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My name is Marisol Maddox. I am a research contractor at the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Polar Institute in Washington, DC, and I am pursuing a Master’s degree in International Security at George Mason University in Arlington, Virginia. My research and work are focused on the security implications of an opening Arctic, including the evolution of … Continue reading Marisol Maddox

Written by: Lisbeth Iversen and Alexandra Meyer Edited by: Danita Catherine Burke Lisbeth Iversen (NERSC) and Alexandra Meyer have written a workshop report from a dialogue-workshop they had with local actors in Longyearbyen on December 6, 2018. The aim of the workshop was to initiate a dialogue on knowledge, challenges and possibilities related to climate, nature, and the … Continue reading Communication between science and the local community in Longyearbyen

My name is Silke Reeploeg and I am an Associate Professor of History at Ilisimatusarfik/University of Greenland.  I grew up in Southern Germany, but have lived most of my life in other parts of the world. From 1991-1996, I studied for a BA (Hons) degree in English and Philosophy at the Manchester Metropolitan University in … Continue reading Silke Reeploeg

From a young age, I have tried to understand how people and nature interact and started to ask questions about the interdisciplinary nature of landscape formation. I obtained a BSc degree in International Land and Water management from the Wageningen University in the Netherlands. There I learned how standards of living could be raised with … Continue reading Maud van Soest

My academic interests in Antarctica started at the University of Southampton whilst studying for my MSci Marine Biology. I became interested in, and sought opportunities to study, remote and extreme habitats. During my undergraduate I went to sea for the first time and I began studying the variation in the reproductive output of Antarctic invertebrates … Continue reading Madeleine Brasier