Directory of Arctic Researchers

Organization: U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

Department: Marine Geosciences Division

Specialties: geophysics, geology, glaciology

Current Research: modeling Gas Hydrate stability; pockmarks; mass wasting; iceberg plowmarks; Alpha Ridge; Chukchi Borderland; magnetic and gravity anomalies; Arctic bathymetry and morphology

Organization: European Topic Centre on Air and Climate Change

Department: Climate Change Unit

Specialties: climate change

Current Research: Information on climate change impact on ASI, Greenland ice sheet, Arctic glaciers, etc.

Organization: University of Vermont

Department: Gund Institute for Ecological Economics

Title: Associate Research Professor

Specialties: modeling, socio-economic impact assessment, water quality

Current Research: Applications of Interactive Integrated Assessment and Modeling to Design Sustainable Development Strategies for Arctic Watersheds. Conducting a multi-year US-Russian research effort to increase understanding of the role of human dynamics on ecosystem functions and explore development strategies to enhance ecosystem health, ecological sustainability and economic diversity. The project is focused on the Imandra Lake watershed, Kola Peninsula, Russia.

Organization: University of Tübingen

Department: Institute for Geology and Paleontology

Specialties: paleontology, paleoecology, sedimentology

Current Research: Paleontology and sedimentology of the Devonian of Svalbard.

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

Department: Archaeology, Institute of Language, Literature and History of Komi Science Center

Title: Leading resercher

Specialties: archaeology

Current Research: Archaeology of European North-East.

Organization: University of Southern California

Department: Interdisciplinary Media Arts + Practice, School of Cinematic Arts (iMAP)

Title: PhD Candidate

Specialties: art, computer modeling, education, history of science

Current Research: The Ice-Time project is a creative response to the perilous state of Earth's ecosystem. Ice, like geology, is a primary indicator of the deep time of our planet’s environment. Ice is also the most visible indicator of the short-term effects of climate change. Glacial ice presents a four-dimensional hyper-view into time and space, an icy tesseract giving us an 800,000 years view backwards into Earth’s climatological past and forwards towards the pending outcomes of current rising temperatures.

Ice-Time will be realized as an immersive, multi-projection video and sound installation combining art and science that minutely examines the structure of ice and glaciers to reveal the time embedded within. The intention of this project is to convey the essence of ice and its intimations; to elicit the poetics contained within frozen water as revealed by current climate research. The Ice-Time installation will detail the cracks and bubbles and different forms that ice takes in ice cores, crystals, glaciers, and other natural ice formations. The images will occupy an architecture of translucent screens that layer in a faceting effect, merging into crystalline collages of shifting combinations as visitors move through. A three-dimensional soundscape will enlarge the image space, composed from the field recordings of sounds of ice, excerpts of interviews with researchers, and readings by actors of ice folklore and literature. By means of a vivid, material presence of image, sound, data, and time, the installation will imbue the spectator with a deep awareness of the environmental, spiritual, and culture implications of ice.

Research for Ice-Time is underway combining the methods of a naturalist in the field, collaboration with experts, and the collecting of scientific and cultural data. The Cryosphere, Earth’s frozen regions, is currently exhibiting the most visible indications of climate change. Direct experience with this environment is essential to the concept of Ice-Time. The project centers on an expedition to Western Greenland to the fastest moving glacier on Earth, Jakobshavn Isbræ, to document this moment in glacial space-time. Working directly with polar scientists on the ice and in the laboratory, Ice-Time engages with current research and its broader ramifications. The underlying causes, as well as the manifestations, of myriad forms of ice will be presented as an aesthetic experience to a broad and varied public.

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

Department: Research Department Potsdam

Specialties: atmospheric physics, atmospheric chemistry

Current Research: Stratospheric ozone. Atmospheric dynamic.

Organization: Colorado State University

Department: Department of Biology

Title: Assistant Professor

Specialties: soil microbiology

Organization: University of Kiel

Department: Institute for Polar Ecology

Specialties: marine ecology, benthic ecology, sea ice biota

Current Research: Ecology of arctic echinoderms.Colonization of under-ice boundary layers (planned).

Organization: Norwegian Polar Institute

Department: Department of Polar Environmental Management

Specialties: marine mammals, wildlife management, arctic policy

Current Research: Photographic identification studies of killer whales in Norway.Monitoring of environmental pollutants and biodiversity.

Organization: Florida State University

Department: Department of Oceanography

Specialties: benthic ecology, biodiversity, biogeochemistry

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

Department: K.A. Timiryazev Plant Physiology Institute

Title: Deputy Editor-in-Chief

Specialties: CO2 modeling

Current Research: CO2 exchange in system atmosphere - boreal forests of Russia under climate warming; Wood degradation by fungy;CO2 and CH4 emission and photosynthesis

Organization: UiT: The Arctic University of Norway

Department: Department of Geology

Title: Professor

Specialties: marine geology, quaternary geology, paleoglaciology

Current Research: Sedimentology, stratigraphy, and paleoenvironment of high-latitude fjords.Development of the continental slopes of glaciated continental margins.Reconstruction of the deglaciation history in North Norway and the Barents Sea region.

Organization: Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Department: Laboratory for Ecotoxicology and Polar Ecology

Title: PhD student

Specialties: human ecology, sustainable development, community sustainability

Current Research: Development of sustainability indicators for the Russian Arctic regions; small indigenous peoples in the Russian North; public participation and environmental decision making; indigenous rights.

Organization: California State University, San Marcos

Department: College of Arts and Sciences/Biology

Specialties: global change, ecosystem science, plant ecology

Current Research: Quantification of the patterns and controls of large-scale exchange of CO2, H2O and energy in arctic ecosystems.

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

Department: The laboratory of traditional natural resources andethnological investigations

Title: Scientific researcher

Specialties: ethnography, cultural adaptation, museum studies

Current Research: Chukotka cultures

Organization: All-Russia Research Institute of Hydrometeorological Information - World Data Centre

Department: National Oceanographic Data Centre of Russia

Title: Head of Lab.

Specialties: data management, environmental impact assessment

Current Research: Decision support systems. Development of metadata base (catalogues, information on ship cruises, data bases ond others) for World Ocean and Arctic region.

Organization: University of Aberdeen

Department: Department of Anthropology

Title: Ph.D. Candidate

Specialties: cultural anthropology, anthropology

Current Research: Eastern High Arctic.Museum studies.Ethnographic film.

Organization: National Institute of Polar Research

Department: Department of Meteorology and Glaciology

Specialties: atmospheric physics, atmospheric chemistry, meteorology

Current Research: Meteorology of Svalbard, Norway

Organization: University of Washington

Department: Earth and Space Sciences

Title: Professor

Specialties: glaciology, climate change, ice sheet geophysics, firn physics

Current Research: -I use ice-core data (e.g. depth-age) and geophysical data (e.g. ice-penetrating radar sections, ice-motion measurements, and borehole-temperature measurements) together with models of ice-sheet flow and temperature evolution, to infer properties of past climate such as accumulation rate, and temperature.
- I also work with polar-firn measurements and compaction models, with the goal of creating and calibrating a new transient model based more closely on the physics of microstructural processes and properties.

Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station

Department: Geochemical and Environmental Research Group

Specialties: environmental chemistry, marine mammals, air pollution

Current Research: Organic contaminants in plants, soils, sediments, fish, whales and air.

Organization: Scott Polar Research Institute (University of Cambridge)

Department: Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

Title: Professor

Specialties: Sea ice, polar oceanography, icebergs, offshore methane, climate change

Current Research: Interaction of waves and sea ice in Arctic Ocean; satellite detection of pancake ice; use of AUVs to map under-ice surface; ice thickness variability; methane emissions from Arctic shelves; Arctic climate feedbacks

Organization: Applied Field Data Systems Inc

Title: President

Specialties: geographic information systems, infrastructure, instrumentation, GPS/GNSS Systems, Drone mapping

Current Research: Field Data Collection for GIS mapping.
Drone mapping

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

Department: Research Department Potsdam

Specialties: soil microbiology, permafrost, biodiversity

Organization: Sandia National Laboratories

Department: Department 9512 - MS 1188

Specialties: auroral studies, remote sensing, space physics

Current Research: Auroral and magnetospheric physics with emphasis on large-scale computer simulations, including space weather.Active remote sensing: standoff detection of atmospheric chemicals and biologicals, primarily using UV fluorescence.