Directory of Arctic Researchers

Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research

Late Quaternary environment in Arctic Siberia, Alaska.

quaternary palynology, paleogeography, paleoecology

State Historical Museum

Relations between Russian settlers and Siberian Aborigines.Museum and cultural studies.Traditional food.Material culture.

history, cultural anthropology, museum studies

Department of Anthropology

Washington State University

Hunter-Gatherer Human Organization, Lithic Analysis, Neolithic Transition, and Cultural Resource Management.

archaeology

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Volcanic aerosols.Automobile emissions in cold climates.Anthropogenic CO2 emissions.

geochemistry, volcanology, remote sensing

Nongame Migratory Bird Management

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Estimation of breeding shorebird densities based on remotely sensed vegetation cover types.Color-banding dunlins to monitor use of wetlands in Japan and southeast Asia.

avian ecology, bird populations, wildlife management

Department of Geological Institute

University of Copenhagen

Synchronization of Holocene lacustrine sediments from Kap Farvel with marine sediments from The Denmark Strait in order to shed a light on the atmosphere-ocean interactions.

paleoclimatology, paleolimnology, air-sea-ice interactions

Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research

University of Colorado

Paleooceanography and sediment fluxes along glaciated continental margins: East Greenland, NW Iceland, E. Canadian Arctic.Climate change in the arctic over the last 10,000 years.

quaternary geology, paleoceanography

Division of Subsistence

Alaska Department of Fish and Game

Subsistence resource management.Subsistence policy.Community-based social science research.

anthropology, subsistence, fisheries management

Education, Culture, and Employment - Government of the NWT

Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre

Dogrib ethnoarchaeology.Dene ethnoarchaelogy.Ice patch archaeology.

archaeology, Athabaskan studies, ethnoarchaeology

Department of Zoology

Stockholm University

Animal ecology.Conservation biology.Conservation of the arctic fox. Other aspects of arctic foxes.Nature resource use in the Swedish mountain region.Arctic ecology and trophic relationships.Mammoth ecology.Wolverine ecology.

Mammael ecology in Arctic and subarctic regions

Geological Survey of Canada

Natural Resources Canada

Yellowknife, Northwest Territories - multidisciplinary study of the Archean-age Yellowknife gold mining district.Bathurst Island, Nunavut - Mineral and Energy Resource Assessment - National Park planning process.

resource development, geochemistry

Department of Climatology

State Hydrological Institute

Climate change at arctic regions.Modeling of permafrost and active layer.Projections of the permafrost distribution and active-layer thickness under conditions of the changing climate.

global change, environmental impact assessment, cryosphere

Division for Terrestrial Ecology

Norwegian Institute for Nature Research

Long-term studies of the population dynamics Atlantic puffins (Fratercula arctica) including annual monitoring of breeding numbers, reproduction, survival rates and food choice, and their interactions with forage fish (in particular herring), commercial fisheries and ocean climate. Also long experience from issues related to oil pollution and environment, including the development of a generalized impact model for EIA’s and vulnerability index for marine birds. Co-leader of the Norwegian Monitoring Programme for Seabirds and the Norwegian Seabird Database and Mapping Programme.

avian ecology, marine biology, population ecology

Department of Anthropology

Northern Arizona University

Effects of climate change on the Bering Sea marine mammal resource.Effects of climate change on indigenous hunters of marine mammals and indigenous hunters of Alaska’s interior.

anthropology, global warming, marine mammals

Alaska Science Center - Biological Resources Division

U.S. Geological Survey

Arctic fox biology in western Alaska.Arctic fox predation on nests of waterfowl.Videographic surveys of black brant nesting colonies.Predation on nests of dusky Canada geese.

wildlife, mammalogy, predation

Office of History and Archaeology

Alaska Department of Natural Resources

history, resource management

Sea Ice Research Laboratory

Hokkaido University

Arctic sea ice.Ice scour.

air-sea-ice interactions

Robotics Institute

Carnegie Mellon University

Robotics.Robotic science missions to the Arctic and Antarctic.Evaluation of robotic mechanisms in polar environments.Experiments with remote sensor networks.Projects: Mars Haughton Project, Robotic Search for Antarctic Meteorites, Dante Volcano Explorer.

robotics, vehicle mobility

Research

TAG LLC

sea ice, remote sensing, modeling

Research & Exhibitions - Ethnographic Collections

Danish National Museum

Paleo-Eskimos in the Eastern Arctic.Cultural Meeting Paleo-Eskimos/Inuits/Norse.

archaeology, prehistory, Inuit culture

Department of Natural Resources

Semnan Natural Resources High Education Center

climatology, climate modeling, climate change

Environmental Change Initiative

Brown University

sea ice modeling, climate modeling, remote sensing

Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL)

Subsurface radar exploration of permafrost, river ice and glaciers.

terrestrial geophysical exploration

Scott Polar Research Institute

University of Cambridge

Ethnic identity among Sakha (Yakuts).Ethnic politics.

anthropology, ethnology

Research Division

Canadian Museum of Nature

Systematics of Salix in the New World Arctic.Current projects: Salix for Pan Arctic Flora, Salix for Flore Quebec nordique (north of 54 degrees), Salix for Flora of North America, Salix identification workshops, computerized interactive identification of New World Salix.

plant systematics