LATEST NEWS
February 15th, Dr. Petrov appointed Associate Editor of Polar Geography
January 31st, 2012 Phil Cavin received NSF travel award to IPY Montreal Meeting
December 20th, Cooperative Agreement signed with the State Polar Academy
November 24th RESDA Launched
August 4th, Iowa Board of Regents Faculty Presentation ny Dr. Petrov "Polar Science at UNI"
June, 24: Dr. Petrov elected an International Arctic Social Sciences Association (IASSA) Concilor
April, 13: Three ARCSES presentations at AAG: Dr. Peterov, Anna Pestereva & Jonathon Launspach
April, 8: Dr. Pertov is a keynote speaker at Geopolitics, Resources and Security: Asia and the Arctic in the 21st Century workshop in Ottawa, ON
RECENT AND FORTHCOMING EVENTS
- IPY Montreal Meeting April 22-27, 2012
- AHDR II Workshop March 11-13, 2012
- AAG 2012 February 24-28, New York City
- ReSDA Workshop Nov 24-25, Yellowknife, NWT
- AHDR-II Workshop Nov 18-19, Copenhagen
- The Second International Arctic Forum “The Arctic: Territory of Dialogue”, September 21-24, Russia
- ReSDA/Inuvialuit Social Indicators Workshop, September 17-19, Yellowknife, NWT
ARCSES EXPERTS:
Melting Ice? Greenland in the Age o
f Global WarmingARCSES student Jon Lausnpach writes about changes in Greenland Ice sheet and its possible implications LINK
ARCSES in the MEDIA
December 2011: Read about ARCSES in the Cedar Rapids Gazette LINK
October 2011: Dr. Petrov's interview "Creative Development in the Arctic" is published in the Arctic Vector (newspaper, Arkhangelsk, Russia) LINK
ARCSES Mission
Featured Research
The
Arctic Social and Environmental Systems
Research Lab (ARCSES) was established in 2011 in the Department of Geography at the University of Northern Iowa
to expand Arctic research at UNI and build further capacities
for receiving external funding, raising university’s
profile and
attracting students to UNI. The lab’s mission is to develop synergies
and
collaboration among faculty, staff and students in Geography and across
campus,
who are engaged in research and educational activities pertaining to
the Arctic
as well as other remote and cold regions. The lab is partially funded
by NSF
and NASA grants and will assist in cross-pollinating ideas and will use
its
capacity to promote Arctic-based research on and outside campus and
involve
other faculty, staff and students in Arctic-based work.
ARCSES People
Andrey N. Petrov (PhD, Toronto) - Assistant Professor and ARCSES DirectorAnna Pestereva (ABD, St. Petersburg State) - Research Associate
Philip Cavin (BA, UNI) - graduate assistant
Jonathon Launspach (BS/BA, UNI) - graduate assistant
Susan Meerdink - undergraduate researcher
Brian VanDrasek (BA, UNI) - graduate assistant
Bernard Conrad - undergraduate researcher
Kara Poppe - undergraduate researcher
More Information
Financial Support
National Science Foundation
NASA Iowa Space Grant
PROGRUS Program
Coll. Soc. & Behav. Sciences
National Science Foundation
NASA Iowa Space Grant
PROGRUS Program
Coll. Soc. & Behav. Sciences
Phil Cavin
investigates creadive capital dynamics in northern Canada and AKPhil has been a research assistant on NSF creative Arctic project since 2010. He is in charge of data collection and analysis for northern Canada and Alaska. Currently he is working on his paper for the ICASS 7 meeting in Iceland that would summarize changes in creative capital in Arctic Canada between 1991 and 2006.
(Susan started her work on reindeer in winter of 2011 and quickly fell in love with the topic. She is investigating the evidence of spatial fidelity of Taimyr wild reindeer, i.e. analyzes spatial consistency of reindeer migration and habitation. This pioneering research will help to understand migration behavior of wild reindeer/caribou and to assess possible impacts of climate change on Arctic migratory animals.
