Directory of Arctic Researchers

Institute of Petroleum Geology

Russian Academy of Sciences - Siberian Branch

Cretaceous belemnites of the northern parts of West and East Siberia.

paleontology, biostratigraphy, paleogeography

Geological Survey of Canada

Natural Resources Canada - Terrain Sciences Division

Younger Dryas and postglacial climate threshold events in the western Canadian Arctic.Human and faunal response to climate change in the western Canadian Arctic.Articulating the archaeological and geological records.

quaternary geology

Department of Geological Survey of Canada

Natural Resources Canada

Slope stability in a warming climate.Contaminant transport in permafrost.Impacts of climate chage in the Mackenzie River valley and Beaufort coast areas.

permafrost, groundwater

Sustainable Development

Government of Nunavut

Tourism in the Arctic and polar bears, polar bear reproductive behaviour, climate change and polar bears/Arctic ecosystems

wildlife management, animal behavior, population ecology

Department of Oceanography

Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI)

Level oscillations, tides.

oceanography

Imaging Center

Bates College

Geographic information systemsNo current research projects.

data management, data processing/analysis, paleoclimatology

Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL)

composite materials

Department of Anthropology

Pennsylvania State University

Iceland--medieval and modern.

anthropology

Department of Biology

University of Ostrava

Expeditions - with r/v 'Oceania', Institute of Oceanology PAS (Sopot, Poland): Spitsbergen 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1997.Decapod crustaceans - systematics, adult and larval.Sympagic crustaceans.Shallow-water marine ecosystems.Scuba-diving methods.Underwater video.

crustacean biology, invertebrate biology, marine biology

Marine Science Institute

University of Texas at Austin

Benthic community structure and biomass: linkage to biological and physical processes (Beaufort and Chukshi seas).UV inhibition of photosynthesis in arctic kelp (Canadian High Arctic; Norway).Biological impacts of offshore oil and gas development on arctic kelp communities (Beaufort Sea).Isotopic geochemistry.

benthic ecology, biological oceanography, kelp

Marine Science Institute

University of Texas at Austin

Benthic community structure and biomass: linkage to biological and physical processes (Beaufort and Chukshi seas).UV inhibition of photosynthesis in arctic kelp (Canadian High Arctic; Norway).Biological impacts of offshore oil and gas development on arctic kelp communities (Beaufort Sea).Isotopic geochemistry.

benthic ecology, biological oceanography, kelp

Director of field program to Canadian Arctic.Assistant Editor of ARCSS project to develop educational materials with the ARCSS database

education, geography

Geology and Geophysics

University of Hawaii

Mantle geophysics and plate tectonics

geophysics, tectonophysics, seismology

Consulting Group

UMIAQ, LLC

GIS used as a tool for environmental decision making, appropriate technology, Inupiat Traditional knowledge in land use planning. BEO Masterplan 10 year update; traditional knowledge related to impacts of oil and gas development.

land use planning, Native communities, socio-economic impact assessment

School of Art

Arizona State University

Contemporary Alaska Native artists.Athabaskan beadwork.

art, ethnology, Athabaskan studies

Carsy Institute

University of New Hampshire

Human adaptation to change in North Atlantic communities dependent on groundfish.

sociology, community development, social change

U.S. Geological Survey

Sedimentology, stratigraphy, and energy and mineral resource potential of Triassic, Paleozoic, and Proterozoic rocks (especially carbonate rocks) of Alaska. Lisburne Group (Carboniferous-Permian) sedimentology. Paleoenvironmental and paleogeographic reconstruction.

geology, sedimentology, stratigraphy

Department of Anthropology

University of Oregon

Prehistory of coastal Alaska, with emphasis on the Bering Sea region.Archaeology and ethnohistory of the Alaska Peninsula.

prehistory, archaeology, ethnohistory

Project Group Solar UV Radiation

Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research

Plant physiology.Antioxidative strategies of marine macroalgae of Kongsfjord, Spitsbergen photobiology.

benthic ecology, plant ecology

Department of Biological Sciences

University of Notre Dame

Main interests are subzero temperature adaptations of poikilotherms (animals and plants), especially insects. Of particular interest is the role of antifreeze preoteins in cold tolerance. Current projects include studies of antifreeze preoteins and related adaptations in Alaskan insects.

cold adaptation, comparative physiology, ecophysiology

Terrain Sciences Division - Geological Survey of Canada

Natural Resources Canada

Tertiary geology.Continental Arctic and subarctic geology and geomorphology of Northwest Canada. Tertiary pre-glacial drainage systems and their relationship to placer mineral exploration of gold and diamonds. Surficial geology of NW Canada.

glacial geology, paleogeography, quaternary geology

Sociology

Université Laval

Sustainable development in the Arctic.Conditions for food security.Economic sociology to the Arctic.Living conditions in the Arctic.

socioeconomics

Department of Geography

University of Waterloo

Remote sensing and modeling of lake ice.Remote sensing and modeling of frozen ground.

remote sensing, lake ice, permafrost

Institute of Arctic Biology (IAB)

University of Alaska Fairbanks

Biomarkers in river otter and guillemots in Prince William Sound and Kachemak Bay.Human health - air pollution and oxyfuels.Hydrocarbon - oil spills.Hg transport and subsistence.

biochemistry, neurochemistry, immunochemistry

Alaska Natural Heritage Program

University of Alaska Anchorage

APEX Alaska Predator Ecosystem Experiment, Prince William Sound.Survey of biodiversity in relation to protected areas: Alaska.

biodiversity, marine ecology, parasitology