret-Harte
Institute of Arctic Biology
University of Alaska, Fairbanks
93 Roxie Road
Fairbanks, AK 99709
Phone: 907-474-5434
Fax: 907-474-6967
E-mail: ffmsb@uaf.edu
Website: http://www.iab.uaf.edu/facstaff.php

Dr. Syndonia Bret-Harte is currently a plant/ecosystem ecologist at the Institute of Arctic Biology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. She has worked in both the tundra and boreal forest, and has been a researcher at Toolik Lake, Alaska for more than ten years. Dr. Bret-Harte is interested in how plant species affect the cycling of carbon and nitrogen in northern ecosystems, and how the growth responses of individual plant species may influence the response of northern ecosystems to climate change. Dr. Bret-Harte is just starting a new research project on how the interactions between shrubs and winter snow cover may influence carbon and nitrogen cycling in tundra as shrubs expand in tundra ecosystems.

Dr. Bret-Harte has experience lecturing to a broad range of audiences including high school students, teachers, tourists, community residents, congressional staffers, and scientists. Because of summer fieldwork, Dr. Bret-Harte can only participate in the Arctic Visiting Speakers’ program during the winter. If a venue in northern Alaska was available during the summer, however, she could possibly participate since her fieldwork is at Toolik Field Station.

Representative lecture titles include:

• Climate change and tundra plants
• The role of different plant species in the response of northern ecosystems to environmental perturbation
• Plant and soil responses to neighbor removal and fertilization in tussock tundra

Through participating in the Arctic Visiting Speakers’ Program, Dr. Bret-Harte hopes to help inform the public of scientific issues.