Past Speakers
| 2009-2010 | ||||||||||||||
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John England Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta | A tale of two Arctic ice shelves: lessons learned from ancient and modern examples | Ongoing revision of the NW Laurentide ice Sheet: implications for paleoclimate, the northeast extremity of Beringia, and Arctic Ocean sedimentation | ||||||||||||
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Julie Brigham-Grette Geosciences, University of Massachusetts | Arctic Immersion with Undergraduates in Kongsfjord, Svalbard | Successful recovery of 3.6 million years of Arctic history from Lake El'gygytgyn, Chukotka | Marine sea level and paleoceanography (including sea ice) of Bering Strait in context of Arctic regions | |||||||||||
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John Jaeger Dept. of Geological Sciences, University of Florida | Gulf of Alaska glacier melting events and the connection to oceanic and atmospheric circulation | The Quaternary Marine Record of Bering Glacier Dynamics: Ice streams, Surges, and Outburst Floods | ||||||||||||
| 2008-2009 | |||||||||||||||
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Dr. David Montgomery Dept. of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington | King of Fish: The Thousand-Year Run of Salmon. | Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations. |
Dave Montgomery was a 2009 recipient of a MacArthur "genius grant" and is a Professor of Geology. | ||||||||||||
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Dr. Thomas H. McGovern Dept. of Anthropology | Extinction, Survival, and Sustainability- thresholds and conjunctures in the Viking North Atlantic | Human Ecodynamics in the North Atlantic- recent IPY results |
Tom McGovern is a Professor of Anthropology whose research focuses on the North Atlantic. | ||||||||||||
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Dr. Mary Edwards Geography School | Climate change and wildfire: a long-term perspective | Describing Pleistocene Arctic plant communities using a new DNA barcoding technique |
Mary Edwards is a Professor in Physical Geography whose research focuses on vegetation-climate-landscape interactions in the North. | ||||||||||||
| 2007-2008 | |||
| Speaker and Affiliation | Presentation | Links | |
| Dr. Susan Kaplan Peary-Macmillan Arctic Museum Bowdoin College, Maine | The Boilers Went to Pieces, the Ship was on Fire: Untold Stories of Robert E. Peary's North Pole Expeditions | From Forested Bays to Tundra-Covered Passes: Inuit and Transformation of the Labrador Landscape | Kaplan's web page |
| Dr. Joanne Bourgeois Dept. of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington | Ten summers of paleoseismology in the Russian Far East -- earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis and adventure on Kamchatka and the Kuril Islands | Does Kamchatcka belong to North America? This and other neotectonic questions addressed by tsunami and terrace studies | Jody Bourgeois' home page |
| Dr. Leonid Polyak Byrd Polar Research Center Ohio State University | Paleoclimatic perspectives of the changing Arctic Ocean | Quaternary paleoceanography and glacial history of the Arctic Ocean | Leonid Polyak's home page |
| 2006-2007 | |||
| Speaker and Affiliation | Presentation | Links | |
| Dr. Richard Reger Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys, retired | A unifying model for last major glaciation in upper Cook Inlet region | Last major glaciation in western Kenai Peninsula lowland | Click this link to search for a list of publications at DGGS |
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Dr. Charles Schweger Department of Anthropology, University of Alberta | Where have all the Vikings gone? Abandonment of the Western Settlement, Greenland | Lost civilizations Based on the Fermentation of Cabbage or Perhaps my Unfinished Research will Inspire a Student or Two | Link to University of Alberta Dept. of Anthropology |
| Dr. Charlie Paull Senior Scientist at Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA | Pingo-Like Features on the Beaufort Sea Shelf and Decomposing Methane Gas | Recent Sediment Transport Events in the Monterey Canyon and Fan Channel | Home page at MBARI |
| Gregory Hare Archaeologist, Yukon Heritage Resources Unit | Yukon Alpine Ice Patches: Update on Recent Investigations 2004-2006 | Yukon Archaeology Program | |
| Dr. Grant Zazula Yukon Palaeontology Program | Arctic Ground Squirrels of the Mammoth-Steppe | Yukon Palaeontology Program | |
| Speaker and Affiliation | Presentations | |
| 2005-2006 | ||
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Dr. Jerold Lowenstein |
Ancient Bones and Bloodstains Yield Molecular Secrets |
Identification of Species from Fossil and Forensic Tissues |
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Dr. Darrell Kaufman | Glacial History of the Ahklun Mountains, SW Alaska: Timing is Everything |
Lake Core Research in Southern Alaska: New Records of Holocene Climate and Tephra |
| Dr. Fredrick Prahl | Alke-'Knowns' and 'Unknowns' | The Gulf of California and the Anatomy of its Euphotic Zone in Summer |
| 2004-2005 | ||
| Dr. Jack Ives | "The Apachean Departure from the Subarctic: Linguistic, Human Biological, and Archaeological Evidence" | |
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Dr. Gifford Miller |
"Ecosystem Collapse in Pleistocene Australia: Implications for a Human Role in Megafauna Extinction and Climate Change" | |
| Dr. Feng Sheng Hu | "History of Alaskan Boreal Forests: From DNA Input to Solar Output" | |
| Previous years | ||
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Arthur Dyke | Postglacial climate threshold events in the Canadian Arctic | |
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Duane Froese |
Ice Age gold, a mega-flood and reversal of Yukon River drainage in central Yukon and Alaska | |
| Gary Haynes | "Extinctions and human dispersals in North America's Late Glacial landscapes (south of Alaska)" | |
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Dr. David Meltzer | "The Archaeology of the First Americans" | |
| Dr. Dennis Darby | "Opportunities In Arctic Paleoceanography, New Initiatives" | |
| Thijs van Kolfschoten | Out of Africa into Europe: Dating the Earliest Human Occupation of Europe | |