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Research team

FROST brings together 16 leading Arctic researchers from environmental engineering, natural sciences, and social sciences to investigate how ice, snow, and Arctic lake ecosystem services are connected to northern communities.

PROJECT LEADER
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Milla Rautio

Professor

Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (CA)

Milla co-leads the FROST Project. She is mainly involved in the research Module 2 · Food webs and focus on trophic transfer and fatty acids.

Project Coordinator
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Chelsi McNeill-Jewer

Research Director

Sapujiyiit Guardians of the Sea Society (CA)

Chelsi is a Project Coordinator, dedicated to strengthening Inuit participation in FROST.

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Danny Lau

Associate professor

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) 

Danny is part of Module 2 · Food Webs, where he studies ecological tracers and refines food web models.

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Eva Leu

Senior Researcher

Akvaplan niva (NO) 

Eva is mainly involved in Module 2 · Food webs and will focus on phytoplankton ecology.

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Catherine Girard

Associate professor

University Laval (CA) 

Catherine is mainly involved in the  Module 2 · Food webs and focus on cryosphere and microbial ecology.

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Laura Brown

Associate professor

University of Toronto, (CA)

Laura contributes to Module 1 · Physics  with a focus on the cryosphere.

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Robert Henry

Associate professor

University of Saskatchewan, (CA)

Robert is mainly involved in the Module 03 · Traditional Ecological Knowledge and focus on socioecology.

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Sally McIntyre

Professor

University of California, Santa Barbara (USA)

Sally is mainly involved in the Module 01 · Physics and mainly focus on hydrodynamics.

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Kimmo Kahilainen

Professor

University of Helinksi (FI)

Kimmo co-leads the FROST project. He is mainly involved in the research Module 2 · Food webs and focus on fish ecology, mercury, food web models

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Minna Turunen

Senior scientist

Arctic Center · University of Lapland (FI)

Minna contributes to Module 3 · Traditional Ecological Knowledge, with a focus on building self-sustaining food systems.

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Amanda Poste

Research Director

Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NO)

Amanda  is mainly involved in the Module 2 · Food webs and will focus on ecosystem ecology.

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Kirsten Christoffersen 

Professor

University of Copenhagen (DK) 

Kristen is mainly involved in the Module 02 · Food webs and focus on plankton and benthic communities.

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Isabelle Laurion

Professor

Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (CA)

Isabelle is mainly involved in the Module 02 · Food webs with a focus on biogeochemistry.

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Lori Bradford 

Associate professor

University of Saskatchewan, (CA)

Lori contributes to Module 3 · Traditional Ecological Knowledge, with a focus on socioecology.

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Alexander Forrest

Associate professor

University of California, Davis (USA)

Alexander contributes to Module 1 · Physics with a focus on sensor technology.

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Raoul-Marie Couture

Full professor

University Laval (CA)

Raoul-Marie is mainly involved in the Module 03 · Traditional Ecological Knowledge and focus on Bayesian Belief Networks (BBN).

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