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Michael Fritz is a Research Associate in the Department of Periglacial Research at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Potsdam, Germany. His current research focuses on land-ocean interactions and coastal permafrost dynamics in the southern Beaufort Sea area. It involves the study of coastal erosion and material transport pathways with special regard to the delivery of organic carbon and other nutrients from the onshore to the nearshore zone. As a geoscientist Michael has a background in reconstructing the late Quaternary environmental development in the western Canadian Arctic. This involves the investigation of permafrost deposits, ground ice and lake sediments in periglacial landscapes by means of sedimentology, stable isotope geochemistry and palynology. Michael is a member of the executive committee of the Arctic in Rapid Transition (ART) initiative and the Permafrost Young Researchers Network (PYRN).
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University of Alberta, Canada
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Nathalie Morata is a research scientist in marine ecology at the Laboratory of Marine Sciences (LEMAR), in Plouzané, France. Her research interests include the use of field observation and manipulative experiment to address issues related to carbon cycling and organic matter fluxes to the seafloor. She is currently the PI of the French project “ECOTAB” (Effect of Climate change On The Arctic benthos), aiming to investigate how climate-induced changes in biological (food sources) and environmental conditions (pH, temperature, salinity) will impact the Arctic benthos in Kongsfjorden, Svalbard. Nathalie is a member of the executive committee of the Arctic in Rapid Transition (ART) initiative and was the main organizer of the ISTAS workshop.
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Dr. Volker Rachold is the Executive Secretary of the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC). His functions include guiding and overseeing IASC´s activities, representing the organization on various international committees and at international meetings, facilitating the planning and organization of the Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW) and other international conferences, directing IASC´s communications and managing the IASC Secretariat. Dr. Rachold graduated as a geochemist from Göttingen University, where he also obtained his Ph.D. in 1994. Before moving to the IASC Secretariat in Stockholm in 2006 and in Potsdam from 2009, he worked with the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research. His research focused on land-ocean interactions in the Siberian Arctic and he led several land- and ship-based Russian-German expeditions. He is author and editor of numerous scientific papers and serves as a reviewer for scientific journals and funding agencies.
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Professor Gunhild Ninis Rosqvist is specialized in the effect of environmental and climate change in alpine and polar areas. She has studied the effect of climate change on glaciers and the alpine terrestrial and limnological environment both in the Arctic and in the Antarctic. She is a professor at Stockholm University, Sweden and at Bergen University, Norway. She is also the director of Tarfala Research Station, which is run by the Department of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology at Stockholm University. Tarfala is located in the Kebnekaise mountains, northern Swedish Lapland. The main focus of research and monitoring has been the effect of climate change on glaciers but studies of permafrost, terrestrial and limnological environments is also carried out in Tarfala. Tarfala is part of the EU funded infrastructure project INTERACT which provides excellent opportunities for networking among polar scientists.
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Atsuko Sugimoto is professor at the Faculty of Environmental Earth Science, at Hokkaido University. After obtaining her Master and Doctoral degree at the Division of Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Science at the Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, she became a postdoctoral fellow at the Mitsubishi Kasei Institute of Life Sciences (1990‐1991). Between 1991 and 1996, she became an instructor at the Center for Ecological Research at Kyoto University. In 1994, she was a visiting scientist at the Department of Biology at the University of Miami. Between 1996 and 2003, she was an associate professor at the Center for cological Research at Kyoto University. From 2003 and 2005 onwards, she became respectively a professor at the Graduate School of Environmental Earth Science and the Faculty of Environmental Earth Science, both at Hokkaido University. Her main research field is biogeoscience.
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Canadian Polar Commission, Canada