Directory of Arctic Researchers

Organization: U.S. National Weather Service, Alaska Region

Department: Environmental Science and Services Division

Title: Acting Deputy Chief, Environmental Science & Services Division

Specialties: climate change, atmospheric sciences, Alaska/Russian relations, observing

Organization: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Department: Administration Department

Title: Manager, Grant and Contract Services

Specialties: public policy

Current Research: policy discussion and development with many issues that are related to the Arctic.

Organization: University at Buffalo

Department: Department of Biological Sciences

Specialties: evolution, zooplankton, biosystematics

Current Research: Evolution and biogeography of Arctic freshwater animals.

Organization: Alaska Department of Fish and Game

Department: Division of Wildlife Conservation

Specialties: veterinary medicine, bird populations

Current Research: Arctic upland bird and small mammal population cycles.Alaskan wildlife chemical immobilization drugs and dosages.Ptarmigan and grouse population.

Organization: University of Alaska Anchorage

Department: Department of Geography & Environmental Studies

Title: Associate Professor

Specialties: environmental monitoring, avian ecology, bird migration

Current Research: Landscape ecology.Postbreeding distribution and ecology of shorebirds on Alaska's North Slope.Effects of sixty years of environmental change on shorebird breeding ecology in Barrow, Alaska.

Organization: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Bedford Institute of Oceanography

Department: Geological Survey of Canada Atlantic

Specialties: shoreline morphology, coastal management, sea ice dynamics

Current Research: Canadian Arctic Archipelago--coastal processes and mapping and long-term monitoring of shoreline sites.

Organization: U.S. Geological Survey

Department: Biological Resources Division

Title: Wildlife Research Biologist

Specialties: ecology, Alaska/Russian relations, environmental monitoring

Current Research: Beringian science program.Developing comprehensive environmental monitoring program.

Organization: University of Nevada, Reno

Department: Desert Research Institute

Title: Researcher

Specialties: glaciology, climatology

Current Research: GISP2.

Organization: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Department: Division of Migratory Bird Management

Title: Fish and Wildlife Biologist

Specialties: wetland ecology, oil and gas development, offshore development

Current Research: Breeding biology of Common Goldeneye Ducks in Interior Alaska.Nutrition, bioenergetics, molt of Black brant.Foraging ecology of seaducks.

Organization: Pebble Partnership

Specialties: wildlife management

Organization: Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory

Specialties: ice, snow characteristics, meteorites

Current Research: Ice growth in an Alaskan salt marsh.Measuring the bidirectional reflectance distribution function of different types of snow.

Organization: Government of Canada

Department: Natural Resources Canada

Title: Coordinator, Canadian Climate Impacts and Adaptation Research Network

Specialties: resource management, climate change, climatology

Current Research: Initiating a Canadian Climate Impacts and Adaptation Research Network. Network will include a northern component and will link Canadian researchers dealing with northern issues such as permafrost and landslides. Project is in planning stages.

Organization: U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Department: Laboratory for Terrestrial Physics

Specialties: geomagnetism, geodynamics, tectonophysics

Current Research: Geological and tectonic interpretation of magnetic data, mainly from satellites, for the Arctic.Quantitative comparison of aeromagnetic and satellite altitude magnetic data from the Arctic.

Organization: University of Michigan

Department: University of Michigan Biological Station

Title: Director

Specialties: ecology, climate change, ecophysiology

Current Research: Impacts of elevated atmospheric CO2.

Organization: Aarhus University

Department: Department of Biosicence

Title: Senior Scientist, Marine Mammal Researcher, Ph.D.

Specialties: marine mammals, remote sensing, acoustics

Current Research: CTD satellite tracking of bowhead whales in Greenland.

Organization: University of Manitoba

Department: Department of Geological Sciences

Specialties: paleolimnology, quaternary geology, global change

Current Research: Reconstructing pro-glacial lakes during the last deglaciation of North America and the associated routing of river runoff to the oceans. The impact of this freshwater runoff on ocean circulation.

Title: Research Assistant

Specialties: Isolation & Confinement, Extreme Environment

Organization: National History Museum, University of Copenhagen

Department: Zoological Museum

Specialties: marine invertebrates, biogeography, benthic ecology

Current Research: Sponge and octocoral faunas of Greenland.Sponge fauna of the Norwegian, Greenland, and Polar seas.Zenophyophores of the arctic region.

Organization: University of Lapland

Department: Arctic Centre

Title: Research professor

Specialties: political science, sustainable development, adaptation, European Arctic

Current Research: Adaptation, political economy, European Arctic

Organization: University of New Brunswick

Department: Department of Biological Sciences

Title: Professor emeritus

Specialties: marine mammals, hearing, vocalizations, underwater noise, animal behavior

Current Research: Underwater vocalizations of polar seals, emphasizing ways in which seals can avoid having their calls masked by conspecifics or industrial noises.

Organization: Columbia University

Department: Department of Genetics and Development

Title: Professor

Specialties: genetics, epidemiology, population biology

Current Research: Genetic linkage analysis - primarily in Finland and small northern populations.Genetic epidemiology.

Organization: University of Colorado Boulder

Department: Aerospace Engineering Sciences

Title: Associate Professor

Specialties: atmospheric sciences, atmospheric physics, auroral studies

Current Research: Presently manage a field site near Kangerlussuaq, Greenland for the NSF (site houses over 20 different instruments whose focus is on atmospheric and space studies in the polar regions).

Organization: Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography

Department: Laboratoire d'Océanographie et de Biogeochimie

Specialties: zooplankton, ecology, aquatic systems

Current Research: AOS ‘94 (Arctic Ocean Section): zooplankton composition of the Arctic Ocean in summer, biomass, abundance, metabolic rates.SHEBA ice camp.Pigment composition.DMS.Taxonomy of copepod and non-copepod zooplankton.

Organization: Saint Petersburg State University

Department: Institute of Earth Sciences/ Köppen Laboratory

Title: Professor

Specialties: paleoceanography, paleontology, paleoclimatology, polar sciences

Current Research: Late Cenozoic paleozeanology.

Organization: Wildlife Management Advisory Council

Department: Wildlife Management Advisory Council (NWT

Title: Chair

Specialties: wildlife management, natural resources management, science management

Current Research: Approve spending implementation funding from our land claim on research projects (include king eider distribution research,charr population monitoring, and several caribou herd population and distribution studies). We are also signatories to internationalagreements on animal populations shared with other jurisdictions such as the Inuvialuit-Inupiat Southern Beaufort Sea Polar Bear Management Agreement (between Alaska and the western arctic of NWT Canada) and a Beluga Management Agreement between the same parties.