ASSW 2013
The Arctic Hub - Regional and Global Perspectives
In conjunction with the Arctic Science Summit Week 2013 in Kraków, Poland, APECS will organize a 1-day career development workshop prior to the conference to help young researchers learn important skills and create new collaborations and contacts with both early career colleagues and senior mentors. The Arctic Science Summit Week symposium is regularly organized by the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) and its partners and has developed into one of the most important Arctic conferences for both the scientific community as well as for other stakeholders. The APECS workshops aims at building interdisciplinary knowledge on the Arctic as a key element in the Earth System to give each participant a more overarching view on the region beyond disciplinary research questions (see below for thematic outline). To achieve this, participants will share knowledge with each other and short lectures by APECS mentor experts will be given. The workshop will focus on the same aspects as the ASSW2013 science symposium.
For more information, please contact Julia Schmale or visit the ASSW 2013 webpage.
Here you can download the ASSW 2013 2nd circular.
We acknowledge the financial support of the Polish Ministry of Science, Committee on Polar Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Polish Polar Consortium for rooms, equipment, coffee breaks and lunches at the workshop venue.
We would like to thank the ASSW 2013 Local Organizing Committee at the Jagiellonian University for their superb support in making all necessary local arrangement for this workshop.
We thank the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) for covering travel expenses of several early career participants of this workshop and for reducing the conference fee as an incentive for APECS members to come to Cracow.
We acknowledge the support by the IASS Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies Potsdam for the printed programs and other workshop materials.
Ilan is currently a senior fellow at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies in Potsdam, Germany as well as professor and senior fellow at the Helmholtz Alliance Energy-Trans, Dept. of Social Science & Technology Assessment, Univ. of Stuttgart. Prior to this he held a double professorship at the Chalmers Univ. of Technology and the Univ. of Gothenburg, was the director of the Design Team for NASA’s Science Educational Framework and founded the New Curiosity Shop® to expand expanding public dialogues on science-related issues in diverse communities.
Robert W. Corell is an American global climate scientist, Principal for the Global Environment Technology Foundation, an Ambassador for ClimateWorks, Professor at the University of the Arctic’s new Institute of Circumpolar Reindeer Husbandry and a Professor at the University of Tromso. He is a Partner of the Sustainability Institute and it’s C-ROADS Climate Interactive Initiative, and Head of US Office for the Global Energy Assessment. Dr. Corell is an oceanographer and engineer by background and training, having received Ph.D., M.S., and B.S. degrees at Case Western Reserve University and MIT.
Since 1997 Klaus Dethloff heads the AWI research section "Atmospheric Circulations" and is Professor for Physics of the Atmosphere, University of Potsdam, Germany. He holds a Diploma in Physics and a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Rostock, Germany. In 1993 he habilitated at the Humboldt University Berlin, Institute of Physics. Klaus Dethloff is a member of the IASC Atmospheric working group (International Arctic Science Committee) and a member of the German SCAR/IASC committee. He is also a member of the editorial board of the open access journals “Advances of Meteorology” and “Open Atmospheric Science Journal”.
Joan Nymand Larsen has a PhD in economics, University of Manitoba, Canada. She is senior scientist at the Stefansson Arctic Institute, Akureyri, Iceland, and has been involved in research on the Arctic economy, global change impacts, Arctic human development and quality-of-life since the mid 1990s. She is project leader on the Arctic Human Development Report (AHDR-II), and Arctic Social Indicators (ASI I and II), and is coordinating lead author for the IPCC AR5 on Polar Regions. She is Icelandic member of the IASC S&H WG, and served as IASSA President 2008-2011. She serves on the steering committee of LOICZ – Land Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone, and is a board member on the Arctic Futures Programme with the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research. Her editorial work includes Springer Encyclopedia of Quality of Life Research and The Polar Journal.
Dr. David J. Scott joined the Canadian Polar Commission in March 2012, as Executive Director.
a Yefimenko was born and raised in a family of Chukchi and Even reindeer herders in Ayanka, Kamchatka, Russia. From 1988 to 1996, she worked as the Director of the Koryak Ethnography Museum in Palana, Kamchatka. Her experience includes fieldwork and archaeological excavations in the Koryak region of Kamchatka, training and research in Canada (DIAND/Quebec Province) and at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford University. With the establishment of the Arctic Council in 1996, she joined the Indigenous Peoples’ Secretariat, a support organisation for the Arctic Indigenous Peoples’ Organizations that are Permanent Participants to the Arctic Council. She has been involved in the CAFF Sacred Sites Project, the Northern Sea Route Assessment and other Arctic Council Projects.
Postdoctoral Researcher, International Centre for Northern Governance and Development, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Barbara Górska, PhD Student in Institute of Oceanography Polish Academy of Sciences
I was always fascinated by Northern European countries and then got the chance to do my Diploma and PhD work on an instrument based in Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard. By now, I have been working with Arctic Lidar systems since 2007 and I am mainly interested in the characteristics and origin of aerosol particles detected in the Arctic. I am currently working as a PostDoc at the Finnish Meteorological Institute on a EU Marie Curie project, in which I use data from five Arctic and Subarctic Raman Lidars to investigate aerosol episodes in the Arctic spring and aerosol transport from the mid-latitudes into the Arctic.
Sandra is currently living in Oulu, Finland. Her North American Indian and Finnish-Canadian identity is the basis for her choice of study and country of residence. She is a member of Oneida Nation of the Thames, a Haudenosaunee community located in southern Ontario, Canada. Prior to pursuing graduate studies in Finland, she worked as a registered dietitian in First Nations communities in Ontario and Yukon Territory of Canada and during that time she was a member of various working groups for Health Canada. She also worked for Indigenous organizations at the provincial level. Her research interest in Indigenous health stems from her own Indigenous identity and previous work experience with First Nations communities. She is a PhD candidate at the Thule Institute, University of Oulu working as part of the research team on a project entitled ‘Structural racism and its impact on Indigenous Health – a comparative study of Canada, Finland and Norway’. She actively seeks funding to support her work and has been the successful recipient of grants and bursaries from Canada, Finland and Norway. Professional membership includes: NORSIL - the Nordic Research Network for Sámi and Indigenous Peoples’ Law (Norway) and NSCH - Nordic Society for Circumpolar Health (Finland). She loves spending time outdoors and stays active with running, hiking, xc-skiing and ice-swimming. In her spare time, while completing PhD studies, she is working on a book about ice-swimming in Finland, which will profile research conducted in Finland on ice-swimming, Finnish researchers and Finns who participate in this well-being activity.
Interested in hydroglaciology (variability of water outflow to the sea from the glaciated basin in the Arctic) and remote sensing of the environment. Member of two all-year Polish Polar Expedition on Svalbard (2008/2009 & 2010/2011), member of Polish Antarctic Expedition (ecology monitoring), member of the other polar expeditions, contractor in several research grants (ice2sea, AWAKE, Arctic Field Grant 2012 etc.), specialist of GIS & remote sensing, activist in the Polish Polar Consortium.
I am a Master of Science student in the. Supervised by David Hik and Tania Bubela, my thesis research evaluates the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for health communication in conducting impact assessments for natural resource development in the circumpolar arctic. As I live in the largest urban centre near the Athabasca oilsands in Alberta, Canada, I have always been interested in community consultation and monitoring around natural resource development. When I complete my degree, I wish to work with policy makers, proponents, and communities in circumpolar and other remote regions to improve environmental protection and public health outcomes around natural resource management. In addition to public health, my background is in human geography and economics.
I am involved in a number of studies measuring environmental water and sediments in the Baltic Sea. I cooperate with the Department of Marine Chemistry and Environmental Protection of Institute of Oceanography. Furthermore I am underwater photographer.
Adam Naito is currently completing his PhD in Geography at Texas A&M University under the guidance of Dr. David M. Cairns. His dissertation work focuses on developing an improved understanding of the historic dynamics of Alaskan Arctic shrub expansion and its landscape-scale mechanisms. This research has three primary components: 1) quantifying the historic spatial patterns of shrub expansion using historical aerial photography and current satellite imagery; 2) developing a simulation model to understand how landscape-scale environmental characteristics influence shrub development; and 3) conducting scientific outreach via public presentations to primarily Alaskan Native communities in northern Alaska. Adam has also recently received a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant to expand this work to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in cooperation with the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. Adam currently works as a laboratory instructor for the introductory physical geography course at Texas A&M. He has also previously interned in the Maps Division of the National Geographic Society in Washington, DC, USA. In his spare time, Adam enjoys running, hiking, cycling, and playing the guitar.
Research interests: Antarctic and Arctic environmental law, Indigenous Peoples’ rights in the nature conservation and management context in the Arctic, European Arctic policy
Jeffrey Ross is from the Northwest Angle #33 First Nation (Ojibway) in Ontario, Canada. Currently, he is a PhD student at the University of Utah where is studying the responses of several important pioneer species and one invasive species to changes in climate and their competitive interactions. Jeffrey has a personal and professional interest in the application of traditional knowledge to mitigate environmental problems, particularly in the High North. Prior to moving to Utah, Jeffrey was employed as an Environmental Specialist for a consulting firm in Winnipeg, Canada. In this position, he advised several First Nation communities on environmental issues related to hydroelectric development in Northern Canada. Jeffrey holds degrees from the University of Montana (Hons.B.Sc.) and Yale University (M.F.S.). 
I am a first year Master’s student in Political Sciences. Before that I graduated from Syktyvkar State University with a Specialist degree in International Relations and with a Bachelor of Circumpolar Studies degree from the University of the Arctic. Due to the North2North exchange program I have studied at the University of Nordland (Norway); the Northern British Columbia University (Canada) and Umea University (Sweden).
I am currently finishing my PhD at Dept. of Polar Research and Documentation, Institute of Botany, Jagiellonian University, Poland. I completed my Master’s degree in biology at the Jagiellonian University, in 2008, working on lichen biomonitoring. My research project focuses mainly on lichens, which together with other cryptogams, are a major component of the arctic tundra communities. The aim of my study is to investigate biodiversity and distribution of terricolous and muscicolous lichens in the Bellsund region (SW Spitsbergen), and their role in the tundra vegetation. It will provide a basis for comparative studies in the future, and allow to detect possible changes in lichen vegetation of Spitsbergen over the last decades. I’m interested in several lichen- and polar- connected issues: lichen biogeography, ecology, taxonomy; Arctic tundra vegetation changes; glacier forelands succession and colonization; biomonitoring using lichens.
I completed my BSc and MSc in biology and geology with a specialization in Conservation of Nature at the Jagiellonian University. My BSc project concerned biology and hydrology, especially problem of beetles’ collocation and their dependence on flood frequency in term of river regulation. In 2011 I have studied one semester in Uppsala University - Sweden exploring my knowledge particularly in tectonics. My master is also associated with geology - geosite proposal of jarmucka formation in Jaworki (PKB).
Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law, Arctic Centre, University of Lapland
I am a geography lecturer at the University of Franche-Comté in Besancon, France. I am a member of the French research group "Polar mutations". I am specializing in cryosphere-related processes. I am mainly working on a small glacier basin located in North-West Svalbard. I have been on 7 fieldwork trips to the Austre Loven glacier area. My main research interest is snow and its consequences on the glacier hydrological balance. Recurrent measurements of the snow cover on the glacier were made at the yearly maximum. A new research program is now starting using Terrestrial Laser Scanning to monitor precisely slope processes. Slopes surrounding the basin are steep and particularly tricky to instrument. Remote high resolution monitoring with TLS will allow us to measure precisely snow volumes accumulating on slopes. This would give us an insight on the weight of slopes on the total freshwater outflow of the basin. This will also allow for an evaluation of permafrost dynamics on slopes and the associated rock movements. I am part of the third generation of French researchers working in this area. The field station was built in 1963.
Cecilia Wesslén, PhD Student in Meteorology and Oceanography at Stockholm University, Sweden
Research Assistant at Khibiny educational and scientific base of the Faculty of Geography M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies e.V., Potsdam
PhD Student, Department of Biology, Carleton Univeristy, Ottawa, Canada
Jagiellonian University, Poland
I am a graduate student in the Geography department at Clark University in the United States. I work with Professor Karen Frey as part of her newly formed Polar Science Research Lab. I am interested in how variations in climate impact the Arctic marine system. In particular, I am looking at how changes in Arctic sea ice affect the ecology and biogeochemistry of the Arctic Ocean. My dissertation research focuses on understanding the impacts of sea ice decline in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas on the dynamics of dissolved organic matter, which plays an important role in the marine ecosystem as both a carbon source for the microbial food web and as an inhibitor of light. This work is carried out through a combination of field measurements (as part of NASA’s ICESCAPE mission), lab experiments, and satellite remote sensing observations. 
am a graduate student in political science and I obtained my Master’s Degree in European Studies from Universität Wien and Jagiellonian University in Cracow. In 2010 I graduated also from the College of Europe Natolin where I presently work in the position of the Development Coordinator together with following the PhD programme at the Faculty of International and Political Studies at the Jagiellonian University.
I am currently a PhD student in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Illinois in Urbana, IL, USA. My research interests include interactions between mid-latitude and arctic climate, air-sea interactions, sea ice-atmosphere interactions, climate change, and the scholarship of teaching in learning in higher education science courses at the undergraduate level. I received my M.S. in Atmospheric Science from the University of Illinois in 2009 on the impacts of the 2007 sea ice minimum on the mid-latitude atmosphere in late autumn and early winter, and my B.S. in Meteorology from Central Michigan University in 2007. Since 2009, I've enjoyed attending several APECS functions and workshops and look forward to increasing my involvement in the future. 
Chesapeake Biological Laboratory University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (
I am a first year Master’s student in Political Sciences. Before that I graduated from Syktyvkar State University with a Specialist degree in International Relations and with a Bachelor of Circumpolar Studies degree from the University of the Arctic. Due to the North2North exchange program I have studied at the University of Nordland (Norway); the Northern British Columbia University (Canada) and Umea University (Sweden).
Associate Professor in the International Relations Department in Maria Curie Sklodowska University in Lublin and Post-doctoral fellow in the Chair for Northern Europe Countries in Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce (NCN grant for 2012-2015);
