ARCUS | Survey Answers

1. What are your primary reserach interests in the Arctic?

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27 Biology
  • 6 ecosystem ecology
  • 4 role of vegetation in response of ecosystems to change
  • 4 marine mammal ecology
  • 4 disturbance ecology, including impact of development on wildlife
  • 4 wildlife health
  • 4 bird populations and distribution
  • 3 ecology
  • 3 freshwater ecosystems
  • 3 physiological ecology of animals
  • 3 life history of waterfowl
  • 2 microbial spp, ecology
  • 2 trophic transfer to upper trophic level organisms in marine systems
  • 2 terrestrial systems
  • 1 marine invertebrate ecology and paleoecology
  • 1 forest tree fitness and adaptation in response to climate change
  • 1 genetic variation in survival and growth traits of tree spp in marginal envts
  • 1 environmental physiology of overwintering
  • 1 demography of herbivores
  • 1 benthic ecology
  • 1 soil science
  • 1 plant ecology
  • 1 biological production of climatically relevant gases
  • 1 biogeochemistry
  • 1 contaminants and toxicology
  • 1 parasitology
  • 1 riverine fisheries acoustics
  • 1 nutrient cycling
21 Climate Change
  • 3 modeling terrestrial climate processes and feedbacks
  • 3 change in terrestrial carbon cycling
  • 3 ozone depletion and UV
  • 2 cloud physics and aerosol chemistry
  • 2 atmospheric monitoring
  • 2 effects on arctic ecosystems
  • 2 validation of remote sensing
  • 1 climate change and natural variability
  • 1 meterology
  • 1 arctic as part of global system
  • 1 computer support
  • 1 sea ice effects
  • 1 glacier-climate interactions
16 Geology
  • 3 glacial geomorphology
  • 5 active layer and permafrost dynamics
  • 3 surface energy balance
  • 1 glacier dynamics, volume change and mass balance
  • 1 geophysics
  • 1 seismic reflection, drilling, coring
  • 1 tectonic history of Arctic Ocean
  • 1 periglacial forms and processes
  • 1 glacial history
  • 1 igneous geology in Arctic Basin
  • 1 long-term long range acoustic tomography in the Arctic Basin
  • 1 coastal and deltaic morphology
  • 1 snow
  • 1 shelf geologic processes
6 Hydrology
  • 2 limnology
  • 2 contaminant transport
  • 1 nutrient dynamics
  • 1 atmospheric moisture budgets
1 Land Managment
  • 1 land use, waste management, water supply and treatment, community infrastructure
13 Oceanography
  • 4 marine chemistry
  • 3 microbiology
  • 2 physical
  • 1 tracer hydrography
  • 1 dynamic stability, mixing and cross shelf transport
  • 1 role of organized turbulent structures in air-sea-ice interactions
  • 1 ice-ocean fluxes
  • 1 polar marine transportation
  • 1 acoustic monitoring of average temperature and current
  • 1 biological oceanography
11 Paleosciences
  • 6 paleoclimate
  • 5 reconstruction of paleo environments
  • 3 paleolimnology
  • 2 vertebrate and invertebrate paleontology
  • 1 paleooceanography
  • 1 regional stratigraphy
  • 1 sediment core dating
5 Research & Logistic Support
  • 1 use of remote vehicles to further research
  • 1 ice camps
  • 1 data management support
  • 1 safety
14 Sea Ice
  • 4 dynamics and variability
  • 3 and atmosphere
  • 2 and oceanic productivity
  • 2 modeling
  • 2 growth, structure and properties
  • 2 energy exchange in surface boundary layer
  • 1 and downscaling of climate forcing for evaluation of regional feedback dynamics
  • 1 ecology
  • 1 as a geologic agent
10 Social Sciences
  • 4 archaeology
  • 3 ethnology
  • 3 human-environment interactions
  • 2 social and oral history
  • 2 government policies
  • 2 subsistence economics, human development, aging, and culture change in contemporary arctic societies
  • 1 social contact relationships
  • 1 anthropology
  • 1 traditional knowledge
4 Upper Atmosphere & Space Weather
  • 2 ionosphere and magnetosphere/interface with the solar wind
  • 1 high latitude geomagnetic and ionospheric phenomena
  • 1 middle/upper atmosphere energetics, dynamics and composition
  • 1 remote sensing of troposphere/stratosphere
  • 1 trends in trace chemical spp in atmosphere

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