Directory of Arctic Researchers

Center for Resilient Communities/DHS Arctic Domain Awareness Center

U Idaho and U Alaska

resilience and adaptation science; complexity science; environmental security; all domain situational awareness; community based observing networks

College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences

University of Alaska Fairbanks

Nutrient cycles in aquatic systems, primary productivity, arctic and subarctic limnology.Biological oceanography with special emphasis on low trophic level biology.Aquatic and terrestrial nitrogen fixation.Dynamics of marine marginal ice zone ecosystems.Arctic Research Vessel design.

marine ecology, limnology, biological oceanography

Department of Marine Geology

Skidaway Institute of Oceanography

Sedimentary processes in: East Greenland/Iceland shelf, fjords, Siberian Arctic (Anadyr Estuary).

marine sedimentology, geochronology, radioactive isotopes

International Arctic Research Center

University of Alaska Fairbanks

atmospheric sciences, climate change, CO2 modeling

Keweenaw Research CenterInstitute of Snow Research

Michigan Technological University

Oversnow traverse Antarctica.Deep snow mobility.Anti-icing of pavements.Snowmobile traction.Trail grooming.

snow mechanics, vehicle mobility

Series Editor for Edinburgh University Press

Aboriginal print and broadcast media (especially in Canada).Arts.Inuit names.Nunavut cultural policy.Representations of Native people by themselves and others.

communications, sociology, Inuit culture

Prairie and Northern Wildlife Research Centre

Environment Canada

Nutritional ecology and population biology of Ross’s geese.Recruitment and survival of King Eiders.Survival of White-fronted and small Canada Geese.

waterfowl, population biology, nutrition

Alaska Quaternary Center

University of Alaska Fairbanks

cultural anthropology, fisheries, Indigenous knowledge

Centre D’Etudes Nordiques

Université Laval

Northern Quebec (Nunavik).Arctic Island (Nunavut).

permafrost, geomorphology, quaternary paleoecology

Department of Architecture

University of Oulu

Landscaping in the Arctic.

architecture, land use planning, psychology

Department of Biobehavioral Health & Population Sciences

University of Alaska Fairbanks

Cultural research methodologies, and resilience, protective factors, and community interventions with Alaska Native and other circumpolar indigenous people. Engaged in two multi-site studies: development, implementation, and testing of a cultural approach to prevention of suicide and alcohol abuse for Alaska Native youth, and resiliency and the pathways to adulthood of international circumpolar indigenous youth.

human behavior, Alaska public policy, public health

School of Education

Boston University

First language acquisition of Inuktitut in northern Quebec.Bilingual acquisition of English and Inuktitut in northern Quebec and Iqaluit.Specific language impairment in Inuktitut.Narrative development in Inuktitut.

linguistics, education

Department of Geography

East Carolina University

Treeline, landscape ecology at the boreal-arctic tundra transition, and subsistence.

geography, geographic information systems, remote sensing

Division of Refuges Planning Branch

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Maintaining a wilderness experience on Alaskan wildlife refuges.Interactions between local village residents and recreation visitors.Establishing limits of acceptable change for social and resource conditions along river corridors frequented by subsistence and sport users.

human/environment interaction, community sustainability, socio-economic impact assessment

Weathering and pedogenesis in arctic-alpine Scandinavia.Alpine soils in Oregon.

geomorphology, soil science, environmental sciences

Biology Department

Ithaca College

Contamination by air pollutants in the siberian Arctic manuscripts.Interactive effects of habitat degradation and pollution on freshwater systems.

environmental sciences, toxicology

Department of GeosciencesEarth and Environmental Systems Institute

Pennsylvania State University

Ice core interpretation from Greenland.

glaciology, paleoclimatology, global change

University Centre in Svalvard

Arctic biogeography, arctic botany, molecular ecology, seed bank, seed germination, climate change

biogeography, botany, biology

GOOS Project Office

Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission

Atmospheric forcing of oceanic convection in the Labrador Sea.Ocean convection.Past global climate and environmental change.

ocean-atmosphere interactions, physical oceanography, paleoclimatology

Marine and Environmental Geology

All-Russia Geological Research Institute (VSEGEI)

Computer modeling.Tectonic map of the Barents Sea and adjacent areas.

structural geology, ice/structure interaction, geographic information systems

National Science Foundation

Sclerchronology.Impact of climate change on structure and function of soft-sediments.Fishery disturbance to soft-sediments.

marine ecology, oceanography, fjord/shelf oceanography; benthic ecology, long-term observing, Traditional Ecological Knowledge

Climate Science and Applications Program (CSAP)

NCAR

Abrupt/rapid climate change. Snow/sea ice feedback. Glacial-interglacial cycles. Global warming. Timing and extent of maximum ice cover. Atmospheric teleconnections. Climate sensitivity. Natural climate variability. Seasonal climate sensitivity to internal and external forcing. Hydrologic cycle and stable isotopes in snow/precipitation. Climate modeling.

paleoclimatology, climate modeling, volcanology

Department of Marine Sciences and Oceanography

Texas A&M University

DOM biogeochemistry in the two rivers Ob and Yenisey, the Kara Sea, and the Fram Strait with future plans for the Arctic Basin.

biogeochemistry, biological oceanography, aquatic microbiology

Alaska Science Center - Biological Resources Division

U.S. Geological Survey

Population dynamics, movements, and ecology of Polar bears in the Beaufort Sea and Polar Basin.

ecology, marine mammals, mammalogy