Directory of Arctic Researchers

Clayton H. Ridell Faculty of Environment, Earth and Resources

Centre of Earth Observation Science

ArcticNet

biodiversity, marine mammals, habitat selection

Arctic Institute of North America

University of Calgary

Biodiversity in harsh environments including polar regions, mountains, drylands and marine ecosystems; population genetics; diversification; behavioural ecology; molecular evolution; phylogeography; conservation; education and outreach.

avian ecology, biogeography, evolution

Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science

University of Miami

Shelf-Basin Interaction: Modeling diapause as a life-history strategy in large-bodied copepods in the Arctic Ocean.Ecological modeling and food web interactions.

aquatic ecology, zooplankton, animal physiology

Earth Science Co Ltd

Tertiary to present.Northeast Siberia.Kamchatka.Sakhalin.Northwest Alaska.Nepal and northeast China.

palynology, paleoclimatology, geology

Center of Ethnosociology

Institute of Humanitarian Research of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) Academy of Sciences

Permafrost and Culture, ethnosocial processes

Ethnosociology, demography

Graduate School of Environmental Science

Hokkaido University

climate change, marine science, modeling

Biological Department

Moscow State Lomonosov University

Oil biodegradation and microbial ecology in Arctic Seas.

aquatic microbiology, hydrocarbon pollution, marine ecology

Kola Science Centre

Russian Academy of Sciences

Paleoecological analysis (subfossile chironomid remains) of the mountain Lake Chuna, Kola Peninsula, Russia: MOLAR-project.Paleoecological analysis (subfossile chironomid remains) of the Lake Imandra (the problems of eutrophication and pollution by heavy metals), Kola Peninsula, Northwestern Russia.

paleolimnology, benthic ecology, environmental assessment

Kola Science Centre

Russian Academy of Sciences

Biomonitoring (benthic invertebrate) of the Lake Imandra (the problems of eutrophication and pollutionby heavymetals), Kola Peninsula, Northwestern Russia.Benthic communities of the mountain Lake Chuna, Kola Peninsula, Russia: MOLAR-project.Benthic invertebrate and water mosses of acidic lakes, Northwestern Russia.

benthic ecology, environmental assessment, paleolimnology

Department of Environmental Science

Atmospheric composition
Chemistry-climate interactions

Cambridge Arctic Shelf Programme (CASP)

Taimyr, Arctic Russia.

geology, structural geology, geochronology

Stefansson Arctic Institute

Linkages Between Marine and Terrestrial Environments and Human Populations in the North Atlantic" (Collaborative Research, HARC, NSF) .University of the Arctic Interim Council.Bachelor of Circumpolar Studies program development team.Northern Research Forum secretariat.Circumpolar Agricultural Association secretariat.North Atlantic Biocultural Organization coordination office in Iceland.Human Dimensions of Arctic Environments Web-based Information Project.

anthropology, history, human ecology

Department of Sociology

University of Aberdeen

Northern Fennoscandia/Lapland.Anthropological field work among Finns and Saami in Finnish Lapland.Perceptions of environmental change.

cultural anthropology, indigenous peoples, prehistory

Department of Geology

University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS)

Svalbard, western Siberia, and Greenland: late Quaternary glacial history and environmental changes.

quaternary geology, paleoclimatology, glacial geology

Institute of Problems of the Minority Peoples of the North

Russian Federation Academy of Sciences - Siberian Department

Searching the ways of improvement of technology on keeping reindeer.Organizing everyday life of nomadic reindeer breeders.

reindeer breeding, Native issues, Native studies

Financial and Economic Institute

Yakutsk State University

Ethnic and demographic processes among indigenous population in the Far North.

ethnology, demography

Slavic Research Center

Hokkaido University

Siberia, the Russian Far East and North East.Survival of the indigenous hunting and reindeer breeding peoples.

ethnology, Native studies, human/environment interaction

Institute of Low Temperature Science

Hokkaido University

Sea of Okhotsk.

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

Department of Arctic Technology

University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS)

Arctic Climate Impact Assessment.Mechanical and thermal properties of hydrocarbon polluted soils.

permafrost engineering, geotechnical engineering

NOAA ESRL PSD

Sea ice modeling and forecasting development. Arctic Ocean clouds and their radiative effects on the sea ice.  Surface fluxes and cloud forcing.

atmospheric sciences, climate change, sea ice forecasting, environmental sciences

Institute for the Study of Northern Cultures, Graduate School of Letters

Hokkaido University

Northern Eurasia, Northern North America, Japan

anthropology, ecology, northern studies

Magdalene College

University of Cambridge

Self government.Land claims.Part of the Inuvialuit and Gwich'in self government negotiating team for 3.5 years.Capacity building, community justice, and NWT political development issues.

political science

Department of History/Northern Studies

University of Alaska Fairbanks

Geological Survey of Canada and exploration.Treaty making in the Canadian North.Northern economic development.

history, agriculture, Native studies

Department of History/Northern Studies

University of Alaska Fairbanks

Geological Survey of Canada and exploration.Treaty making in the Canadian North.Northern economic development.

history, agriculture, Native studies

Department of Geophysics

Norwegian Polar Institute

Study of variability in oceanic heat flux into polar regions due to ocean-ice-atmosphere interactions.

oceanography, ocean-atmosphere interactions, climate change