Staff

Dr. Kenji Yoshikawa, is a research associate professor in the Water and Environmental Research Center (WERC), UAF; he is actively engaged in geophysical, geothermal, hydrologic and permafrost research throughout Alaska. Yoshikawa has aggressively pursued the goals of the Alaska EPSCoR Permafrost Health outreach program and developed good working relationships between the involved science and education communities. 

Dr. Doug Goering, Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, UAF, has extensive permafrost engineering research experience, and has an extensive history in teaching permafrost thermal behavior for engineers at UAF, including field applications. He will assist in the field campaign and present lessons at several schools.

Dr. Vladimir Romanovsky is a professor of the Geophysical Institute, UAF; he has been involved with the borehole network and soil temperature programs from their inception. Romanovsky has actively involved himself in developing permafrost models and predictions based on climate change scenarios. He will assist in the field campaign and lead efforts to interact with the Russian (TSP) and Greenland communities. 

Mr. Tohru Saito, Public Relations Advisor in the International Arctic Research Center (IARC), UAF, is lead person for public relations and web/data administration.

Mr. Ryota Kajita "Kaji", Vedeo filiming/ camera/ recording, is graduate student at Journalism Department, UAF. He is interesting in the village life documentary and the climate relations.

Mr. Tunnel Man, Education adviser, is coming from deep ancient permafrost. 

International participant staff:

Dr. Zhao Lin, of the Chinese Academy of Science, has conducted extensive research in permafrost on the Tibetan Plateau.  Dr. Lin is also already maintains more than 30 borehole sites in permafrost areas across China; three of these are near small schools in Tibet.  Our funding will enable him to include educational goals in his project; in return, he will contribute his data to our data archive.

Dr. Mikhail Zheleznyak is a deputy director of the Permafrost Institute in Yakutsk, Russian Academy of Science; he has been involved with the borehole network. He will assist in the field campaign and lead efforts to interact with the Russian (TSP) and native communities.

Dr. Hanne Christiansen  is a professor of The University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS); she has been involved with the borehole network. She will assist in the field campaign and lead efforts to interact with the Norway (TSP).

Dr. Håvard Juliussen, is a Post Doc of The University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS), has been involved with the borehole in Longyearbyen. 

Dr. Sharkhuu Natsagdorj, Mongolian Academy of Science; he has been involved with the borehole network in Mongol. He will lead in the field campaign and efforts to interact with the Mongolian   communities.

Ms. Panya S. Lipovsky  of the Yukon Geological Survey, Canada, has conducted extensive research in permafrost along the Alaska Highway as well as other Yukon Territory.  She is currently working on a variety of surficial geology projects, including a Yukon-wide digital surficial geology compilation, an Alaska Highway borehole database compilation, and a variety of site-specific studies that investigate the distribution, nature and impacts of landslides and permafrost-related terrain hazards.