Matthew Druckenmiller
University of Colorado Boulder, CO·Earth & Environmental Science
The Arctic is changing quickly, and those changes ripple through the whole planet. Melting sea ice alters the chemical cycles of the ocean, and thawing permafrost releases stored carbon.
- Fields
Earth & Environmental Science
Social Science
- Topics
Arctic
sea ice
permafrost
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through May 2027
What they work on
- Support the IASC President and US delegates in running the International Arctic Science Committee's activities and responsibilities among its 22 member countries.
- Plan and coordinate international, interdisciplinary Arctic research on issues such as sea ice loss, permafrost thaw and the carbon cycle, and shifting species and ecosystems.
- Provide scientific input from IASC to the Arctic Council, the policy forum of the eight Arctic nations, including the United States.
More about the research
Species are moving north, ecosystems are reorganizing, and the people who live in or depend on the region must respond. No single country can fund enough research to keep up, so international bodies coordinate the effort. Growing Arctic activity in fishing, resource extraction and tourism raises the stakes, because Arctic science is still relatively young.
Why it matters
Arctic change affects global climate, carbon storage, fisheries and the communities that live in the north. By keeping US researchers involved in international planning, this coordination helps nations share the cost of Arctic research. It also feeds better scientific advice into Arctic Council policy and supports decisions about economic development in a region where the science is still incomplete.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
Jodi Young
University of Washington, WA·Earth & Environmental Science·Early-career
Measure how different sympagic algal species adapt their growth and cell properties to seasonal sea ice formation and melt, using a laboratory ice tank modeled on Antarctic Peninsula conditions.
Kevin Schaefer
University of Colorado Boulder, CO·Earth & Environmental Science
Quantify how different environmental conditions affect mercury accumulation in permafrost-region soils, with uncertainty estimates, by linking mercury pathways to existing models of the land carbon cycle.
Lantao Sun
Colorado State University-Fort Collins, CO·Earth & Environmental Science
Determine how much Arctic sea ice loss affects summer atmospheric circulation and the jet stream, and through what mechanisms, using DAMIP and PAMIP climate model simulations.
The school
University of Colorado Boulder: 36 labs on PI Pages, $718M a year on research, 447 research doctorates a year.
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