Faculty members listed below are from the social and natural sciences at the University of Alaska and participate in RAP as graduate advisors, committee members, core course instructors, guest lectures, and resources to students.  Faculty members at our university are easily accessible to RAP students and demonstrate a strong commitment to mentoring and collaborating in research and/or providing informal input and advice.  Even if not listed below, other UAF faculty members can serve as advisors if willing.

Ralph Gabrielli:  Associate Professor 

http://www.uaf.edu/danrd/faculty-staff/ralph-gabrielli-ph.d/

nfrbg@uaf.edu

Research Interests:  Administration; Counseling;  Education delivery methods;  English; Psychology; Speech;  Humanities;  Early childhood education;  Human services; Mental health; and Fund raising.

Michael Koskey. Assistant Professor of Alaska Native Studies and Rural Development (DANSRD)

http://www.uaf.edu/danrd/faculty-staff/

mskoskey@alaska.edu

Research Interests: Ethnohistory, traditional knowledge, circumpolar studies, political economy, resource management, indigenous social change, research methodology, indigenous mythology.

Current Research Projects: Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Biological Sampling of Non-salmon Fish Species in the Yukon Flats region; Ethnographic Overview and Assessment of Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve.

Research Ideas for Future Students: Sociocultural change in Alaskan communities, complimentary research use of traditional knowledge and academic methods, climate change and culture change, shifting gender roles, political economy and self-determination.

Joel Irish:  Professor, Curator of Biological Anthropology at the UA Museum

http://www.uaf.edu/anthro/people/faculty/irish/

jdirish@alaska.edu

Research Interests:  Upper Pleistocene through modern peopling of the world; Human osteology; Human variation, origins, and evolution; Dental anthropology Computer & statistical applications; Human paleopathology; Bioarchaeology; North & sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Alaska.

David Koester:  Professor of Anthropology

www.uaf.edu/anthro/people/faculty/Koester/

akoester@alaska.edu

Research Interests: Culture and history, historical and national/ethnic consciousness; Anthropological study of children; History of ethnography; Iceland, Russian Far East, circumpolar.

Patrick Plattet: Assistant Professor, Anthropology

http://www.uaf.edu/anthro/people/faculty/plattet/

pplattet@alaska.edu

Research Interests: Religious anthropology, Modes of ritualization, Hunting/herding/fishing practices and ideologies, Ritual efficacy, Sacrifice, Symbolic and cognitive anthropology, Ethnography, Russian Far East, Central & Eastern Europe

Dr. William Schneider: Curator of Oral History (retired)

wsschneider@alaska.edu

Peter Schweitzer:  Professor of Anthropology

http://www.uaf.edu/anthro/people/faculty/schweitzer/

ppschweitzer@alaska.edu

Research Interests:  Ethnohistoric research about the Chukchi Peninsula in the Russian Far East, social organization (kinship, gender, politics); Hunter-gatherer studies; The history of anthropology, transnationalism and other forms of interethnic contact; Practices and ideologies of colonialism and their local impacts.

Bert Boyer:  Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, co-director, Center for Alaska Native Health Research

http://users.iab.uaf.edu/~bert_boyer/

bboyer@alaska.edu

Research Interest: Understanding the interaction between genetic and environmental risk and protective factors for obesity and diabetes in Yup'ik Eskimos.

Richard Boone:  Associate Professor of Ecosystem Ecology

http://users.iab.uaf.edu/~rich_boone/

rdboone@alaska.edu

Research Interests:  Biogeochemistry of terrestrial ecosystems; Soil organic matter dynamics; Global change; Land-use legacies on soils.

F. Stuart (Terry)  Chapin, III:  Professor Emeritus of Ecology, co PI RAP

http://www.becru.uaf.edu/personnel/Terry.htm

terry.chapin@alaska.edu

Research  Interest:  Ecosystem services; Fire ecology; Climate-change adaptation at community, state, and global scales.

Current Research Projects:  Climate-change effects on ecosystem services and impacts on Alaskan communities; Wildfire effects on wildlife habitat, ecosystem services, and communities,  (LTER).

Research Ideas For Future Students:  Resilience and thresholds for ecosystem change following wildfire in a warming climate; Sustainable options for Alaska's future (community or statewide scales); Fire effects on nutrient cycling and successional dynamics; Integration of Indigenous knowledge and western science for charting sustainable futures.

Lawrence Duffy:  Associate Dean of CSEM; Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry

http://www.uaf.edu/chem/faculty/lduffy/

lkduffy@alaska.edu

Research Interest:  Since the Exxon Valdez oil spill, I have broadened my research activity from protein structure into the area of wildlife and human environmental health.

Current Research Projects:  Currently I am working on the question of how the central nervous system protects itself from these contaminants, especially considering the extreme environment of the Arctic; Principal investigator for the Alaska Special Neuroscience Research Program or SNRP.

Brad Griffith:   Associate Professor, Wildlife Ecology; Asst. Unit Leader (Wildlife), AK Cooperative Fisheries and Wildlife Research Unit

http://users.iab.uaf.edu/~brad_griffith/griffith.html 

ffdbg@aurora.alaska.edu

Research Interests:  Large scale influence of climate and human initiated development and activities on landscape and landscape processes. 

Current Research Projects:   Large scale heterogeneity in winter habitat capacity for moose; Using remote sensing to assess status and trends of wildlife habitat quality in Natuibak Parks; Estimating the potential effects of development on caribou on Alaska's north slope; Assessing the resilience of circumpolar caribou herds under the combined influences of climate, economic development and management systems.

Research Projects for Future Students:  The influence of comate induced wetland drying on wildlife and waterbird populations and subsistence access to these populations.

Susan Hills:  Affiliated Assistant Professor, Director of Outreach CORE. INBRE

sue.hills@alaska.edu

Research Interests: Provides the leadership for the biomedical pipeline outreach activities; Manages the biomedically oriented programs within the Rural Alaska Honors Institute, Next Steps II, Alaska Summer Research Academy, and the newly awarded Alaska BioPREP.

Falk Huettmann:  Assistant Professor of Biology and Wildlife

http://people.alaska.edu/cgi-bin/people.pl/?search=MKUW2I2X01&match=exactly&find=uid

fhuettmann@alaska.edu

Research Interests:  Wildlife Ecology, and Global Biodiversity Databases and Predictive Modeling.

Current Research Projects:  Global Biodiversity Databases on Land and Sea; Land and Seascape Ecology; Online Delivery of Data and Research Publications; Predictive Modeling of Biodiversity Hotspots; Alaska GAP Project;  Avian Influenza Fieldwork.

Kris Hundertmark:  Assistant Professor of Wildlife Ecology

http://users.iab.uaf.edu/~kris_hundertmark/

khundert@alaska.edu

Research Interest:  Understanding relationships among Sitka black-tailed deer, hunters and habitat in a rapidly changing landscape(with Todd Brinkman);  Identification and history of Teshekpuk Lake caribou: perspectives from landscape genetics and oral history (with Karen Hibbard-Rode).

Research Ideas For Future Students:  Ecological drivers of population structure in large mammals and how structure (e.g., population connectivity, range shifts, etc.) might change under scenarios of climate change and disturbance, and how that affects food security for subsistence communities;  How climate change after the last Ice Age influenced the distribution and demographics of populations of large mammals in Beringia, and resultant change in human reliance on those populations; Contemporary issues of wildlife management issues in terms of the frequently observed disconnect between scientific evidence and public perceptions.

Sasha Kitaysky:  Associate Professor of Integrative Physiology

http://users.iab.uaf.edu/~sasha/

askitaysky@alaska.edu

Current Research Projects:  Bogoslof Patch Dynamics Study; BSIERP Patch Dynamics Study UAF Seabirds.

David Klein:  Professor Emeritus, Wildlife Ecology

http://users.iab.uaf.edu/~dave_klein/dklein.html

dklein7@alaska.edu

Research Interests:  1)Assessment of the influences of climate change in the Arctic on wildlife, human relationships to wildlife, associated management and conservation of wildlife consistent with sustainable harvest of wildlife resources; 2) Arctic/high latitude ecology inclusive of human cultural and economic relations throughout the circumpolar region; 3) Policy development regarding land and water use practices in the Arctic inclusive of the effects of resource use by residents of the Arctic, as well as through industrial development activities generated by pressures from outside of the Arctic.

Research Ideas For Future Students: The Arctic Climate Impact Assessment project (ACIA); The Arctic Systems Science projects of the National Science Foundation (HARC, SEARCH, BEST, etc.); University of the Arctic North2North Student Mobility Program;  ARCUS (re information coordination, outreach, and dissemination on all aspects of science related to the Arctic).

A. David McGuire:  Professor of Ecology

http://users.iab.uaf.edu/~dave_mcguire/dmcguire.html

admcguire@alaska.edu

Research Interests: Modeling ecological responses to global change.

Current Research Projects: Impacts of global change on ecosystem structure and function of high latitude ecosystems with an emphasis on feedbacks to climate system.

Research Ideas For Future Students: The influence of global change on interactions between ecological and economic systems and the implications of these interactions for mitigation and adaptation policy.
 

Abby Powell:  Associate Professor of Wildlife Ecology; Assistant Leader, AKCFWRU

http://users.iab.uaf.edu/~abby_powell/

abbey.powell@alaska.edu

Research Interests:  Conservation Biology; Avian Ecology; Endangered Species Biology and Management.

Current Research Projects:  My research focuses on developing strategies for both population- and ecosystem-based conservation.

Diane Wagner:  Associate Professor of Biology, Institute of Arctic Biology

http://users.iab.uaf.edu/~diane_wagner/

diane.wagner@alaska.edu

Research Interests:  T he evolutionary ecology of insect-plant interactions. Current research projects include:

Current Research Projects: The influence of extrafloral nectaries on the location of ant nests: implications for plant nutrition; The role of extrafloral nectaries in defense of aspen during a widespread insect outbreak; The influence of intensive willow herbivory by an outbreak insect population on succession and ecosystem function

Robert G. White:  Profesor Emeritus of Zoophysiology and Nutrition; Retired Director of Insitute of Arctic Biology

http://users.iab.uaf.edu/~robert_white/

ffrgw@aurora.alaska.edu

Research Interests: Nutritional and physiological adaptations of animals to the environment (digestive function, nutrient requirements, water and energy metabolism, intermediary metabolism); nutritional and physiological ecology, modeling of physiological and ecological processes.

Mark Wipfli:  Associate Professor of Fisheries

http://users.iab.uaf.edu/~mark_wipfli/

mark.wipfli@alaska.edu

Research interests:  Role of marine nutrients and energy from salmon runs in regulating freshwater food webs;  Ecological linkages between fishless headwaters and downstream fish communities; Role of forest and riparian vegetation and their management in governing food subsidies (aquatic and terrestrial invertebrates) for salmonids and other fishes.

Raymond Barnhardt: Professor; Director, Alaska Native Knowledge Network; Director center for Cross Cultural Studies

rjbarnhardt@alaska.edu

Craig Gerlach:  Professor of Anthropology

scgerlach@alaska.edu

Research Interests:   Nutritional and food systems ecology emphasizing the recovery and restoration of the wild plant component of traditional Athabascan food systems in the Yukon River Watershed, Alaska in terms of the impact of climate change and natural resource development on access to traditional foods, food systems and subsistence.  

Current Research Projects:   On-going efforts to design and implement a Village Supported Farming Initiative in the Yukon River watershed; Human-wildlife, human-livestock interactions; Historical toxicology, and long-term land use.  

Research Ideas For Future Students:  Diet, individual and community health, food, foodways and food systems, nutrition, climate impacts, responses to change, etc. I normally work with a wide range students, but am trying to narrow down to those with interests that compliment my own.

Hajo Eicken:  Professor of Geophysics

www.gi.alaska.edu/snowice/sea-lake-ice/eicken.html

hajo.eicken@gi.alaska.edu

Research Interests:  Sea-ice geophysics & biogeochemistry; Local, indigenous knowledge of sea-ice and Arctic coastal environments; Remote sensing.

Current Research Projects:  Studies of sea ice and its importance for coastal communities; Sea ice in the climate system; Sea ice and ecosystem services; Adaptation to changing Arctic marine environments.

Research Ideas For Future Students:  Local and geophysical sea-ice knowledge and the problem of coastal erosion; Local responses to changing sea-ice environments across the Arctic; Sea ice and environmental security.

Jessica Larsen, PhD:  Research Associate Professor, Geophysical Institute

faust@gi.alaska.edu

Research Interests:   Volatiles in magmas; Vesiculation kinetics; Magma mixing and mingling.
 

Rainer Newberry:  Professor of Geology

http://www.uaf.edu/geology/department-directory/faculty/dr.-rainer-newberry/index.xml

rjnewberry@alaska.edu

Research Interests:  The genesis and characterization of all ore deposit types, but  especially skarn.

Research Ideas for Future Students:  Most students working with Rainer are supported by mining/exploration companies, which provide thesis-oriented summer employment and follow-up analytical support.

Lewis Shapiro: Senior Resource Consultant, Sea Ice Group

lews@gi.alaska.edu

Douglas Kane:  Professor of Civil Engineering, Emeritus, Institute of Northern Engineering

dlkane@alaska.edu

Research Interests:  Arctic hydrology

Daniel White:  Director of the Institute of Northern Engineering

http://www.alaska.edu/uaf/cem/ine/directorpage/directorpage.xml

dmwhite@alaska.edu

Research Interersts:  Drinking water protection, development, and treatment. Dr. White is pioneering research on how climate change affects drinking water, water resources, and related infrastructure.

Current Research Programs:  Freshwater in the Arctic; Water resources for rural communities;  Ppotential impacts of climate change on freshwater resources and infrastructure.

Valerie Barber:  Assistant Research Faculty - UAF Adjunct Faculty - UAS Sitka

http://www.uaf.edu/snras/departments/forestry/faculty/vbarber/

vbarber@alaska.edu

Research Interests:  Climate change; Boreal forest; Forest products; Dendrochronology; Dendroisotopes; Paleoclimatology.

Greg L. Finstad:  Assistant Professor of Range Ecology Program Manager, Reindeer Research Program

http://www.uaf.edu/snras/departments/high-latitude-agriculture/faculty/finstad/

glfinstad@alaska.edu

Research Interests: Range ecology, Range management; Plant-animal interactions; Climate-vegetation dynamics; Reindeer husbandry and management.

Current Research Programs: Range management & nutrition; Forage selection; Ration development; Radio & satellite telemetry; Educational outreach & service; Reindeer production; Pasture evaluation.

Peter Fix:  Associate Professor of Outdoor Recreation

http://www.uaf.edu/snras/departments/natural-resource-manageme/faculty/fix/

pjfix@alaska.edu

Current Research Projects:   Alaska resident statistics program; Visitor preferences for interpretation at Wrangell - St. Elias National Park; Wildlife viewing management in Alaska.

Nancy Fresco: Research Assistant Professor,  Coordinator for the SCenarios Nework for Alaska Planning

nlfresco@alaska.edu

Research Interest: Issues of sustainability and social-ecological resilience in the far north

Joshua Greenberg:  Associate Professor of Resource Economics

http://www.uaf.edu/snras/departments/natural-resource-manageme/faculty/greenberg/

jagreenberg@alaska.edu

Research Interests:  Bioeconomic modeling; Economic issues pertaining to the allocation of Alaska renewable natural resources; and the economics of Alaska's reindeer industry. He teaches courses in economics and agricultural concepts and global to local sustainability.

Norman Harris: Associate Professor of Range Management

http://www.uaf.edu/snras/departments/high-latitude-agriculture/faculty/harris/

nrharris@alaska.edu

Research Interests: Animal Distribution Patterns, Ecosystem Monitoring, Stream Morphology, Time Change Analysis, Vegetation Growth and Phenology, Geographic Information Systems, Remote Sensing, and Global Positioning Systems

Current Research Projects: Livestock distribution in grazed watershed; Air temperature patterns on the landscape; Near-earth remote sensing of vegetation patterns

Julie Joly:  Assistant Professor of Natural Resources Law & Policy

http://www.uaf.edu/snras/departments/natural-resource-manageme/faculty/joly/

julie.joly@alaska.edu

Research Interests: Environmental and Natural Resources law and policy, with an emphasis on federal public lands management and wildlife law.

Current Research Projects:  “When Laws Affecting the Environment Conflict: Focus on Public Lands”

Research Ideas For Future Students:    Any project related to natural resource and environmental law and policy questions.

Glenn Juday:  Professor of Forest Ecology

http://www.uaf.edu/snras/departments/forestry/faculty/gjuday/

gpjuday@alaska.edu

Research Interest: Tree-ring studies; Biodiversity under forest management systems; Climate change assessment; Climate change and forest growth; Structure of old-growth forest ecosystems; Old-growth forest ecology; Natural controls of biodiversity; Identification of elements of natural diversity; Wilderness and natural area management; Forest development and ecosystem life history; Fire and climate change; Long-term environmental monitoring.

Gary P. Kofinas:   Associate Professor of Resource Policy and Management, Co PI, RAP

http://www.uaf.edu/snras/departments/natural-resource-manageme/faculty/kofinas/

gpkofinas@alaska.edu

Research Interests:  Social-ecological resilience; Indigenous subsistence systems;  Integration of local knowledge with science in monitoring and policy; Adaptive co-management.

Current Research Projects:  The Study of Sharing Networks to Assess the Vulnerabilities of Local Communities to Oil and Gas Development Impacts in Arctic Alaska , (2007-2010); Heterogeneity and Resilience of Human-Rangifer Systems: A Circumpolar Social-Ecological Synthesis (2005-2009);  CircumArctic Rangifer Monitoring and Assessment Network  (2005); IPY: Climate Change and Changes in Ecosystem Services and Society.  (2007-2010).

 Research Ideas For Future Students:  How changes in climate change and permafrost are affecting community livelihoods.

Roger Pearson:  Professor Emeritus of Geography Emeritus

mapping@alaska.net

Scott Rupp:  Associate Professor of Forest Measurements and Inventory

http://www.uaf.edu/snras/departments/forestry/faculty/rupp/

tsrupp@alaska.edu

Research Interests:  Ecosystem and landscape ecology emphasizing secondary succession, regeneration, and disturbance dynamics in subarctic and boreal forest; The application of scientific knowledge to resource management issues; Documenting productivity and its controls at the level of individual trees and forest stands and studying the processes that make it possible to extrapolate these results to the landscape level. 

Research Project Ideas for Future Students:  Landscape-level carbon management models; Utilization of small diameter trees for multiple objectives including fire hazard reduction, habitat, and biomass fuels.

Elena Sparrow:  Research Professor

http://www.iarc.uaf.edu/en/people/esparrow

ebsparrow@alaska.edu

Research Interests:  Nutrient cycling and organic matter decompostion; Pesticide degradation; Effects of oil spills on soil microbiota and their activities; Earth system science education and climate change effects on plants; Microorganisms and their activities.

Susan Todd:   Associate Professor of Resource Planning

http://www.uaf.edu/snras/departments/natural-resource-manageme/faculty/todd/

sktodd@alaska.edu

Research Interests:  Conflict resolution; Mediation; Public land use planning; Using web surveys and listservs to poll public opinion.

Sarah Trainor: Research Assistant Professor, Geography Department

http://www.geographyua.org/faculty/faculty.cfm?faculty_id=23

sarah.trainor@alaska.edu

Research Interests: Current projects include: Evaluation of Fire Forecast Products to Enhance U.S. Drought Preparedness and Response ( NOAA RISA Program, Coping with Drought), Improving Seasonal Fire Predictions and Information Services in Alaska for Regional and National Fire Resource Planning (NOAA RISA Program, Coping with Drought), Local and Indigenous Climate Knowledge Network: Addressing Drought Vulnerability and Adaptation in Alaska, the Pacific Islands and the American Southwest ( NOAA RISA Program ,Coping with Drought), and Interdisciplinary study of the effects of functional biodiversity on ecosystem processes, ecosystem services, and sustainability in the Americas ( project wiki) ( Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research ).

David Valentine:  Professor of Forest Soil

http://www.uaf.edu/snras/departments/forestry/faculty/valentine/

dvalentine@alaska.edu

Research Interests: Ecosystem ecology; Biogeochemistry, and element cycling in northern ecosystems; soils in forests, grasslands, and wetlands in generating or consuming trace gasses, especially methane, that control Earth's climate.Recent research has focused on the effects of wildfire on soil respiration and carbon balance. He teaches courses in soils, nutrient cycling, and integrating the major foundations of natural resource management: natural sciences, economics, values/ethics, policy and global to local sustainability.

Dave Verbyla:  Professor of GIS/Remote Sensing

http://www.uaf.edu/snras/departments/forestry/faculty/verbyla/

dlverbyla@alaska.edu

Research Interests:  GIS/Remote Sensing

Current Research Projects:   Browning of Boreal Alaska, Remote sensing.

Research Projects Ideas for Future Students:  Anything involving GIS/Remote sensing.

Mary Ehrlander: Director of Northern Studies; Associate Professor of History

http://www.uaf.edu/northern/faculty/

mfehrlander@alaska.edu

Amy Lovecraft:  Assistant Professor of Political Science

http://www.uaf.edu/polisci/faculty/

allovecraft@alaska.edu

Research Interests:  Political Ecology through two complementary streams of investigation. The first examines how localized international (interlocal) institutions for natural resource governance create political capacity for cross-scale adaptive management in borderlands. Another branch researches the connections between science and politics in environmental policymaking.

Current Research Projects:  Principal investigator on the project “Understanding Northern Sustainability Debates: The Politicization of Science in Natural Resource Policymaking in the Canadian and American Circumpolar North” and a CO-PI researching “Fire-Mediated Changes in the Arctic System: Interactions of Changing Climate and Human Activities” both funded by NSF.

Jonathan Rosenberg:   Professor of Political Science 

http://www.uaf.edu/polisci/faculty/

jrosenberg@alaska.edu

Research Interests:   Environmentally sustainable development; Stakeholder participation; International political economy; Globalization and the environment.

Current Research Projects:  Post-hurricane recovery and sustainable re-development in Grenada; Biodiversity conservation and tourism development in Grenada.

Research Ideas For Future Students:  Comparative studies in sustainable development (the circumpolar north and global south); Participatory practices in environmental management; Local to global connections in environmentally sustainable development.

James Allen:  Professor of Psychology

http://www.uaf.edu/psych/faculty/allen/

jrallen@alaska.edu

Research Interests: Cultural psychology, which attempts to understand people as cultural beings through their own indigenous psychological perspectives, and rural community psychology, which actively works to enhance the strengths and quality of life in rural communities.

Current Research Projects:  Development of culturally grounded preventative and health services for Alaska Natives; Resiliency processes and health development of Alaska Native and other circumpolar indigenous youth; Multicultural practice, adaptive responses to trauma, including cultural and intergenerational trauma; Seasonal behavior variation in the Arctic.

Courtney Carothers: Assistant Professor of Commercial Fisheries, Community Development, Fisheries Human Dimension, Fisheries Management

clcarothers@alaska.edu

http://www.sfos.uaf.edu/directory/faculty/carothers/

Research Interests:Processes of marine enclosure and privatization; political ecology; local and traditional knowledge; science and technology studies; subsistence, mixed, and alternative economies; and socio-ecological change.

Mark Johnson:  Professor of Physical Oceanography

http://www.sfos.uaf.edu/directory/faculty/johnson/

majohnson@alaska.edu

Research Interests:  Ocean science; Climate change; Arctic sea ice changes.

Current Research Projects: The Alaska Ocean Observing System.

Research Ideas For Future Students:  Any ocean science issues from climate to other research

Franz Mueter:  Associate Professor of Commerical Fisheries; Fisheries and Conservation; Fisheries Ecology; Fisheries Oceanography; Fisheries Population and Biometry; Fishery Management

http://www.sfos.uaf.edu/directory/faculty/mueter/

fmueter@alaska.edu

Research Interests:  The effects of climate variability and fishing on marine and anadromous fish populations, particularly in subarctic seas.

Current Research Projects:  Comparative analysis of subarctic marine ecosystems; Retrospective analysis of patterns in fish productivity; Seabirds and marine mammals in the eastern Bering Sea Ecosystem.

Brenda Norcross:  Professor of Fisheries Ecology & Fisheries Oceanography

http://www.sfos.uaf.edu/directory/faculty/norcross/

bnorcross@alaska.edu

Research Interests:  The effect of the surrounding environment on fish.

Current Research Projects: Eulachon in Southcentral and Southeast Alaska, 2001-2004 (US Forest Service); Fisheries Oceanography of the Bering and Chukchi Seas, 2004-2005, (Cooperative Institute for Arctic Research); Reproductive potential of Pacific cod, 2001-2006 (Cooperative Institute for Arctic Research); Feasibility to design and implement a nearshore juvenile flatfish survey Eastern Bering Sea, 2002-2004 (Cooperative Institute for Arctic Research)

Alan Springer:  Research Professor of Biological Oeanography; Sea Birds

http://www.sfos.uaf.edu/directory/faculty/springer/

amspringer@alaska.edu

Research Interests:   Matters of scale in time and space of large marine ecosystems and of variability in production at various trophic levels.

Mark Herrmann:  Dean of the School of Management and Professor of Economics

http://www.uaf.edu/som/about/meet-the-dean/

mlherrmann@alaska.edu

Research Interests:  Dr. Mark Herrmann is a fisheries economist and has performed research on Alaska's salmon, halibut, crab and Pollock fisheries.

Joe Little:  Program Director, Economics; Assistant Professor of Economics

http://www.uaf.edu/som/about/faculty/economics/joe-little/

jmlittle2@alaska.edu

Research Interests::   Economics of outdoor recreation; Public lands management; Non-market valuation; Rural economic development

Doug Reynolds:  Program Director, Masters of Science in Resource and Applied Economics; Associate Professor of Economics

http://www.uaf.edu/som/about/faculty/economics/doug-reynolds/

dbreynolds@alaska.edu

Research Interest: Oil and Energy Economics

Research Ideas for Prospective Students:  Natural gas pipeline studies; Oil price forecasting studies; Russian oil production studies; ANWR oil production impacts.

John Lehman:  Professor Emeritus, Retired Director International Programs

http://www.uaf.edu/som/about/faculty/ba/john-lehman/

jalehman@alaska.edu

Research Interests:  Electronic publishing, international business, Asian language computational linguistics, application of Chinese ethical & administrative tradition to current issues

Larry Hinzman:  Director, Internation Arctic Research Center

http://www.iarc.uaf.edu/

ldhinzman@alaska.edu

Research Interests: Permafrost hydrology; Characterizing and quantifying hydrological processes and their inter-dependence with climate and ecosystem dynamics.

Current Reseach Projects: Presently Dr. Hinzman is co-chair of the NSF funded Arctic CHAMP program (Community-wide Hydrologic Analysis and Monitoring Program) and a principal investigator (PI) in the NSF Freshwater Integration Program, which aims to quantify the arctic freshwater balance.  He is the PI of a NSF study to quantify the impacts of wildfire in a tundra ecosystem, and a Co-PI on a study to quantify the effects of climate change on human use of water resources on the Seward Peninsula.

John Walsh:  President's Professor of Climate Change and Chief Scientist

http://www.iarc.uaf.edu/people/jwalsh

jwalsh@iarc.uaf.edu

Areas of Research:  Arctic climate change and impacts.

Current Research Projects:  Future scenarios of Arctic climate change; Impacts of climate change in the Arctic; Severe weather in high latitudes Arctic system reanalysis.

Research Ideas For Future Students:  Trends in extreme weather events in the Arctic Integration of multiple sources of information on Arctic climate change quantifying uncertainty in projections of Arctic change.
 

Matt Carlson:  Assistant Professor Biologial Science, UAA

http://aknhp.uaa.alaska.edu/staff/

Research Interests:   Plant conservation biology; evolutionary ecology (mating system and floral trait evolution) in Parrya, Primula, Mimulus and Dalechampia; plant reproductive ecology; and ecological and evolutionary links with rarity.

Current Research Projects: Alaskan pollinators: are they abandoning native berries for exotic clover?; Flower color evolution in the Arctic: integrating ecological and genomic research with undergraduate education; Impacts of the non-native, nitrogen-fixing Melilotus alba on soil ecology, and the effects of shade and soil nitrogen on forage quality of willows; Rare plant inventory of the Delta Wild and Scenic River - Tangle Lakes.

John Kennish:  Professor of Chemistry, College opf Arts & Science, UAA

http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/chemistry/directory/kennishinfo.cfm

NKM6ETUW01@alaska.edu

Research Interests: environmental analytical chemist who studies the activation of cytochrome P-450 in fish exposed to low levels of persistent organic pollutants (POP), movement of ultra trace levels of metals in the environment, the role of fatty acids in diseases of Native Alaskans, the fatty acid composition in some wild foods of Native Alaskans, and the impact of fatty acids on Native Alaskan and marine mammal diets.

Donald Spalinger: Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, UAA

http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/enri/people/Fellows/Spalinger/index.cfm

http://afdes.uaa.alaska.edu/

Research Interests: The ecology, chemistry, and physiology of plants and herbivores. Spalinger is particularly interested in the nutritional ecology of large herbivores in northern ecosystems, including moose, caribou, and black-tailed deer. To understand how habitats and plant communities influence the survival and productivity of these animals, Spalinger's research explores a diversity of topics. These include studies of nutritional qualities of plants, plant defensive chemistry, plant architecture and its influence on foraging behavior and food intake rate of herbivores, the digestive physiology of herbivores, foraging behavior, and biological simulation modeling.

Email: uaf-rap@alaska.edu       Phone:  907-474-7987          PO Box 757000, Fairbanks, AK  99775-7000