Directory of Arctic Researchers

Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Canada

Bedford Institute of Oceanography

Freshwater flux, carbon cycles and ocean acidification, transient tracers

climate change, Carbon cycles, ocean acidification, tracer studies, ocean circulation, freshwater dynamics

Marine Biology Research Division - Scripps Institution of Oceanography

University of California at San Diego

Ecology of marine bacteria and bacteriophages; microbial decomposition of organic matter.

marine microbiology, biogeochemistry, biodiversity

National Institute of Polar Research

Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences

Northwestern University

paleoclimate of Alaska and the North Atlantic region, specifically Iceland, Greenland, and Baffin Island; palynology and chironomid taxonomy; glacial geology

paleoclimatology, paleolimnology, quaternary geology

Department of History

Lulea University of Technology

Mining in the Arctic.

mining, whaling

Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)

University of Colorado

Wind profiling using ground based radars, in Resolute Bay, Canada, and Sondrestrom, Greenland.

atmospheric physics, instrumentation, remote sensing

Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences

National Science Foundation

Boundary layer ozone depletion. Chemical composition of near-surface air.Automated instrumentation for long-term sampling.

atmospheric chemistry, instrumentation, air pollution

Department of Planning and Community Studies

University of Tromsø

Cross-border economic interaction.Social capital, local and regional development in Russian and Norwegian coastal communitites.Rural community development.Gender studies and everyday life.Gender, migration, and local development.

community development, economic geography, northern studies

Department of History

CELAT

Archaeology of the CaribbeanInuit and Paleoeskimo prehistory.Archaeology of the Frobisher voyages.16th-century travel accounts.Archaeometallurgy.Interdisciplinary archaeology.Oral history.

archaeology, history, Inuit

NSIDC/CIRES

University of Colorado

Creating landcover classification map demonstrating typical habitats and vegetation (dominant species) of the Kuparuk River Basin on the North Slope of Alaska using Landsat TM satellite data. Thesis involved comparison of road and road dust effects on vegetation in acidic and minerotrophic tundra along the Dalton Highway, North Slope of Alaska.

plant ecology, geographic information systems, disturbance ecology

Marine Zoology (FB 2)

University of Bremen

Pelagic food web in Arctic marginal ice zones, cryo-pelagic coupling processes

marine ecology, zooplankton, marine mammals

Department of Geography

University of Victoria

Specific projects include:- Coastal environmental forcing- Arcic Cosastal Dynamics (ACD) project - arctic synoptic meteorology- Arctic Climate Impacts Assessment (ACIA) project - Mt. McKinley weather station- forest fire climatology

climatology, climate modeling, meteorology

Division of Earth and Planetary Sciences - Graduate School of Science

Hokkaido University

meteorology, atmospheric physics

Geological Faculty

St. Petersburg State University

Palaeo Environment and Climate History of the Russian Arctic (PECHORA).Quaternary Environment of the Eurasian North (QUEEN).Working areas: northern European Russia, the Urals, West Siberia.

quaternary geology, geomorphology, natural history

Department of Arctic Environment

Danish National Environmental Research Institute

Arctic environment.

environmental assessment, marine chemistry, geochemistry

Department of Geosciences

North Dakota State University

Biogeography of arctic beetle species from a combination of paleontological and molecular genetic studies.Ecology of arctic beetle species.

quaternary ecology, biogeography, entomology

Department of Geological Sciences

Rutgers University

Geoarchaeology.Sourcing chart in western Brooks Range.

glacimarine processes, climate change, periglacial environment

Biology

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Bio-physical interactions.Shelf-Basin Interactions.Mesozooplankton-microbial food webs.Transfer of biogenic material between shelf and basin.

biological oceanography, zooplankton, marine ecology

Department of Oceanography

Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI)

Level oscillations, currents, sea ice dynamic and thermodynamic, numerical modelling, sea forecasts.

oceanography, air-sea-ice interactions, modeling

Scott Polar Research Institute

University of Cambridge

Assessment and management of environmental risk with special application to the extraction of oil and gas from the Maritime Arctic.

environmental impact assessment, environmental assessment, resource development

Institute of Arctic Biology (IAB)

University of Alaska Fairbanks

Inupiat, Koyukon, and Deg Hit’an cultures. Mental health. Oral history. Life history.

anthropology, mental health

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Arctic large mammals

dall sheep, caribou, bears, muskox, wolves

polar research

anvivo.org

Energy, Climate Change, Environment & Society

energy, socio-environmental assessment, climatology, human adaptation, social sciences

Institute for Circumpolar Health Studies

University of Alaska Anchorage

geographic information systems

Department of Marine Sciences

University of North Carolina

Microbial activities in Arctic seawater and sediments.Rates of carbon cycling in Arctic seawater and sediments. Microbial community composition and function.

marine chemistry, microbiology, biogeochemistry