Directory of Arctic Researchers

Parks Canada

Yukon North Slope culture studies.Cold War in the western arctic.

history, Native studies, traditional knowledge and wisdom

U.S. Corporation

Arctic Institute of North America

Climate-related changes in the Arctic.Effects of offshore oil exploration in the Arctic.

oceanography, environmental sciences, public policy

Ardnamurchan

1. the later Palaeolithic and Mesolithic hunter-fisher-gatherer societies of Western Europe.2. the ethno-archaeology of Inupiat, Athapaskan, Tlingit, Haida and Algonkian hunter-fisher-gatherer societies.3. the application of descriptive, probabilistic and multi-variate statistics in archaeology.4. the development of computer programs, specifically for the analysis of archaeological data and the resolution of archaeological problems.5. Inupiat ethno-linguistics.

ethnoarchaeology, archaeology, Native studies

U.S. Arctic Research Commission

arctic science policy, resource management

Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University

Freshwater Reservoirs and Fluxes in the Arctic and sub-Arctic Oceans;
Atmosphere/Ocean interactions in the Arctic Basin;
Ocean Tracer data analysis;
Sea ice formation, transport and melt patterns in the Arctic.
Learning through hands-on, research-project-based mentorships.
Ethical and affective maturity through science learning.

physical oceanography, geochemistry, climatology

self-employed

Sea ice mechanics.Frost flowers.Marine frazil/grease ice formation and its interactions with waves.

Communications, sea ice, administration, permitting

Restaurant Asiatique

air pollution modeling

Earth Science Research and Mission Formulation Hydrology Office, and Radar Science and Engineering Section

Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) - California Institute of Technology

- Remote sensing of sea ice, lake ice, river ice, ice sheets, glaciers, snow, soil moisture, wind, vegetation, wetland, stream flow/river discharge, flood, drought, wildfire, atmospheric chemical processes, land cover and land use change, rural-urban transformation, and population density
- Transionospheric wave propagation
- Electromagnetic waves scattering and emission
- Electromagnetic modeling of geophysical media
- Remote sensing techniques and technologies including active and passive sensors
- Offshore wind energy

Active and passive remote sensing, development of advanced satellite radars and radiometers, electromagnetic scattering and emission modeling, and earth sciences and applications.

Environment Department

Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami

Inuit Knowledge Database on Contaminants.Educating and communicating about contaminants to Inuit communities.Environmental Policy: Inuit specific aspects of the Canadian Species At Risk Act, Canadian Environmental Assessment Act,Canadian Arctic Indigenous Peoples Against POPs.

environmental contaminants, Indigenous knowledge, sustainable development

Permafrost Institute

Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences

Dynamics of coast failure of Russian arctic cryogenic processes.Thermal erosion of sea coast.Seas and formation of shelf deposits.

permafrost, periglacial environment

Institute of Meteorology and Geophysics

University of Innsbruck

Snow chemistry.

snow chemistry, snow, hydrology

Department of Environmental Conservation

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Sustainability of Arctic Communities.Integrated assessment modeling.Using models to inform policy analysis.Interdisciplinary research.Caribou energetics, population, and migration modeling.Economic models for small native communities (hunting and employment).

ecosystem modeling, NSF arctic system science, religion/belief systems

Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

University of Wisconsin

Air-ice-ocean interactions in Bering Sea.Numerical modeling of air-ice-ocean interactions with primary production.Satellite remote sensing of ice circulation.Oceanographic cruises to marginal ice edge and to polynyas in Bering and Greenland Seas.

air-sea-ice interactions, modeling, sea ice

Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering

University of Minnesota

Modeling coupled heat/moisture/solute transport in variably saturated, variably frozen soils.Modeling flow and transport processes in snow packs.

hydrology, soil processes, snow hydrology

Department of Civil Engineering

Texas A&M University

Ice-structure simulation.Probabilistic modeling.Extreme response behavior.

ocean engineering, ice/structure interaction, offshore structures

Geophysical Institute (GI)

University of Alaska Fairbanks

The Environmental Data Display System (GEDDS).Shaped charge injection of field aligned Ba and Ca plasma to investigate the physics of mass dependent ion acceleration.Fluorescent plasma tracer and perturbation experiments from sounding rockets.

space physics, auroral studies, rockets and missiles

CFUL

Greenland’s political system.Nunavut.Microstates.Industrial policy in Greenland.

arctic policy, sustainable development, cultural policy

Department of Marine Ecology

Danish National Environmental Research Institute

Structure and function of Actic pelagic food webs

biological oceanography, marine ecology, marine microbiology

Institute of Geography

University of Copenhagen

Member of Danish Canadian Fjord Studies (DCFS) operating in central West Greenland, especially on Disko Island.General bathymetric survey, sediment coring, seismic, CTD-measurements in three fjords on western Disko.Discharge measurements in all of the fjords main rivers.Pilot surveying an coring close to a tide water glacier at the ice sheet of mainland Greenland.

geomorphology, climate change, fjord/shelf oceanography

Department of Stratigraphy

Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland

sedimentology, glacial geology

Icelandic Institute of Natural History

Population ecology of gyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus) movements and mortality of Rock Ptarmigan (Lagopus mutus).

bird populations, predation, population ecology

Danish Arctic Institute

Yupik Eskimos in Russian Northeast.Indigenous peoples in a state of transformation from Soviet Union to federal Russia.

anthropology, Yup'ik culture/Chukotka

Arctic Research Division

Department of Fisheries & Oceans Canada

I research diseases of marine mammals in arctic Canada. They include brucellosis, Influenza A&B, Herpes viruses, and distemper.

microbiology, marine mammals, virology

Basin Modelling Department

SINTEF Petroleum Research

Carboniferous-Permian-earliest Triassic and Lower Palaeozoic, Spitsbergen, Svalbard, East Greenland

geology, geochemistry, sedimentology

Department of Music Anthropology

University of Tampere, Academy of Finland

Music cultures of native peoples of Siberia, song cultures of Samoyedic and Ob-Ugrian peoples of Western Siberia in particular.

ethnomusicology, cultural anthropology, traditional knowledge and wisdom