DepartmentDepartment of Geography and Geo TREE Center
OrganizationUniversity of Northern Iowa
Emailandrey.petrov@uni.edu
Location
Cedar Falls , Iowa 50614
United StatesBio
Dr. Andrey N. Petrov is Assistant Professor and Director of the Arctic Social and Environmental Systems Research Lab at the University of Northern Iowa, USA and Adjunct Professor at Yukon College, Canada. He works on issues of economic development, impacts of resource activities, Indigenous demographics and labor migration, human capital, cultural and knowledge-based economy of arctic Canada, Russia and USA. He is the Principal Investigator on the National Science Foundation "Creative Arctic" project a pan-arctic study focused on spatial analysis of the creative capital and its economic impact in remote regions of the Circumpolar North. Dr. Petrov is a lead co-author of the Arctic Human Development Report (AHDR II) and Arctic Social Indicators Reports (ASI I and II). Dr. Petrov is a Councilor of the International Arctic Social Sciences Association and an Associate Editor of Polar Geography. He also leads several NASA funded Arctic climate change impacts projects.
Dr. Petrov has been an invited and keynote speaker at multiple public events and conferences, appeared in media outlets in the USA, Canada, and Russia.
Dr. Petrov has been an invited and keynote speaker at multiple public events and conferences, appeared in media outlets in the USA, Canada, and Russia.