International Study of Arctic Change (ISAC) Executive Director Appointed
Stockholm, Sweden
For further information, please go to:
http://www.iasc.se/news.htm
International Study of Arctic Change (ISAC) announces the appointment of
Maribeth Murray as Executive Director, effective from 1 October 2007.
ISAC is a long-term, multidisciplinary program to study the effects of
environmental changes on the circum-Arctic system and their feedback on
the global system. ISAC was formally established by the International
Arctic Science Committee (IASC) and the Arctic Ocean Sciences Board
(AOSB).
An ISAC International Program Office (IPO) funded by the U.S. National
Science Foundation (NSF) has been established to provide support for the
activities of ISAC and to serve the organizational needs. The ISAC IPO
is co-located with the IASC Secretariat at the Swedish Polar Research
Secretariat in Stockholm, Sweden.
Maribeth Murray has been Department Chair of Anthropology at the
University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) and is currently an Associate
Professor of Anthropology (UAF) and Director of the Human Dimensions of
the Arctic System (HARC) Core Office at the Center for Global Change,
UAF.
For further information about ISAC, please go to:
http://www.iasc.se/isac.htm
or contact the IASC Secretariat at:
Phone: +46-8-673-96-13
E-mail: iasc [at] iasc.se