Directory of Arctic Researchers

Department of Ocean, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences

Old Dominion University

History and sources of ice-rafting from the Arctic Ocean through Fram Strait over the past 50 kyr.Record of shelf-basin interactions between the Chukchi Shelf and the Northwind Basin over the last 50-100 kyr.Sea-ice transport patterns and processes in the Arctic Ocean: tracing the sources of ice-rafted debris by chemical fingerprints in detrital Fe oxide grains.

paleoceanography, glacimarine processes

Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences

University of Illinois - Urbana

Scandinavian arctic and alpine soil genesis, mineral weathering, soil temperature, geomorphic processes.

soil science, agronomy, geomorphology

Mining and Geological Engineering

Behavior of unfrozen water in frozen soils, Frost heaving, Soil physics, Slope stability in frozen ground, Thermal analysis of engineered structures over frozen ground

Geological and Frozen Ground Engineering

Department of Anthropology & Graduate Group in Ecology

University of California Davis

Paleoeskimo subsistence in the High Arctic.Zooarchaeology.Taphonomy.Marine mammal hunting and butchering.

archaeology, marine mammals, Inuit culture

Department of Mechanical Engineering

University of Alaska Fairbanks

Cold regions engineering.Cold weather testing of mechanical equipment.Arctic testing of machinery, Heat transfer and fluid dynamic characteristics of nanofluids, Energy efficiency enhancement

mechanical engineering

Water Quality

Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation

Arctic nuclear waste assessment.Historic radionuculide levels in Alaska.Atmospheric transport pathways from the former Soviet Union to Alaska.

environmental engineering, environmental monitoring, radioactive pollution

Fishery Resource Office

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Riverine split-beam sonar.Enumerate upstream migrating fish.Experience in Yukon River and Chandalar River.Sonar research with UAF.

acoustics, salmon, fisheries

Kola Science Centre

Russian Academy of Sciences

Investigations of distribution of heavy metals and organic pollutants (including petroleum hydrocarbons) in arctic lake and river sediments and toxic effects of pollutants on freshwater organisms on the European North.Geochemical migration and covariation of heavy metals between water, suspended matter, and sediments in freshwater lakes.Participating in investigations on some international projects: MOLAR, AL:PE, TUNDRA.

sedimentology, aquatic chemistry, paleolimnology

Department of Botany

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Plant and invertebrate community response to microtopography and micro climate

alpine ecology, biodiversity, biogeography

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Carnegie Mellon University

Concentrations of aerosol chemical species in the air and snow of Greenland.Processes of deposition of these species onto the Greenland Ice Sheet.

atmospheric chemistry, air pollution, snow chemistry

Department of Meteorology

Naval Postgraduate School

Arctic atmospheric boundary layer.In situ measurements.Remote sensing.

atmospheric sciences, meteorology

Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL)

Studies on remote sensing and modeling of snow in the boreal forest.

snow, snow hydrology, snow modeling

Natural and Applied Sciences

Bentley University

Holocene and Pleistocene glacial history of Baffin Island, Nunavut Territory, Canada.

glacial geology, climate change, Quaternary stratigraphy

Division of Subsistence

Alaska Department of Fish and Game

Land- and resource-use mapping.Marine mammal harvests.

subsistence, zooarchaeology, geographic information systems

Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Center

Government of Northwest Territories

GIS and archaeology.

geographic information systems

English Department

University of Calgary

Sir John Franklin's Arctic Land Expeditions (1819-22 & 1825-27).

literature, exploration and travel, history of polar research

Department of Biology

University of Northern British Columbia

avian ecology, animal behavior

ABR, Inc.—Environmental Research and Services

Ecology of rare and poorly known bird species; effects of human-caused impacts on marine organisms; avian ecology; bird migration; ecology and oceanography of the Chukchi Sea

ornithology, marine ecology, pollution, oceanography

Hollings Marine Laboratory

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Mercury in the marine environment

pollution, seabirds, toxicology

CIRES

University of Colorado

Aerosol-cloud interactions, cloud microphysics, cloud-surface interactions, atmospheric remote sensing, climate model evaluation and development, unmanned aircraft-based sampling of the Earth system, surface energy budget

atmospheric sciences, atmospheric physics, meteorology, unmanned aircraft

Geoscience Australia

Regional controls on snow composition over the whole Arctic. Local vs long-distance source of pollutants, natural vs anthropogenic sources of major and trace elements in snow. ARCTIS project collected and analyzed snow north of latitude 60 degrees N in Norway, Sweden, Finland, Svalbard, Russia, Alaska, Canada, Greenland and Iceland.

snow chemistry, pollution, geochemistry

Biofisica e Biometria

Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

radiation, environmental monitoring, atmospheric physics

Department of Linguistics

Groningen University

Minorities in the Arctic Regions of Russia.Ethnolinguistics.

linguistics, ethnology

Cerpolex

Organisation of polar travel to geographical North Pole and Northern Siberia.Research of Mammoth remains in Taymir peninsula.

exploration and travel, history of polar research, paleontology

Department of Geology

University of Chile

Neotectonics and geologic hazards

neotectonics, geologic hazards