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IPY Oslo Workshop Mentors
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We all know how important it is to learn from experiences. This is particularly important for early career people just starting to navigate into their professional lives. APECS is very fortunate to have many wonderful, helpful and encouraging mentors. We would like to thank the mentors for the IPY Oslo Workshop for sharing their valuable insights and guidance. |
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Dr. Mary Albert's current research is centered on transfer processes in porous media, including air-snow exchange in the polar regions and in soils in temperate areas. Her research includes field measurements, laboratory experiments, and theoretical modeling. Mary conducts field and laboratory measurements of the physical properties of natural terrain surfaces, including permeability, microstructure, and thermal conductivity. Mary uses the measurements to examine the processes of diffusion and advection of heat, mass, and chemical transport through snow and other porous media. She has developed numerical models for investigation of a variety of problems, from interstitial transport to freezing of flowing liquids. These models include a two-dimensional finite element code for air flow with heat, water vapor, and chemical transport in porous media, several multidimensional codes for diffusive transfer, as well as a computational fluid dynamics code for analysis of turbulent water flow in moving-boundary phase change problems. Mary is also an adjunct professor at the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College, where she serves as thesis advisor to students at undergraduate, Master's, and Ph.D. levels.
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Nicole Biebow is the head of the EU Research Funding department at the Alfred Wegener Institute. She supports the scientists of the AWI who are applying for EU projects. She received her PhD in Marine Geology at the GEOMAR Research Center in Kiel in 1996. From 1996 till 2004 she has been the coordinator of the German- Russian Joint Project KOMEX (Kurile Okhotsk Sea Experiment). During that time she has organized and participated in six research cruises with Russian vessels to the Okhotsk Sea. In 2004 she moved to the AWI and took over a position as the scientific assistant of the director and the scientific coordinator of the joint Russian - German Master Program POMOR in St. Petersburg. From 2007 - 2009 she has been the head of the project AURORA BOREALIS at the AWI and in 2009 she took over her current position as an EU Officer. Nicole Biebow has successfully applied for several large research project at German national funding organizations and at the EU and has a long experience in managing international projects, like e.g. the European Research Icebreaker Consortium, which is funded in the Framework Program 7 of the EU.
Sara Bowden is the secretary of the Arctic Ocean Sciences Board (AOSB) which recently merged with the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC). In her role as secretary, she coordinates the activities of AOSB including: facilitating communications among members, organizing and facilitating planning workshops and meetings, developing initiatives of interest to member countries, organizing the annual meeting and of the Board and intermittent steering group meetings. She was the secretary of the ICARP II conference and has been on the organizing committee for Arctic Science Summit Week since it began over a decade ago. Prior to coming to AOSB, she worked for the Science Advisor to the President of the United States for six years helping to craft the international science policy of the United States. Mrs. Bowden holds a Masters in Public Affairs and a BA in International Studies.
Ed joined Antarctica New Zealand as Manager Science & Information in October 2008. Ed is charged with ensuring that Antarctica New Zealand supports high quality research that meets the New Zealand Government’s strategic requirements. Over the past 18 months, among other things, he has helped to revise New Zealand’s Antarctic Science Strategy and allocated logistic support to a new suite of Antarctic science programmes.
Linda M Capper is Head of Press, Public Relations and Education at British Antarctic Survey (BAS). She has been with BAS since 1982, initially as a records manager and then as Editorial Assistant on the international journal Antarctic Science where she developed an enthusiasm and understanding of polar science. The work of Linda’s team has gained recognition for excellence within the PR and Education industries through several nominations and awards including a BAFTA and a Geography Association award for innovative education projects. She is a founder member of STEMPRA (Science, Technology, Engineering and Medicine Public Relations Association), a member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations and co-ordinator of the Council of Managers of National Antarctic Programmes (COMNAP’s) Information Officers’ Network. Linda was awarded an MBE for services to science in 2003.
Dr Pete Convey is an ‘Individual Merit’ (IMP) senior research scientist working within the British Antarctic Survey’s core ‘Ecosystems’ programme. He is also Co-Chair of SCAR’s Science Research Programme ‘Evolution and Biodiversity in Antarctica’, and an Honorary Lecturer at the University of Birmingham and Guest Lecturer at UNIS, Svalbard.
Kim Davis is a Senior Advisor at the Research Council of Norway in their Innovation Division. The Research Council is the major funding agency for research in Norway. Ms. Davis has been involved, successfully and unsuccessfully, in all aspects of the proposal processes from proposal deveopment, writing and evaluation to project management and review for the European Commission's Research Framework programmes and programmes from several nations.
As the Head of Communications for the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat, Eva works with the media and the public sharing information about expeditions to the Polar Regions, as do all types of schools. The provides information about current Swedish Polar research and about expedition activities. Scientific results from the SWEDARP and SWEDARCTIC research programs and other Swedish Polar literature are documented annually. She also helps to maintain a small library of Polar books, Polar magazines and other Polar literature.
Jon Ove Hagen received his PhD in Glaciology in 1986 at the University of Oslo. He has worked as a glaciologist at the Norwegian Polar Institute, 1986-1993, responsible for the NPI’s glaciological investigations in Svalbard. In 1993-1995 he was Head of the Snow and Glacier Section, Hydrology Department, NVE (Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Administration), responsible for glacier monitoring in Norway. Since 1996 he has been a professor at the University of Oslo, Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo. He has over 25 years experience in field glaciology with main focus on mass-balance studies of Arctic Glaciers and Ice caps. He was chairman of the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC)-Working Group on Arctic Glaciology 1995-2003, vice-president of ICSI, International Commission of Snow and Ice, 1999-2006. He was Council member of the International Glaciological Society (IGS) 2002-2006.
Georg Hansen has a M.Sc. (1986) and a PhD (1990) from the University of Bonn (Germany) in upper atmosphere physics, with a special focus on sporadic metal layers in the polar mesopause region. Between 1990 and 1994 he held a PostDoc fellowship at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, followed by a 2-year engagement at the University of Tromsø, Norway. At both places, he worked with topics in the lower ionosphere and upper neutral atmosphere, such as atmospheric dynamics, neutral-charged atmosphere coupling, and polar mesospheric summer echoes/noctilucent clouds. Since 1994, Mr. Hansen has been employed by the Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU). His research fields at NILU have been the polar stratosphere and ozone layer, stratosphere-troposphere coupling, and UV radiation issues. Later, his work turned towards more cross-disciplinary research relating to UV radiation and climate, including effects of UV radiation on marine ecosystems (as coordinator of the EU-funded project ”
Larry Hinzman is the Director of the International Arctic Research Center and is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Professor Hinzman’s primary research interests involve permafrost hydrology. He has conducted hydrological and meteorological studies in the Alaskan Arctic continuously for over 25 years while frequently collaborating on complementary research in the Russian and Canadian Arctic. His research efforts have involved characterizing and quantifying hydrological processes and their inter-dependence with climate and ecosystem dynamics. Dr. Hinzman’s academic degrees were earned from South Dakota State University, Purdue University and the University of Alaska Fairbanks in Chemistry, Soil Science, Agronomy and Soil Physics. He has served as a member of the Polar Research Board, the U.S. Representative to the International Permafrost Association and is a member of several national and international committees and working groups. He currently serves on the U.S. SEARCH (Study of Environmental Arctic Change) Observing Change Panel, the Alaska Governor’s Sub-cabinet Economic Activities Technical Working Group, and on the advisory board for the Alaska Center for Ocean Science Education Excellence.
Gunn Sissel Jaklin has been Head of Information at the Norwegian Polar Institute since 1997. Building up the Information and Library Services was a main task at first, whereas the present focus is upon the outline and implementation of the Institute’s communications strategy. Responsible for Internet and Intranet services, press, partners and public communications, library and photo library services, graphics services, scientific publishing and sales of publications. Previous positions she has held are Tourism Manager of Tromsø 1995-97 & 1987-92, Project leader for Tromsø’s Bicentennial 1992-95, General Manager Winge Travel Agency 1982-87 and Management officer at Höhenklinik Valbella in Davos, Switzerland 1981-82. Her areas of expertise include management, information and marketing, press liason activities, and editorial work on scientific and environmental management reports in Norwegian and English.
Halldór Jóhannsson, general manager of the Arctic Portal, has a degree in Architecture and Planning from the University of Toronto, Canada. He has extensive experience in environmental science, GIS, communication and planning at a regional and international level. Halldór has years of experience in project management, including EU projects, and is currently leading various internationally funded projects including the UArctic Atlas and the VLT projects. He sits in the Arctic Council Sustaining Arctic Observing Networks – SAON Steering Group.
Bjorn Johns manages the Polar Services group at UNAVCO, a non-profit National Science Foundation sponsored research support facility in Boulder, Colorado. His group provides technical support for geophysical research projects in the polar regions, including Antarctica (which he has visited 15 times), Greenland, Iceland, and Alaska - primarily high precision GPS support for both campaign and continuous observations. During the International Polar Year, the team developed a new generation of power and communications systems optimized for easy deployment and reliable, multi-year operation in severe polar environments.
Erica Key is an associate Program Officer for Arctic System Science in the Office of Polar Programs at the U.S. National Science Foundation. Arctic System Science is one of seven programs within the Arctic Division at NSF, which work in concert to advance Arctic research, cyberinfrastructure, education, and observation. Erica joined NSF with an MSc and PhD in meteorology and physical oceanography from the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School for Atmospheric and Marine Science. Her primary research focus has been on cloud radiative forcing, particularly in complex regimes such as the polar regions and areas with aerosol-laden atmospheres or complex oceanic surface features. This work has led her to conduct extensive field studies in each of the world's five oceans, including two IPY campaigns, one in the Arctic, and one in the Antarctic. She has been an invited researcher at the Centre d'etude des Environnements Terrestre et Planetaires (now Laboratoire Atmospheres, Milieux, Observations Spatiales), a member of the Arctic Icebreaker Coordinating Committee, and a mentor both at sea and on shore to graduate, undergraduate, and elementary students and K-12 science teachers.
My professional career led me to work for the “French League of Teaching”, a foundation dedicated to people’s education. I was assigned various responsibilities. As a spokesman for “the Economic and Social Council of Aquitaine”, I wrote several reports about the integration of environmental issues into regional policies. My concern for the environment caused me to attend university classes and to get a Master and Post-Master degree in “Town and Country Planning and Development”. As a school teacher, I used the knowledge I had acquired during my professional course within my classes, for the benefit of my pupils. I led different educational programs related to the Antarctic, the Arctic, Industrial wastes, the selective sorting of household wastes, air pollution, the oil slicks, the CASES mission … Having acquired experiences and skills in writing articles for various newspapers, I also took part in an educational program which consisted in publishing a paper written by my pupils. Currently, I am still dedicated to environmental issues and policies. The concept of sustainable development also arouses my interest. I write articles aiming at developing a critical mind, popularizing and sensitizing my readers about controversial issues. Most of them are published in a local newspaper called Factotum.
Pat Langhorne has been fascinated by the polar regions since her teenage years, which led her to complete a PhD on sea ice at the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge, England. In 1985 she was invited to take part in an Antarctic experiment which brought her to New Zealand for the first time. Since 1988 this is where she has lived and worked, teaching physics at the University of Otago. She is interested in the coastal sea ice of Antarctica, and how this is influenced by nearby ice shelves Working with graduate students and with national and international collaborators, she has taken part in more than a dozen field experiments and still attempts to keep up with younger researchers on the sea ice of McMurdo Sound. She has been excited to have been part of two winter field experiments, one of which has contributed to IPY.
Heather Martin is Press and PR Officer at British Antarctic Survey (BAS). She joined BAS in November 2009 and has been closely monitoring ClimateGate since the issue hit the headlines. She has experience in working with clients in the private and public sectors, writing crisis management plans following a role that specialised in providing PR support to public sectors on a 24/7 basis. She has focused on providing guidance and one-to-one briefings to BAS scientists and other staff on handling the media with particular emphasis on communicating climate science. She is a member of the Council of Managers of National Antarctic Programmes (COMNAP) outreach group.
Rahul Mohan obtained his doctorate from the Banaras Hindu University (Varanasi, India) in 1997 and is currently, the Programme Director (Science) at the National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research (Goa, India). His interest lies in the field of palaeoceanography and palaeoclimatology. Rahul has been instrumental in designing and implementing the Indian Southern Ocean project as also starting the working group on Diatoms at NCAOR. He is presently looking after the scientific programmes of the Indian Scientific Expedition to Antarctica and is a member of the CBET of the Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research (SCAR). He is also the National Co-ordinator (India) for the Asian Forum for Polar Sciences and is one of the Indian representative at the Council of Managers of Antarctic Program.
Tim Naish is a Professor and the Director of the Antarctic Research Centre at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. Dr. Naish’s current research projects include understanding of how continental margin sedimentation responds to climate and sea-level change over long (orbital timescales); specifically focusing on the role of ice sheets and Antarctica in the global climate system. From 1990 his research has focused on documenting the physical evidence in shallow-marine sedimentary basins of climatic and sea-level variability inferred from deep ocean drill cores (e.g. oxygen isotope records). More recently his research interest has been concerned with documenting past variability of the Antarctic Ice Sheets and their contribution to global sea-level change and climate variability. Over the last 10 years he participated on the Cape Roberts Drilling Project, and led the recently completed ANDRILL McMurdo Ice Shelf Drilling Project. He is the Chair of the International ANDRILL Science Planning Committee. He is a member of Executive Committee of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research’s ,Antarctic Climate Evolution Project. He is also a member of the Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Fund Council. In 2010, he was awarded the New Zealand Antarctic Medal. He was the 2008 recipient of the Society for Sedimentary Geology’s (SEPM) James Lee Wilson Award. Dr. Naish earned a B.Sc. in 1988, M.Sc (1st Class Hons.) in 1989, and a Ph.D. in 1996 from the University of Waikato, all in Earth Sciences.
Teodor Gheorghe Negoita, born in 1946 in Sascut, Romania, a chemist engineer and a passionate solitary speleologist, has become a famous researcher and polar explorer. He conducted 12 Romanian polar research expeditions (interdisciplinary research fields) in the Arctic and Antarctica: Svalbard, Greenland, North Canada, Siberia and participated in 4 international expeditions in Antarctica and one scientific international expedition to North Pole (as the first Romanian scientist and explorer to the North Pole-1995). He established the Romanian Polar Research Program, 1987, Romanian Polar Research Institute and the first Romanian Polar Scientific Research Station “Law – Racovita” in Larsemann Hills, East Antarctica, 2006, with support from Australian Governmental Antarctic Division. Editor in chief of Journal “Arctic and Antarctic Research”, 2000-present; Since 1998 is Romanian representative in Antarctic Treaty/CEP and SCAR; He received the “ACADEMIC MERIT” award granted by the Romanian Academy and twice was awarded the “Star of Romania ” National Order in rank of Officer and Commander. In present he coordinates the "Interhemisphere" project, a consortium that includes 13 partners from 12 countries. The results of the project "The structure and dynamics of polar ecosystems: interhemispheric comparisons of micro, macroflora and biogeochemical processes in relation to climate change - INTERHEMISPHERE", 2010-2012, will be monitored by the European Science Foundation, European Polar Board, respectively. Project website: 
Dr. Olav Orheim is a distinguished glaciologist, climatologist and polar expert who has spent more than thirty years studying the effects of global warming. He was Head of Research at the Norwegian Polar Institute's (NPI) Antarctic Section from 1972 to 1993, before becoming the NPI's Managing Director. Alongside his work with the NPI he was a Professor at the University of Bergen's Department of Geology from 1989-2005, where he specialised in glaciology. He is currently Executive Secretary of the Norwegian International Polar Year Secretariat and the Chair of the IPY Oslo Science Conference Steering Committee.
Margarete Pauls is the Head of the Communications Department at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association. She has a post secondary education and diploma degree in Mechanical Engineering/Marine Technology from the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) University in Aachen. Additionally, she is a research associate at the Centre for Research and Development in Higher Education at RWTH University Aachen, a consultant in professional communication, and a freelance science journalist. Since the 1989 and the establishment of the public relations department at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Ms. Pauls has accomplished many high profile outreach events, including the exhibition ‘125 Years of German Polar Research’ at the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven, which subsequently travelled to Frankfurt, Bonn, Bremen, Potsdam and Rostock (1993 – 1995), Polarstern expedition for schools (1998), ‘Live from the Ice’ – public interactive video conferences with Antarctic researchers during EXPO (2000), ‘Ice-cold Discoveries’ – a popular science book, authored by scientists of the Alfred Wegener Institute, edited by Gert Lange (2001), ‘Year of Geoscience’, nationwide year-round contribution and individual large scale event ‘Ice and Ocean’ (2002), ‘Expedition into the ice: Why polar bears do not eat penguins’ – media and school project (2003), and a one year programme celebrating the 125th birthday of Alfred Wegener and the 25th anniversary of the Alfred Wegener Institute. Ms. Pauls also served as Co-Chair of the International IPY Sub Committee on Education Outreach and Communication.
Ross Powell is a Board of Trustees Professor and Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Geology and Environmental Geosciences at Northern Illinois University where he has been teaching and researching for 29 years. His main research interests focus on processes where glaciers and ice sheets enter the sea and interpreting the sediment records of how the ice has advanced and retreated in the sea at present and during past climate warming and cooling cycles. Ross has 36 years of research experience in high latitude regions including Antarctica, Chile, Alaska, Svalbard (Norway), and the Canadian Arctic. He has authored or co-authored over 120 scientific publications, including in Nature, and made over 270 abstract presentations at scientific meetings. In 2006-07, he helped lead the first phase of a new US$30 million, international drilling initiative in Antarctica (ANDRILL), where scientists studied geological climate records buried beneath the Ross Ice Shelf to predict the possible future behaviour of the Antarctic ice sheet to current climate change. At the undergraduate level, Ross has taught courses in 10 different subject areas within the geosciences; field trips, independent research projects, and oral presentations are important aspects of these courses. He has also taught many different graduate level courses and research seminars including those focused on glaciers and ice sheets, and marine geological records. His students are routinely involved in research projects; 40 graduate and 7 undergraduate students have completed research theses. Two students won best poster awards at national meetings, while 6 won the best departmental thesis awards, one going on to win the best MS thesis award in the university.
I am a community ecologist working mainly on benthic systems. Since 2002 I have focused on Arctic systems and have conducted research in the Beaufort, Barents, and Greenland Seas. I work on community structure and ecosystem function in the context of biodiversity, climate change, and environmental monitoring and management. I am from the US but have my PhD from Sweden and currently work in Norway.
Born and educated in the USA, Dr Rintoul joined the CSIRO Division of Oceanography in Hobart in 1990 where he studies the role of the ocean in the Earth’s climate system, with a particular interest in the Southern Ocean. The Hobart location provided him with a ready stepping off point to explore the Southern Ocean, home to the world's largest ocean current - the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. He has participated in 14 research voyages, 11 as Chief Scientist, on major expeditions to the Southern, Indian and Pacific Oceans. Dr Rintoul's research has laid the foundation for the growing recognition of the importance of the Southern Ocean in the climate system. For example, he has shown that the Southern Ocean plays a critical role in the global overturning circulation that controls climate. Dr Rintoul's holds positions as Co-chair, International Climate of Antarctic and Southern Ocean (CASO) research program, Co-chair, Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) Expert Group on Oceanography, a participant of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) Southern Ocean Implementation Panel, and Acting Chief of CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, May-Nov 2009. Dr Rintoul graduated with Honours in Physics from Harvard College, USA, and obtained his Doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology-Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program, USA. Dr. Rintoul is also on the editorial board of Ocean Dynamics and the Journal of Marine Research and was elected to the Australian Academy of Science in 2006 and was made a CSIRO Fellow, CSIRO's highest recognition for scientific achievement, in 2007.
Lorna Street is a final year PhD student at the University of Edinburgh. Her PhD work is part of the ABACUS project, an IPY research consortium which aims to improve our understanding of how vulnerable terrestrial Arctic carbon stores are to climate change. She recently took a break from the Arctic carbon cycle to spend three months working as a researcher at the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (SPICe). SPICe is a research department within Parliament which informs policy-making throughout the legislative process. SPICe researchers write research briefings on a range of science and policy topics, answer enquiries from members of the Parliament, and support the work of Parliamentary committees.
Dr. Stern is a senior research scientist with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (Freshwater Institute, Winnipeg) and is the Head of the Arctic Contaminants Section. He is also an adjunct professor with the Departments of Environment and Geography and Soil Science, University of Manitoba. Dr. Stern’s research involves the study of environmental pathways of contaminants including their delivery, transport, and elimination from Arctic marine and freshwater aquatic ecosystems. In particular, it is directed toward linking contaminant levels in Arctic marine food webs to oceanographic provinces, inputs from land and the atmosphere and ultimately, climate variation which has been shown to alter for example, hydrology, organic carbon, sea ice dynamics, primary productivity, foodweb structure and foraging of top trophic level feeders such as beluga and ringed seals. Most of the major contaminant groups are being studied and include organohalogen compounds (chlorinated pesticides, PCBs, brominated flame retardants and florinated organic compounds), mercury and other trace metals, hydrocarbons and radionuclides. Dr. Stern was a participant in the international SHEBA (Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic) and JOIS (Joint Ocean Ice Studies) programs and is a PI in the Canadian Arctic Shelf Exchange Study (CASES) and the CFI Icebreaker proposal. In addition to being the project leader for ArcticNet Theme 3 sub-project 3.4, Carbon and Contaminant Cycling in the Coastal Environment, Dr. Stern is also co-leader of the Theme 1 sub-project 1.3, Contaminant and Cycling in the Coastal Environment and is an NI in the Theme 2 sub-project 2.6, Warming the Tundra: Health and Environmental Implications (Tundra). Currently, Dr. Stern also leads 2 projects funded by the Northern Contaminants Program designed to help test the effectiveness of international controls on contaminants such as PCB, DDT and PBDEs and, in conjunction with projects such as CASES and ArcticNet, to understand the effects that climate variation may have on the contaminant levels and the health of fish and marine mammal stocks. In collaboration with colleagues from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, other government departments and universities, Dr. Stern, either as lead or co-author, has contributed to approximately 100 publications in the open literature.
Dr. Craig Tweedie is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology and the Environmental Science and Engineering Program at the University of Texas-El Paso (UTEP). He has been in this position since 2005. Prior to being a faculty at UTEP, Dr. Tweedie was a postdoctoral research associate at Michigan State University. He grew up in Brisbane, Australia, and completed his undergraduate work at the University of Queensland. Dr. Tweedie works on several research projects in the polar regions, including climate change biology, plant ecology and physiology, landscape ecology, and GIS and remote sensing. He is also passionate about technological innovation. In his spare time, he enjoys hiking, kayaking, traveling, and 'geeking out in the garage'.
Mr. Ulstein is a Senior Communication Adviser in Division for Strategic Priorities at the Research Council of Norway. He holds a Masters in Media and Communication Studies from The University of Zimbabwe and Cand. Polit. from The University of Oslo. His professional background is from communication (and management) in development aid, the environmental movement, international and national youth cooperation and policy - and national NGO politics. Kristen is a founding member and former executive director of "Grønn Hverdag" (Green Living) - the Norwegian green consumers movement as well as the President of the Norwegian organic farmers association. He initiated Frivillighet Norge - the umbrella organisation for all NGO's in Norway and served as chairman and first executive manager for the group. He started his career as journalist employed by Norwegian Church Aid and has since authored several books on the management of NGO's and communication. Kristen Ulstein has had IPY as part of his portfolio since January 2006, and has been responsible for media relations and EOC-activities in the IPY Norway secretariat. 
I am a Professor Emeritus of Plant Biology at Michigan State University. Although I retired in 2005 and now live in New Mexico I maintain my interest in cold regions natural science. My research and teaching interests are broad. My early training was in classical phytosociology and plant taxonomy. For my doctoral work I explored factor analysis methods and later my students and I were among the first to make multi-layered maps using Geographic Information Systems techniques. We pioneered a mapping method that has become a standard required by regulatory agencies in planning prior to resource development. My current research concerns global change in the widest sense and includes land use change and climate change. I am investigating the synergism between surface disturbance and climate warming in tundra landscapes. I taught mostly undergraduate courses in ecology and plant biology and I had several graduate and post doctoral students. I have directed several large research projects, for example the San Juan Ecology Project, the US Alpine Program of the International Tundra Biome Programme, and I was the founding Principal Investigator of the Alpine Long-Term Ecological Research program of NSF. I have also been director of two large University research institutions (University of Colorado Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research and the Michigan State University W.K. Kellogg Biological Station) and I recently directed the Arctic System Science Program at NSF. The latter is one of the largest programs in the US Global Change Research Program. I have helped plan and direct many international science programs such as the International Biological Programme and the International Tundra Experiment of the Man and the Biosphere Programme of UNESCO. I am a former President of the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC). My present principal goal is to facilitate others in their pursuit of arctic research.
Terry Wilson has been working on Antarctic geologic research for over 20 years. Terry teaches structural geology, tectonics, field-based courses, and the history of geologic concepts at the Ohio State University in Ohio, USA. Together with her students, she investigates the structural architecture of the Earth, how continents rift, and the interaction of the solid Earth and ice sheets in Antarctica, using structural field observations, geophysical data and GPS. She has designed and led multinational airborne, shipborne and geological drilling projects. During the IPY, Terry was the lead investigator of the Polar Earth Observing Network (POLENET), involving 28 nations working in both the Arctic and Antarctica.
José Xavier is a young polar scientist, doctorate from the University of Cambridge (UK), and presently at the Institute of Marine Research of the University of Coimbra (Portugal) and guest scientist of the British Antarctic Survey. José studies the foraging behaviour and feeding ecology of top predators (namely penguins albatrosses and seals) in relation to climate change in the Antarctic since 1997. José made a strong contribution in the science, politics, education and outreach during the International Polar Year (IPY), being an active member of APECS (Ex-EXCOM, Council, E & O working group, represents APECS in SSG Life Sciences of SCAR), representative of Portugal in the international programmes ICED-IPY and CAML-IPY, member of CBET of the Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research (SCAR), and collaborating with more than 30 countries worldwide.
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