Directory of Arctic Researchers

Organization: U.S. Forest Service

Department: Forest Inventory and Analysis

Specialties: landscape ecology, plant ecology, dendrochronology

Current Research: Boreal forest ecology. Bonanza Creek Long-Term Ecological Monitoring.

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

Department: Resource Management

Title: Physical Scientist

Specialties: ice geophysics

Current Research: Ice geophysics.

Organization: University of Oxford

Title: Diabetes Trials Unit Director

Specialties: epidemiology

Current Research: Alaska native diabetes epidemiology.

Organization: Clemson University

Department: Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences

Title: Professor

Specialties: entomology, biodiversity, biosystematics

Current Research: Black flies (their ecology, systematics, cytogenetics) of the Nearctic and Palearctic Regions

Organization: U.S. Geological Survey

Department: Louisiana Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit

Title: Assistant Leader-Wildlife and Adjunct Associate Professor

Specialties: avian ecology, waterfowl, nutritional ecology

Current Research: Behavioral and nutritional ecology of arctic geese.

Organization: U.S. Geological Survey

Department: Earth Surface Processes

Title: Research Geologist

Specialties: quaternary geology, palynology, paleoecology

Current Research: Reconstructing Quaternary terrestrial ecosystems and climates of Alaska using pollen analysis of lake sediments, peat deposits, and marine sediments.

Organization: Environment and Climate Change Canada

Department: Climate Research Division

Title: Meteorologist

Specialties: global warming, sea ice, meteorology

Current Research: Satellites.

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

Department: Institute of Geography

Specialties: economics, political science, resource policy

Organization: Nordpil

Title: Project Officer

Specialties: geographic information systems, cartography, environmental assessment

Current Research: Arctic Environmental Atlas. GLOBIO. AMAP support, etc. Metadata. UNEP.Net.CAFF Support.University of Arctic Atlas.Arctic Portal.Arctic Biodiversity Assessment.

Organization: Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland

Department: Department of Quaternary Geology

Title: Researcher

Specialties: glaciology, climate modeling, remote sensing

Current Research: Application of remote sensing to energy balance modeling and glacier hydrology on the Greenland Ice Sheet. Ice sheet modeling and geodynamics. Evolution of the Martian Ice Caps.

Organization: Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Department: Department of Animal Genetics - Reindeer Husbandry Unit

Specialties: reindeer, nutrition, radioactive pollution

Current Research: Nutritive value of reindeer pastures. Reindeer feeding. Radioactive contamination of pastures, reindeer, and predators.

Organization: California State Polytechnic University

Department: International Center - Department of Geography and Anthropology

Title: Professor emeritus

Specialties: archaeology

Current Research: Aleutian Island prehistory.Asiatic-New World Continuum.

Organization: Canadian Museum of Nature

Department: Research Services Division

Specialties: botany

Current Research: Floristics.Flora of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Developing flora may be viewed at: http://www.mun.ca/biology/delta/arcticf.

Organization: Ainsworth Consulting, LLC

Department: Tok Center

Title: Owner/consultant

Specialties: folklore, Athabaskan studies, Native education

Current Research: Athabascan Oral History projects involving a new Ethnographic Overview for the Ahtna Indians, Community Histories for several Athna villages, and a video project on the photo collection of one Tanacross elder.Efforts to create fully operational Native language programs in local schools which would provide teacher training, curriculum development, and the adaptation of oral history collections for classroom use.

Organization: University of Saskatchewan

Department: Department of Geography and Planning

Title: Professor

Specialties: Quaternary geology, marine invertebrate ecology, invertebrate palaeoecology, geoarchaeology

Current Research: Current research interests combine marine ecology and marine geology to support seabed habitat mapping in the coastal waters of Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada.
I am also engage in research that combines stratigraphy, sedimentology and geomorphology to facilitate environmental reconstruction at Paleo-Indian occupation sites in central Saskatchewan, Canada.

Department: International Arctic Research Center (IARC)

Title: Founding Director & Professor Emeritus

Specialties: space physics, solar physics, magnetospheric physics

Current Research: Development of the substorm current system in the magnetosphere.Substorm currents in the equatorial magnetotail.The average ionospheric electrodynamics for the different substorm phases.Inversion of the auroral electroject from magnetometer data.

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

Department: North-East Interdisciplinary Scientific Research Institute - Far East Branch

Title: Research Director

Specialties: igneous petrology, mineralogy, geochemistry

Current Research: Chukotsky Peninsula.Bering Sea.Seward Peninsula.Nunivak Island.St. Lawrence Island.

Organization: Qatar University

Department: Technology Transfer

Title: Ph.D.

Specialties: biodiversity, global change, plant ecology

Current Research: Global change: long-term impact on arctic biodiversity and vegetation structure.Reproductive biology of Silene acaulis.

Organization: Wag-Hill Arctic Science, LLC

Department: Wag-Hill Arctic Science LLC

Title: Senior Scientist

Specialties: marine mammals, resource management, veterinary medicine

Current Research: Bowhead whale biology. Assessment of industrial impacts.

Organization: Dartmouth College

Department: Ice Drilling Program Office, Thayer School of Engineering

Title: Professor of Engineering; Executive Director, US Ice Drilling Program

Specialties: snow physics, heat transfer, snow modeling

Current Research: Snow-air interactions on the Greenland Ice Shelf.Transport processes in firn.Ventilation effects on ice core interpretation.

Organization: Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory

Title: Research Scientist

Specialties: snow acoustics, seismology, acoustics

Current Research: Wave propagation (acoustic and seismic) in snow, ice and frozen ground.Acoustics of porous media.Snow parameters from acoustic measurements.

Organization: U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Department: Dryden Flight Research Center

Title: Aeronautics-Science Liaison

Specialties: aeronautics

Current Research: The area of interest I have deals with facilitating research observations from aircraft, manned or unmanned. I can provide immediate access to hi-altitude manned paltforms (ER-2s) and unmanned aircraft systems (Altair/Ikhana/Predator B). I can also provide information to access other suborbital research assets inside and outside of NASA.

Organization: Kulturarvsstyrelsen

Department: Fortidsmindekontoret

Title: Museum Inspector

Specialties: archaeology, history, history of polar research

Current Research: Norse Greenland archaeology.North Atlantic whaling history and archaeology.German military meteorology in North Atlantic and Polar area in WWII.Kamchatka expedition (Vitus Bering).

Organization: U.S. Forest Service

Department: Chugiach National Forest

Title: Archaeologist

Specialties: archaeology, prehistory

Organization: Alaska Department of Natural Resources

Department: Division of Forestry

Title: Forest Geneticist

Specialties: genetics, forestry, silviculture

Current Research: Spruce beetle (Dendroctonus rufipennis Kirby) host resistance.Carbon sequesteration.Tree (Picea) growth at arctic limits.Adaptability and growth of native spruce populations in the Gulf of Alaska.