Directory of Arctic Researchers

School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences (SFOS) - Juneau Center

University of Alaska Fairbanks

Pollution, oil spills - projects with Exon trustees on injury, recovery and restoration of macroalgae - both subtidal and intertidal - after the Exxon Valdez oil spill.Biological feasibility of the mariculture of Porphyra and other seaweeds.Effects of submarine tailings and disposal of mine tailings on the recovery of benthos. Toxicology of mine process wastes on marine biota.

algae, mariculture, marine ecology

Department of Marine Geology

Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research

Laptev and Kara Sea continental margin, central Arctic Ocean, Yermak Plateau, East Greenland continental margin.

marine geology, organic geochemistry, glacimarine processes

Department of Earth and Space Sciences

University of Washington

Ice-core analysis.Atmospheric water vapor.Cosmogenic isotopes.Stable isotopes.

geochemistry, glaciology, global change

Alutiiq Museum and Archaeological Repository

Prehistoric economy and social organization in the Kodiak Archipelago. Human ecology. Risk management.

archaeology, cultural adaptation, Native studies

Marine Biological Laboratory

University of Copenhagen

Metabolic cold adaptation of polar fish.

physiology, marine biology, ichthyology

Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)

University of Colorado at Boulder

Climate variability assessment of the Greenland ice sheetTemporal and spatial sea ice variability of Lady Ann Strait polynaya (SAR).Spectral hemispheric and directional reflection of snow types.Greenland Ice Sheet Climate Network.

climatology, remote sensing, glaciology

Air Quality Research Branch - Air Processes Division

Environment Canada

Transport and deposition of atmospheric mercury in arctic regions.Cause and effect of mercury depletion episodes that occur n the arctic after the polar sunrise.Circumpolar research on atmospheric mercury and related mercury issues.

atmospheric sciences, air pollution, atmospheric chemistry

Laboratory for Hydrospheric Processes

National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationGoddard Space Flight Center

Digital satellite image processing utilizing artifical intelligence and statistical methods for cloud/sea/sea-ice discrimination.

sea ice remote sensing, meteorology

Norwegian Polar Institute

Seabird feeding ecology and population dynamics.

avian ecology, biology, ecology

Applied Physics Lab

University of Washington

Air-ice-ocean interaction.Water masses of the Arctic Ocean.

ocean circulation, ocean-atmosphere interactions, sea ice modeling

Polar Meteorological Research Establishment

University of Wisconsin - Madison

Automatic weather stations in Greenland measuring snow temperature profile, snow accumulation, air temperature, air pressure, relative humidity, vertical air temperature difference, wind speed and wind direction.

meteorology, data management, instrumentation

Biological Sciences

University of Alabama

-Understanding plant physiological functions and carbon and water dynamics during the winter in arctic ecosystems.

plant ecology, global warming

Arctic Circumpolar Gateway

Arctic Circumpolar Route Project. (This is a compendium of community based research projects related to environmental and traditional cultural heritage of circumpolar peoples. It is an electronically-based thematic collection, a “museum without walls.” Currently, the project is limited to Canada, but will include representation from the eight circumpolar countries.)

sustainable development, socio-economic impact assessment, environmental assessment

Oceanography Department

Naval Postgraduate School

Arctic leads.Arctic Ocean mixed-layer dynamics.Arctic heat fluxes.

air-sea-ice interactions, oceanography, instrumentation

Department of Physics and Engineering Physics

Stevens Institute of Technology

The North Slope of Alaska (NSA) Atmospheric Measurements (ARM) Program.Development of basic cloud model.Radiative transfer in the atmosphere-sea ice-ocean system.Polar ozone depletion and biologically relevant ultraviolet radiation.NO2 column abundance measurements and trace gas chemistry regulating arctic stratospheric ozone abundance.Radiative and chemical effects of clouds and aerosols.

radiation, modeling, meteorology

Arctic Centre

University of Lapland

Interests lie in the human role in reindeer herding systems, arctic economy, nomadism, indigenous knowledge, land rights, resource extraction and native populations, indigenous movements, centre-periphery relations.Currently engaged in EU project BALANCE, studying local perceptions of climate change among reindeer herders

anthropology, Siberian peoples, reindeer breeding

Department of Geography

University of British Columbia

Socio/environmental issues in northern Canada.Canadian Arctic geography and exploration history.

geography, history

Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR)

University of Colorado

Lake sedimentation.AMS 14C

quaternary stratigraphy, geochemistry, geochronology

EcoFOCI

NOAA

My major interest in Arctic research is the ecosystem of the Bering Sea and the Chukchi Sea, with a focus on bottom up processes. In collaboration with other scientists we maintain four biophysical moorings on the eastern Bering Sea shelf. and the northern Chukchi Sea Data from these moorings have revealed a marked warming of the southeastern Bering shelf over the last decade. As part of the NOAA's North Pacific Climate Regimes and Ecosystem Study we are investigating how these ecosystems responds to such a regime shift.

physical oceanography, ocean circulation, fjord/shelf oceanography

Department of Biology and Nature Conservation

Reindeer, moose, and muskoxen biology.Sodium metabolism of reindeer.Mineral content in grazing plants.Grazing ecology of reindeer.Effects of Chernobyl accident on radioactive Cs in domestic reindeer.Alimentary system of northern herbivorous mammals.

animal physiology, reindeer, moose

Department of Electrical Engineering

University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Remote sensing of ice temperature using passive microwave systems.Remote sensing of the polar atmosphere/precipitation.

remote sensing, engineering, sea ice

Research and Veterinary Services

Mystic Aquarium

Physiology of marine mammal endocrine systems.

marine mammals, physiology, endocrinology

Terrain Sciences Division - Geological Survey of Canada

Natural Resources Canada

Coppermine River region and Bkluenos Lake region, Nunavut, Canada.

geomorphology, quaternary geology, stratigraphy

Family support.Childrearing.Recent research in public involvement/decision-making at federal cleanup sites in rural Alaska.

Eskimos, cultural anthropology, environmental perception

Institute of Marine Science (IMS)

University of Alaska Fairbanks

Bering Sea.Chukchi Sea.

marine ecology, oceanography, seabirds