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Jonas Åkerman is an Associate Professor at the Department of Earth and Ecosystem Sciences, Lund University. He specializes in geomorphology and periglacial processes in relation to climate and its variations in Arctic and Alpine environments.
Address: Dept. of Earth and Ecosystem Sciences, Division of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Analyses, Lund University, Sölvegatan 12, 223 62 Lund, Sweden.
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Christopher Andrews is an ecologist for the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in Edinburgh, Scotland. He is currently involved in the United Kingdom Environmental Change Network long-term monitoring project in the Scottish Highlands. His research interests include effects of climate change on biodiversity.
Address: Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Penicuik, UK, EH26 0QB.
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Johan Bergstedt has a PhD in Ecology from the department of IFM – Physics, Chemistry and Biology, Linköping University. He has worked as teacher and study counselor at the IFM. He has also a worked with the Swedish National Forest Inventory (NFI, performed by the department of Forest Resource Management at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences) for a number of years and is currently working for the NFI as well as IFM at Linköping University.
Address: IFM – Physics, Chemistry and Biology, Linköping University,SE- 581 83 Linköping, Sweden.
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Malcolm G. Butler is a Professor of Biological Sciences at North Dakota State University. He studies aquatic ecology at population, community and ecosystem levels, with emphasis on the functional roles of invertebrates. Dr. Butler worked on arctic tundra ponds in 1975-1980, and from 2006 to present.
Address: North Dakota State University, Department of Biological Sciences, Fargo, ND, 58108, USA.
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Torben R. Christensen is a Professor at the Department of Earth and Ecosystem Sciences, Lund University, Sweden. He specializes in how vegetation and ecosystem processes respond and provide feedback effects on climate under changing environmental conditions.
Address: Dept. of Earth and Ecosystem Sciences, Division of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Analyses, Lund University, Sölvegatan 12, 223 62 Lund, Sweden.
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Dorothy Cooley is a Regional Biologist with the Yukon Territory Department of Environment.
Address: Yukon Territorial Government, Department of Environment, Dawson City, Yukon, Canada.
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Ulrika Dahlberg has licentiate exam from the department of Forest Resource Management, Swedish university of Agricultural sciences. She is currently working with geographical information products at Lantmäteriet.
Address: Lantmäteriet, 801 82 Gävle, Sweden.
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Ryan K. Danby is an Assistant Professor in Geography and Environmental Studies at Queen’s University. His research focuses on contemporary vegetation distribution and dynamics at multiple spatial scales.
Address: Department of Geography and School of Environmental Studies, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada, K7L 3N6.
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Fred J. A. Daniёls (formerly University of Utrecht, the Netherlands) is a retired Professor of the former Institute of Plant Ecology, University of Münster, Germany. His main research interest includes arctic and northern vegetation (ecology and classification).
Address: Institute of Biology and Biotechnology of Plants, Hindenburgplatz 55, 48143 Münster, Germany.
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Johannes G. de Molenaar is retired senior researcher of Alterra, Wageningen University, the Netherlands, and runs a private advisory office at present. His research interests include ecological impact assessment and nature management.
Address: Gruttostraat 24, 4021EX Maurik; formerly Alterra, Wageningen University, the Netherlands.
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Jan Dick is a landscape ecologist at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Edinburgh. She is the site manager of a long term ecological monitoring site in the Cairngorms, Scotland (www.ecn.ac.uk) and her research interests include tool development and hypothesis testing in relation to place based ecosystem service assessment with a particular focus on the link with biodiversity and climate change.
Address: Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Penicuik, UK, EH26 0QB.
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Christian Ebbe Mortensen, M.Sc., is a biologist and has researched Arctic goose grazing ecology in Jameson Land, East Greenland for several years in the 1980s.
Address: Ejbyvej 13, 2740 Skovlunde, Denmark.
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Diane Ebert-May is a Professor in the Department of Plant Biology at Michigan State University. Her interests are in plant ecology and education science – particularly in biology.
Address: Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, 166 Plant Biology Building, East Lansing MI 48824-1312, USA.
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Urban Emanuelsson has a PhD from University of Lund and was appointed as a Professor by the Swedish Government in January 2007. He has worked as the Director of the Swedish Biodiversity Centre 1995-2008 at The Swedish University of Agriculture and Uppsala University, where he is a Senior Adviser. He is also a guest professor at Högskolan Kristianstad, member of the board for Ajtte (Swedish museum), member of the board of WWF Sweden, and a member of the Royal Academy of Forestry and Agriculture
Address: Swedish Biodiversity Centre, Box 7007, SE-750 07 Uppsala, Sweden.
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Håkan Eriksson has a degree in Civil Engineering from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and conducts studies in physical geography and teaches Geographic Information Systems at the department of Ecology and Environmental Science (EMG) at Umeå University.
Address: Umeå University, EMG, SE-901 87 Umeå, Sweden.
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Henrik Hedenås has a PhD in Ecology from the department of Ecology and Environmental Science (EMG), Umeå University. He has worked at different positions at EMG, and is currently a researcher at Abisko Scientific Research Station and a temporary Forest Habitat Advisor at the Species Information Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Science.
Address: Abisko Scientific Research Station, SE-981 07 Abisko, Sweden.
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Greg H. R. Henry is a Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia. His research interests include arctic plants, biodiversity change, climate-plant relationships, responses to climate change, and arctic ungulates.
Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, 1984 West Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z2 Canada.
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David S. Hik is a professor at the University of Alberta. His research interests include the ecology of alpine and northern ecosystems.
Address: Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
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John E. Hobbie is a Senior Scholar at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. His research interests include microbial ecology of plankton and soil bacteria, nitrogen cycling in arctic tundra, and coastal eutrophication.
Address: The Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543, USA.
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Elin J. Jantze is a PhD student at the Dept. of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology of Stockholm University, Sweden. She specialises on the role of the cryosphere in hydrological and ecosystem shifts and these are associated with arctic hydro-climatic interactions and carbon fluxes.
Address: Dept. of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology, Stockholm University, Svante Arrhenius väg 8, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden.
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Cornelia Jaspers, M.Sc., is a doctoral candidate in biology at DTU Aqua, Technical University of Denmark. She has been participating in terrestrial field work in temperate and arctic areas since 2007.
Address: DTU Aqua, Kavalergaarden 6, 2920 Charlottenlund, Denmark.
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Cecilia Johansson is a Senior lecturer in Meteorology at Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Sweden. Her research interest includes boundary layer meteorology, climatology and snow physics.
Address: Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Villavägen 16, SE-752 36 Uppsala, Sweden.
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Margareta Johansson is a researcher at the Department of Earth and Ecosystem Sciences, Lund University and at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden. She specializes in permafrost dynamics in relation to climate change and its impact on ecosystems.
Address: Dept. of Earth and Ecosystem Sciences, Division of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Analyses, Lund University, Sölvegatan 12, 223 62 Lund, Sweden.
Address: Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, PO Box 50005, 104 05 Stockholm, Sweden.
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David R. Johnson is a Post-Doctoral Research Associate with the Systems Ecology Laboratory at the University of Texas at El Paso. His interests include understanding the response of alpine and arctic terrestrial ecosystems to climate warming.
Address: Department of Biology, The University of Texas at El Paso, 500 West University Ave, El Paso, Texas, 79968-0519, USA.
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Jill F. Johnstone is an assistant professor at the University of Saskatchewan. Her research interests include the disturbance ecology and vegetation dynamics of boreal and arctic ecosystems.
Address: Department of Biology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
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Christer Jonasson has a PhD in Physical Geography from Uppsala University and is Associate professor at Stockholm University. He is the Station Manager for the Abisko Scientific Research Station.
Address: Abisko Scientific Research Station, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Abisko SE 981 07, Sweden.
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Catherine Kennedy is a vegetation scientist at the Yukon Territory Department of Environment.
Address: Yukon Territorial Government, Department of Environment, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada.
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Alice J. Kenney is a research associate at the University of British Columbia. Her research interests include population ecology.
Address: Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
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Frida Keuper is a PhD student at the Department of Systems Ecology, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She specializes in subarctic vegetation responses to changing environmental conditions.
Address: Dept. of Systems Ecology, De Boelelaan 1085, 1081HV, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Saewan Koh is coordinator for undergraduate ecology courses at the University of Alberta. His research interests include modeling plant-herbivore and vegetation-climate interactions in forest and alpine environments.
Address: Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, T6G 2E9.
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Charles J. Krebs is an Emeritus professor at the University of British Columbia. His research interests include the ecology of population cycles in small mammals.
Address: Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
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Hugues Lantuit is Research Scientist at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Potsdam, Germany. He specializes in the reaction of ice-rich permafrost environments to changing environmental conditions, especially in the western Canadian Arctic.
Address: AWI Potsdam, Periglacial Section, Telegrafenberg A43, 14473 Potsdam, Germany.
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Mark J. Lara is a PhD student at The University of Texas at El Paso, USA. His interests lie in determining how ecosystem function has changed over decadal time scales in arctic tundra in response to plant community change.
Address: Department of Biology, The University of Texas at El Paso, 500 West University Ave, El Paso, Texas, 79968-0519, USA.
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David Lin is a PhD student at The University of Texas at El Paso, USA. His research examines how land cover change has altered ecosystem function in arctic tundra landscapes.
Address: Department of Biology, The University of Texas at El Paso, 500 West University Ave, El Paso, Texas, 79968-0519, USA.
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Vanessa L. Lougheed is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Texas at El Paso. Her research interests include understanding the causes and ecological consequences of aquatic ecosystem degradation, particularly the impact of climate change on arctic tundra ponds.
Address: The University of Texas at El Paso, 500 West University Ave. El Paso, Texas, 79968, USA.
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Jesper Madsen, D.Sc., is professor in Arctic conservation ecology at Aarhus University; he has studied the ecology and population dynamics of Arctic geese for more than 30 years and initiated the goose studies in Jameson Land in 1982-1984.
Address: Institute of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Frederiksborgvej 399, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark.
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Nadya Matveyeva, PhD. Is affiliated with the Komarov Botanical Institute, Russia and specializes in the flora of the Russian Arctic.
Address: Department of Vegetation of the Far North, Komarov Botanical Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia.
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Daniel C. McEwen is an Assistant Professor of Biosciences at Minnesota State University of Moorhead. His research seeks to understand temperature dynamics of tundra ponds in the Arctic and how temperature dynamics influence the ecology of organisms associated with these habitats.
Address: Minnesota State University Moorhead, Department of Biosciences, Moorhead, MN, 56563, USA.
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Isla H. Myers-Smith is a doctoral candidate at the University of Alberta. Her research interests include the ecology of northern ecosystems in response to climate change.
Address: Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
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Yuriy K. Narozhniy is the Head of the Research Laboratory of Glacioclimatology and Associate Professor of the Hydrology Department at Tomsk State University. He is an Engineer Hydrologist and Candidate of Science (Hydrology). His research interests are focused on modern problems of glaciology including mass balance, dynamics and hydrology of mountain glaciers. He is a National Correspondent of the World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS) in the Altai Region.
Address: Research Laboratory of Glacioclimatology, Tomsk State University, Russia.
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Håkan Olsson is a professor in forest remote sensing at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. In 1997 he established permanent field plots near Abisko as part of the Climate Impact Research Centre (CIRC) research program and initiated the re-survey of these plots in 2010.
Address: Forest Resource Management, Swedish university of Agricultural Sciences, SE-901 83 Umeå, Sweden.
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Veijo A. Pohjola is a Professor in Physical Geography at the Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Sweden. He is a glaciologist, with interests in Arctic glacier mass balance, and ice core records.
Address: Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Villavägen 16, SE-752 36 Uppsala, Sweden.
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Larry W. Price is Professor Emeritus of Geography at Portland State University.
Address: Department of Geography, Portland State University, Portland, OR, USA.
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Frank Rigét, M.Sc., is senior researcher at Aarhus University working in the environmental sciences and is particularly involved with contaminants and their bioaccumulation in the Arctic.
Address: Institute of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Frederiksborgvej 399, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark.
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Sara Rundqvist has a Master’s degree in Biology from the department of Ecology and Environmental Science (EMG), Umeå University. Sara is currently working as a project assistant at Umeå University in EMG.
Address: Umeå University, SE-90187 Umeå, Sweden.
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Anneli Sandström has a bachelor degree in Biology from the department of Ecology and Environmental Science (EMG) at Umeå University. She is continuing for a master degree in Ecology and Conservation at Biology Education Centre (IBG), Uppsala University.
Address: Kaplansgatan 13, SE-80230 Gävle, Sweden.
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