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IPY International Early Career Researcher Symposium Mentors
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One of the best ways to learn anything is through direct contact and mentoring from experts in our professions. We are very fortunate to have a large number of dedicated polar research professionals helping us with this workshop by sharing their advice, experiences, and much more. A big thank you to all of them for helping to create a continuum of knowledge in polar research. |
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Lucette holds a bachelors degree in Recreation Studies from the University of Manitoba, and an Arts degree from the University of Waterloo. She recently completed a Masters on Environment with a focus on Environmental Education. Her research interests include scientific outreach, environmental education and climate change research. Her experience in program planning has been instrumental in the conception and development of the Schools on Board program - an outreach program of ArcticNet. The goal of this program is to bridge Arctic climate change research and science education. This a achieved with a 3- component program that includes: 1) a Schools on Board Network of educators, scientists and agencies; 2) a Schools on Board Field Program that takes students and teachers on board the CCGS Amundsen, to learn about, and experience fieldwork while the ship is in full 'research mode', and 3) an Arctic Climate Change Youth Forum, co-hosted every 2 years, with a high school, in conjunction with an ArcticNet science meeting. Lucette has led and accompanied six successful Schools on Board field programs on board the CCGS Amundsen as part of the CASES, IPY-CFL, and ArcticNet science expeditions. Recents awards include: an Outreach Award from the University of Manitoba; PromoScience award (grant) from NSERC; and Award of Excellence in Environmental Education from the Canadian Network of Environmental Education and Communication (EECOM).
Ken Denman is a Senior Scientist with Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO), since 2000 working at the Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis of Environment Canada, located at the University of Victoria where he is an Adjunct Professor. His research involves the interactions between marine foodwebs, biogeochemical cycles and climate change. He was Coordinating Lead Author of Chapter 7 of the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) WG1 AR4 titled "Couplings between changes in the climate system and biogeochemistry"; and Coordinating Lead Author of Chapter 10 in the Second Assessment Report (1995) of IPCC WG1, titled "Marine biotic responses to environmental change and feedbacks to climate". The IPCC shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore for its work on climate change. Ken Denman is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and has received the President’s Prize of the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society, the T.R. Parsons Medal for excellence in ocean science, and the Wooster Award of the North Pacific Marine Sciences Organization (PICES) for research excellence in the North Pacific. He has served on the Steering Committees of the Joint Global Ocean Fluxes Study (JGOFS), the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS), and the Surface Ocean Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS). He recently completed 6 years as a member of the Joint Scientific Committee of the World Climate Research Programme. He received a PhD in ocean physics from the University of British Columbia.
As one of Canada's leading environmental researchers in climate change Dr. Fortier has helped place Canada at the forefront of research on the impact of climate change in the Arctic. He holds the Canada Research Chair in Polar Marine Ecosystems at Laval University and is scientific director of ArcticNet, one of Canada's network of Centres of Excellence that, together with Inuit organizations, northern communities, government agencies and the private sector examines the impact of climate change in Canada's Arctic. Dr. Fortier graduated from Laval University with bachelor's and master's degrees and continued his graduate studies at McGill University where he earned his doctorate. After a year as a NATO post-doctoral fellow in the United Kingdom, he returned to Canada to join Laval University in 1989. He is a specialist of the population dynamics of marine zooplankton and fish. Since 1996 he has also been director general of Québec-Océan, le Groupe interinstitutionnel de recherches océanographiques du Québec, a research centre that coordinates the research of oceanographers at Quebec universities.
Budd Hall is the Director of the Office of Community Based Research. He has been engaged in participatory and community based research since 1973 when he was working in Tanzania. He was the founder of the International Participatory Research Network which began in 1977 and built the field of participatory action research around the world. He has worked with the International Council for Adult Education, the Department of Adult Education and Community Development at the University of Toronto and has also been a Dean of Education at the University of Victoria. He is currently Secretary of Community Based Research Canada as well as the Global Alliance on Community Engaged Research. He is also a poet. 
Dr. Lassi Heininen is a University Lecturer and Adjunct Professor (Docent) at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Lapland, Finland. Among his other academic positions are Adjunct Professor at Frost Center for Canadian Studies, Trent University, Canada; Adjunct Professor at Faculty of Geography, University of Oulu, Finland; and Visiting Professor at University of Akureyri, Iceland. He is also the chairman of the International Steering Committee for the Northern Research Forum. His research fields include International Relations, Geopolitics, Security Studies, Environmental Politics, Political History, European Studies, Russian Studies and Northern/Arctic Studies. His publications include circa 50 scientific articles in peerreviewed and other international scientific journals and edited volumes, circa 80 scientific articles in Finnish peerreviewed and other scientific journals and conference proceedings and 12 scientific monographs. Among the recent articles are ”Pohjoinen geopoliittinen alue”, Maa, Seutu, Kulmakunta. Näkökulmia aluehistorialliseen tutkimukseen. SKS, 2009; “The Changing Geo-Politics of the North”, Arctic Idea, August 2008; “Different Images of the Arctic, and the circumpolar North in world politics”, Knowledge and Power in the Arctic. Conference proceedings; “The Importance of Northern Dimension Foreign Policies in the Geopolitics of the Circumpolar North” (with Heather Nicol), Geopolitics, Vol. 12, 2007; “Impacts of Globalization, and the Circumpolar North in World Politics”, Polar Geography, Vol. 29, 2005, No. 2; “Circumpolar International Relations and Geopolitics”, AHDR (Arctic Human Development Report) 2004.
Serge Larivière holds a B.Sc. in wildlife management from the Université du Québec à Rimouski, M.Sc. from Université Laval, and a Ph.D. from the University of Saskatchewan. Serge's interests include evolution, ecology, and management of North American furbearers and worldwide carnivores, as well as predator-prey relationships between carnivores and nesting birds. Serge is a professional affiliate at the University of Saskatchewan, and an adjunct professor at the University of Manitoba. He currently serves as General Manager for the Fédération des Trappeurs Gestionnaires du Québec in Sainte-Foy, Québec.
Before joining Edelman Montréal as Senior Account Manager in the Consumer and Healthcare practice where she is responsible for various assignments such as media relations, research and event organization for several major clients and accounts, Mariane worked as a Project Manager at a Quebec public relations firm. She also worked at the Sacré-Coeur Hospital Foundation, as a Communications Consultant for the launch of a major fundraising campaign as well as on public relations mandates for clients related to emergency preparedness, including Direction de santé publique de Montréal and Sécurité civile de Montréal. Mariane Leduc holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Public Relations from the Université du Québec à Montréal and studied German history in Berlin for two months. Mariane has always loved working with the public and sharing her experiences with the people she meets. Traveling is an important part of her life and she has already visited several countries and regions in South and North America, as well as in Europe. She loves nature and the outdoors and one of her best experiences was her trip to Amazonia, Peru, where she learned a lot about the wildlife, not to mention the numerous dives she has done in the Carribean. Mariane also lived a life changing experience by participating, as a team member of the communication team, in the 2009 Arctic expedition of Students on Ice, an award-winning organization, She will be going for the Antarctic in a few weeks to join the Students on Ice Antarctic expedition.
I've been called a low-temperature marine inorganic biogeochemist, but I don't like to limit myself. My fundamental interests lie in the roles the oceans play in planetary evolution and global change, and my research has ranged from hard-core analytical technique development to climate feedback mechanisms.
Scot Nickels started working for the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK) in 1998 as the Director of the Environment Department. Here he was responsible for the overall management of the activities of the Department, including supervision of departmental staff and contract personnel, management of departmental funding and setting direction on ITK National Environment management policy positions and related program/project management. More recently since 2006, Scot has become ITK’s Senior Science Advisor, and is responsible for advising the executive and staff on research and science related environmental and human health issues. 
Chris Olex is a Trainer and Facilitator specializing in team and personal development. Relying on experience gained from all levels of the training process -- from customer management to delivery and evaluation -- she works in partnership with a wide range of clients to design, develop, and deliver professional programs serving 10 to 500 participants. Her passion around creating engaging experiences paired with the pursuit of self-awareness and human development drive her work with each and every audience.
Inuuteq Holm Olsen is the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Government of Greenland. He started his career as Head of Section in the Department of Foreign Affairs, been Private Secretary to the Premier, served in the Danish Foreign Ministry and posted at the Greenland Representation at the Danish Embassy in Brussels. In 2003 he returned to Nuuk, Greenland to become Head of Department and from December 2004, has been Deputy Minister in the Department of Foreign Affairs. Inuuteq has been engaged in a wide variety of issues concerning Greenland's foreign relations and Arctic issues including, negotiations with bilateral agreements with the EU, Arctic Council, indigenous peoples issues, security and defence including climate change and security policy, expert adviser and co-drafter to the Greenland-Denmark Commission on Self-Governance on the chapter on foreign affairs, Member of the Danish Defence Commission (2008-2009). Mr. Olsen has a B.A in Political Science from the University of Alaska Fairbanks (1994) and a M.A. in International Affairs from The George Washington University (1996).
Dr. Volker Rachold graduated as a geochemist at Göttingen University (Germany) where he also obtained his Ph.D. in 1994. During the following 11 years he worked with the Alfred Wegener Institute in Potsdam and Bremerhaven (Germany). His research focused on land-ocean interactions in the Siberian Arctic and he led several land- and ship-based Russian-German expeditions. In 2006, he became the Executive Secretary of the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC), first based in Stockholm (Sweden) and, since 2009, based in Potsdam (Germany).
Born and raised in the Mackenzie Delta, I am a recent graduate of the diploma program in Natural Resources and Technology.
Brian is the Ian McTaggart-Cowan Professor of Biodiversity Conservation and Ecological Restoration in the School of Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria. His research combines theoretical and empirical methods to examine the factors that determine species diversity in local regions. Most recently, the impacts of climate change on community composition and function have been a major focus of research. Brian completed his PhD at the University of British Columbia, and over the last few years has worked in tropical, temperate, and arctic regions.
Scott is the Data Management Coordinator for the Canadian International Polar Year, Federal Program. In that role he oversees the development of plans and policies to ensure the proper stewardship of IPY data, provide access to these data in the short and long term, and, build capacity in data management in government, academic and community research realms.
Diana Varela is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Biology and the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences at the University of Victoria. Diana and her research team investigate the physiological ecology of nutrient acquisition by marine phytoplankton and the sensitivity of the uptake mechanisms to micronutrient limitation and changing oceanic conditions. The long-term goal of her program is to better understand the effects of unicellular algae on the Earth's biogeochemical cycles, marine ecosystem structure and global climate change over geological times. Diana has participated in numerous oceanographic expeditions to the south Atlantic, equatorial and north Pacific, Bering Sea, Labrador Sea and the Arctic Ocean. She has participated in large multidisciplinary programs, such as JGOFS,GLOBEC, C3O and GEOTRACES. Her participation in C3O (Canada's Three Oceans) and GEOTRACES reflects her involvement in Arctic studies, as these programs are part of the Canadian International Polar Year initiative.
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