Project Components

UAF Alaska Geobotany Center - Institute of Arctic Biology

Greening of the Arctic: An IPY Initiative

GOA Participants

Andrey Abramov
- Andrey Abramov
  Project: NASA Yamal - Role:
  Affiliation: Earth Cryosphere Institute, SB RAS
  Mailing address: Malygin Street 86, 625026 Tyumen, Russia

Domingo Alcaraz-Segura
- Domingo Alcaraz-Segura
  website - email
  Project: SASS - Role: Remote sensing
  Affiliation: Dept. of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia
  Mailing address: Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, P.O. Box 400123, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123

Edie Barbour
- Edie Barbour
  website - email
  Project: AVA, TAGA, NASA Yamal - Role: Web design, project support for all projects
  Affiliation: Alaska Geobotany Center, Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks
  Mailing address: P.O. Box 757000, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775-7000 USA

Uma Bhatt
- Uma Bhatt
  website - email
  Project: SCT, Seasonality, NASA Yamal, SASS - Role: Climate
  Affiliation: Atmospheric Science Program, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks
  Mailing address: P.O. Box 757320, Fairbanks, Alaska 99775-7320 USA

Joe Bickley
- Joe Bickley
  Project: NAAT - Role:
  Affiliation:
  Mailing address:

Peter Bieniek
- Peter Bieniek
  website - email
  Project: Seasonality, NASA Yamal - Role:
  Affiliation: Atmospheric Science Program, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks
  Mailing address: P.O. Box 757320, Fairbanks, Alaska 99775-7320 USA

Patrick Borden
- Patrick Borden
  Project: NAAT - Role:
  Affiliation: University of Alaska Fairbanks
  Mailing address:

Linda Burton
- Linda Burton
  Project: NAAT - Role:
  Affiliation:
  Mailing address:

Joey Comiso
- Joey Comiso
  website - email
  Project: SCT, NASA Yamal, SASS - Role: Sea ice
  Affiliation: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
  Mailing address: Code 614.1, Greenbelt, MD, USA 20771

Ben Cook
- Ben Cook
  website - email
  Project: SASS - Role:
  Affiliation: Dept. of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia
  Mailing address: NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, 2880 Broadway, NY 10025

Erin Cushing
- Erin Cushing
  Project: NAAT - Role:
  Affiliation: University of Alaska Fairbanks
  Mailing address:

Ronnie Daanen
- Ronnie Daanen
  website - email
  Project: NAAT, NASA Yamal - Role: Hydrology and permafrost, Post-doctoral researcher
  Affiliation: University of Alaska Fairbanks
  Mailing address: University of Alaska Fairbanks, PO Box 757320, Fairbanks, AK 99775-7320

Fred Daniëls
- Fred Daniëls
  website - email
  Project: AVA, NAAT - Role: Vegetation
  Affiliation: Institute of Plant Ecology, University of Munster
  Mailing address: Institute of Plant Ecology, Hindenburgplatz 55, 48143 Munster, Germany

Leyland del Re
- Leyland del Re
  Project: NAAT - Role:
  Affiliation: University of Virginia
  Mailing address:

Dmitri Drozdov
- Dmitri Drozdov
  email
  Project: NASA Yamal - Role: Permafrost and GIS
  Affiliation: Earth Cryosphere Institute, SB RAS
  Mailing address: Vavilov Str. 30/6, room 15, 119991 Moscow, Russia

Evgeny Elanchev
- Evgeny Elanchev
  email
  Project: NASA Yamal - Role:
  Affiliation: Earth Cryosphere Institute, SB RAS
  Mailing address: Malygin Street 86, 625026 Tyumen, Russia

Howie Epstein
- Howie Epstein
  website - email
  Project: SCT, NAAT, NASA Yamal, SASS - Role: Vegetation modeling
  Affiliation: Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia
  Mailing address: P.O. Box 400123, Clark Hall 211, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123

Andrey Ermakov
- Andrey Ermakov
  Project: NASA Yamal - Role:
  Affiliation: Earth Cryosphere Institute, SB RAS
  Mailing address: Malygin Street 86, 625026 Tyumen, Russia

Bruce Forbes
- Bruce Forbes
  website - email
  Project: NASA Yamal - Role: Socio-ecological systems in Russia
  Affiliation: Arctic Centre, University of Lapland
  Mailing address: P.O. Box 122, FIN-96101 Rovaniemi, Finland

Gerald (JJ) Frost
- Gerald (JJ) Frost
  email
  Project: NASA Yamal - Role:
  Affiliation: Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia
  Mailing address: P.O. Box 400123, Clark Hall 211, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123

Ivan Gameev
- Ivan Gameev
  Project: NASA Yamal - Role:
  Affiliation: Earth Cryosphere Institute, SB RAS
  Mailing address: Malygin Street 86, 625026 Tyumen, Russia

Jozsef Geml
- Jozsef Geml
  email
  Project: NASA Yamal - Role: Soil fungi
  Affiliation:
  Mailing address:

Jon Golden
- Jon Golden
  website - email
  Project: NASA Yamal - Role:
  Affiliation: Working with Howie Epstein
  Mailing address: P.O. Box G, Charlottesville, VA 22903

Grizelle Gonzalez
- Grizelle Gonzalez
  website - email
  Project: NAAT - Role: Arctic ecology and Arctic field course
  Affiliation: Ecosystems, International Institute of Tropical Forestry
  Mailing address: USDA Forest Service IITF, Jardin Botanico Sur, 1201 Calle Ceiba, San Juan PR 00926-1119

Bill Gould
- Bill Gould
  website - email
  Project: NAAT - Role: Arctic ecology and Arctic field course
  Affiliation: Ecosystems, International Institute of Tropical Forestry
  Mailing address: USDA Forest Service IITF, Jardin Botanico Sur, 1201 Calle Ceiba, San Juan PR 00926-1119

Anatoly Gubarkov
- Anatoly Gubarkov
  email
  Project: NASA Yamal - Role: Arctic hydrology
  Affiliation: Tyumen State Oil and Gas University
  Mailing address: Volodarsky Street 38, 625000 Tyumen, Russia

Birgit Heim
- Birgit Heim
  website - email
  Project: NASA Yamal - Role:
  Affiliation: Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
  Mailing address: Telegrafenberg A43, D-14473 Potsdam, Germany

Gensuo Jia
- Gensuo Jia
  website - email
  Project: SCT, NAAT, NASA Yamal, SASS - Role: Remote sensing
  Affiliation: Chinese Academy of Sciences
  Mailing address: RCE-TEA, CAS Institute of Atmospheric Physics, PO Box 9804, Beijing 100029, China

Jeanne Johnson
- Jeanne Johnson
  Project: NAAT - Role:
  Affiliation:
  Mailing address:

Elina Kaarlejärvi
- Elina Kaarlejärvi
  email
  Project: NASA Yamal - Role: Arctic botany
  Affiliation: Arctic Center, University of Lapland
  Mailing address: Box 122, 96101 Rovaniemi, Finland

Anja Kade
- Anja Kade
  email
  Project: NAAT - Role: Graduate student
  Affiliation: Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks
  Mailing address: Sterling College, PO Box 72, Craftsbury Common, VT 05827

Jed Kaplan
- Jed Kaplan
  website - email
  Project: NASA Yamal, SASS - Role: Global vegetation model
  Affiliation: Atmosphere Regolith Vegetation, Ecole Polytechnic Federale de Lausanne
  Mailing address: Station 2, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

Alexia Kelley
- Alexia Kelley
  website - email
  Project: NAAT - Role:
  Affiliation: Dept. of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia
  Mailing address: Dept. of Biology, Duke University, BOX_90338, Durham, NC 27708

Olga Khitun
- Olga Khitun
  email
  Project: AVA, NASA Yamal - Role:
  Affiliation: Komarov Botanical Institute
  Mailing address: St. Petersburg, Russian Academy of Science, Russia

Artem Khomutov
- Artem Khomutov
  email
  Project: NASA Yamal - Role: Arctic environments
  Affiliation: Earth Cryosphere Institute SB RAS
  Mailing address: Malygin Street 86, 625026 Tyumen, Russia

Julie Knudson
- Julie Knudson
  email
  Project: NAAT - Role: Data management
  Affiliation: Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks
  Mailing address: Department of Forest, Rangeland, and Watershed Stewardship, Warner College of Natural Resources, Campus Delivery 1472, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1472

Gary Kofinas
- Gary Kofinas
  email
  Project: NASA Yamal - Role: Socio-ecological systems
  Affiliation: Institute of Arctic Biology/Department of Resources Management, University of Alaska Fairbanks
  Mailing address: P.O. Box 757000, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775-7000 USA

Martin Kopecky
- Martin Kopecky
  website - email
  Project: NAAT, NASA Yamal - Role:
  Affiliation: Charles University and Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
  Mailing address:

Bill Krantz
- Bill Krantz
  website - email
  Project: NAAT - Role: Permafrost, complexity
  Affiliation: University of Colorado, University of Cincinnati
  Mailing address: 3475 Whitfield Ave, Cincinnati, Ohio 45220

Timo Kumpula
- Timo Kumpula
  email
  Project: NASA Yamal - Role: Remote sensing
  Affiliation: Department of Geography, University of Joensuu
  Mailing address: PO Box 111, 80101 Joensuu, Finland

Patrick Kuss
- Patrick Kuss
  website - email
  Project: NAAT, NASA Yamal - Role: Research Associate
  Affiliation: Institute of Systematic Botany, University of Zurich
  Mailing address: Zollikerstrasse 107, 8008 Zurich, Switzerland

Marina Leibman
- Marina Leibman
  email
  Project: NASA Yamal - Role: Permafrost
  Affiliation: Earth Cryosphere Institute, SB RAS
  Mailing address: Vavilov Street 30/6, 119991 Moscow, Russia

Heike Lischke
- Heike Lischke
  website - email
  Project: SASS - Role: Tree line modeling
  Affiliation: Landscape Inventories, Swiss Federal Institute
  Mailing address: CH-8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland

Hilmar Maier
- Hilmar Maier
  website - email
  Project: TAGA, NAAT, SASS - Role: Project support and GIS
  Affiliation: Division of Realty and Natural Resources, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
  Mailing address: Fairbanks, AK

Olga Makarova
- Olga Makarova
  website - email
  Project: NAAT - Role:
  Affiliation: Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution
  Mailing address:

Christine Martin
- Christine Martin
  Project: NAAT - Role:
  Affiliation: Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks
  Mailing address:

Taylor Martin
- Taylor Martin
  Project: NAAT - Role:
  Affiliation: University of Virginia
  Mailing address:

Nadya Matveyeva
- Nadya Matveyeva
  email
  Project: AVA, NAAT - Role: Russian arctic vegetation
  Affiliation: Komarov Botanical Institute
  Mailing address: Komarov Botanical Institute 2 Prof. Popov St. St. Petersburg 197376, Russia

Grigory Matyshak
- Grigory Matyshak
  email
  Project: NASA Yamal - Role: Soils
  Affiliation: Department of Soil Science, Lomonosov Moscow State University
  Mailing address: Leninskie Gory, 119992 Moscow, Russia

George McFadden
- George McFadden
  Project: NAAT - Role:
  Affiliation: University of Virginia
  Mailing address:

Gary Michaelson
- Gary Michaelson
  email
  Project: NAAT - Role: Soils
  Affiliation: Palmer Research Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks
  Mailing address: 533 East Fireweed Ave. Palmer, AK 99645-6629

Nataliya G. Moskalenko
- Nataliya G. Moskalenko
  email
  Project: NASA Yamal - Role: Russian arctic vegetation
  Affiliation: Earth Cryosphere Institute, SB RAS
  Mailing address: Vavilov Street 30/6, room 67, 119991 Moscow, Russia

Corinne Munger
- Corinne Munger
  Project: NAAT, SASS - Role:
  Affiliation: Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks
  Mailing address:

Dmitry Nickolski
- Dmitry Nickolski
  Project: NAAT - Role:
  Affiliation: University of Alaska Fairbanks
  Mailing address:

Aleksander Nikitin
- Aleksander Nikitin
  email
  Project: NASA Yamal - Role:
  Affiliation: Earth Cryosphere Institute, SB RAS
  Mailing address: Vavilov Street 30/6, 119991 Moscow, Russia

Olga Opokina
- Olga Opokina
  email
  Project: NASA Yamal - Role:
  Affiliation: Earth Cryosphere Institute, SB RAS
  Mailing address: Malygin Street 86, 625026 Tyumen, Russia

Pavel Orekhov
- Pavel Orekhov
  email
  Project: NASA Yamal - Role:
  Affiliation: Earth Cryosphere Institute, SB RAS
  Mailing address: Vavilov Street 30/6, room 67, 119991 Moscow, Russia

Nathan Pamperin
- Nathan Pamperin
  Project: NAAT - Role:
  Affiliation: University of Alaska Fairbanks
  Mailing address:

Rorik Peterson
- Rorik Peterson
  website - email
  Project: NAAT - Role: Complexity, frost heave model
  Affiliation: Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alaska Fairbanks
  Mailing address: Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alaska Fairbanks, P.O. Box 755905, Fairbanks, Alaska 99775-5905

Chien-Lu Ping
- Chien-Lu Ping
  website - email
  Project: NAAT - Role: Soils
  Affiliation: Palmer Research Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks
  Mailing address: 533 East Fireweed Ave. Palmer, AK 99645-6629

Jorge Pinzon
- Jorge Pinzon
  email
  Project: NASA Yamal - Role: Sea ice
  Affiliation: Science System and Applications, Inc. (SSAI) NASA/GSFC
  Mailing address: Biospheric Science Branch, Code 614.4 NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA, 20771

Olga Ponomarova
- Olga Ponomarova
  email
  Project: NASA Yamal - Role:
  Affiliation: Earth Cryosphere Institute, SB RAS
  Mailing address: Vavilov Street 30/6, room 67, 119991 Moscow, Russia

Martha Raynolds
- Martha Raynolds
  email
  Project: AVA, SCT, Seasonality, NAAT, NASA Yamal, SASS - Role: Remote sensing, mapping, vegetation
  Affiliation: Alaska Geobotany Center, Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks
  Mailing address: P.O. Box 757000, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775-7000 USA

Vladimir Romanovsky
- Vladimir Romanovsky
  website - email
  Project: NAAT, NASA Yamal - Role: Permafrost
  Affiliation: Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Alaska Fairbanks
  Mailing address: P.O. Box 757320, Fairbanks, AK 99775-7320

Demitri Sergueev
- Demitri Sergueev
  Project: NAAT - Role:
  Affiliation:
  Mailing address:

Yuri Shur
- Yuri Shur
  website - email
  Project: NAAT - Role:
  Affiliation: Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Alaska Fairbanks
  Mailing address: Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, P.O.Box 755900, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775-5900

Stanislaus Sizonenko
- Stanislaus Sizonenko
  Project: NASA Yamal - Role:
  Affiliation:
  Mailing address: Salekhard, Russia

Elena Slagoda
- Elena Slagoda
  Project: NASA Yamal - Role:
  Affiliation: Earth Cryosphere Institute, SB RAS
  Mailing address: Malygin Street 86, 625026 Tyumen, Russia

Florian Stammler
- Florian Stammler
  website - email
  Project: NASA Yamal - Role: Socio-ecological system of Nentsy
  Affiliation: Arctic Centre, University of Lapland
  Mailing address: P.O. Box 122, 96101 Rovaniemi, Finland

Michael Steele
- Michael Steele
  website - email
  Project: SCT - Role:
  Affiliation: Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington
  Mailing address: 1013 NE 40th Street, Seattle, WA 98105-6698

Anne Stine
- Anne Stine
  Project: NAAT - Role:
  Affiliation: Dept. of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia
  Mailing address:

Dmitri Streletskiy
- Dmitri Streletskiy
  website - email
  Project: NASA Yamal - Role:
  Affiliation: University of Delaware, Newark, DE
  Mailing address: Permafrost Lab, Pearson Hall 216, Newark, DE 19716

Charles Tarnocai
- Charles Tarnocai
  website - email
  Project: NAAT - Role: Soils
  Affiliation: Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada
  Mailing address: Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada, Sir John Carling Building, 960 Carling Ave, Ottowa, ONT K1A 0C7 Canada

Andrei Tarosov
- Andrei Tarosov
  Project: NASA Yamal - Role:
  Affiliation: Earth Cryosphere Institute, SB RAS
  Mailing address: Vavilov Street 30/6, 119991 Moscow, Russia

Ina Timling
- Ina Timling
  website - email
  Project: NAAT, NASA Yamal - Role: Soil fungi
  Affiliation: Alaska Geobotany Center, Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks
  Mailing address: P.O. Box 757000, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775-7000 USA

Gennady Tipenko
- Gennady Tipenko
  email
  Project: NAAT - Role:
  Affiliation: Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks
  Mailing address: Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, P.O. Box 757320,Fairbanks, AK 99775-7320

Nataliya G. Ukraintseva
- Nataliya G. Ukraintseva
  email
  Project: NASA Yamal - Role:
  Affiliation: Earth Cryosphere Institute, Russian Academy of Science, Siberian Branch, Tyumen, Russia
  Mailing address: Malygin Street 86, 625026 Tyumen, Russia

Corinne Vonlanthen
- Corinne Vonlanthen
  email
  Project: NAAT, NASA Yamal - Role: Arctic vegetation, Post-doctoral researcher 2005 - 2006
  Affiliation: University of Alaska Fairbanks
  Mailing address: Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN), 3003 Bern, Switzerland

D.A. "Skip" Walker
- D.A. "Skip" Walker
  website - email
  Project: AVA, SCT, Seasonality, TAGA, NAAT, NASA Yamal, SASS - Role: PI GOA Initiative; Director, Alaska Geobotany Center
  Affiliation: Alaska Geobotany Center, Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks
  Mailing address: P.O. Box 757000, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775-7000 USA

Sara Wozniak
- Sara Wozniak
  Project: NAAT - Role:
  Affiliation: University of Virginia
  Mailing address:

Chunhao Xu
- Chunhao Xu
  Project: NAAT - Role:
  Affiliation: University of Alaska Fairbanks
  Mailing address:

Qin Yu
- Qin Yu
  email
  Project: NASA Yamal, SASS - Role:
  Affiliation: Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia
  Mailing address: P.O. Box 400123, Clark Hall 211, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123

This project is funded by the NSF Synthesis of Arctic System Science initiative under grant number ARC-0521180.
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