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Research projects in the Institute
This is a global list of the 57 research projects currently being undertaken by members of the Institute, listed by research group.
The list below may also include a small number of archived projects. In due course, these will be listed separately.
Arctic Ocean Geopolitics
- Antarctic Treaty Summit: Science-Policy Interactions in Intenational Governance
- Environmental Security in the Arctic Ocean
Polar Social Science and Humanities Group
- Anthropological research on impacts of oil and gas extraction on nomads
- Arctic Geopolitics and Autonomy
- Developing Indigenous research methodologies in the arctic (IRM-A): examining the impacts of settlement on socialization and youth experience in Siberia and Alaska
- Healing interactions between shamans and clients (Kyzyl, Republic of Tuva)
- Negotiating pathways to adulthood: social change and indigenous culture in four Arctic communities
- Reindeer herders' perceptions of and responses to climate change
- Sense of place, movement and viability in industrial northern communities
- The nativeness of settlers: constructions of belonging in Soviet and contemporary Chukotka
Circumpolar History and Public Policy
- Circumpolar Governance
- Conservation Hunting, Sustainable Development and Community Values in the Canadian Arctic
- Field practices and environmental science in the Canadian Arctic, 1950-2000
- Gender and Nationalism in Indigenous Political Movements: A Comparative Study of Nunavut, Canada and Tuva, Russian Federation
- Institutions and Public Policy in the Field Sciences
- Maritime Geographies of Science
- Traplines and Tar Sands: An Ethnographic Analysis of Intersecting Economies in a Subarctic Indigenous Community
Glaciology and Climate Change
- Assessing the role of subglacial hydrology on the flow of West Antarctic ice streams: a numerical modelling approach
- Changing Thermal Regime of Polythermal Glaciers
- CryoSat-2
- Evaluating the potential of high-resolution airborne remote sensing for glaciology
- Extreme Experiments: A comprehensive plan to validate Cryosat in the Arctic and Antarctic
- Geometry and Mass Balance Changes of Langjökull, Iceland
- Glacial Sedimentary Processes in Iceland
- High-resolution distributed modelling of the surface energy balance of valley glaciers
- Hydrological controls on the formation of basal ice layers beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet
- Identification of Subglacial Paleolakes in Arctic Canada: geophysical surveys in the Great Slave Lake
- INTEGRAL
- Investigating basal conditions and flow dynamics on Vestfonna Ice Cap, Svalbard
- Modelling and observing subglacial processes beneath Antarctic ice streams
- Modelling Mass Balance of Svalbard Glaciers
- Modelling the influence of glacier hydrology on the dynamics of large ice sheets
- Spaceborne measurements of Arctic glaciers and implications for sea-level change
- Supraglacial, Englacial and Subglacial Hydrology of Glaciers and Ice Sheets
- The Greenland Ice Sheet: How fast is it changing, and why?
- Thermodynamics of basal freeze-on beneath glaciers and ice sheet
- Understanding contemporary changes in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet
Glacimarine Environments Group
- Geophysical and Geological Investigations of Sedimentation and Ice-Ocean Variability on Arctic Continental Margins
- Glacial-interglacial changes in the lost drainage basin of the West Antarctic
- Ice-Rafted Debris on the Antarctic Continental Margin and the Dynamics of the Antarctic Ice Sheet
- Marine geological processes and sediments beneath floating ice shelves in Greenland and Antarctica: investigations using the Autosub AUV
Polar Landscape & Remote Sensing Group
- Air pollution and ground disturbance in the Russian Arctic
- BALANCE: Global Change Vulnerabilities in the Barents Region: Linking Arctic Natural Resources, Climate Change and Economies.
- Development of a phenological correction algorithm for remote sensing of industrial impact on high-latitude vegetation. Case study: Noril'sk, Northern Siberia
- Environmental Risk Assessment in the Arctic
- Geometry and scale-dependence of an Arctic glacier
- Northern Hemisphere snow cover
- Peasant Response to Development and Reform in Iceland 1700-1870
- Snow Lab
- Study of the mudflow hazard and glaciation decrease in Central Caucasus
- The Tundra-taiga interface
- Vulnerability of European reindeer husbandry to global change