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October 28, 2022
Katey Walter Anthony is an expert in methane and terrestrial ecosystems.
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October 28, 2022
Physiological ecology and endocrinology of hibernating mammals; biological rhythms and sleep; overwintering biology of animals including arctic ground squirrels, black bears and insects.
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October 28, 2022
Uma Bhatt is an expert in climate change, climate variability, meteorology, air-sea ice interaction, atmosphere, atmospheric sciences, climatology, cryosphere, hydrometeorology, physical oceanography, physics of global warming, remote sensing application, and tundra vegetation.
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October 28, 2022
Amy Breen is an expert in Arctic vegetation ecology, short- and long-term effects of climate change and disturbance on vegetation. Her research interests include field studies and modeling to understand and forecast changes in arctic terrestrial ecosystems, particularly the response of vegetation to disturbance and climate change.
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October 28, 2022
Uses an interdisciplinary approach to study the rapidly changing interactions among wildlife, landscapes, society and climate. Wildlife ecology, human dimensions of wildlife.
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October 28, 2022
Arctic terrestrial ecology, ecosystem modeling, climate feedbacks. Understanding the impacts of changes in climate on arctic and boreal terrestrial ecosytems, and how these impacts may then feedback to influence the climate system.
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October 28, 2022
Pete Fix utilizes quantitative surveys to address issues related to public land management. Research interests include human dimensions of natural resource management, motivations for recreation participation, recreation planning frameworks, recreation research methods, natural resource-based tourism and recreation economics.
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October 28, 2022
Nancy Fresco is an expert in biology, forest ecology, climate change, conservation biology, resource measurement, landscape ecology, and resource inventory.
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October 28, 2022
Terrestrial ecology and plant physiology, ecosystem modeling, fire ecology.
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October 28, 2022
Gino Graziano is an invasive plants specialist with Extension with interests in developing management techniques and providing educational opportunities for land managers, private industry and the public regarding invasive plant and forest health management.
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October 28, 2022
Harms is an expert in ecosystem ecology and biogeochemistry. Her current research focuses on the potential consequences of permafrost loss and climate change for carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus cycles in high latitude catchments.
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October 28, 2022
Bret-Harte is a plant community and ecosystem ecologist. Her focus is on how global climate change affects arctic vegetation composition and nutrient cycling.
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October 28, 2022
Donna Hauser is an expert in marine ecology focusing on marine mammals and other species in changing Arctic and temperate oceans. Her research interests include supporting community-based observing of coastal change.
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October 28, 2022
Zooplankton ecology, climate change, Arctic, Gulf of Alaska. Composition, production and energy flow of marine pelagic ecosystems using a combination of classical and modern tools, particularly in polar and sub-polar ecosystems.
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October 28, 2022
Falk’s research interests include wildlife ecology, seabirds, predictive GIS modeling, web-based wildlife databases and metadata, spatial aspects of population viability analysis (PVA), future landscape scenarios of wildlife habitat, landscape ecology, Russian far east, tropical ecology, conservation steady state economy.
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October 28, 2022
Randi Jandt is an expert in Alaska fire ecology, tundra fire, fire management, and wildlife biology.
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October 28, 2022
Physical oceanography, Arctic oceanography, sea-ice modeling, sea-ice seasonal cycle. Researching Arctic climate with a focus on the annual cycle of sea ice.
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October 28, 2022
Glenn Juday uses tree rings and long-term forest plots to understand climate controls over tree growth, environmental change and wood biomass production.
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October 28, 2022
Marine ecology with a focus on sea ice environments. Conservation biology, ecology and evolution, climate change, ecosystem ecology.
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October 28, 2022
Nathan Kettle is an expert in the human dimensions of global environmental change, risk and uncertainty, trust, the role of networks in climate change adaptation, and social network analysis.
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October 28, 2022
Arctic ecology, mammal ecology, nutrient cycling. Plant-nutrient relationships, plant-herbivore interactions, predator-prey dynamics in the boreal forest. Methodologies include stable isotopes and radio/GPS telemetry.
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October 28, 2022
Yongwon Kim is an expert in terrestrial ecosystems, greenhouse gases, and permafrost.
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October 28, 2022
Resilience of northern rural communities as social-ecological systems; Community-based resource stewardship, adaptive co-management institutions; local knowledge in ecological monitoring and assessment; social networks of subsistence-cash economies; the science and practice of transdisciplinary research.
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October 28, 2022
Larson focuses on how animals and their parasites cope with environmental changes. Researches how parasites overwinter and how changes in host physiology influence parasite overwintering strategies.
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October 28, 2022
Lee’s research focuses on the integration of community observations and remote sensing imagery of sea ice to assess walrus and ice seal habitat in northern Alaska.
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October 28, 2022
Biodegradation of contaminants, biogeochemical cycling, microbiology, microbial ecology. Biodegradation of environmental contaminants and biogeochemical cycling in soils, groundwater and marine environments.
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October 28, 2022
Casey Matney’s program responsibilities span the spectrum from livestock and range to soils and horticulture. He is the state coordinator for the Western Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program and president of the National Association for County Agricultural Agents in Alaska.
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October 28, 2022
Operation of ecological processes at large spatial scales; ecological modeling; global change biology.
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October 28, 2022
Soft-sediment (benthic) seafloor communities, primarily in the polar regions. Invertebrate and microbial communities and the role of these communities in the functioning of polar ecosystems.
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October 28, 2022
Long-term marine ecosystem change, isotope analysis of modern and ancient food webs, paleoclimate reconstruction, archaeology, marine science, subsistence resources.
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October 28, 2022
Jeffrey Muehlbauer studies rivers and aquatic food webs. His research interests lie primarily in understanding how habitat variables related to hydrology and geomorphology affect the distribution and composition of species, particularly aquatic insects.
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October 28, 2022
Fisheries oceanography, climate change, fishery management, marine ecology, statistics. Use of statistical modeling to understand the impacts of environmental variability and climate change on marine fish populations.
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October 28, 2022
Igor Polyakov is an expert in oceanography, multidecadal variability, climate change, and the Arctic.
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October 28, 2022
Vegetation of the Arctic, what controls its distribution, and how the vegetation is responding to climate change. Remote sensing of arctic vegetation, vegetation sampling and mapping.
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October 28, 2022
Marine mammals, natural resource management, coastal fish and fisheries. Coastal ecology with expertise in environmental policy at local, regional, national, and international scales.
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October 28, 2022
Jessie Robertson is an expert in ecohydrology, terrestrial ecosystems, and the role of boreal and arctic plants in the water cycle. Her research focuses on how changes in the boreal and arctic system (from climate change, shifts in plant species, permafrost thaw, etc.) affect the dynamics of how plants move, store, and flux water.
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October 28, 2022
Rosner is a designer and front-end web developer who specializes in science communication. She distills scientific methods, results, and relevance into audience-focused and attractive products that communicate IARC’s work and provide a good user experience. She studies the growth and ecology of interior Alaska black spruce, and has worked for the North Pacific Research Board and the Alaska Ocean Observing System to help communicate ocean science research.
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October 28, 2022
Boreal forest ecology, plant-herbivore interactions, plan ecophysiology. Exploring how changing climate and disturbance regimes are affecting boreal forest composition and ecosystem function, and the consequences for climate feedbacks and social-ecological systems.
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October 28, 2022
Ecosystem and landscape ecology emphasizing secondary succession, regeneration, and disturbance dynamics in subarctic and boreal forest. Modeling the response of subarctic ecosystems to changes in global climate and disturbance regime. Modeling the response of subarctic ecosystems to changes in global climate and disturbance regime. Marine and environmental chemistry, climate change.
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October 28, 2022
Diet and foraging ecology, Arctic marine mammal ecology, subsistence harvest, industrial maritime traffic. Marine mammal biology and health of subsistence species and others.
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October 28, 2022
Impact of snow cover on local and global hydrology, ecology, and climate. Specializes in snow metamorphism, heat and mass transfer in snow, also studies permafrost, snow on sea ice, glaciers.
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October 28, 2022
Climate change. Impacts of 20th century climate warming on various components of the Arctic ecosystem, including vegetation, permafrost, hydrology, and wildlife, primarily the linkages between these components than in any isolated component.
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October 28, 2022
Expertise in science and environmental communication. Studies the role of communication — including the messengers, messages, and processes — used to address complex environmental issues, such as global climate change.
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October 28, 2022
Sarah Trainor is an expert in climate change assessment and adaptation in Alaska with specific emphasis on climate and wildfire science communication, application, and stakeholder engagement. Her research interests include human dimensions of global change, especially in the Arctic and northern latitudes, and interdisciplinary assessment of ecosystem services related to global change and mixed subsistence economies in rural Alaska.
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October 28, 2022
David Valentine is interested in ecosystem ecology, particularly in northern regions. Recent research projects focused on how changing soil moisture affects forest soil carbon balance and how landscape position affects soil characteristics.
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October 28, 2022
Plant-insect interactions, insect outbreaks and effects of herbivory on aspen and willow, plant defense, bird vetch invasion ecology.
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October 28, 2022
Description, mapping, and analysis of circumpolar arctic vegetation spatial patterns and temporal change along climate, soil, and disturbance gradients.
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October 28, 2022
Salmon ecology, freshwater food webs, trophic ecology, freshwater invertebrates.
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October 28, 2022
Alison York is an expert in Alaska fire ecology, tundra fire, fire management, and science communication.
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October 29, 2022
Andy Baltensperger is a landscape ecologist with expertise in the biogeography of mammals, birds, and amphibians, and their projected responses to environmental change.
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