Directory of Arctic Researchers

Statistics Greenland

Development of an annual Social Statistic for Greenland.Evaluation of treatment for alcohol addiction.Social science.

political science, education

Department of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences

Iowa State University

Modeling coupled land-atmosphere hydrologic cycle in the pan-Arctic.

climate modeling, meteorology, hydrology, impacts of climate change, extreme events

Planning Department

Alaska Survey Innovations

Rock art of central Alaska.Historical/anthropological/archaeological mapping.Folklore studies of Alaska Natives (Athabascan).Land development planning.Cadastral surveying.

mapping, land use planning, Athabaskan studies

Institute of Arctic Biology (IAB)

University of Alaska Fairbanks

Timing of human colonization of the north.Quaternary large mammal extinctions.Evolution of human behavior.Paleolithic art.

paleoecology, archaeology, quaternary paleoecology

Institute of Applied Environmental Research (ITM)

Stockholm University

Upper ocean carbon export processes.Long-range transport of organic pollutants.Food-web uptake of organic pollutants.River-shelf fluxes of carbon and other biogeochemically important elements.

biogeochemistry, environmental sciences, climate change

Institute of Applied Environmental Research (ITM)

Stockholm University

Upper ocean carbon export processes.Long-range transport of organic pollutants.Food-web uptake of organic pollutants.River-shelf fluxes of carbon and other biogeochemically important elements.

biogeochemistry, environmental sciences, climate change

International Arctic Research Center

University of Alaska Fairbanks

Applied geophysics for the study of the cryosphere . Snow distribution on Alaska glaciers.

cryosphere, geophysics

Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park

U.S. National Park Service (NPS)

Klondike Gold Rush archaeology and history.Late 19th to earth 20th century material culture in particular bricks and brick making.

archaeology, history

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Organic carbon cycling.Dynamics of colloids and particles in the oceans.Mobility of radionuclides.Bioavailability of metals to aquatic organisms.Environmental radiochemistry.

chemical oceanography, biogeochemistry, environmental chemistry

Glaciological and Arctic Sciences Institute

University of Idaho

Composition and amount of dust on the Juneau Icefieled. Compostion of ice- and snow-derived water from the Juneau Icefield.

mineralogy, air pollution, ice physics

Whale Research

Marine Research Institute

whale counts - NASS-2007, North Atlantic Sightings Survey 2007

ecosystem modeling, population ecology, marine mammals

Central Administration

University of Akureyri

Currently involved with the establishment of the University of the Arctic and some of its programmatic activities. In particular, the University of Akureyri is heavily involved with the Northern Research Forum and hosts its secretariatalong with the Stefansson Arctic Institute.

education, fisheries, health care

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Resilient infrastructure, resilient materials and structural systems to impact loads (due to ice, waves, debris hitting, etc.), blast loads (due to explosions, dynamic pressure changes, etc.), and hurricane-speed winds.

High-strength materials, structural mechanics, response simulation, machine learning, extreme loads, impact, blast, ice loading, high-strain rate mechanics

soil science, stable isotopes, trace gases

Department of Biology

University of Ljubljana

microbiology, particularly the biodiversity of yeasts and filamentous fungi in polythermal glaciers; yeasts in Arctic sea water, yeasts in Arctic sea-ice, bioindicator sterols in glacier ice, adaptations of fungi to cold temperatures and low water activity .

mycology, microbiology

Science and Tech Branch

ECCC

Airmass and cloud microphysics relationship, arctic cloud dynamics during FIRE.ACE.Moisture and heat fluxes from leads and cloud microphysics, satellite retrievals of microphysical parameters and in-situ observations.

atmospheric physics, climate change, remote sensing

Department of Ethnography

National Museum of Denmark

Greenland prehistory.Cultural contacts.Inuit-Norse.Neo-Eskimos.

archaeology, ethnohistory, Inuit culture

Department of Marine Biology

University of Tromsø

marine biology, benthic ecology, sea ice biota

Prehistory and History of Arctic North America and Greenland Indigenous Historical Archaeology Archaeology of Gender Archaeometallurgy Portable X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry Thule Inuit Metal Use Geo-chemical provenance analyses of copper and iron Ethnohistory of the Eastern Arctic Intercultural interaction and social identity.

archaeology, geoarchaeology, Inuit culture

Department of Meteorology

Naval Postgraduate School

Micrometeorological measurements of turbulent and radiational surface fluxes from ships and ice camps.Modeling surface radiation effects of clouds and aerosols.Boundary layer processes in the Arctic and climatic impacts.

air-sea-ice interactions, boundary-layer meteorology, ice physics

Trent University

chemical oceanography, water pollution, environmental chemistry

Reykjavik Division

Icelandic Institute of Natural History

Arctic migration systems. Bird migration strategies. Stopover ecology. Orientation. Radar ornithology. Swedish Arctic Research Programme: Tundra Ecology 1994, Tundra Northwest 1999. Arctic passage migrants in Iceland. Shorebird populations. Breeding densities.

avian ecology, bird migration, bird populations

Electromagnetics Institute

Danish National Space Center

Arctic Ocean, Greenland/Ellesmere Island sector.Remote sensing study of Lincoln Sea and Nares Strait.

glaciology, ice, sea ice remote sensing

Natturufraedistofnun Islands

Icelandic Institute of Natural History

Mapping the vegetation of Iceland, Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation Map (CAVM).

mapping, botany

Oral history, genealogy, and ethnohistory of Koyukon, lower Tanana and Ahtna Athabaskans.

oral history, ethnohistory