Directory of Arctic Researchers

Organization: U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Department: Astromaterials Research Exploration Science

Title: Senior Geochemist

Specialties: geochemistry, geology

Current Research: Carbonate precipitation in cold terrestrial environments as Martian analogs.Geochemistry of carbonate minerals, both laboratory-produced and natural-occuring.Field environments include Arctic springs and permafrost caves of northern Yukon.

Organization: Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory

Department: Ice Engineering Research Division

Specialties: ice mechanics, ice modeling, ice/structure interaction

Current Research: Dynamic ice/structure interaction.Ice forces on structures: vertical structure,sloping/conical structure.Breakthrough loads of floating ice sheets.

Organization: University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Department: Computer Science and Engineering

Title: Research Associate

Specialties: sea ice modeling, sea ice

Current Research: Sea ice image analysis.Interactive graphical user interfaces for visual knowledge acquisition and refinement.Automated sea ice image segmentation and classification tools.

Organization: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Department: Department of Geology and Geophysics

Specialties: seismology, instrumentation, geophysics

Current Research: APOGEE project: Autonomous Polar Geophysical Explorer.Arctic Basin seismology.

Department: Social and Health Department

Title: MD, MSc, Provincial Medical Officer

Specialties: health care, epidemiology

Current Research: Community health.

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

Department: Geological Institut'

Specialties: geology, tectonics

Current Research: Strucuture and tectonic evolution of the South-Anyui suture and Chukotka Peninsula. Palaeotectonic reconstructions of the East Arctic and North Pacific

Organization: Sámi University of Applied Sciences

Title: Assistant Professor

Specialties: arctic science policy, indigenous knowledge, environmental impact assessment

Current Research: Sustainable development.Limnology.Pollution.

Organization: UiT: The Arctic University of Norway

Department: Department of Biology

Title: Associate Professor

Specialties: microbiology, climate change

Current Research: Microbial ecology.Effects of grazing on microbial community structure.Effects of enhanced UV-B radiation on nitrogen fixation and microbial community structure.Succession in newly exposed soils in the Arctic.

Organization: University of Oslo

Department: Department of Geosciences

Title: Professor em.

Specialties: geomorphology, glaciology, permafrost

Current Research: Periclacial geomorphology in Norway and Svalbard(EU-PACE project, now PACE-II)

Organization: U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Department: Aeronomy Laboratory R/E/AL8

Title: Senior Scientist

Specialties: atmospheric chemistry, history, exploration and travel

Current Research: Ozone depletion.

Organization: National Center for Atmospheric Research

Department: High Altitude Observatory

Specialties: aeronomy, auroral studies, atmospheric chemistry

Current Research: Auroral emissions modeling.Observing campaigns at Sondrestromfjord (Kagerlussuaq), Greenland.

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

Department: Deep Sea Research Project Group

Specialties: biology, marine ecology, benthic ecology

Current Research: Effects of physical, chemical, and biological gradients in the Deep Sea.

Organization: World Wildlife Fund

Department: Arctic Programme

Title: Head of Conservation WWF Arctic Programme

Specialties: ecosystems science, social-ecological resilience, biodiversity conservation, Arctic governance

Organization: Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

Department: Abisko Scientific Research Station

Title: Professor

Specialties: ecology

Current Research: Ecology of arctic and alpine plants (primarily mosses and lichens)

Organization: National History Museum, University of Copenhagen

Department: Department of Eskimology

Title: Assistant Lecturer

Specialties: cultural anthropology, Native studies, ethnohistory

Current Research: Inuit-Yup’ik-Aleut religion and ethnohistory.Greenlandic legends and myths as ethnohistorical sources.

Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station

Specialties: geography, natural resources management, aerobiology

Current Research: "Travel Behaviors in an Extreme Environment: Changing Technologies, Skills and Risks Among the Inupiat of Northern Alaska" (NSF funded).Geographic disorientation.Land use/resource conflicts.Contract researcher to Texas A & M

Organization: University of Alaska Fairbanks

Department: Department of Electrical Engineering

Title: Associate Professor

Specialties: acoustics, atmospheric sciences, space physics

Current Research: Investigation of auroral hiss.Measurements of environmental parameters at remote sites in the Arctic.Fisheries acoustics.

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

Department: Climate System

Specialties: atmospheric physics, climate modeling, cryospheric interactions

Current Research: Modeling of the processes in the Ablation zone of ice sheets.

Organization: U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Department: Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL)

Title: Associate Director for Information Technology

Specialties: information systems/technology, data management

Current Research: Comprehensive source of Arctic information for a wide audience, including educational material, photographs, maps, links to forecasts, realtime and retrospective data and expert essays on key Arctic issues, ranging from changes in sea level, ice extent and climate indices to changes in Polar bear and Arctic wolf populations. Recognized by USA Today, Science Magazine, Scientific American, Yahoo, etc. http://www.arctic.noaa.govEighty-six multi-disciplinary Arctic Time Series with good geographic coverage of the northern polar regions from 1970 to the present. The Unaami data collection and web site, sponsored by NSF, the Polar Science Center and NOAA, is an activity of the SEARCH Project Office.

Title: Captain

Specialties: sea ice navigation, sea ice

Current Research: Polar research.Arctic and Antarctic ice navigation and studies hereto related.July 1999 - Embarked Dr. Kelly and others to do a walrus survey along ice edge in the Chukchi Sea (voyage sponsored by Greenpeace Climate (Change) campaign).

Organization: National History Museum, University of Copenhagen

Department: Zoological Museum - Invertebrate Department

Title: M.Sc., Ph.D. student

Specialties: zoology, marine invertebrates

Current Research: Arctic meiofauna: Meiofauna from hot springs, meiofauna from Ikaite (Ikka Fjord, SW Greenland), Meiofauna from the North Pole Basin.

Organization: Institute for Linguistic Studies (Russian Academy of Sciences)

Department: Paleasiatic and Somoed Languages

Specialties: linguistics, folklore

Current Research: Enets, Nganasan, and Enets linguistics (Finno-Ugric and Samoed linguistics).

Organization: University of Bergen

Department: Bjerknes Centre for Climate Reseach

Specialties: climate modeling, meteorology, climate change

Current Research: Effects of North Atlantic Climate Variability on the Barents Sea Ecosystem (ECOBE). http://ecobe.imr.noCoupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) http://www-pcmdi.llnl.gov/cmip/

Organization: City of Valdez

Department: Valdez Small Boat Harbor

Title: Harbormaster

Specialties: community sustainability, community development, infrastructure

Current Research: Interested in community development related to waterfront and coastal access.

Organization: University of Helsinki

Department: Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences

Title: Researcher

Specialties: paleoecology, limnology, climate change