Directory of Arctic Researchers

Organization: University of Colorado Boulder

Department: Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR)

Title: Editor, Arctic and Alpine Research

Specialties: geochemistry, snow hydrology

Current Research: Spatial statistics of meltwater flow through snow (US Forest Service).Hydrochemical modeling (NASA EOS).Nitrogen cycling under snow (National Biological Service).Biogeochemical cycling in alpine basins (NSF LTER).

Organization: Woodwell Climate Research Center

Title: Visiting Scientist

Specialties: glaciology, global change, cryospheric remote sensing

Current Research: Airborne and satellite remote sensing of the glaciers and volcanoes of Iceland.Senior Editor for “Satellite Image Atlas of Glaciers of the World.”

Organization: University of Alaska Fairbanks

Department: College of Engineering and Mines

Title: Director

Specialties: chemical engineering, coal utilization

Organization: University of Cambridge

Department: Department of Social Anthropology

Specialties: anthropology, subsistence

Current Research: Hunting and environment among the Upper Kolyma Yukaghirs of north-eastern Siberia.

Organization: Utrecht University

Department: Physical Geography Department

Specialties: sedimentology, paleolimnology, paleoclimatology

Current Research: Paleoclimatology and climate variability during the Holocene (reconstruction of natural and 'human' induced climate variabilityover societal relevant timescales [decades to centuries] from climatologically 'sensitive' areas.Hindcasting climatic trends from a variety of so-called 'natural archives' such as Arctic lake sediments, peat sequences and eolian deposits. Limnological monitoring through two annual cycles of trophically distinct shallow lakes in West Greenland and a comparison of short core sedimentary data with meteorological records (GALE-project ' Greenland Arctic lake Experiment.Involved in the proposed EU-funded ARCTIFACT project.

Organization: Cambridge Arctic Shelf Programme

Specialties: geology, geographic information systems, mapping

Specialties: atmospheric chemistry, marine environment

Current Research: Synthesis of arctic research.

Organization: British Antarctic Survey

Title: Lead Investigator

Specialties: sea ice, buoys, oceanography

Current Research: Professional geophysicist with experience in all aspects of sea-ice geophysics, oceanography, and buoy design and release in both the Arctic and Antarctica.

Organization: Natural Resources Canada

Department: Geological Survey of Canada

Title: Physical Scientist

Specialties: geographic information systems

Current Research: Lac de Gras kimberlite field.Developing an exploration model for kimberlites using GIS and Bayesian statistics.Woodburn Lake Group, Nunavut.Meadowbank gold deposit, near Baker Lake.

Organization: Self

Title: President

Specialties: environmental impact assessment, socio-economic impact assessment, Native issues

Current Research: Musk Ox Development Corporation, Palmer, AK.

Organization: Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research

Department: Department of Geophysics and Glaciology

Specialties: ice physics, ice chemistry, ice geophysics

Current Research: Ice drilling, ground penetrating radar.Greenland Ice core Project (www.glaciology.gfy.ku.dk).

Organization: Centre of Earth Observation Science (University of Manitoba)

Department: Clayton H. Ridell Faculty of Environment, Earth and Resources

Title: Manager - Labs

Specialties: instrumentation

Organization: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Title: Wildlife Biologist-Polar Bears/Walrus

Specialties: bears, ecology, wildlife management

Organization: University of Tasmania

Department: Department of Geography and Environmental Studies

Specialties: plant ecology, alpine ecology, disturbance ecology

Current Research: Recovery following disturbance in Australian alpine areas.Chronosequence studies of old tracks to elucidate patterns and dynamics of natural recovery.Revegetation techniques to enhance natural recovery.

Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Department: Department of Biology

Specialties: algae, benthic ecology, marine biology

Current Research: The attached algal vegetation of north and northwest Alaska: floristics, systematic and phytogeographic relationships.The attached algal vegetation of the north Polar Sea: floristics, systematic and phytogeographic relationships.

Organization: Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Department: Department of Food Science

Specialties: food science, reindeer

Current Research: Meat science.

Organization: New Mexico State University

Department: New Mexico Heritage Center

Title: Director

Specialties: ethnography, Siberian peoples, hunting

Current Research: Recently completed traditional land-use study of hunting/fishing/gathering among the Yuganskiy Khanty of Western Siberia. Next year begin a cultural resources inventory and assessment of same community. Both in preparation for creating a proposed ethnoecological territory with protected area status.

Organization: University of Colorado Boulder

Department: Institute of Behavioral Science

Specialties: cultural anthropology, environmental law, human/environment interaction

Current Research: Natural hazards and human dimensions of climate variability.Application of development theory to problems of social and institutional organization.Application of microeconomic theory to cultural ecology.

Organization: Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research

Department: Project Group Solar UV-Radiation

Title: Professor

Specialties: algae, benthic ecology, global change

Current Research: Stratospheric ozone depletion.Enhanced UV radiation and its effect on marine macroalgae from the Kongsfjord (Svalbard).

Organization: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Department: Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program

Title: Staff Engineer

Specialties: electrical engineering, instrumentation, climate change

Current Research: ARM's North Slope of Alaska Engineering Task Leader responsible for the deployment and installation of radiometers, ceilometers, micropulse lidars, and cloud radar.ARM Instrument mentor for the millimeter wave cloud radar and the millimeter wave temperature profiler.

Organization: McGill University

Department: Natural Resource Sciences

Title: Professor

Specialties: microbiology, biodiversity, bioremediation

Current Research: Polar microbial ecology and biodiversity, cold temperature biodegradation and bioremediation, environmental genomics, astrobiology, Rhodococcus, alkane biodegradation genetics

Organization: University of California, San Diego

Department: Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Specialties: global warming, meteorology

Current Research: Global warming (ice edge and ice stream) analysis.Ozone hole.Arctic and antarctic meteorology.Surface UV measurements as compared to satellite derived cloud top measurements over polar regions.

Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland

Department: Department of Archaeology

Title: Associate Professor

Specialties: archaeology, Inuit culture, spatial anlaysis, social archaeology, zooarchaeology

Current Research: Inuit colonization of Eastern Arctic.Precontact and early contact Inuit social and economic organization.Spatial analysis of settlement systems.Sites and dwellings.Childhood.

Organization: U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Department: Hazmat

Title: NOAA Scientific Support Coordinator for Alaska

Specialties: oil spills, coastal management, environmental impact assessment

Current Research: Marine oil spills

Organization: University of New Hampshire

Department: Climate Change Research Center - Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space

Specialties: geochemistry, data processing/analysis, ice chemistry

Current Research: Analyzed the major ions for GISP2 project.Analysis of fresh and aging snow from Summit, Greenland.Analysis of major ions on a core from the Penny Ice Cap.