Directory of Arctic Researchers

Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology

Russian Academy of Sciences

Traditional meanings of maintaining the health in aboriginal cultures of the North of Russia.Use of the wild plants in aboriginal cultures.Grant from Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences: " The peoples of the North; the problems of survival (environmental aspects) and their historic knowledge in connection with modern physiological and botanical findings as the key to the future."

cultural anthropology, traditional knowledge and wisdom, Native studies

Department of Biology

University of Saskatchewan

Population ecology of polar bears and population ecology of barren ground grizzly bears.

wildlife

Medicine.Cardiovascular epidemiology.Cardiology.World Health Organization (WHO).Multinational MONItoring of trends and determinants of CArdiovascular disease (MONICA).

Institute of Geology

Russian Academy of Sciences - Siberian Branch

Paleomagnetism of Taimyr peninsula and Severnaya Zemlya islands, including geodynamic interpretation.Geodynamic evolution of Kara Plate (North Taimyr and Severnaya Zemlya) on Early Paleozoic: paleomagnetic aspect (“RFBR project”).

paleomagnetism, tectonics, geodynamics

Department of Mining and Geological Engineering

University of Alaska Fairbanks

Mineral economic modeling of University of Alaska trust lands.P+ - group element dispersion associated with Alaska-type ultramafic intrusive rocks.

geotechnical engineering, exploration geophysics, geochemistry

Astrobiology Discipline Scientist - Code SR

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Headquarters

Microbes in extreme environments.Models of ice-covered lakes.Physical ecology of the local/microenvironments.

algae, ecology, microclimatology

German Travel Academy

zoology, tourism

Department of Geosciences

University of Tulsa

seafloor spreading and crustal generation and hydrothermal activity along Gakkel ridge; mantle geochemistry beneath the Arctic

igneous petrology, marine geology, marine geochemistry

Palmer Research Center - Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station

University of Alaska Fairbanks

soil science, soil chemistry, organic geochemistry

Geological Survey of Canada

Natural Resources Canada

Groundwater Geoscience Program
Permafrost dynamics

permafrost, periglacial environment, frost heaving, Groundwater mapping and characterization

Botanical Institute

University of Copenhagen

Nutrient and carbon cycling.Climate change.Long-term experimental manipulations.Mycorrhiza and plant nutrition.Plant-microbe interactions.

plant ecology, ecology, stable isotopes

Department of Geology

University of Toronto

Paleolimnological techniques to assessing environmental changeVictoria Is, Cornwallis Is, Axel Heiberg Is, Ellesmere Island

paleolimnology, paleoclimatology, global change

Department of Geology and Geophysics

University of Wisconsin - Madison

Modern glacier process.Drumlin formation.Glacial history.

glacial geomorphology, geomorphology, environmental geology

Marine Biological Section

University of Copenhagen

Studies of microbial ecology and carbon turnover in the water column.Projects in the North Water (NOW) Polynya, the Greenland Sea and North East Greenland Fjords (Young Sound)

aquatic microbiology, aquatic ecology, biodiversity, marine viral ecology

Oulu Business School

Oulu Business School

“Business Index North” project that focuses on the sustainable business development in the Arctic regions.

sustainable business in the Arctic, Arctic investments, smart specialization in the Arctic

Department of Geology

University of Tromsø

Gas hydrates and global climate change.East Greenland deep-sea channel response to climate change.Slope instability of continental margins.

marine geology, marine geophysics, climate change

Department of Education

University of Joensuu

Multicultural education in North-Carelia, Finland.

education, cultural anthropology, sociology

Department of Geology

University of Tromsø

paleoceanography, fjord/shelf oceanography, paleoclimatology

Operations and Logistics Department

Norwegian Polar Institute

logistics

Department of Paleoclimate and Glaciology

Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS)

Paleoclimatic and paleoceanographic studies of arctic marine sediments.History of the Norse settlement in Greenland (900-1500 AD) as evidenced by high-resolution studies of marine and terrestrial deposits.Greenland Arctic Ocean Shelf Project (GRASP).Periglacial studies in the NE Greenland.

marine geology, paleoclimatology, quaternary geology

Newer cultural history of Northeast Greenland.The trappers period of 1908-1960.Preservation of old trappers huts in Northeast Greenland.World War 2 activities in Northeast Greenland.

human settlements, history

Zoological Museum

University of Helsinki

Entomology and lepidopterology.Holarctic Lepidoptera.Relationships of Eurasian and North American butterflies and moths.

zoology, entomology

Indian Affairs and Northern Development

Government of Canada

Under-ice sediment transport.Chemistry of sediments.River-ice breakup.Ecosystem indicators.

hydrology, stream ecology

Environmental Systems Analysis Research Center

Arctic climate change.North Atlantic climate variability.Arctic sea ice variability.

climatology, sea ice, remote sensing

History Department - Northwest Campus

University of Alaska Fairbanks

History of exploration.History of polar aviation.Russian flights.

history, history of polar research, history of science