| Title |
Organization |
Description | Category | Geography | Website |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lawson Brigham | University of Alaska Fairbanks |
Polar environmental change, marine policy & ocean security issues, satellite remote sensing of sea ice and permafrost, marine navigation systems, coastal oceanography, polar environmental management & sustainable use. |
Climate Modeling, Marine, Coastal Ecosystem Impacts, Hydrologic Modeling, Snow, glaciers, Ice, sea ice, policy | Alaska, Arctic | Link |
| Gilberto Fochesatto | University of Alaska Fairbanks |
Optical Characterization and Chemical Speciation of Aerosols by Laser Remote Sensing and Laser Spectroscopy, Optical Remote Sensing, and Aerols Feedback Processes in the Lower Troposphere |
Climate, Environmental Monitoring, Air Quality | Alaska, National, International | Link |
| William Schnabel | University of Alaska Fairbanks |
Varied projects are centered around cold regions applications involving surface/subsurface water quality, contaminant fate and transport, water resources and waste management. |
Engineering; Hydrologic Impacts | Alaska, Arctic | Link |
| Tom Weingartner | University of Alaska Fairbanks |
Physical oceanography of Alaskan continental shelves and slopes, interdisciplinary marine research, and wind and buoyancy-forced shelf circulation systems. |
Hydrologic Modeling, Marine, Coastal Ecosystem Impacts | Alaska, Pacific Ocean | Link |
| Brenda Konar | University of Alaska Fairbanks |
Brenda's research interests include phycology, research scuba diving, biodiversity, monitoring programs, nearshore ecology, ecosystem change, benthic ecology. |
Marine, Coastal Ecosystem Impacts, Fisheries, Clams, Environmental Monitoring | Alaska, Pacific Ocean | Link |
| John Yarie | University of Alaska Fairbanks |
Structure and function of boreal forests, successional processes following catastrophic disturbances, effects of changing environment conditions (including global warming) on forest ecosystem processes, modeling of forest ecosystem dynamics at the ecosystem and landscape perspectives. |
Climate Modeling, Environmental Monitoring, Vegetation Modeling | Alaska | Link |
| Uma Bhatt | University of Alaska Fairbanks |
My research specialty is "Climate Variability". This research aims to understand how one component of the climate system impacts another (e.g. ocean and atmosphere) and attempts to explain why something happens. |
Climate, Ecosystem Modeling | Alaska, National, International | Link |
| Cathy Cahill | University of Alaska Fairbanks |
Professor Cahill's research focuses on atmospheric aerosols and their impacts on visibility, global climate, and human health. Her research includes laboratory experiments, modeling, and field studies of atmospheric aerosols and their properties. |
Impacts to Human Systems, Climate Modeling, Air Quality | Alaska, National, International | Link |
| Nicole Molders | University of Alaska Fairbanks |
I want to contribute to improving numerical models in order to simulate the water, energy and trace gas cycles appropriately. Doing so will allow policy makers to use model outcomes to assess future water resources, water and air quality and to make reasonable decisions to meet the challenges of the future. |
Hydrologic Modeling, Air Quality, policy, Impacts to Human Systems | Alaska, National, International | Link |
| Katrin Iken | University of Alaska Fairbanks |
My research is mainly centered around trophic interactions between organisms. This involves dietary composition, feeding habits and consumption rates of invertebrates, macroalgal-herbivore interactions, stable isotope analysis of food web structures etc. It also involves chemical defenses of macroalgae and invertebrates against grazers and predators. I am generally interested in shallow water community diversity, dynamics and ecology, especially in both polar regions, and in deep-sea communities. Most of my shallow water work uses scientific diving as a research tool. |
Marine, Coastal Ecosystem Impacts, Climate Modeling | Pacific Ocean, Arctic Ocean, Alaska, Arctic | Link |
| Valerie Barber | University of Alaska Fairbanks |
Climate change, boreal forest, forest products, dendrochronology, dedroisotopes, paleoclimatology. |
Vegetation Modeling, Economic Impacts, Climate Modeling | Alaska | Link |
| Vladimir A. Alexeev | University of Alaska Fairbanks |
My area of expertise is climate dynamics with emphasis on feedbacks affecting polar amplification (PA) of global warming. These feedbacks are unrelated to the so-called "local" polar amplification mechanisms associated with surface albedo and clouds. They are linked to remote signal propagating to the Arctic atmosphere from the lower latitudes as the climate warms. |
Climate Modeling, Atmospheric Dynamics | Alaska, Arctic, Russia, International | Link |
| Larry Hinzman | University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska Climate Science Center |
Professor Hinzman's primary research interests involve permafrost hydrology. He has conducted hydrological and meteorological field studies in the Alaskan Arctic continuously for over 30 years while frequently collaborating on complementary research in the Russian and Canadian Arctic. His research efforts have involved characterizing and quantifying hydrological processes and their inter-dependence with climate and ecosystem dynamics. |
Water Resources Impacts, Terrestrial Ecosystems Impacts, Snow/Glaciers/Ice | Alaska, International, Canada, Arctic | Link |
| Scott Rupp | University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska Climate Science Center |
Landscape ecology emphasizing secondary succession, regeneration, and disturbance dynamics in subarctic and boreal forest. Current research includes modeling boreal forest dynamics, fuel loading, developing custom fuel models, fire-climate interactions. |
Vegetation Modeling, Impacts to Human Systems, Planning, Adaptation, Mitigation | Alaska | Link |
| Abby Powell | University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit |
Conservation biology, shorebird ecology and avian management. |
Marine, Coastal Ecosystem Impacts, Wildlife, Birds | Alaska | Link |
| David McGuire | University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit |
Operation of ecological processes at large spatial scales; ecological modeling, global change biology. |
Climate Modeling, Environmental Monitoring | National, International, Alaska | Link |
| Mark Wipfli | University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit |
Freshwater Food webs, Marine-Derived Nutrients in Riverine Ecosystems, Trophic Relationships, and Riparian-Stream Interactions |
Freshwater Ecosystem Impacts, Estuaries, Fisheries, Salmon | Alaska, Arctic | Link |
| Russel Andrews | University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska SeaLife Center |
Dr. Andrews specializes in marine mammals, sea turtles, diving behavior, diving physiology, foraging ecology, energetics, remote monitoring equipment and instrumentation. He is also interested in the conservation biology of threatened and endangered marine organisms and their habitats. |
Marine, Coastal Ecosystem Impacts, Terrestrial Ecosystem Impacts, Marine Mammals, Sea Turtles | Alaska, Arctic, Pacific Ocean, Arctic Ocean | Link |
| Tuula Hollmen | University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska SeaLife Center |
Dr. Hollmen's research focuses on the physiology and health of wild avian species, especially waterfowl and marine birds, development of methods and biomarkers to evaluate body condition, immune function and disease/contaminant effects in birds, and application of such techniques for monitoring of population health and fitness of wild birds. |
Marine, Coastal Ecosystem Impacts, Terrestrial Ecosystem Impacts, Air Quality, Water Resource Impacts, Birds, Wildlife | Alaska, Arctic | Link |
| Jo-Ann Mellish | University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska SeaLife Center |
Interests focus on how animals physiologically deal with energetic requirements during high-demand periods, such as growth and lactation. Pinnipeds (seals and sea lions) are particularly interesting because they have additional challenges from the utilization of not one but two environments, both terrestrial and marine. |
Marine, Coastal Ecosystem Impacts, Terrestrial Ecosystem Impacts, Wildlife, Sea Lions | Alaska, Arctic | Link |
| Knut Kielland | University of Alaska Fairbanks, American Association for the Advancement of Science |
Biogeochemistry, physiological ecology, nutrient cycling, plant-animal interactions, wildlife ecology, global change biology |
Climate Modeling, Vegetation Modeling, Wildlife, Terrestrial Ecosystem Impacts | Alaska, Arctic | Link |
| Nicola Hillgruber | University of Alaska Fairbanks, American Fisheries Society, Fisheries Society of the British Isles |
Ecology of marine fishes, primarily in the ecology of their early life stages, the impact of biological and physical factors on condition, growth, and thus survival of larvae and juveniles of marine fishes. |
Marine, Coastal Ecosystem Impacts, Fisheries | Alaska, Arctic, Baltic Sea, International | Link |
| Trent Sutton | University of Alaska Fairbanks, American Fisheries Society, International Association of Great Lakes Research |
Current research interests focus on the ecology and population dynamics of freshwater and marine fishes, particularly whitefishes, salmon, lampreys, rockfishes, burbot, and northern pike. |
Freshwater Ecosystem Impacts, Marine, Coastal Ecosystem Impacts, Salmon, Rockfish, Whitefish, Lamprey | Alaska, Great Lakes, Midwest, Northeast | Link |
| Arny Blanchard | University of Alaska Fairbanks, American Statistical Association |
I have been involved with taxonomic identification of Alaska marine invertebrates and monitoring marine environments for anthropogenic disturbances. I focus on sediment-dwelling organisms (the infauna) and how resource use alters communities. I manage a long-term environmental monitoring project in Port Valdez, Alaska (1971 to present) and am a member of the team working on a environmental assessment of the Chukchi Sea for ConocoPhillips, Shell Exploration and Production, and Statoil. |
Environmental Modeling, Marine, Coastal Ecosystem Impacts, Economic Impacts | Alaska | Link |
| Roger W. Ruess | University of Alaska Fairbanks, Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research |
Ecosystem Ecology, Plant Ecophysiology, Biogeochemistry |
Vegetation Modeling, Terrestrial Ecosystem Impacts | Alaska | Link |
| Christina P.H. Mulder | University of Alaska Fairbanks, Greenhouse |
Relationships between species diversity and ecosystem processes and plant-animal interactions. |
Vegetation Modeling, Terrestrial Ecosystem Impacts, Plant-Animal Interactions | Alaska | Link |
| Russell Hopcroft | University of Alaska Fairbanks, Greenland Climate Research Center |
My primary interests focus on the composition, production and energy flow of pelagic ecosystems. More simply, my research explores the questions "How do planktonic communities work?", "How much energy do they process?", "Who's really important?", "How do communities vary temporally and spatially", and increasingly "How do communities change in response to climate". I am also recognized as a taxonomic authority on several groups of zooplankton globally, and for Arctic zooplanktonic biodiversity in general. |
Climate Modeling, Marine, Coastal Ecosystem Impacts, Zooplankton | Pacific Ocean, Arctic Ocean, Alaska | Link |
| Igor Polyakov | University of Alaska Fairbanks, Hymeteorological Institute |
The primary focus of my recent research is climate change and variability in the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions. My high-latitude climate studies focus on polar amplification of global warming, long-term variability of the Arctic atmosphere, ice, and ocean, their interconnections, and linkages with the lower latitude processes. |
Climate Modeling, Snow, glaciers, Ice, Atmospheric Modeling | Alaska, Arctic, Pacific Ocean, Arctic Ocean | Link |
| Rolf Gradinger | University of Alaska Fairbanks, Institute for Polar Ecology Kiel, Germany |
Dr. Gradinger specializes in research concerning sea ice ecology, microbial network, polar ecology, and marine protists. |
Climate Modeling, Environmental Monitoring, sea ice, Snow, glaciers, Ice, Marine, Coastal Ecosystem Impacts | Pacific Ocean, Arctic Ocean, Alaska, Arctic | Link |
| Mark Lindberg | University of Alaska Fairbanks, Institute of Arctic Biology |
I am a population ecologist with an interest in how a diverse set of factors affect dynamics of vertebrates. Most of my research has focused on avian populations with waterfowl as the primary study species. Waterfowl breeding in the boreal forest and upland birds in Alaska are study species and systems that I want to continue to investigate. However, I am interested in population dynamics of a variety of taxa. |
Population Dynamics, Vegetation Modeling, Terrestrial Ecosystem Impacts, Marine, Coastal Ecosystem Impacts, Birds, Wildlife | Alaska | Link |
