4th T-MOSAiC Workshop
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Short Bio of the T-MOSAiC Workshop Speakers
João Canário
Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal João Canário is an environmental chemist and coordinator researcher at the Centre for Structural Chemistry at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST). João Canário is also invited Professor at IST, collaborator researcher at the Centre for Northern Studies (University Laval) and Adjunct professor at Trent University both in Canada. His current research is on permafrost chemistry, mainly in structural characterisation of natural organic matter in permafrost thaw lakes and biogeochemistry and fate of trace-elements (particularly sulphur) in this aquatic systems. He is chair of T-MOSAiC and the Portuguese delegate at the International Arctic Science Committee. |
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Warwick Vincent
Laval University, Canada Warwick Vincent is a professor of biology at Laval University in Quebec City, Canada, where he teaches limnology (lake science) and oceanography. He also holds the Canada Research Chair in Aquatic Ecosystem Studies and is former Director/Scientific Director (2008-16) of the interuniversity Center for Northern Studies (CEN). His current research is on lakes, rivers and permafrost landscapes in the Canadian North and their responses to global climate change. He is co-chair of T-MOSAiC. |
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Marie Frost Arndal
Greenland Ecosystem Monitoring Programme, Denmark Marie Frost Arndal has a master in Biology from University of Copenhagen. During her Ph.D. and Post doc she mainly worked with plant root ecology, belowground root carbon and dynamics in different ecosystems in Denmark, Greenland and Svalbard. Marie now works in the Greenland Ecosystem Monitoring (GEM) secretariat, where she is involved in the coordination of several projects and programmes within the Arctic. |
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Torben R. Christensen
Greenland Ecosystem Monitoring Programme, Denmark Scientific Leader of the Greenland Ecosystem Monitoring programme. Experienced researcher and teacher in climate change and arctic environmental issues. Research focuses on Arctic ecosystem ecology and trace gas biogeochemistry with special focus on carbon dioxide and methane exchange in northern terrestrial environments. Holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge and has carried out extensive research in Greenland, Alaska, Svalbard, Siberia and northern Sweden. |
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Clay Prater
Department of Geography and Environment, Loughborough University, UK My work is primarily focused on elemental ecology, which explores the role of elements in mediating interactions between organisms and between the abiotic and biotic environment. I have a background in limnology, but I'm generally interested in studying these dynamics throughout the biosphere with a particular emphasis of looking at how elemental supplies influence ecological processes across scales. I'm especially curious about determining the molecular mechanisms behind ecological and evolutionary differences in organismal elemental composition and nutritional demands, the influence of climate on organismal nutritional physiology, and in better understanding the diverse pathways governing cross-system elemental transport and biogeochemical cycling. My current project brings these interests together to study the ecological effects of atmospheric deposition of glacial sediments on Arctic lakes. |
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Kristina Likhacheva
National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilisations, France Kristina is a Socio - anthropologist, She have graduated from the Specialist programme at the Lomonosov Moscow State University (2014) and the Master programme at the University of Siegen in Germany (2017) with the specialisation in environmental governance. At the moment, Kristina is doing a PhD at the National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilisations (INALCO) in Paris. Kristina interdisciplinary research is dedicated to social and political aspects of governance of natural resources. A special focus of her research is on extractive industries and their relations to indigenous communities in the northern Russia. |
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Svetlana Badina
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia Svetlana V. Badina was born on December 4, 1990 in Moscow. In 2014 she graduated from the Faculty of Geography, Lomonosov Moscow State University (Economic and Social Geography of Russia Department). In 2017 she has graduated there the Graduate School of Geography. In 2018, she defended her PhD thesis on Economic, Social, Political and Recreational Geography “Natural Hazards Impact on the Socio-Economic Potential of Russian Regions”. One of the PhD thesis chapters was devoted to assessing how the changes in geocryological conditions impact to society and economy in Russian Arctic. In 2014-2018 Svetlana V. Badina was engaged in scientific work at the Arctic Environment Laboratory in the Faculty of Geography, Lomonosov Moscow State University. She took a part in big scientific project with the theme of environmental changes in the Arctic and their impacts on the human wellbeing and infrastructure, including expedition and cameral studies, development thematic maps series to Russian National Arctic Atlas. Since 2014 Svetlana V. Badina is a researcher in Institute of Economic Forecasting Russian Academy of Sciences. She develops strategic planning documents (strategies for the Russian regions socio-economic development, etc.), including for Russian Arctic territories. She is a lecturer of Lomonosov Moscow State University. Main themes of research interests: natural risks (socio-economic aspect), assessment of damages and territory, population and economy vulnerability to natural hazards including in the context of global climate change. |
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Skip Walker
University of Alaska - Fairbanks, USA Professor D. ‘Skip’ Walker is Director of the Alaska Geobotany Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. His research interests include Tundra Ecology, Vegetation Mapping, Landscape Responses to Climate Change, and Disturbance and Recovery of Arctic Ecosystems. He has led, and continues to lead, many largescale projects in the Arctic including ‘The Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation Map’ (CAVM) and ‘Rapid Transitions Associated with Infrastructure and Climate (RATIC). He also leads the Arctic Infrastructure Action Group of T-MOSAiC. |
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