Arctic Interests at the U of C

Nigel Bankes Law (403) 220-7252 ndbankes [at] ucalgary [dot] ca	Northern Gas Pipeline policy and sustainable development, indigenous law, Northern land claims.
Benoit Beauchamp Geology and Geophysics (403) 220-8266 bbeaucha [at] ucalgary [dot] ca	Northern Canada sedimentary basins: architecture and petroleum potential; Carbonate sedimentology: reefs, cyclothems, methane-derived seep mounds; Sequence stratigraphy: tectonic stress, eutasy and base level; Late Paleozoic history of Pangea: paleoclimatology and paleoceanography.
Andre Buret Biological Sciences aburet [at] ucalgary [dot] ca	Microbial infections in Northern populations.
Ralph Cartar BioSci (Ecology) & Natural Sciences and ENSC cartar [at] ucalgary [dot] ca	Shorebird distributions with respect to climate in the Canadian Arctic.
Richard Davis English Literature (403) 220-4660 rdavis [at] ucalgary [dot] ca	History of polar explorers
Peter Dawson Archeology (403) 220-4855 pcdawson [at] ucalgary [dot] ca	Hunter-gatherers, spatial analysis, culture contact; Arctic, Sub-Arctic.
Eric Donovan Physics and Astronomy (403) 220-6337 donovan [at] phys [dot] ucalgary [dot] ca	Aurora observations
Jocelyn Grozic Civil Engineering (403) 220-2549 jgrozic [at] ucalgary [dot] ca	Gas hydrates
Stuart Harris Geography (403) 220-7483 harriss [at] ucalgary [dot] ca	Characteristics and differences between lithalsas, palsas and peat plateaus; Heat flow regimes beneath block slopes; Heat flow studies under different vegetation covers; Monitoring of air and ground temperatures in the permafrost from Claresholm to central Yukon; Rates of movement and the nature of block streams
Masaki Hayashi Geology and Geophysics (403) 220-2794 hayashi [at] ucalgary [dot] ca	Hydrological study of discontinuous permafrost near Fort Simpson, NT
Charles Henderson Geology and Geophysics (403) 220-6170 charles [dot] henderson [at] ucalgary [dot] ca	Taxonomy, biostratigraphy and paleoecology of Upper Paleozoic conodonts; Paleozoic and Mesozoic stratigraphy and biostratigraphy in Western and Arctic Canada
Alexander Hill Department of History (403) 220-6419 hilla [at] ucalgary [dot] ca	Far North/Arctic territories of Russia; militarization/strategic significance of this region for the Soviet Union
Rob Huebert Political Science and CMSS (403) 220-3995 rhuebert [at] ucalgary [dot] ca	Arctic Security and Sovereignty
David Knudsen Physics and Astronomy (403) 220-8651 knudsen [at] phys [dot] ucalgary [dot] ca	Director, Institute for Space Research; Northern Lights research
Susan Kutz Veterinary Medicine (403) 210-3824 skutz [at] ucalgary [dot] ca	Pathogen Biodiversity in Northern Wildlife species, CircumArctic Rangifer Monitoring and Assessment Group, Zoonotic pathogens, Arctic Parasitology
Steve Larter Geology (403) 220-7484 slarter [at] ucalgary [dot] ca	CRC in petroleum geology; petroleum system, mudstone properties, overpressure and oilfield caprocks
Shawn Marshall Geography (403) 220-4884 Shawn [dot] marshall [at] ucalgary [dot] ca	1) Science Steering Committee of the Polar Continental Shelf Project (2003-2007) 2) ongoing fieldwork into glacier-climate processes and ice core paleoclimate reconstructions on the Prince of Wales Icefield, Ellesmere Island, NU, together with two of my students: Tara Moran, Vivian Wasiuta 3) ongoing modelling work of Canadian icefields and their vulnerability to climate change ("Polar Climate Stability Network", funded by the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences)
Ed McAuley VP (Research) (403) 220-7833 mccauley [at] ucalgary [dot] ca	Aquatic Ecology
Lynn Meadows Medicine/Community Health (403) 220-2752 meadows [at] ucalgary [dot] ca	CIHR Development Grant focusing on increasing linkages and research capacity for Inuit women’s health.
Brian Moorman Geography and Geology (403) 220-4835 moorman [at] ucalgary [dot] ca	Permafrost, glacier hydrology, coastal permafrost research
Ann-Lise Norman Physics and Astronomy (403) 220-5405 annlisen [at] phas [dot] ucalgary [dot] ca	Trends in DMS sulphate at Alert; IPY Arctic SOLAS
David Pattison Geology and Geophysics (403) 220-3263 pattison [at] ucalgary [dot] ca	Metamorphic petrology, ore deposits, minerals and rocks, geochemistry
William Pelech Social Work (403) 220-5147 pelech [at] ucalgary [dot] ca	Community-based, participatory action research in First Nations communities in Northern Alberta and BC
Monique Ross Resources Law (403) 220-3973 mmross [at] ucalgary [dot] ca	Land claim, pipeline development
Brian Rusted Communication and Culture (403) 220-7766 rusted [at] ucalgary [dot] ca	Visual construction of Canada’s North in American Popular Culture
Derek Sikes Zoology dsikes [at] ucalgary [dot] ca	Alaskan beetles
Susan Skone Geomatics Engineering (403) 220-7589 sskone [at] ucalgary [dot] ca	Ionospheric Effects on satellite-based navigation systems
Robert Stewart Geology and Geophysics stewart [at] ucalgary [dot] ca	Mars project on Devon Island
Billie Thurston Community Health, Institute for Gender Research (403) 220-6940 Thurston [at] ucalgary [dot] ca	Inuit Women’s Health
Raymond Turner Biological Sciences (403) 220-4308 turnerr [at] ucalgary [dot] ca	Glacier water, collaborating with M.Sharp’s group at U of Alberta
Pablo Wainstein Geography (403) 220-3176 pawainst [at] ucalgary [dot] ca	Ice and Glaciers, etc.
Nigel Waters Geography nwaters [at] ucalgary [dot] ca	Working with the Tulitha near Norman Wells to design Visual Basic templates to input Traditional Knowledge into a GIS for advance planning of the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline.
Patrick Wu Geology and Geophysics (403) 220-7855 ppwu [at] ucalgary [dot] ca	Glacial isostatic adjustment of the polar areas (Arctic Canada & Antarctica)- including crustal motion as observed by GPS, tide gauges & gravity signal as observed by satellite missions; Tectonic modeling of Alaska & Arctic Canada
John Yackel Geography (403) 220-4892 yackel [at] ucalgary [dot] ca	Arctic Sea Ice (with grad students), CASES (Canadian Arctic Shelf Exchange Study)
Andrew Yau Physics (403) 220-8825 yau [at] phys [dot] ucalgary [dot] ca	Enhanced Polar Outflow Probe (E-Pop)
Kim Zapf Social Work kzapf [at] ucalgary [dot] ca	Extensive social work background in Yukon
Gail Zuk Social Work (780) 539-2964 gzuk [at] gprc [dot] ab [dot] ca	Northern Environmental issues and educating in the North for the North
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