Faculty members from the social and natural sciences at the University of Alaska 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.  The faculty members listed below can serve students who are applying to the program and seeking to identify a graduate advisor. 

* denotes graduate committee member

**denotes interest in advising

no asterisk denotes supervising advisor

*Michael Koskey:  Assistant Professor of Alaska Native Studies

http://www.uaf.edu/ans/faculty_staff_koskey.html

**James Ruppert:  Chair, Professor of English and Alaska Native Studies

http://www.uaf.edu/ans/faculty_staff_ruppert.html

Research Interests:  Native American Literature, Film, Northern Studies, Humanities, Oral Tradition.

Current Research Projects: Work on the urban experience in Native American Literature, an anthology of Alaska Native Writing.

Research Ideas for Future Students:  I would be interested in working on research projects that incorporate Indigenous Humanities.

Craig Gerlach:  Professor of Anthropology

ffscg@uaf.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.

Kara C. Hoover:  Assistant Professor of Anthropology

kara.hoover@alaska.edu

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

Research Interests:  I'm a biological anthropologist interested in human variation and adaptation. In the field of bioachaeology, my interest lies primarily in the evolutionary ecology of human health within the cultural context. In the field of anthropological genetics, this interest in adaptation lies primarily in human olfaction, an understudied area of human ecological evolution and modern human variation.

*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

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

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.

Phyllis Morrow:  Professor Emeritus of Anthropology

pmorrow@alaska.edu

Research Interests:  Alaskan cultural anthropology/ethnography; Cross-cultural/interethnic interactions in institutional contexts (law, education, resource management, health); Oral traditions; Western Alaska (Yup'ik).

Current Research Projects:  Currently doing litigation consulting on issues relating to Alaska Native individuals and communities.

*Dr. William Schneider: Curator of Oral History

wsschneider@alaska.edu

Peter Schweitzer:  Professor of Anthropology

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

ffpps@uaf.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:  Chair of the Biology & Wildlife Department; 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 of Ecology, co PI RAP

www.faculty.uaf.edu/fffsc/ 

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/lduffy.htm

fflkd@uaf.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.

*Erich Follmann:  Professor of Zoology

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

ffehf@uaf.edu

Research Interest:  Predator biology and ecology; Wildlife diseases; Application of telemetry techniques. Teaching courses in mammalogy, anatomy, physiology, and biotelemetry.

Current Research Projects:  Valuation of the Effectiveness of Raboral V-RG Oral Rabies Vaccine in Captive Arctic Foxes.

*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

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.

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.

*Christine Hunter:  Assistant Professor of Wildlife Ecology

christine.hunter@alaska.edu

Current Research:  The response of populations to environmental change and anthropogenic influences, and on the ecological and management consequences of these responses. I am particularly interested in the dynamics of structured populations.

Falk Huettmann:  Assistant Professor of Biology and Wildlife

http://www.lasuerte.org/pops/facultyHuettmann.html

fffh@uaf.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.

Sasha Kitaysky:  Associate Professor of Integrative Physiology

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

ffask@uaf.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

ffdrk@uaf.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

ffadm@uaf.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/

ffanp@uaf.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.

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.

*Claire Alix:  Research Associate, Alaska Quarternary Center

http://www.uaf.edu/aqc/Alix_AQCWebPage2.htm

fncma@uaf.edu

Research Interests:  Ethnoarchaeology of wood use in the Arctic; Past and present Inuit wood technology; Driftwood transport and circulation; archaeological wood remains; Wood and charcoal identification; tree-ring research.  Field research is in Alaska, the Bering Strait and the Canadian Arctic.

*Richard Caulfield:  Professor of Rural Development, Affiliate Professor of Northern Studies, and Interim Director, Tanana Valley Campus, UAF

racaulfield@alaska.edu

Research Interests:  Human-environment relations in the circumpolar North with a particular emphasis on Alaska and Greenland/Kalaallit Nunaat. Recent research focuses on characteristics of resource governance and co-management regimes in the North. I also have an interest in sustainable community development and human capacity-building in northern communities with a special emphasis on innovations in circumpolar higher education.

*Michael Davis:  Associate Professor, Bristol Bay Campus

http://www.uaf.edu/danrd/faculty-staff/mike-davis/index.xml

medavis@alaska.edu

Research Interests:  Rural Alaska’s Economies; Bristol Bay Salmon Fishery;  Alaska State Legislature; Community Development;  & Russian Far East.

*JoAnn Ducharme:  Associate Professor

jo.ducharme@alaska.edu

*Ralph Gabrielli:  Associate Professor 

http://www.uaf.edu/danrd/facnstaff/RalphGabrielli.html

nfrgb@uaf.edu

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

*Rick A. Knecht:  Associate Professor

r.knecht@uaf.edu

*Gordon Pullar:  Director, Department of Alaska Native and Rural Development

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

glpullar@alaska.edu

Research Interests:  Cultural anthropology; Indigenous culture; Organizational culture; Tribal administration; Federal Indian Policy; Rural development; Community development; Organizational development; International indigenous politics; Grant proposal development; Enthnohistory of Sugpiat culture area.

John Eichelberger:  Professor of Volcanology; Department of Geology and Geophysics Chair

http://www.uaf.edu/geology/Facultyn/Eich.htm

eich@gi.alaska.edu

Research Interest: Physical and chemical aspects of magmatic behavior, emphasizing field and drilling observations and interdisciplinary collaborations; Volatiles in magmas and their control of eruptive processes; Interaction of chemically and thermally contrasting magmas in magma reservoirs and volcanic conduits.

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

ffrn@uaf.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.

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/faculty/barber.html

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/faculty/Finstad.html

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

www.uaf.edu/snras/faculty/fix.html

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.

Joshua Greenberg:  Associate Professor of Resource Economics

http://www.uaf.edu/snras/faculty/greenberg.htm

ffjag@uaf.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.

Julie Joly:  Assistant Professor of Natural Resources Law & Policy

http://www.uaf.edu/snras/faculty/lurman.html

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 Pubic 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/faculty/juday.html

fgpj@uaf.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.faculty.uaf.edu/ffgpk/  

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.

Jingjing Liang:   Assistant Professor of Forest Management

http://www.faculty.uaf.edu/ffjl2/

jliang@alaska.edu

Research Interests: Forest growth and yield; Forest management; Wildfire economics; Climate change.

Current Research Projects: Forest stand characterization and growth and yield for the Alaskan Northern Forest; Projection of forest growth and yield in coastal Alaska.

Research Ideas For Future Students:   Spatial and temporal analysis of boreal forests and climate change; Forest dynamics, including forest growth and yield, and carbon sequestration, with empirical models; The effects of various factors on boreal forests, including biodiversity, human activities, and various catastrophic events; The trade-off between economic and ecological objectives; The best boreal forest management regimes. 

Scott Rupp:  Associate Professor of Forest Measurements and Inventory

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

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.

Susan Todd:   Associate Professor of Resource Planning

http://www.uaf.edu/salrm/faculty/todd.html

sktodd@alaska.edu

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

Elena Sparrow:  Research Professor

http://www.uaf.edu/salrm/faculty/esparrow.html

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.

David Valentine:  Associate Professor of Forest Soil

http://www.uaf.edu/snras/faculty/valentine.htm

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://nrm.salrm.uaf.edu/~dverbyla/

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.

Dr. 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, PhD:   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, PhD:  Professor of Psychology

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

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.

Gerald V. Mohatt:  Professor of Psychology, Principal Investigator & Director
Leader, Administration & Cultural/Behavioral Cores

http://www.uaf.edu/psych/faculty/dr.-gerald-mohatt/

gvmohatt@alaska.edu

Research Interests:   Substance abuse and suicide prevention; Understanding of the risk and protective factors for chronic disease.

Current Research Projects:  Five year NIH grant for a community prevention trial focused on preventing youth substance abuse and suicide risk; A study of resilience of circumpolar youth; A study of obesity and chronic diseases.

Research Ideas For Future Students:   Students interested in the above topics and willing and interested in learning interviewing skills for health research and working with Native communities in a collaborative and participatory way.

Kim Hopper:  Professor of Clinical Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University; Adjunct Professor, School of Law

http://www.mailmanschool.org/msphfacdir/profile.asp?dept=SMS&uni=kh17

hopper@nki.rfmh.org

Research Interests:  Reconfiguration of public mental health; Cross-cultural studies of psychotic disorder; Community-based modalities of coercion; Recovery and support in severe mental illness.

**John Kelley:  Professor of Marine Science

jfkelly2@alaska.edu

Research Interests:  Marine chemistry and geosciences

Current Research Projects:  Environmental Radioactivity (ORION Project); Arctic coastal dynamics; Marine acoustics; Trace metals, gases and contaminants.

Research Ideas For Future Students: Trace metals and organics in coastal marine environments; Marine acoustics including marine mammals and noise.
 

**Mark Johnson:  Professor of Physical Oceanography

johnson@ims.uaf.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

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

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

ams@ims.uaf.edu

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

**Thomas Weingarten:  Professor of Physical Oceanography

weingart@ims.uaf.edu

Research Interests:  Physical Oceanography

Current Research Projects:  My research group (students and technical staff) seeks a mechanistic understanding of the forces and processes that control circulation and water mass modification on the shelf seas surrounding Alaska.   We work in the Gulf of Alaska, and the Bering, Chukchi, and Beaufort seas and use ships, satellites, and sophisticated instruments to measure the properties of the ocean and the currents.  

Research Ideas For Future Students:  Work on problems associated with ice-covered seas, and coastal and/or continental shelf circulations influenced by river runoff, tides, winds, and deep basin forcings.   Interdisciplinary research opportunities involving geologists, chemists, and biologists are also available.

**Matthew Wooller (IMS, WERC, INE, SFOS):   Associate Professor of Chemical Oceanography and Marine Biology

http://www.uaf.edu/water/ASIF/ASIF/Front%20page.html

mjwooller@alaska.edu

Research Interest:  Stable isotope biogeochemistry, Late Quaternary environmental change; Paleoecology; Food web ecology; Ecosystem ecology.

Current Research Projects:  Mangrove paleoecology in Belize, Methane biogeochemistry in Arctic lakes; Arctic paleolmnology.

Research Ideas For Future Students:  Interested students should contact Wooller for further discussion.

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.

*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/

ffdbr@uaf.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.

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

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

ffjml1@uaf.edu

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

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/indiv/iarc_all_staff.php?photo=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.
 

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