Amanda Booth
Geology
Stanford University, California

Postdoctoral Research
Quantitative estimates of climate variability derived from Alaskan lake sediments.

Mentor
Matthew Woller
UAF, Institute of Marine Science

József Geml
Plant Pathology/Molecular Evolutionary Genetics
Pennsylvania State Universesity

Postdoctoral Research
Compare arctic fungal species to infer relationship patterns between genes and geography to test the hypothesis that most arctic fungal species survived the last glaciation in the Bering land bridge.

Mentor
D. Lee Taylor
UAF, Institute of Arctic Biology

Kathleen Graves
Social Work
Smith College, Massachusetts

Postdoctoral Research
Develop understanding of dynamic processes that contribute to the ability of Alaska Native peoples to cope effectively with rapid cultural, social, economic, political and environmental change.

Mentor
Cheryl Easley
UAA, College of Health and Social Welfare

Guido Grosse
Geology
Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Germany

Postdoctoral Research
The degradation of permafrost in the arctic due to climate change, using remote sensing, spatial data analysis and other methods.

Mentor
Vladimir Romanovsky
UAF. Geophysical Institute

Olga Lovick
Linguistics
University of Cologne, Germany

Postdoctoral Research
Impact of ecological and social change in the Upper Tanana Athabascan region and how those changes relate the language.

Mentor
Siri Tuttle
UAF, Alaska Natives Language Center

Sebastian Mernild
Geography
University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Postdoctoral Research
Quantifying environmental changes in the hydrologic cycle that occur in response to climate change, to improve predictions in water and sediment variations in Alaska and Greenland.

Mentors
Larry Hinzman and Douglas Kane
Institute of Northern Engineering

Sarah Mincks
Oceanography
University of Hawaii, Manoa

Postdoctoral Research
Ecology and biodiversity in polar seafloor habitats, with emphasis on climate change impacts and evolutionary links to deep-sea regions.

Mentors
Bodil Bluhm and Karin Iken
UAF, School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences

Christian Petrich
Physics
University of Otago Dunedin, New Zealand

Postdoctoral Research
To improve understanding and modeling of transport process in the sea ice, specifically the redistrubutions of carbon dioxide by sea ice.

Mentor
Hajo Eicken
UAF, Geophysical Institute, College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics

Amy Tidwell
Civil Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta

Postdoctoral Research
Integrated climate change impact assessment of water resources and the use of climate modeling in water resource planning and management for cold regions.

Mentor
Daniel White
UAF, Institute of Northern Engineering

Katey Walter
Biology and Wildlife
Univesity of Alaska, Fairbanks

Postdoctoral Research
Investigate the content of methane- a significant greenhouse gas- in arctic lake ice bubbles using field surveys and remote sensing analysis. This evalutation will be the first circumpolar estimate of methane emissions for arctic lakes.

Mentor
Syndonia Bret-Harte
UAF, Institute of Arctic Biology

Andrew Whiteley
Biology and Ecology
University of Montana, Missoula

Postdoctoral Research
Neutral and adaptive genetic diversity of sculpin species in recently deglaciated habitats.

Mentors
David Tallmon and Tony Gharrett
UAS, Department of Natural Sciences and UAF, School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences