Directory of Arctic Researchers

Population Ecology

University of Aarhus

Large-scale atmospheric fluctuations (the NAO and the ENSO/NP) and their influence on ecosystem functioning in the Northern Hemisphere. Analytic/statistical population modeling on arctic animals integrating climatic and biological processes. Plant/herbivore interactions.Lemming/muskox/caribou population dynamics.Population dynamics of arctic marine mammals.Predator-prey dynamics (lynx-snowshoe hare interactions in Canada).

population ecology, climate change, animal behavior

USCG Icebreaker Science Operations

United States Coast Guard

Science planning and scheduling for the USCG icebreaker Healy.

logistics, marine biology, oceanography

Denali Associates

Alaska geology

geology

Department of Geography

McGill University

Vulnerability of communities in the Arctic to natural hazards in light of climate change.

geography, global warming, global change

Department of Civil Engineering

Université Laval

Frozen soil creep.Frost heave.Ice scouring.

frozen soil mechanics, geotechnical engineering, civil engineering

Svalbard archipelago, biostratigraphy and paleobiogeography of Late Paleozoic larger foraminifera (Fusulinoidea)

micropaleontology, biostratigraphy, paleoclimatology

Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences

University of Illinois at Chicago

Quaternary history of the Eurasian North.Ice sheet and sea level dynamics; land-ocean connections.

quaternary geology, marine geology, paleoclimatology

DTU Space

Technical University of Denmark

Gravity field of the Arctic. Remote sensing of ice sheets. Geodynamics.

geodesy, geophysics, ice sheet geophysics

Department of Geography

University of Utah

Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) measurement of glacier velocites. Snowpack charcterization from microwave remote sensing

remote sensing, glaciology, snow hydrology

Geological Survey of Canada - Minerals and Regional Geoscience Branch

Natural Resources Canada

Polar margin structure and tectonics.Modelling and interpretation of aeromagnetic and geology for area of Lincoln Sea, Ellesmere Island, and northwest Greenland east to Kap Washington.Integration of seismic (crustal refraction), magnetic, and geology data for the Canadian polar margin area from Ellefe Ringnes Island to Nansen Sound/Northeast Ellesmere Island.Proposed seismic and magnetic program in Nares Strait.

seismology, geophysics, tectonics

Department of Scandinavian Studies and Linguistics

Copenhagen University

Co-editing Oxford Handbook of Polysynthesis.Continuing investigation of linguistic relations across Bering Strait, andorientation systems of the North Pacific Rim.

linguistics

Sentinel North, Université Laval

International North Water Polynya Study (NOW): coordinator/Ecology of macrozooplankton.Barrow Strait: ice algae/phytoplankton/zooplankton and sedimentation processes.

zooplankton, sea ice biota, oceanography

Departement de geologie et de genie geologique

Université Laval

Cone penetration test in permafrost. Geophysical logging.Permafrost sampling.

permafrost engineering, frozen soil mechanics, geophysics

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

University of Alaska Fairbanks

Geomorphological and climatological dynamics of permafrost since the late Wisconsin.Reconstruction of development of landforms (e.g. ice-wedge polygons, pingos, thermokarst lakes) to determine the governing climatic and geomorphologic parameters.Modelling actual thermal regime of permafrost to reconstruct any paleoclimatological changes recorded in ice and sediments since the early Wisconsin.

geocryology, geomorphology, climatology

Research Department Potsdam

Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research

Arctic haze, diamond dust, and cloud parameterization for the Arctic.Arctic Study of Tropospheric Aerosol and Radiation (ASTAR).SHEBA project.

atmospheric physics, radiation, meteorology

Faculty of Law

University of Victoria

history, law

Departments of Geology and Geography

Portland State University

GIS of glacier change.Mass balance of glaciers.Glacier hydrology.

glaciology, global change, hydrology

Department of Geology and Geophysics

University of Wisconsin - Madison

Volcanism of Aleutian Arc.Tephrachronology of lower Alaska Peninsula.

petrology, volcanology, mineralogy

Ocean Physics Ocean Sciences Division

Department of Fisheries and Oceans (Canada)

Development of various autonomous sampling systems for air/ice/water. High Arctic (Barrow Strait), Labrador Coast.

mechanical engineering, instrumentation

Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency (CanNor)

Housing technologies.Community-level infrastructure technology.Cultural integration into development processes.Environmental responsibility.

sustainable development, northern engineering

Aerospace Engineering Sciences

University of Colorado

Generation of ice velocity vectors from AVHRR and SSM/I.Part of the AVHRR Polar Pathfinder group.

sea ice remote sensing, sea ice dynamics, air-sea-ice interactions

Department of Wildlife Ecology and Biodiversity

Danish National Environmental Research Institute, Aarhus University

Annual migratory waterfowl inventories and population modeling.Use of individually marked goose populations to investigate life history traits.Study of energetics of migration through direct observation and satellite telemetry.

bird migration, bird populations

Climatology Division

Norwegian Meteorological Institute

climate change, climate modeling, cryosphere

Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences

Woods Hole Research Center

Impacts of rapid Arctic warming on large-scale atmospheric circulation and weather patterns in mid-latitudes

Arctic climate change, sea ice, atmospheric sciences, Arctic/weather linkages, extreme weather, Arctic amplification, jet stream

Institut National de la Rcherche Scientifique

Climate reconstruction from laminated sediments using image analysis techniques.Ellesmere Island.

sedimentology, limnology, paleoclimatology