Directory of Arctic Researchers

Department of Anthropology

University of Alaska Fairbanks

Culture, history, and environment in Kamchatka.Itelmen culture and history.Iceland - renaissance history and nationalism; discourse.

anthropology

Institute of Arctic Biology (IAB)

University of Alaska Fairbanks

Community Involvement in Canadian Porcupine Caribou. Co-management (MAB & NSF funded dissertation)Sustainability of Northern Communities (NSF-funded project)Community-based ecological Monitoring Systems (work associated with Environment Canada's EMAN Program)

human settlements, natural resources management, Native communities

Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL)

Radar-snow cover interaction.FMCW radar characterization of snow cover.Electromagnetic properties of random material.

physics, snow characteristics

Norwegian Polar Institute

Polar Environmental Center

Glaciology.Glacio-hydrology.Ground-penetrating radar.Snowpack hydrology.

glaciology, hydrology

University of Lapland

international environmental law in the arctic. Environmental impact assessment procedures in the arctic. sustainable development in the arctic.

law, land use planning, Indigenous peoples

Department of Oceanography

Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI)

Mixed layer of the Arctic Ocean

oceanography

Mekrijarvi Research Station

University of Eastern Finland

forest ecology, forestry, dendrochronology

College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences

University of Alaska Fairbanks

- phycology- research scuba diving- biodiversity- monitoring programs- nearshore ecology- ecosystem change- benthic ecologyMy current arctic and subarctic research includes examining kelp forest interaction webs in the Aleutian archipelago, evaluating walrus foraging habitats around St Lawrence Island, surveying nearshore biodiversity in rocky habitats along the North Pacific and in the arctic, and examining recovery in high arctic kelp communities in the Beaufort Sea.

marine ecology, macroalgae, benthic ecology

Research Department

Norwegian Polar Institute

Remote sensing of snow and glaciers.

glaciology, remote sensing

Department of Cryolithology and Glaciology

Moscow State University

Permafrost history of Northern Russia and Northern Asia.

permafrost, periglacial environment, quaternary geology

Department of Anthropology

University of Manitoba

Arctic Blue Books: 19th century British Parliamentary papers on exploration in the Canadian Arctic.

anthropology, Athabaskan studies, Inuit culture

Aboriginal Tourism Team Canada (ATTC)

Aboriginal tourism, tourism- policy and research. Research is generally national in scope: meaning that NWT, Yukon and Nunavut are incorporated

tourism

Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture

University of Washington

Mid- to High-Latitude Coastal Archaeology.

archaeology, fish populations, marine mammals

Quaternary Research Center

University of Washington

Glacial erosion and landscape evolution in coastal Alaska.

glacimarine processes, glaciology, environmental policy

Division of Hydrobiology - Department of Ecology and Systematics

University of Helsinki

"Holocene climatic variability in the Fennoscandian Arctic inferred from lake sediments and glaciers (HOARD)";"European Mountain lake Ecosystems: Regionalisation, diagnostics and socio-economic Evaluation (EMERGE)";"Pollution and rapid climatic changes in the Arctic as recorded by lake sedimentary archives (POLARCLIM)";"Climate History as Recorded by Ecologically Sensitive Arctic and Alpine Lakes in Europe during the Last 10,000 Years: A Multi-Proxy Approach (CHILL-10,000)";"How to separate natural environmental changes from those produced by man?";"Northern lakes as key witnesses for global change: An integrated study combining neo- and palaeoecological approaches""European Diatom Database Initiative (EDDI)"

paleoecology, climate change

Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL)

Cold weather concreting.

concrete technology

Natural Sciences Department

Hawaii Pacific University

Temperature adaptation in Arctic fishes.

comparative physiology, fish, marine biology

Arctic Oil and Gas Geology

All-Russia Research Institute for Geology and Mineral Resources of the World Ocean

Regional geology and tectonic evolution of the arctic onshore and offshore, geological mapping.Expertise in geological surveying and map compilation.Developing bilateral research projects: Russia/Canada Arctic Exchange, VNIIOceangeologia/Federal Institute for Geosciences and natural Resources BGR, Germany.

geology, mapping, structural geology

National Park Service (NPS) - Gates of the Arctic National Park

U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI)

geographic information systems, physical geography, snow characteristics

Department of Physical Geography, Faculty of Earth Sciences

Utrecht University

Evolution and processes of large fluvial systems.

geomorphology, climate change, periglacial environment

Microbial ecology

Skidaway Institute of Oceanography

Rates and pathways of carbon oxidation in sediments sampled from the fjords of coastal Norway and on the Svalbard archipelago.Efficiency of respiration by sediment bacteria in permanently cold sediments.Role of metal and sulfur cycles in the processing of carbon and nutrients in sediments.

biogeochemistry, microbiology

Faculty of Humanities

Nanzan University

Reconstructing the Ainu culture based on overseas materials.

anthropology, Native studies, archaeology

Yukon paleoclimate, permafrost disturbance

permafrost, environmental remediation

Institute of Geography

Russian Academy of Sciences

Cryosphere and global change.

geography, glaciology

Institut für Meteorologie und Klimaforschung

Universitaet Karlsruhe

Data buoy programs.Field studies with aircraft.Radiative exchange.Turbulent exchange.Satellite remote sensing.Model output diagnostics.

atmospheric sciences, sea ice