NRF Young Researchers in 2008 Print

5th NRF Open Assembly, Anchorage, Alaska 2008 

Name

 

Title (in 2008)

Most recent known title

Topic

Rasmus Gjedssø Bertelsen           

PhD Research Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge

 

A Vision for a North Atlantic Security and Surveillance Organization.

Lisa Cockburn

MSSc, University of Lapland

 

Accepting uncertainty transforming power: What can an understanding of nonhuman agency offer to science?

Heather Exner-Pirot

PhD Candidate, University of Calgary

 

Human Security in the Circumpolar North:

What Role for the Arctic Council?

Russel Fielding

Ph.D. Student and Departmental Assistant, Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University

 

Pilot Whaling in the Caribbean and the Faroe Islands:  Conflict and Conservation

Nicole Footen

PhD., MSW, Director of Student Services:
School of Social Work, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

 

The Problem of Human Trafficking and Policy Responses of the North.

Drew Gerkey

PhD. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

 

Cooperative Networks on Collective Institutions: opportunities and dilemmas for development on Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula.


Audrey R. Giles

Assistant Professor, School of Human Kinetics, University of Ottawa

 

Understanding Perceptions of Aquatic-based Risk in a Changing Arctic.

Karen Hibbard-Rode

IGERT Trainee, Resilience and Adaptation Program, Biology and Wildlife Department, University of Alaska Fairbanks

 

Can the history of a caribou herd be a useful scenario for policymakers imagining the future? - Preliminary findings on the history of the Teshekpuk Lake Caribou Herd

Oliver Krone

PhD., Germany: Senior Consultant, Promatis software GmbH

 

The Arctic and challenges of the exterior-knowledge, ICT, and autonomy.

Jussi Laine

Doctoral student of the Department of Geography, University of Joensuu

 

B/ordering North: Russia and the Balance of Northern Co-operation

Markus Mager

Alaska Center for Energy and Power (ACEP) at the

University of Alaska

 

Economics of Greenhouse Production in Alaska -

Using the Greenhouse at Chena Hot Spring Resort as a Model

Lotta Numminen

researcher in the Finnish Institute of International Affairs and PhD student at University of Helsinki

 

The new Geography of a warming North

Andrey Petrov

PhD. student at the University of Toronto

 

Convergence or Divergence? Comparing Current Economic Development Policies in the Russian and Canadian North.


Maria Petterson

Doctoral Student. Department of Social Science, Law Division, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden

 

The Struggle for a Sustainable Energy Supply: Legal Challenges in the Implementation of Renewable Energy Sources in the Arctic

Tristan Pierce

PhD. Student, Dept. of Geography, University of Guelph

 

Adaptation to Climate Change Risks in the Arctic and the Role of Institutions.

Elena Piterskaya

PhD. in Ethnology, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, RAS, Moscow

 

Human Health and the Problem of Sustainable Development in the Arctic

Shirley Roburn

PhD. Student, Communication Studies, Concordia

University, Montreal

 

The Being Caribou Project:  Local stories, international policy, and grassroots civil society-- a case study

Dessislav Sabev

postdoctoral student, CELAT, pav. DeKoninck,

Université Laval, Québec

 

What is functional survives" Lessons from Sámi Reindeer Herders in a Changing Environment

Lia Slemons

Graduate Student, School of Oceanography, University

of Washington

 

Cultural framing of science communication: Experiences involving Christian church communities in dialogue on climate change

Rósa Rut Þórisdóttir

Ph.D., Université Paris Diderot-Paris

 

Equitable Anthropological Research

 

 

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