Directory of Arctic Researchers

Department of Cultural Antropology and Ethnology

Uppsala University

Managing the Wilderness, the politics of ecology in Swedish Laplandexpertise: circumpolar peoples, Saami, reindeer herding, indigenous rights.
The effects of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster for the Swedish Saami.
I have been engaged in and continue to lead an inter-disciplinary and international research project, the American National Science Foundation funded project Dynamics of Circumpolar Land Use and Ethnicity (CLUE): social impacts of policy and climate change.

cultural anthropology, circumpolar cultures, ecology, reindeer herding, ethnicity, Post-Soviet Transformations among the "small peoples of the north" of Russia.

Department of Geography

University of British Columbia

Masters Project: Mapping the vegetation of a high-arctic oasis using digital and scanned infrared aerial photographs and studying the spatial patterns of diversity and phenology using GIS.

plant ecology, geographic information systems, mapping

Survey Development

FRS Marine Laboratory

biological oceanography, biostatistics, climate change

The Arctic Institute of North America

University of Calgary

Canadian Arctic.Sverdrup Basin.Carboniferous and Permian geology.Oil and gas potential.Stratigraphy and sedimentology.

geology, stratigraphy, energy resources

Woods Hole Research Center

PHENOCLIM project http://project.itek.norut.no/phenology/

vegetation ecology, remote sensing

Mycorrhizal fungi (Tripartite association).Malting barley.

soil science, agriculture, forestry

Hollings Marine Laboratory

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Research on temporal and geographic distribution of anthropogenic contaminants in circumpolar regions and the use of environmental specimen banks to conduct such research.

environmental contaminants, environmental monitoring, science management

Division of Wildlife Conservation

Alaska Department of Fish and Game

Immunotoxicology of pinnipeds.Pathology of wildlife.Immobilization of arctic ungulates.

veterinary medicine, marine mammals, toxicology

Terrain Sciences Division - Geological Survey of Canada

Natural Resources Canada

Quaternary geology and sea level history of Bathurst Island, Nunavut Territory.Surficial mapping of southern Yukon and Northwest Territories.

quaternary geology, glacial geomorphology

Department of Applied Science

National/Naval Ice Center

Validation and analysis of the Navy's NOGAPS weather prediction model in the Arctic.Seasonal forecast of ice conditions in Baffin Bay.Analysis of interannual and regional variations in Arctic cloudiness.Arctic climate system studies.

meteorology, NSF arctic system science, sea ice navigation

Alaska Volcano Observatory / Geophysical Institute

University of Alaska Fairbanks

Tephrochronology of the Bering Land Bridge National Park, NW Alaska (National Park Service and NSF).Climatic Impact of High Latitude Tephra Eruptions (NSF).Geomorphology of the Bonanza Creek Long-Term Ecologic Research Site, Alaska (NSF).Glacial Isostacy and Neotectonic Uplift in SE Alaska (NSF).Volcanic Hazards in the Aleutian Arc (DOI-AVO), river behavior and flood hazards in the Arctic.

quaternary geology, volcanology, periglacial environments, natural hazards

Centre d’etudes nordiques

Universite Laval

Long-term fluctuations of lake levels.Climatic impact of large water bodies.Long-term assessment for hydro-electric power.Assessment of current isostatic rebound.Reconstruction of past hydrography associated with differential isostatic rebound.Dendrochronological analysis of climatic trends, variability and extremes in the Subarctic.

dendrochronology, geomorphology, hydrology

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

University of Alaska Fairbanks

Municipal solid waste management in cold and remote regions.Arctic watershed characterization.

environmental engineering, environmental chemistry, groundwater

Graduate School of Oceanography

University of Rhode Island

Ocean fronts of the Bering, Chukchi, and Beaufort seas.

physical oceanography, remote sensing

Department of Geography

Memorial University of Newfoundland

sea ice, permafrost, coastal environments, Quaternary glaciation, sea level change

Scottish Association for Marine Science

Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory

The biomass in extreme lacustrine systems is dominated by microbial communities of Protozoa, algae and bacteria which are governed by microbial loop dynamics. The most successful of these organisms employ strategies that give them a competitive advantage. My research interests lie in testing the hypothesis that one such strategy, the well-known phenomenon mixotrophy, promotes survival in such extreme aquatic environments, through the identification, enumeration and investigation of trophodynamics in mixotrophic protists.Mixotrophic protists from a number of lakes on Axel Heiberg Island, Canadian High Arctic have been collected, identified and enumerated. Growth and grazing experiments were conducted to determine the relative fitness and grazing rates of mixotrophic and obligately heterotrophic/autotrophic protists. Complementary experiments to determine the relative contribution of mixotrophs to primary production and their consumption of bacterial production were also conducted. In concert with existing sampling programs at Potsdam University in other extreme lacustrine ecosystems and existing data collected by the applicant in Antarctica, the data gathered is hoped to add to our understanding of extreme system functioning and elucidate a potential gradient of increasing importance of survival strategies such as mixotrophy in increasingly extreme aquatic environments. Such knowledge will help us to understand how organisms adapt and survive anthropogenically modified (often increasingly extreme) lacustrine environments.

aquatic ecology, benthic ecology

Circumpolar Affairs Reporter

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Environmental and Life Sciences

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory

natural resources management, landscape ecology, environmental engineering

Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research

University of Bergen

CO2 chemistry

Watershed Hydrology and Ecology Research Division

National Water Research Institute, Environment Canada

aquatic ecosystems, climate change, hydrology, river ice,

International Arctic Research Center (IARC)

University of Alaska Fairbanks

Lake ice bio-optics.PAR and UV penetration in lakes.Limnology of High Arctic lakes (Ellesmere Island).

lake ice, climate change, marine geochemistry

Department of Zoology and Physiology

University of Wyoming

Role of carnivores in nutrient transports. Biodiversity. Ecosystem science. Mammalogy. Nutrient dynamics. Bears.

animal behavior, biogeochemistry, stable isotopes

Princeton University

Ice core studies.Atmospheric chemistry studies (gas concentrations).

geochemistry, oceanography, glaciology

National Marine Mammal Lab

NOAA

Marine mammal ecology, particularly the interactions among marine populations, commercial fisheries, physical and biological environment, and the potential impacts of climate change. Personal research expertise is focused primarily on pinnipeds.

marine mammals, marine ecology, ecology

National Ice Center

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

U.S. Interagency Arctic Buoy Program management and coordination.

sea ice remote sensing, oceanography, cryospheric remote sensing