Directory of Arctic Researchers

Title: Contractual

Specialties: archaeology, anthropology, prehistory

Current Research: Eastern Arctic prehistory, principal area of research Nunavik and Nunavut. Palaeo-Eskimo and Neo-Eskimo cultures, Historic Inuit.

Organization: University of Alberta

Department: Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

Specialties: energy resources, atmospheric sciences

Current Research: Assessment of wind energy resources in the Yukon.

Organization: University of Alaska Fairbanks

Department: School of Natural Resources & Agriculture

Title: Professor Emeritus

Specialties: soil science, soil processes, soil chemistry

Current Research: Genesis and classification of permafrost soils.Wetland soils associated with permafrost.Characterization of soil organic matter in tundra soils and evaluation of its bioavailability.Alpine soils.

Organization: University of California, Santa Barbara

Department: Marine Physical Laboratory - Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Specialties: physical oceanography, acoustics

Current Research: Arctic internal waves.Arctic Mesoscale eddies.Upper ocean mixing, heat and momentum fluxes.Arctic instrumentation.

Organization: University of Colorado Boulder

Department: Department of Aerospace Engineering

Title: Research Associate

Specialties: meteorology, climate modeling, radiation

Current Research: Using a column climate model and SHEBA data to assess and improve the parameterization of physical processes in the Arctic.

Organization: Alaska Department of Fish and Game

Department: Commercial Fisheries Division

Title: Scientific Program Manager

Specialties: aquatic ecology, fisheries, mariculture

Current Research: Technical Sub-Committee member of the Coastal Marine Institute.Bering Sea fisheries harvest information-collection and analysis.Freshwater nutrient inputs by salmon carcasses.The effect of placer mining on stream macroninvertebrate populations.Law-the power of an individual to effect change for the good.Aquatic and terrestrial non-indigenous species - point person for Alaska.Mariculture operations in Alaska.

Organization: Natural Resources Canada

Department: Geological Survey of Canada

Specialties: marine geology, quaternary geology, stratigraphy

Current Research: Pleistocene ice-margin marine sedimentation processes, including in the area off Hudson Strait.

Organization: Finnish Meteorological Institute

Department: Department of Physical Oceanography

Title: Scientist

Specialties: atmospheric physics, radiation, snow physics

Current Research: Cloud radiation forcing and lateral heat advection over the Arctic in winter

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

Department: Institut für Geowissenschaften

Specialties: geology, sedimentology

Current Research: European Nordic seas, Atlantic Ocean, Southern Ocean.Physical properties of deep sea sediments.Magnetic susceptibility.Interhemispheric correlations.Last 500 resp. 140 kyrs.Dansgaard-Oeschger and Bond cycles.

Organization: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Department: Administration

Title: Special assistant for strategic planning

Specialties: logistics, arctic science policy, acoustics

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

Department: Institute for the History of Material Culture

Title: Research Scientist

Specialties: archaeology, paleogeography, quaternary paleoecology

Current Research: Laptev Sea System Project.Images of the Past project (western Chukotka).Late Pleistocene and Holocene paleoenvironment and prehistory in the region of Wrangel Island and Chukotka in the Siberian Arctic.

Organization: Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute of Roshydromet

Department: Department of Oceanography

Specialties: chemical oceanography, nutrient dynamics, biogeochemistry

Current Research: Nutrient budget of shallow Arctic Seas.Chemical oceanography of the Arctic Ocean.

Organization: University of East Anglia

Department: School of Environmental Sciences

Title: Professor

Specialties: aeronomy, atmospheric chemistry

Current Research: Sporadic E layer formation in the polar cap.Meteoric metal layers in the upper mesosphere/lower thermosphere.Photo-chemistry below sea ice.Photo-oxidant chemistry in the atmospheric boundary layer.

Organization: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Department: Department of Physical Oceanography

Title: Senior Scientist

Specialties: physical oceanography

Current Research: Coastal physical processes, basin eddies, internal waves.

Organization: Dalhousie University

Department: Department of Earth Sciences

Specialties: geomorphology, geocryology

Organization: Université du Québec à Montréal

Department: Department of Terrestrial Sciences

Title: Professor

Specialties: archaeology, circumpolar cultures, quaternary paleoecology

Current Research: Eastern Arctic prehistory.Quebec Arctic prehistory.Tchoukotk prehistory.Paleoeskimo prehistory.

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

Department: Institute of Philosophy and Law

Title: Prof. of Sociology, Dr. of Philosophy, Dr. of Biology, Head Researcher

Specialties: sociology, human/environment interaction, population ecology

Current Research: Socioeconomics.Social change.Animal behavior.Kola Peninsula.White Sea coast.Barenth Region (Vaygach, Novaya Zemlya).Inadaptive transformations of the household’s economic behavior and dynamics of social values in provincial Russia.Investigate social psychological problems in Russian Arctic.

Organization: Kemerovo State University

Department: Laboratory of Ethnosocial Research

Title: Senior researcher, Head of the laboratory for ethnosocial research

Current Research: Current affairs of Siberian indigenous communities and extractive copmpanies.
Methodology and practice of Social Impact Assessement and Corporate Social Responsibility.
Extractivism as a development paradigm, its socio-economic and cultural contexts, chalanges, prospects and alternatives.

Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Department: Carbon Cycle and Ecosystems Group

Title: Scientist

Specialties: global change, remote sensing, environmental monitoring, wetland ecosystems, growing season length, microwave remote sensing

Current Research: Freeze/thaw transition in boreal forests; Land cover/land use change;Wetland detection and monitoring;and open water change using radar remote sensing.

Organization: University of Saskatchewan

Department: School of Environment and Sustainability

Title: Professor in the School of Environment and Sustainability

Specialties: Native governments, northern studies, political science

Current Research: Aboriginal Self-Government in Canada and Russia.

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

Department: Department of Ecophysiology and Ecotoxicology

Title: Professor

Specialties: comparative physiology, ecophysiology, bioenergetics

Current Research: Biochemical and physiological adaptations to temperature in a latitudinal cline temperature dependent biogeography.Energy budgets.Thermal adaptation and limitation.

Department: Marine Ecosystem Department

Specialties: marine biology, environmental impact assessment, modeling

Current Research: Assessment of ecological state of the Arctic an the North marine and estuarine ecosystems.

Organization: Uppsala University

Department: Department of Earth Sciences

Title: Lecturer, Ph.D.

Specialties: glaciology, cryosphere, climatology

Current Research: Climate and glacial mass balance.Deriving climatic information from ice cores.

Organization: Russian State Hydrometeorological University

Department: Mathemetics and Theoretical Mechanics

Title: professor

Specialties: atmospheric sciences, ocean-atmosphere interactions, remote sensing, oceanology, optimal design of observing systems, decision making

Current Research: 1) Optimization of ground based RAOB and SYNOP networks in Northern Siberia and in Arctic areas2) Analysis of climate series of major climate indexes (AMO, PDO, SAT, Ice extent, et al) with account to its non-stationary features.

Organization: Queen's University

Department: Analytical Services Unit

Title: Director

Specialties: environmental contaminants, permafrost engineering, chemistry

Current Research: Environmental Remediation of former military bases.The DEW Line.Bioremediation.PCBs. Landfill and leachate barrier designs.