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Dr Glenn A. Milne Department of Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa, 140 Louis Pasteur, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5 E-mail: gamilne@uottawa.ca; Tel: (613) 562-5800 x 6424; Fax: (613) 562-5192 URL: www.earth.uottawa.ca/details.php?lang=eng&id=411 Glenn Milne undertakes research on the influence of ice sheets and glaciers on various aspects of the Earth system, including: sea level, land motion, landscape evolution, gravity field, and Earth rotation. He applies computer models to study the interactions between ice sheets, the solid Earth and the oceans. A primary focus is geophysical modelling of sea-level changes caused by climate change. Roberts, S.J. and 7 others (including G. Milne). 2009. Holocene relative sea-level change and deglaciation on Alexander Island, Antarctic Peninsula, from elevated lake deltas. Geomorphology, 112(1–2), 122–134. Prof. G.W. Kent Moore Department of Physics, University of Toronto, 60 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1A7 E-mail: gwk.moore@utoronto.ca; Tel: (416) 978-4686; Fax: (416) 978-8905 URL: www.atmosp.physics.utoronto.ca/people/moore/moore.html Kent Moore is carrying out research into the well-defined and coherent systems that are responsible for much of our weather and the identification and understanding of the dynamical processes responsible for a bifurcation in which the fluid changes from a dynamic regime to another, what has been called the cyclone-scale, mode of baroclinic instability. The ways by which frontal zones are modified by interactions with topography or with regions in which there is a large surface heat flux are being investigating as are the mechanisms by which gravity waves may be excited by the passage of frontal zones. Geddes, J.A. and G.W.K. Moore. 2007. A climatology of sea ice embayments in the Cosmonaut Sea, Antarctica. Geophys. Res. Lett., 34(2), L02505. (10.1029/2006GL027910.) Paul Mudroch Marine Environmental Protection, Environmental Stewardship Branch, Environment Canada, 16th Floor, 351 St. Joseph Blvd., Gatineau, Quebec, K1A 0H3 E-mail: paul.mudroch@ec.gc.ca; Tel: (819) 953-0663; Fax: (819) 953-0913 URL: www.voyage.gc.ca/countries_pays/report_rapport-eng.asp?id=9000 Paul Mudroch runs the office responsible for issuing permits to Canadians planning to visit the Antarctic. Dr Derek R. Mueller Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Carleton University, B349 Loeb Building, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 5B6 E-mail: derek_mueller@carleton.ca; Tel: (613) 520-2561; Fax: (613) 520-4301 URL: http://www2.carleton.ca/geography/staff-faculty/derek-mueller/ Derek Mueller’s research focuses on the cryosphere and ice-dependent ecosystems, particularly the relationship between changes in the cryosphere and the climate; and placing his geophysical research in a broader ecological context Mueller, D.R. and W.H. Pollard. 2004. Gradient analysis of cryoconite ecosystems from two polar glaciers. Polar Biol., 27(2), 66–74. Dr Derek C.G. Muir Priority Substances Exposure, Water Science and Technology, Environment Canada, 867 Lakeshore Road, PO Box 5050, Burlington, Ontario, L7R 4A6 E-mail: derek.muir@ec.gc.ca; Tel: (905) 319-6921; Fax: (905) 336-6430 URL: www.ec.gc.ca/scitech/default.asp?lang=En&n=F97AE834-1&xsl=scitechprofile&xml=F97AE834-A762-47A6-A2D9-9C397FD72F37&formid=A694B5F5-F8D2-4017-A38F-FFF62D82FF60 Derek Muir is investigating the distribution, fate and bioaccumulation of priority substances, such as persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and mercury, particularly in fish and marine mammals; assessing long-range transport, spatial, and temporal trends of contaminants; and studying the effects of food webs and lake trophic status on bioaccumulation of POPs and metals.
Biomedical Engineering, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University, Duff Room 310, 3775 rue University, Montréal, Quebec, H3A 2B4 E-mail: jay.nadeau@mcgill.ca; Tel: (514) 398-8372; Fax: (514) 398-7461 URL: www.mcgill.ca/microimm/department/associates/nadeau/ Jay Nadeau is interested in the effects of alterations of electrical excitability on the formation and behavior of neuronal synapses. To this end, she is developing a variety of tools for genetic modification and fluorescent labeling of neurons (and other cells). Specific interests include manufacture of quantum dots for use as potential voltage-sensitive probes, introduction of bacterial sodium channels into neurons using viral vectors, and genetic suppression of sodium channel function. Nadeau, J.L. and H.J. Sun. 2005. Microbial density in samples from extreme environments and amenability to in situ chemical extraction and fluorescent detection. [Paper 118-9.] Geol. Soc. Am. Abstr. Prog., 37(7), 2005 Salt Lake City Annual Meeting, 268. Prof. David A. Naylor Institute for Space Imaging Science, Department of Physics, University of Lethbridge, 4401 University Drive, Lethbridge, Alberta, T1K 3M4 E-mail: naylor@uleth.ca; Tel: (403) 329-2426; Fax: (403) 329-2057 URL: www.uleth.ca/phy/naylor/index.php David Naylor is involved with various projects in the field of submillimetre astronomy, including measurement of the emission spectra of planets, as well as galactic and extra-galactic sources, and the design of a prototype Infrared Radiometer for Millimetre Astronomy (IRMA) that will provide the fast and accurate measurements of atmospheric water vapour required for the Atacama Large Millimetre Array (ALMA) project in Chile. Querel, R., R. Dahl, D. Naylor and R. Phillips. 2007. Design of an infrared water vapour monitor for measurements of the atmospheric water content in Antarctica. IRMMW-THz 2007, Joint 32nd International Conference on Infrared and Millimeter Waves and 15th International Conference on Terahertz Electronics, 2–7 September 2007, Cardiff, UK. Proceedings. Piscataway, NJ, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 714–715. Prof. C. Barth Netterfield Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Toronto, 50 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1A7 E-mail: netterfield@astro.utoronto.ca; Tel: (416) 946-0517; Fax: (416) 978-8905 URL: www.astro.utoronto.ca/~netterfield/ Barth Netterfield’s research interests lie in observational cosmology, particularly in measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and of the sub-mm sky. Determining the angular spectrum has allowed differentiation between various cosmological models, and the determination of cosmological parameters, including Omega (the energy density of the universe), Lambda (the vacuum energy density), and Ho (the expansion parameter). Piacentini, F. and 36 others (including J.R. Bond, C.R. Contaldi, C.J. MacTavish, C.B. Netterfield, E. Pascale and D. Pogosyan). 2006. A measurement of the polarization-temperature angular cross-power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background from the 2003 flight of BOOMERANG. Astrophys. J., 647(2), Part 1, 833–839. Piacentini, F. and 39 others (including J.R. Bond, C.R. Contaldi, C.J. MacTavish, C.B. Netterfield, E. Pascale and D. Pogosyan). 2007. CMB polarization with Boomerang 2003. New Astron. Rev., 51(3–4), 244–249. Prof. William G. Nickling Wind Erosion Laboratory, Department of Geography, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W1 E-mail: nickling@uoguelph.ca; Tel: (519) 824-4120 x 53529; Fax: (519) 837-2940 URL: www.uoguelph.ca/geography/people/faculty/nickling.shtml Bill Nickling’s research focuses on the geomorphology of arid lands and, in particular, the role of aeolian processes in landform/landscape development, it includes field research as well as wind-tunnel modelling. Gillies, J.A., W.G. Nickling and M. Tilson. 2009. Ventifacts and wind-abraded rock features in the Taylor Valley, Antarctica. Geomorphology, 107(3–4), 149–160. Lancaster, N., W.G. Nickling and J.A. Gillies. 2010. Sand transport by wind on complex surfaces: field studies in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. J. Geophys. Res., 115(F3), F03027. (10.1029/2009JF001408 ) C. Simon L. Ommanney 56 Spinney Road, P.O. Box 730, RR #1, Glenwood, Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia, B0W 1W0 E-mail: simon.ommanney@ns.sympatico.ca; Tel: (902) 643-2527 URL: www.polarcom.gc.ca/content.php?doc=41 Simon Ommanney is Secretary of the Canadian Committee on Antarctic Research. He monitors Antarctic activities by those affiliated with Canadian institutions and prepares an annual report on them for the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research. Ommanney, C.S.L., ed. 2010. Newsletter for the Canadian Antarctic Research Network. Vol. 28, May. Ottawa, Ont., Canadian Polar Commission, 14 pp. Dr Evgeny A. Pakhomov Biological/Fisheries Oceanography, Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of British Columbia, 6339 Stores Road, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z4 E-mail: epakhomov@eos.ubc.ca; Tel: (604) 827-5564; Fax: (604) 822-6088 URL: www.eos.ubc.ca/public/people/faculty/E.Pakhomov.html Evgeny Pakhomov is a biological oceanographer with a broad range of interests covering topics from species ecology, at the level from zooplankton to fish, to ecosystem structure as well as physical-biological and biochemical coupling. Most of his research has been done in the Southern Ocean. He has an interest in stable-isotope ecology, and has been studying variability and responses of marine ecosystems to climate change. Hunt, B.P.V., E.A. Pakhomov and B. Trotsenko. 2007. The macrozooplankton of the Cosmonaut Sea, East Antarctica (30°E–60°E), 1987–1990. Deep-Sea Res. I, 54(7), 1042–1069. Van de Putte, A.P., G.D. Jackson, E. Pakhomov, H. Flores and F.A.M. Volckaert. 2010. Distribution of squid and fish in the pelagic zone of the Cosmonaut Sea and Prydz Bay region during the BROKE-West campaign. Deep-Sea Res. II, 57(9–10), 956–967. Prof. William P. Patterson Director, Saskatchewan Isotope Laboratory, Department of Geological Sciences, 114 University of Saskatchewan, Science Place, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, S7N 5E2 E-mail: bill.patterson@usask.ca; Tel: (306) 966-5691; Fax: (306) 966-8593 URL: http://geochemistry.usask.ca/bill.html Bill Patterson's research focus is the application of light-stable-isotope geochemistry to questions of paleoclimate, modern and paleohydrology/meteorology, life-history studies of a wide variety of animals and plants, and sediment diagenesis. He has applied stable-isotope chemistry to reveal the climate and life-history record stored in fish otoliths; accretionary aragonite structures precipitated within the inner ear of most fishes. More recently, analyses of penguin bones, feathers, tissue, eggshell and dietary remains have revealed changes in penguin behaviour and response to climate changes over the last 38,000 years. Emslie, S.D. and W.P. Patterson. 2007. Abrupt recent shift in δ13C and δ15N values in Adélie penguin eggshell in Antarctica. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA (PNAS), 104(28), 11,666–11,669. Dr Émilien Pelletier Institut des sciences de la mer de Rimouski (ISMER), Université du Québec á Rimouski (UQAR), 310, allée des Ursulines, C.P. 3300, Rimouski, Québec, G5L 3A1 E-mail: emilien_pelletier@uqar.qc.ca; Tel: (418) 723-1986 x 1764; Fax: (418) 724-1842 URL: http://ismer.uqar.ca/cvismer/index.php?15/Pelletier-Emilien&lang=en Émilien Pelletier specializes in environmental chemistry and toxicology applied to high-latitude ecosystems. A large part of his work is dedicated to bioremediation of contaminated soils and sediments in the vicinity of sub-Antarctic and Antarctic stations. He has developed joint programs with the Institut Paul-Emile Victor (France) and the Instituto Antártico Argentino. Curtosi, A., É. Pelletier, C.L. Vodopivez and W.P. Mac Cormack. 2009. Distribution of PAHs in the water column, sediments and biota of Potter Cove, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Ant. Sci., 21(4), 329–339. Delille, D., É. Pelletier and F. Coulon. 2009. Chapter 13. Do fertilizers help in effective bioremediation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in polar soils? In Bej, A.K., J. Aislabie and R.M. Atlas, eds. Polar microbiology: the ecology, biodiversity and bioremediation potential of microorganisms in extremely cold environments. Boca Raton, FL, CRC Press; Routledge, Taylor & Francis, 303–315. Dr W. Richard Peltier Director, Centre for Global Change Science, Department of Physics, University of Toronto, 60 St. Georges Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1A7 E-mail: peltier@atmosp.physics.utoronto.ca; Tel: (416) 978-2938; Fax: (416) 978-8905 URL: www.atmosp.physics.utoronto.ca/people/peltier/peltier.html Founder of the Centre for Global Change Science, Dick Peltier is known worldwide for his work in global climate change. He has developed powerful models using sophisticated mathematical concepts to depict what has happened to our climate over the past 600 million years and what is likely to happen far into the future. His research interests include atmospheric and oceanic waves and turbulence, geophysical fluid dynamics, physics of the planetary interior, and planetary climate. Justino, F. and W.R. Peltier. 2008. Climate anomalies induced by the Arctic and Antarctic oscillations: Glacial Maximum and present-day perspectives. J. Climate, 21(3), 459–475. Griffiths, S.D. and W.R. Peltier. 2009. Modelling of polar ocean tides at the Last Glacial Maximum: amplification, sensitivity, and climatological implications. J. Climate, 22(11), 2905–2924. Dr Reinhard Pienitz Département de Géographie & Centre d'études nordiques, Pavillon Abitibi-Price, Université Laval, 2405, rue de la Terrasse, Québec, Québec, G1V 0A6 E-mail: reinhard.pienitz@cen.ulaval.ca; Tel: (418) 656-2131 x 7006; Fax: (418) 656-2978 URL: www.cen.ulaval.ca/rpienitz.html Reinhard Pienitz is researching the dynamics of lacustrine ecosystems, lake bio-optics and paleo-optics in high-latitude ecotones, eutrophication, the paleoecology and biogeography of diatoms and invertebrates, the productivity of Late Holocene diatoms and silicoflagellates, and climate change. Quesada, A., W.F. Vincent, E. Kaup, J.E. Hobbie, I. Laurion, R. Pienitz, J. López-Martinez and J.-J. Durán. 2006. Chapter 11. Landscape control of high latitude lakes in a changing climate. In Bergstrom, D.M., P. Convey and A.H.L. Huiskes, eds. Trends in Antarctic terrestrial and limnetic ecosystems: Antarctica as a global indicator. Dordrecht, etc., Springer-Verlag, 221–251. Pienitz, R., P.T. Doran and S.F. Lamoureux. 2008. Chapter 2. Origin and geomorphology of lakes in the polar regions. In Vincent, W.F. and J. Laybourn-Parry, eds. Polar lakes and rivers: limnology of Arctic and Antarctic aquatic ecosystems. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 25–42. Prof. Tony J. Pitcher Fisheries Centre, Lower Mall Research Station, University of British Columbia, 2259 Lower Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z4 E-mail: t.pitcher@fisheries.ubc.ca; Tel: (604) 822-2368; Fax: (604) 822-8934 URL: www.zoology.ubc.ca/person/pitcher Tony Pitcher is founding director of the Fisheries Centre at the University of British Columbia and well known for his work on the impacts of fishing, the management appraisal of fisheries, and how shoaling behaviour impacts fisheries. Pitcher, T. 2002. Simulation models of Antarctic marine ecosystems in support of ecosystem-based management. CARN Newsl., 15, 5–6. Natalie Plato Director, Contaminated Sites, Indian and Northern Affairs, 1104 B, Inuksgait Plaza II, P.O. Box 2000, Iqaluit, Nunavut, X0A 0H0 E-mail: platon@inac.gc.ca; nplato@nunanet.com; Tel: (867) 975-4730; Fax: (867) 975-4736
Snape, I. and 15 others (including N. Plato, J.S. Poland, A. Rutter, A.N. Schafer and S.D. Siciliano). 2008. Chapter 1. Contamination, regulation and remediation: an introduction to bioremediation of petroleum hydrocarbons in cold regions. In Filler, D., I. Snape and D. Barnes, eds. Bioremediation of petroleum hydrocarbons in cold regions. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1–37. Dr David Plummer Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis, Atmospheric Science and Technology, Environment Canada, 3800 Finnerty Road, SCI A203, Victoria, British Columbia, V8P 5C2 E-mail: david.plummer@ec.gc.ca; Tel: (514) 282-6464 x 268; Fax: (514) 282-7131 URL: www.ec.gc.ca/ccmac-cccma/default.asp?lang=En&n=42D3555D-1 David Plummer is investigating atmospheric chemistry, long-term changes in tropospheric and stratospheric ozone, and impacts of climate change on global and regional air quality. Eyring, V. and 39 others (including S.R. Beagley, D.A. Plummer, J.F. Scinocca and K. Semeniuk). 2003. Multimodel projections of stratospheric ozone in the 21st century. J. Geophys. Res., 112(D16), D16303. (10.1029/2006JD008332.) Dr Dmitri Pogosyan Avadh Bhatia Physics Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2J1 E-mail: pogosyan@phys.ualberta.ca; Tel: (780) 492-2150; Fax: (780) 492-0714 URL: http://fermi.phys.ualberta.ca/~pogosyan/ Dmitri Pogosyan is a theoretical cosmologist, and member of the BOOMERanG collaboration, interested in inflation, initial cosmological perturbations, the origin and evolution of the large-scale structure in the universe, the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and tests for cosmological theories. Piacentini, F. and 36 others (including J.R. Bond, C.R. Contaldi, C.J. MacTavish, C.B. Netterfield, E. Pascale and D. Pogosyan). 2006. A measurement of the polarization-temperature angular cross-power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background from the 2003 flight of BOOMERANG. Astrophys. J., 647(2), Part 1, 833–839. Piacentini, F. and 39 others (including J.R. Bond, C.R. Contaldi, C.J. MacTavish, C.B. Netterfield, E. Pascale and D. Pogosyan). 2007. CMB polarization with Boomerang 2003. New Astron. Rev., 51(3–4), 244–249. Prof. Wayne H. Pollard Department of Geography, McGill University, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke Street W., Montréal, Quebec, H3A 2K6 E-mail: wayne.pollard@mcgill.ca; Tel: (514) 398-4454; Fax: (514) 398-7437 URL: www.geog.mcgill.ca/faculty/pollard/index.html Wayne Pollard’s research centers on field investigation of water and ice in cold polar-desert environments. His long-term goals are to understand and explain the hydrological and physical processes that shape and define cold dry landscapes and to identify niche environments in permafrost that are capable of harboring microbial life at or near the limit of its habitability. His research ranges from field observation and measurement of natural processes at the landform and landscape scales to microscopic examination of soil pores, ice crystals and intracrystalline brine films. Pollard, W., P. Doran and R. Wharton. 2002. The nature and significance of massive ground ice in Ross Sea drift, Garwood Valley, McMurdo Sound. In Gamble, J.A., D.N.B. Skinner and S.A. Henrys, eds. Antarctica at the close of a millenium. Wellington, Royal Society of New Zealand, 397–404. (RSNZ Bulletin BS 35.) Omelon, C.R., W.H. Pollard and F.G. Ferris. 2006. Environmental controls on microbial colonization of High Arctic cryptoendolithic habitats. Polar Biol., 30(1), 19–29. Dr Michel Poulin Research Services, Canadian Museum of Nature, Natural Heritage Building, P.O. Box 3443, Station, Ottawa, Ontario, K1P 6P4 E-mail: mpoulin@mus-nature.ca; Tel: (613) 566-4788; Fax: (613) 364-4027 URL: www.nature.ca/ Michel Poulin is a phycologist with a multidisciplinary approach to the study of biodiversity in aquatic ecosystems and interests in taxonomy and the conservation of diversity for microscopic algae, particularly diatoms. Riaux-Gobin, C., P. Tréguer, G. Dieckmann, E. Maria, G. Vétion and M. Poulin. 2005. Land-fast ice off Adélie Land (Antarctica): short-term variations in nutrients and chlorophyll just before ice break-up. J. Mar. Syst., 55(3–4), 235–248. Dr Neil M. Price Department of Biology, Stewart Biological Sciences Building, McGill University, 1205 avenue Dr. Penfield, Montréal, Quebec, H3A 1B1 E-mail: neil.price@mcgill.ca; Tel: (514) 398-6468; Fax: (514) 398-5069 URL: http://biology.mcgill.ca/faculty/price/ Neil Price undertakes research in biological oceanography, on the physiological ecology of nutrient acquisition in marine phytoplankton and bacteria, on nutrient limitation, on trace-element essentiality, toxicity and biogeochemical cycling, on resource limitation of plankton growth in natural waters, on trace-metal toxicity, and on iron cycling in the sea. Maldonado, M.T. and 8 others (including A.Waite and N.M. Price). 2001. Iron uptake and physiological response of phytoplankton during a mesoscale Southern Ocean iron enrichment. Limnol. Oceanogr., 46(7), 1802–1808. Dr Paul Prikryl Earth-Space Propagation, Communications Research Centre Canada, Industry Canada, 3701 Carling Avenue, P.O. Box 11490, Station H, Ottawa, Ontario, K2H 8S2 E-mail: paul.prikryl@crc.gc.ca; Tel: (613) 998-2068; Fax: (613) 998-4077
National Snow and Ice Data Center, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Science (CIRES), University of Colorado, 449 UCB, Boulder, Colorado, CO 80309, U.S.A. E-mail: pulsifer@nsidc.org; Tel: (613) 620-7195; Fax: (613) 249-7067 URL: www.polarcom.gc.ca/index.php?page=ccar&hl=en_US Peter Pulsifer helps lead the Exchange for Local Observations and Knowledge of the Arctic project (ELOKA, http://eloka-arctic.org). His research addresses questions related to the use of computer-based forms of geographical-information representation with a particular focus on developing theory, methods and tools that inform and support system interoperability. Pulsifer, P.L., A. Parush, G. Lindgaard and D.R.F. Taylor. 2005. Chapter 20. The development of the Cybercartographic Atlas of Antarctica. In Taylor, D.R.F., ed. Cybercartography: theory and practice. Amsterdam, Elsevier, 461–490. (Modern Cartography Series 4.) Directory: uploads uploads -> 587 Return function, r i(X) r i(0) r i(1) r i(2) r i(3) 1 0 2 4 6 Thermal Station, I 2 0 1 5 6 3 0 3 5 6 10 uploads -> Department of science and humanities department of mathematics part-a questions and answers uploads -> The Case Against the nypd’s Quota-Driven ‘Broken Windows’ Policing What Is It? uploads -> For want of a nail uploads -> Ownership Models There are two different types of ownership models uploads -> Police Militarization uploads -> City of rising star regular meting thursday, july 14, 2016 uploads -> Township of winfield uploads -> Stop Militarizing Law Enforcement Act of 2014 uploads -> The Black Panther Party’s Ten-Point Program What We Want Now! Download 0.66 Mb. Share with your friends:
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