Our People

Sea ice, snow cover dynamics, glacier hydrology, scientific software development, open science

Optical and passive microwave remote sensing of snow and ice, remote sensing data gridding schemes, design and development of reliable scientific software, self-describing data set definition, and effective scientific visualization techniques

Indigenous food sovereignty, Salish people's food system(s), dietary patterns and associated health outcomes, Indigenous language documentation, Indigenous language revitalization, and curriculum development; storytelling, framing, and narration; multimodal anthropology

Polar weather and climate, synoptic climatology, self-organizing maps, extreme events, Arctic cyclones

Environmental policy, air pollution, groundwater pollution, Arctic weather and climate, Arctic amplification, impacts of sea-level rise, national and global security issues related to climate change

Polar weather and climate, boundary layer meteorology, artificial neural networks (self-organizing maps)

Science policy, coastal sea-ice dynamics, collaborating with Indigenous experts and traditional knowledge holders, community-based monitoring, data management, Arctic observing systems, sea ice and marine mammals, and communicating the societal implications of Arctic change.

Sea ice, applications-oriented remote sensing, data rescue, data product development, climate data records of sea ice

Arctic environment and change; sea ice; leading multi-disciplinary, multi-cultural research teams; co-production of knowledge; community-led research and monitoring

Arctic environmental governance, Indigenous food security and sovereignty, equity in climate change research and policy, community-based monitoring, data management for Indigenous and community-driven research

Polar weather and climate, atmospheric boundary layer meteorology, autonomous observing systems, artificial neural networks (self-organizing maps)

Multispectral and hyperspectral remote sensing, geographic information systems, machine learning and natural language processing, data modeling and metadata, data tool development

Light-absorbing particles in the cryosphere, black carbon, snow algae, snow and glacial hydrology, spectral geophysics, surface optical properties, aquatic biogeochemistry

Mountain meteorology, cloud and precipitation microphysics, mesoscale meteorology, radar meteorology

Sea ice, passive microwave remote sensing, climate data records of sea ice, Arctic climate change, climate change

Ice dynamics, ice sheet-ocean interaction, ice loss and freshwater flux, ice-ecosystem connections, hydrology of glaciers and ice sheets, glacier-sea ice interaction, observational science, GIS data tool development, research community organization, science communication

Arctic weather and climate, snow and ice, extreme weather, artificial neural networks (self-organizing maps)

Remote sensing of glaciers, software development for geospatial and remote sensing applications, web-based client interfaces, data tool development, algorithm development

Permafrost dynamics, fire impacts on permafrost, economic impacts of thawing permafrost, subsea permafrost and methane hydrates, land surface modeling, carbon cycle modeling, mercury cycle modeling, land-atmosphere interactions, soil thermodynamics, soil hydrology, atmospheric and soil radiative transfer modeling, inversion theory, remote sensing, project management, orbital mechanics, mercury dynamics in plants and soils

Organizational process development and administration, Earth science data management, project management

Polar meteorology and climatology, measurement of precipitation, meteorology field work in the polar regions, Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model, self-organizing maps (SOMs), python applications with meteorology and climate data, semi-automated quality control of observations

Arctic climate, climate warming in the Arctic, sea ice variability and trends, water and energy cycles, permafrost, economic and geopolitical aspects of Arctic change

Remote sensing of sea ice concentration, ice thickness, snow depth, surface albedo and temperature; sea ice-ocean-atmopshere interactions; short and long-term sea ice forecasting, ocean primary productivity, global climate change

Finding technical solutions to evolving requirements, computer and information systems architecture, evaluating emerging technologies

Arctic weather and climate, climate warming in the Arctic, atmospheric dynamics, data science, big data analysis