Larry Hinzman

UAF Interim Chancellor

University of Alaska Fairbanks

3rd Floor Signers' Hall Fairbanks, Alaska 99775

Website: uaf.edu/chancellor/

UAF Interim Chancellor Larry Hinzman currently serves as the director of the UA Arctic Leadership Initiative (ALI), coordinating design and implementation across the UA system. He has also been appointed vice president for International Polar Year at the University of the Arctic. Before returning to UA in 2024, he served as the Assistant Director of Polar Sciences in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and as the Executive Director of the Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee, where he led work on the 2022 to 2026 Federal Arctic Research Plan.

Hinzman served as the Director of the UAF International Arctic Research Center (IARC) from 2007 to 2015, and served as vice chancellor for research 2015-2020. Dr. Hinzman also served as a member of the U.S. Polar Research Board and as the U.S. delegate and president of the International Arctic Science Committee.

Hinzman’s primary research focus is permafrost hydrology, informed by decades of fieldwork in the Alaskan, Russian and Canadian Arctic.