Directory of Arctic Researchers

Organization: Norwegian Geotechnical Institute

Department: Department of Environmental Technology

Title: Ph.D, Senior scientist

Specialties: environmental contaminants, microbiology, hydrocarbon pollution

Current Research: Degradation of organic compounds and petroleum in permafrost

Organization: University of Victoria

Department: Department of Biology

Title: Professor

Specialties: entomology, biodiversity, global warming

Current Research: Arctic insect ecophysiology (cold hardiness) and diversity.

Organization: Université Laval

Department: GIROQ - Oceanography

Title: Ph.D. Student

Specialties: biological oceanography, zooplankton, marine ecology

Current Research: International North Water Polynya study.

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

Department: Department of Atmospheric Physics

Specialties: climate modeling, air-sea-ice interactions, meteorology

Current Research: Regional climate modeling.

Organization: University of Copenhagen

Department: Department of Biology

Title: Associate professor

Specialties: biogeochemistry, climate change, ecophysiology

Current Research: My current research is mainly focused on the controls of the emission of biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOC), especially in the Arctic. I have a broad background in environmental science and ecology, and my interests include processes related to the soil carbon storage, plant-soil interactions, and ecosystem-atmosphere interactions.

Organization: UiT: The Arctic University of Norway

Department: Department of Technology

Specialties: economics, reindeer breeding

Current Research: Reindeer management and pastoral studies.Waste management.

Organization: Total S.A.

Title: Consulting Naval Architects and Marine Engineers

Specialties: marine engineering, ice mechanics, offshore structures

Current Research: Arctic Naval architecture.Ship-ice interaction.Ice resistance of ships.Ice conditions description.

Organization: University of Alaska Fairbanks

Department: Alaska Native Language Center

Specialties: Athabaskan studies, linguistics, education

Current Research: Athabaskan languages.Athabaskan Toponomy - Alaska and Yukon Territory.Phonological and Grammatical Studies of Specific Athabaskan Languages: Tanacross, Upper Tanana, Han, Gwich'in, Northern and Southern Tutchone, Kaska, and Tagish.Text Collections: Gwich'in, Han, Northern Tutchone.Training of Athabaskan Teachers and Language Specialists.Studies of Tukudh, the traditional liturgical language of the Gwich'in people.Materials Development for Second-Language Programs.

Organization: U.S. Coast Guard

Department: Icebreaker Operations

Specialties: marine biology, marine invertebrates, oceanography

Current Research: Bioluminescence in Cnidarians.Biodiversity.

Department: Department of geocryology investigation

Title: Doctor of science

Specialties: cryosphere, ice

Current Research: Engineering geocryology survey for construction (field mapping, mapping, GIS-technology, environmental impact assessment). Icing, interaction pipelines with frozen grounds CH4 emission and the methane content in frozen grounds.

Organization: Alaska Department of Fish and Game

Department: Sport Fish Division

Title: Fisheries Biologist

Specialties: fish populations, fisheries management

Current Research: Northern pike research.Fish population dynamics.

Organization: Environment and Climate Change Canada

Department: UNEP GEMS/Water Collaborating Centre

Title: Director, Ph.D.

Specialties: limnology, microbiology, water quality

Current Research: Water quality assessment in the Russian Arctic.

Organization: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique / French National Center for Scientific Research

Department: Dynamique de l'Evolution Humaine

Title: Director of Research at C.N.R.S.

Specialties: anthropology, demography, social change

Current Research: Human/environment interactionSociocultural adaptation and acculturation of Aleute, Ammassalik Inuit, and minorities of Northeast Siberia.Circumpolar cultures.Native transistions.Religion/belief systems.

Organization: Western EcoSystems Technology

Title: Wildlife Biologist

Specialties: waterfowl, data processing/analysis, mapping

Current Research: Snow goose foraging ecology during migration through the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.Develop base layers of bathymetry and invertebrate distribution for Bering and Chukchi Sea Ecosystem GIS database.

Organization: Environment and Climate Change Canada

Department: Canadian Wildlife Service

Title: Research Scientist-Marine Birds and Ecosystems

Specialties: population biology, population ecology, avian ecology

Current Research: Population biology of arctic marine birds, specifically those facing significant anthropogenic impacts (oil pollution, hunting and fisheries).

Organization: St. Lawrence University

Department: Department of Geology

Specialties: permafrost, geomorphology, geophysics

Current Research: Peatland carbon accumulation.Ground penetrating radarInfrastructure/permafrost.Climate change.

Organization: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Department: Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics

Title: Chief, Liaison Branch

Specialties: subsistence, environmental contaminants

Current Research: Exposure/risk assessment.

Organization: Dartmouth College

Department: Institute of Arctic Studies

Title: Research Fellow

Specialties: resource policy, fisheries management, Native rights

Current Research: Editor, Northern Notes.Human aspects of caribou/reindeer.

Organization: Rutgers University

Department: Department of Geography

Title: Professor

Specialties: climate change, cryosphere, snow

Current Research: Snow cover distribution over northern hemisphere lands.Snow cover charting using satellite and in situ data.Snow-climate interactions.

Organization: Oregon State University

Department: USGS-Oregon Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit

Specialties: avian ecology

Organization: Université Laval

Department: Département de phytologie

Title: Professor

Specialties: plant ecology, wetlands, climate change

Current Research: Re-vegetationBryologyEcosystem ScienceSustainable development-Peatland restoration and rehabilitation (bogs and ferns)-Sphagnum culture-Arctic wetlands ecology

Organization: Nevin Scrimshaw International Nutrition Foundation

Department: United Nations University (UNU) Food and Nutrition Programme

Specialties: remote sensing, climate change, geographic information systems

Current Research: Siberia: Lake Baikal ecosystem.Regional impacts of global climate change.Urban ecosystems and global change.

Organization: University of Wales

Department: School of Biological Sciences

Specialties: ecophysiology, evolution, animal genetics

Current Research: Latitudinal gradients and the evolutionary adaptation of heavy chain myosin genes in gammarid amphipods.

Organization: American Museum of Natural History

Department: Ornithology Department

Title: Professor

Specialties: population biology, predator/prey systems, plant/herbivore relations, arctic ecology

Current Research: Polar bears. Population and community dynamics of inhabitants of coastal tundra.

Organization: University of Cambridge

Department: Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

Specialties: electromagnetic modeling, sea ice