Directory of Arctic Researchers

Selawik NWR

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Inupiat subsistence and land use.

subsistence

Department of Physics and Chemistry of the Atmosphere

Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research

Water vapor profiles as measured by radiosondes and lidar. Validation of water vapor profiles measured by satellites with GPS occultation technique.Arctic aerosol lidar observations.

atmospheric physics, climatology, meteorology

Department of Anthropology

University of Alaska Fairbanks

Ethnoarchaeology, Zooarchaeology, Taphonomy, Subsistence and land use, Historical archaelogy, Prehistory, Beringia, Quaternary science.

archaeology, cultural adaptation, human/environment interaction

Department of Environmental Health

Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation

Evaluating Alaskan Fish for environmental contaminants

environmental health, animal physiology, animal husbandry

Northern Student Education Initiative

University of Alberta

Post-secondary education barriers for Inuit and students of other cultural backgrounds from the Northwest Territories and Nunavut.Social work administration and program development.Social work in clinical and support services.

education, Native education, social work

Logistics Department

Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research

Ozone studies and natural variability.Performance of balloon-borne optical sensors.Climate impact of tropospheric aerosols.Validation of satellite data.Design and alternative energy use.

atmospheric physics, atmospheric chemistry, climate change

Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology - Biogeochemistry Program

Cornell University

Benthic nitrogen fixation in lake ecosystems. Landscape level patterns in nutrient status and nitrogen fixation.

ecosystem science, aquatic ecology, benthic ecology

Climate Dynamics Group

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Development and evaluation of a stratiform cloud parameterization.

atmospheric sciences, atmospheric physics, atmospheric chemistry

School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences (SFOS)

University of Alaska Southeast

Fisheries population.Molecular genetics

genetics, fish populations, population biology

Earth and Environmental Sciences

Hunter College

cryosphere, hydrology, climate change

Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland

Arctic geology.

geology

Social identity and identification in northern countries.

sociology, social change

Ecosystems Center

Marine Biological Lab

NSF - Arctic LTER at Toolik Lake.

aquatic ecology, biogeochemistry, ecosystem science

Department of Geography, University of Victoria

Water & Climate Impacts Research Centre (WCIRC)

development of stable isotope techniques for analyzing of local toregional-scale hydrologic processes and variability and application of isotope hydrology, in combination with other methods to investigate water-related issues such as the impact of forestry, mining and past climate changes on aquatic ecosystems; continental and global isotope-system modelling, field-based comparisons of water budgets and hydrologic controls on water quality in several regional lake surveys both in Canada and the USquantitative paleoclimate reconstruction in Bolivia and the circumpolar NorthGIS applications in isotope hydrology in Arctic Canada

hydrology, climatology

Colorado Research Associates

Arctic lidar observatory for middle atmosphere research (ALOMAR).Participation in Rayleigh and sodium lidar systems.Arctic ozone studies.

atmospheric physics, aeronomy

Water and Environmental Research Center

University of Alaska Fairbanks

hydrology, data management, meteorological instrumentation

Inughuit (Polar-Eskimo of North West Greenland).

Inughuit, Eskimos

Northern Conservation Division

Canadian Wildlife Service

Marine birds in the Arctic. Identifying factors affecting their survival and rates of annual reproduction.Habitat use (throughout the year), foraging ecology, impacts of human harvest.

avian ecology

DataBrokers

Ocean surface temperature mapping.

political science, Data processing/analysis, information systems/technology

Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation

University of Alberta

My research investigates Dene women's participation in Dene Games. In particular, I'm interested in menstrual traditions, the notion of "tradition", Indigenous understandings of gender equity, active living, and the Arctic Winter Games

Native studies, anthropology, women's studies

Groupe de Recherche en Ecologie Arctic

The lemming cycle and the predator-prey interactions.Monitoring of a vertebrate community in NE Greenland and modeling of the predator-prey interaction.Ecology, status, and movements of the endangered high-Arctic Ivory Gull

ecology, zoology, predation

Department of Sociology

Mississippi State University

Extensive work on human impacts of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill in Prince William Sound, Alaska.

sociology, oil spills, environmental impact assessment

Department of Sociology

Mississippi State University

Extensive work on human impacts of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill in Prince William Sound, Alaska.

sociology, oil spills, environmental impact assessment

Observation Department - Ice and Remote Sensing Section

Danish Meteorological Institute

Determination of sea-ice edge in themarginal ice zone in the waters around Greenland using satellite SAR images.Icebergs determination in satellite SAR images.

sea ice remote sensing, satellites, oceanography

Protected Resources Division

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM)

EXPERTISEPopulation, foraging, and behavioral ecology of Pacific seabirds. Shorebird conservation. Avian molecular ecology. Sea Otter Enhydra lutris conservation and management. Marine mammal stranding and disease. Aerial surveys techniques.CURRENT PROJECTSMortality trends and diseases of northern sea otters in south-central Alaska. Aerial surveys to assess the population status of northern sea otters in Alaska. Reproductive parameters of northern sea otters in regions of population increase and decline. Environmental change and trophic use by northern sea otters Black oystercatcher breeding success and paternity on Middleton Island, Alaska. The wintering range of black oystercatchers across Alaska. Population trends of near-shore avian species in the Western Aleutian Archipelago.

Marine bird and mammals