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Alasdair Veitch alasdair_veitch@gov.nt.ca

Organization: Government of the Northwest Territories

Department: Department of Resources, Wildlife, and Economic Development

Title: Supervisor, Wildlife Management

Specialties: wildlife management, natural resources management, population biology

Current Research: Disease status of Dall sheep in NWT and using combination of DNA fingerprinting. Satellite telemetry to delineate barren-ground caribou herds. Mammalogy. Dall sheep, caribou, bear, wolves, moose, furbearers. Ecology. Parasitology. Population ecology. Predation.

Jari Vehviläinen jari.vehvilainen@metla.fi

Organization: University of Lapland

Department: Arctic Centre

Title: Scientist

Specialties: glacial geochemistry

Current Research: Non-volatile organic carbons in an ice core from Svalbard. PAH’s (polyaromatic hydrocarbons) in an ice core from Svalbard. POP’s (persistent organic pollutants) in polar regions. Ions in blue ice areas in Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica.

Arnold Vedlitz avedlitz@bushschool.tamu.edu

Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station

Department: Bush School of Government and Public Service

Specialties: arctic policy, public policy, human behavior

Current Research: How scientific information about the condition of the Arctic is assimilated, used or ignored by policy makers and other stakeholders. How scientific information about risks is made a part of the decision-making process. How local information and expertise of native populations about scientifically relevant information is evaluated and considered by various stakeholders and policy makers.

Boris Vdovin vdvnord@mailbox.alkor.ru

Organization: Ministry of Construction, Housing and Utilities (Russia)

Department: Ministry of Construction of Russia

Title: Senior Engineer

Specialties: community development, community sustainability, Native communities

Current Research: Russian part of the International Park "Beringia" and some other ecological projects on the Russian North. Participation in the projects of the fund "Non-conflict North" (the project for integration of young native people of the North into traditional and other economic activity and formation of their own social environment and a number of other projects).

Stephen Vavrus sjvavrus@wisc.edu

Organization: University of Wisconsin-Madison

Department: Nelson Institute Center for Climatic Research

Title: Senior Scientist

Specialties: meteorology, paleoclimatology, sea ice modeling, climate change, modeling

Current Research: Impact of sea ice and snow cover on ocean and atmospheric circulation.

Shari Vaughan vaughan@grizzly.pwssc.gen.ak.us

Organization: Prince William Sound Science Center

Title: Physical Oceanographer

Specialties: physical oceanography, ocean circulation, buoys

Current Research: circulation and water mass properties

Nina Vasilieva oiuna@mail.ru

Organization: Institute of the Humanities and the Indigenous Peoples of the North, Siberian Branch (Russian Academy of Sciences)

Department: Center of Arctic Research

Title: Doctor of History

Specialties: ethnology, cultural policy, cultural policy

Current Research: History of the culture of the Arctic Region

Alexander Vasiliev z_v_a_a@dio.ru

Organization: Earth Cryosphere Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences Siberian Branch

Department: Moscow branch

Title: Head scientist, candidate of science (geology)

Specialties: geodynamics, coastal engineering, global change

Current Research: Coastal processes on the Kara Sea coasts. Permafrost dynamics in the climate change context.

Henry Vare henry.vare@helsinki.fi

Organization: University of Helsinki

Department: Finnish Museum of Natural History

Title: Ph.D.

Specialties: botany, taxonomy, vegetation ecology

Current Research: Fern taxonomy, Finnish mountain flora, history of botany in Finland

Sheila Vardy

Specialties: quaternary paleoecology, wetlands, permafrost

Current Research: Ecology and paleoecology of wetlands in arctic/subarctic areas and the influence of permafrost and climate changes on peat accumulation. Long-term carbon accumulation and storage in arctic and subarctic peatlands. Sensitivity of aquatic vegetation to flood frequencies in a northern delta.

Wayne Vandre afwgv@uaa.alaska.edu

Organization: University of Alaska Fairbanks

Department: Alaska Cooperative Extension

Specialties: horticulture, agriculture, entomology

Current Research: Subarctic integrated pest management (IPM). Water quality.

Richard VanderHoek richard.vanderhoek@alaska.gov

Organization: Alaska Department of Natural Resources Division of Parks and Outdoor Recreation

Department: Alaska Department of Natural Resources

Title: State Archaeologist

Specialties: archaeology, geoarchaeology, pre-industrial human/environment interactions

Current Research: Humans and volcanism.
Ice Patch archaeology.
Prehistoric projectile systems, particularly the atlatl and dart.

Stacy Vander Pol stacy.vanderpol@nist.gov

Organization: National Institute of Standards and Technology

Department: Analytical Chemistry Division

Title: Biologist

Specialties: environmental contaminants, seabirds, marine biology

Current Research: Seabird Tissue Archival and Monitoring Project (STAMP) - a long-term, collaborative, Alaska-wide effort by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife ServiceÕs Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge (USFWS/AMNWR), the U.S. Geological Survey's Biological Resources Division (USGS/BRD), the Bureau of Indian Affairs Alaska Region Subsistence Branch, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to monitor long-term trends in environmental contaminants using seabird eggs. Contaminant analyses have included polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), organochlorine pesticides (including DDT, hexachlorobenzene [HCB], hexachlorocyclohexanes [HCH] and chlordanes), mercury, methylmercury and organotins. Current species include common murres (Uria aalge), thick-billed murres (U. lomvia), glaucous gulls (Larus hyperboreus) and glaucous-winged gulls (L. glaucescens).

Michael Van Woert michael.l.vanwoert@aero.org

Organization: The Aerospace Corporation

Department: Office of Polar Programs (OPP)

Title: Executive Officer

Specialties: physical oceanography, sea ice

Current Research: Antarctic oceanography. Polynya studies.

Samuel Van Vactor svv@econ.com

Organization: University of Cambridge

Department: Scott Polar Research Institute

Title: Economist

Specialties: economic policy

Current Research: Development of oil and gas resource in Northeast Asia.

Ian van Tets afivt@uaa.alaska.edu

Organization: University of Alaska Anchorage

Department: Department of Biological Sciences

Title: Assistant Professor

Specialties: animal physiology, comparative physiology, ecophysiology

Current Research: Use of wax esters in seabird diets., Capital vs Income breeding in Tundra Swans, Use of frozen vegetation as a food stuff by arctic rodents, Osmoregulation by arctic rodents.

Peter van Tamelen jnpgv@acad1.alaska.edu

Specialties: marine ecology, algae, oil spills

Current Research: Recovery and restoration of seaweeds following the Exxon Valdez oil spill.

Thomas Van Pelt tvanpelt@uw.edu

Organization: University of Washington

Title: Research Wildlife Biologist

Specialties: avian ecology, marine ecology, bird populations

Jay Van Oostdam

Organization: Government of Canada

Department: Department of Health

Title: Epidemiological Advisor

Specialties: environmental contaminants, epidemiology, environmental toxicology

Current Research: -Currently lead author of the Canadian Arctic Contaminant and Human Health Assessment Report -Co-lead author/editor of the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program Human Health in the Arctic, both released in June 2009

Selma van Londen svlonden@uvt.nl

Specialties: cultural anthropology, cultural adaptation, traditional knowledge and wisdom

Current Research: Cultural identity: mythology and sculpture. Cultural ecology.

Nicole van Lipzig nicole.vanlipzig@geo.kuleuven.be

Organization: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Department: Physical and Regional Geography Research Group

Specialties: meteorology, climate modeling

Current Research: Calculating the surface mass balance of the Antarctic ice sheet with a regional atmospheric model (model is realistically driven at the lateral boundaries by re-analyses of the ECMWF-both the surface mass balance in the present-day climate and its sensitivity to a global temperature change are studied).

Patrick Van Hove patrick.van-hove.1@ulaval.ca

Organization: Université Laval

Department: Department of Biology

Specialties: limnology, microbiology, zooplankton

Current Research: Micribial ecology of picocyanobacteria in high arctic lakes, trying to understand their response to long- and short-term environmental changes.

Quentin van Ginhoven quentinvg@videotron.ca

Title: Wildlife Biologist

Specialties: caribou, radio telemetry, Indigenous peoples

Current Research: Satellite tracking of caribou in Northern Quebec and Labrador. Caribou migration studies. 9th North American Caribou Conference. Research on Inuit culture and indigenous cultures who depend on the caribou resource. Research for film productions.

Robert van Everdingen ervan@ucalgary.ca

Organization: University of Calgary

Department: Arctic Institute of North America (AINA)

Title: Ph.D.

Specialties: groundwater

Current Research: Hydrogeology in permafrost areas. Acidic drainage from mining wastes. Permafrost terminology (compilation of IPA 12-language glossary of permafrost and related terms). Studies of geochemistry of springs, icings, and acidic drainage from mine tailings and waste-rock.

Kira Van Deusen kiravan@imag.net

Specialties: Siberian peoples, folklore, ethnography

Current Research: Oral storytelling in Chukotka (Russia). Shamanism.