Ph.D., Senior Scientist
Stefansson Arctic Institute

Borgir, Nordurslod

IS-600 Akureyri

Iceland

Tel: +354 460 89 84
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Fax: +354 460 89 89
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Special links:
Arctic Human Development Report 
Northern Research Forum
Arctic Social Indicators Project (ASI)
Arctic Human Development Report - Volume II  

Land Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone (LOICZ)

Joan Nymand Larsen is senior scientist with the Stefansson Arctic Institute, Akureyri, Iceland. She is also with the Social and Economic Development and Polar Law Program, University of Akureyri. She studied macroeconomics at University of Copenhagen, and received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Manitoba, Canada, specializing in economic development and natural resource-based economies of the North. Her background includes many years of researching and publishing on the Arctic economy and quality-of-life in the North. Her research on northern economies and renewable and non-renewable resource extraction includes the impact of industrial development and global change processes for Northern regions and local and coastal communities. Current research focuses on the study and assessment of living conditions and quality-of-life across the circumpolar region, and the construction, measurement and testing of Arctic specific social indicators. She leads three international indicators and quality-of-life projects - Arctic Social Indicators (ASI - I and II) and AHDR-II (Arctic Human Development Report: Regional Processes and Global Linkages. She was Project Manager and co-editor of the first Arctic Human Development Report (AHDR) launched in 2004. She is coordinating lead author of the Polar Regions chapter, for the 5th assessment report, WG-II, of the IPCC. She is member of the international steering committee of LOICZ – Land Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone, and board member on the Arctic Futures Program with the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research. Her editorial work includes, among others, Springer Encyclopedia of Quality of Life Research and The Polar Journal.

Ex officio (immediate past president)
Federal Statistical Office

Neuchâtel

Switzerland

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Special link: Inuit Relocations in the Eastern Canadian Arctic and in Greenland

 
Yvon Csonka's current research interests include oral history, historical representations, and recent social change among Arctic indigenous peoples. He has conducted extensive field research in Nunavut, Chukotka, and Greenland. He holds a Ph.D. in social anthropology from Laval University (Québec, 1991), a DEA from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris (1986), and an MA from the University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland, 1977).

He presided IASSA from 2004 to 2008, while he was professor of anthropology at the University of Greenland. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of the European Science Foundation EUROCORES programme BOREAS. He currently serves on the editorial boards of Études/Inuit/Studies , Boréales , Acta Borealia , Northern Studies , and Polarforschung .

He is currently based at the Swiss Federal Statistical Office, where he carries out research on family life conditions.

Ph.D., Senior Researcher
CICERO (Centre for International Climate and Environmental Research Oslo)
Gaustadalleen 21

P.O. Box 1129

Blindern

N-0318 Oslo

Norway

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Tel: +47 22 85 87 69/50
Mobile: +47 95 80 60 46
Fax: +47 22 85 87 51

 
Grete Kaare Hovelsrud received her Ph.D. in anthropology from Brandeis University, Massachusetts, in 1997. Her Ph.D. work, with field work in East Greenland focused on the social and economic aspects of seal hunting, looking at how external NGOs have an impact on local, quite isolated communities in the north.

She has more than 25 years experience in working and travelling in the Arctic on various projects in a number of disciplines (quaternary geology, reindeer ecology, marine geology and social anthropology). After six years as General Secretary to the North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission (NAMMCO), she began her research on the consequences of climate change on local communities in the Arctic.

Her current research focuses on the community adaptation and vulnerability to past, current and present adaptation and vulnerability to climatic, environmental, social, political and economic change. She co-leads, with Dr Barry Smit, Univ. of Guelph, Canada, the IPY Consortium CAVIAR – Community Adaptation and Vulnerability in the Arctic Regions, with more the 26 case studies throughout the Arctic. She is also project leader for a number of other EU and Norwegian Research Council funded projects on the consequences of climate change in local communities and how these changes relate to national and international processes. Local involvement in climate change research is one of the distinctive features of Dr. Hovelsrud's research. Another is the fundamentally interdisciplinary approach she applies to all her projects, involving and collaborating with meteorologists, oceanographers and fisheries biologists.

She is a member of the IPY Joint Committee, a member of the IASSA (International Arctic Social Sciences Association) Council, and the Norwegian IPY National Committee. In wearing these hats she sees it as her responsibility that the social sciences always are included in major scientific efforts in the Arctic. She has been a dog musher, and is currently a skier and kayaker and would prefer to be travelling around in the Arctic over an office job.

Director for Sustainable Development and Research

Inuit Circumpolar Council-Greenland

Dr. Ingridsvej 1

P.O. Box 204

DK-3900 Nuuk

Greenland

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Tel: +299 32 36 32

Lene Kielsen Holm received her masters degree from Ilisimatusarfik in Social and Cultural History in 2002. She is employed as Director for Research and Sustainable Development at Inuit Circumpolar Council, Greenland. 

She has been doing several research projects within the Arctic Council's Working Group for Sustainable Development, on gender and resource issues. She is currently working with a project called Sila-Inuk, which is an interview project on the hunters and fishermen's observations of changes, related to climate change in Greenland. She is also collaborating on an interdisciplinary and intercultural Sea Ice Knowledge and Use project, called Siku-Inuit-Hila, with partners in Alaska Canada and Greenland, both hunters and scientists. She is currently chair of the board for the Institute of Natural Resources in Greenland.

Lecturer of Anthropology

Anthropology Department

University of Aberdeen

Edward Wright F50

Aberdeen AB24 3QY

United Kingdom

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Tel: +44 (1224) 272 732
Fax: +44 (1224) 272 552

 
Alexander King is lecturer of anthropology at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. His current research interests include oral narratives, language shift and revival, mythology and ritual, traditional dance, and grammatical description and typology among Siberian and North Pacific indigenous peoples.

He received an M.A. and Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Virginia (1996, 2000) and a B.A. in anthropology from Reed College (Oregon, 1991). His research has been primarily focused on northern Kamchatka, Russia, primarily among Koryak peoples, as well as others, investigating problems in linguistic anthropology.

He is currently PI of an ESRC-funded project on indigenous dance groups in Alaska for comparison with material already collected in Kamchatka. He is editor of Sibirica: Interdisciplinary Journal of Siberian Studies , and serves on the review panel of the ESF EUROCORES programme EuroBABEL. He is author of a website on Koryak language and culture aimed at a general audience: http://www.koryaks.net.

Head of Project
Issittumi inuuniarnermut atugassarititaasunik misissuineq
Det arktiske Levevilkårsprojekt / SLiCA Survey of Living Conditions in the Arctic
Ilisimatusarfik - University of Greenland

P.O. Box 279

DK-3900 Nuuk

Greenland

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Birger Poppel is Research Project Chief of the Survey of Living Conditions in the Arctic, SLiCA at Ilisimatusarfik, the University of Greenland. His research interests include living conditions of the indigenous peoples of the Arctic, the mixed market and harvest, herding based economies of the Arctic and the economic, social and demographic developments of the Circumpolar North. He is currently co-PI of an ESF BORAS project: Understanding Migration in the Circumpolar North (UMCN); co-team leader in the Arctic Council project: Arctic Social Indicators (ASI); co-PI of Political Economy of Northern Regional Development (PoENoRD); and he participates in the Arctic Council project: The Economy of the North (ECONOR) .

He received an MA in Economics from the University of Copenhagen (1978). He was the first head of Statistics Greenland and served as Chief Statistician from 1989-2004. He is chairman of the Greenland IPY Committee and a member of the IPY Data Sub Committee. He serves on the editorial board of Social Indicator Research . He is currently a member of the Board of Governors of Ilisimatusarfik, University of Greenland.

Director, Alaska EPSCoR
Professor of Anthropology
University of Alaska Fairbanks

P.O. Box 757720

Fairbanks

Alaska 99775-7720

USA

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Special links: Alaska EPSCOR and Moved by the State: Perspectives on Relocation and Resettlement in the Circumpolar North (MOVE)

Peter Schweitzer received his Ph.D. degree in social/cultural anthropology from the University of Vienna in 1990 and has since taught at universities in Alaska, Austria, and Russia.

He is currently Professor of Anthropology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and, since 2007, Director of Alaska EPSCoR (Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research). His regional areas of expertise are northeastern Siberia and northwestern Alaska and his topical interests include social organization, ethnohistory, hunter-gatherer studies, and history of anthropology. He is Project Leader of "Moved by the State: Perspectives on Relocation and Resettlement in the Circumpolar North (MOVE)," an IPY-endorsed European Science Foundation project within the BOREAS program .

Ph.D., Senior Researcher
Anthropology Research Team
Arctic Centre

University of Lapland

PL 122

96101 Rovaniemi

Finland

Tel: +358 400 138807

Fax:  +358-16 362 934

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Website: www.arcticcentre.org/anthropology

 
Florian Stammler holds a position as Senior Researcher in anthropology at the Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland, where he coordinates the anthropology research team. He is also an Institute Associate at the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, UK, where he has worked between 2003 and 2005 as a post-doctoral research associate.

He received his PhD from the Max-Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany, specialising in postsocialist transition studies on the example of Siberian Yamal reindeer herders. His publications are mainly on human-animal-environment relations, reindeer nomadism and the impact of the extractive industry on northern livelihoods - a topic he has been working on for 10 years.

More recently he started working on relocation and sense of place among industrial migrants in the North and is the PI in the BOREAS project MOVE-INNOCOM that studies such migrants' relocation and settlement histories in Soviet and post-Soviet industrial northern cities. He has done extensive fieldwork in various regions of the North, with a special focus on West Siberia and European Russia.

Anne Sudkamp, owner

Sudkamp Associates, LLC

PO Box 83304

Fairbanks, AK 99708
USA

Tel: +1 907 479 5192 ofc/hm

Mobile: +1 907 687 9976 

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She served as executive officer for IASSA when it was based in Fairbanks, 2001-2005. She has been a council member since 2005.

Most recently, Anne served as the executive officer of Alaska EPSCoR (Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research) and before then as the associate director of the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) /University of the Arctic Office for International Polar Year Education and Outreach.

She opened the IASSA office at UAF when the secretariat arrived in 2001, led organization of ICASS V, was in charge of operations for the IASSA IPY Facilitation Initiative, and published the keynotes from ICASS V.

She received an M.A. in Russian from Middlebury College in 1990 and she studied Anthropology and Education at the graduate level at UAF. Before she came to work for IASSA, she was editor of the Russian Far East News, a newsletter on business, economics and politics in this region, for almost a decade.