There are many women around the world doing exciting work as researchers and representatives of their homelands and the Arctic and Antarctic regions. Learn more some of these women, their experiences, areas of expertise, and their research and contributions to our understanding about the Arctic, Antarctic and the North.

Adanna Omaka – (Law) – Arctic; maritime law; international and energy law; oil spill prevention and response

Aki Tonami – (International Political Economy) – Arctic; Asian states, especially Japan; perspectives of women

Alexa Reedman – (Governance and Program Management) – Large-scale Canadian research programs; big data; supporting Inuit research; Arctic shipping

Alexandra Middleton – (Sustainable Business and Economic Development) – Arctic; High North; Murmansk; sustainable consumption; human security; sustainable resource use; environmentally responsible business

Alla Pozdnakova – (Law) – Maritime transport and shipping; law of the sea; environmental law; space law; national approaches to Arctic shipping regulations

Allyson Tessin – (Geology and biogeochemistry) – Ocean carbon and nutrient cycles; ocean seafloor environment; fisheries

Amanda Graham – (Social Sciences) – Yukon; Arctic; North; The Northern Review; Canada

Amanda Ziegler – (Natural Science) – Biodiversity and biogeography; Antarctic Peninsula; phytoplankton

Andrea Charron – (International Relations and War Studies) – Arctic; Canada; NORAD; NATO; Arctic Council; Canada-US relations

Anna Soer – (Political Studies) – Canadian Arctic; Norway; Inuit; Saami; Green colonialism; Indigenous sovereignty

Anna Varfolomeeva – (Environmental Anthropology) – Arctic; Siberia; environmental anthropology; indigeneity; sustainability; resource extraction; multispecies encounters

Anne Merrild Hansen – (Strategic Environmental Assessment) – Greenland; Arctic impact assessments; community impact, benefits and engagement

Armina Soleymani – (Systems Design Engineering) – Arctic; sea ice; satellite image processing; remote sensing

Aviaja Lyberth Hauptmann – (Mircobiology) – Arctic; Greenlandic foods; native gut mircobiomes

Barbara Beata Baczynska – (Cultural Studies) – Climate change; Arctic pastoralists; Canada; Scandinavia; co-production of knowledge

Barbara Crawford – (Art and Art History) – Arctic; traditional landscapes; moral relationship to nature; women in Arctic artistic expression

Barbora Padrtova – (International Relations and European Studies) – Arctic; national policies; Arctic Council; US-Russia relations; NATO-Russia relations; Arctic security and geopolitics

Blanca Figuerola – (Marine biology, biodiversity and chemical ecology) – Marine animal change in response to environment; Antarctic bryozoans

Carina Ren – (Tourism development and cultural innovation; ethnology) – Greenlandic knowledge collaboration and community-based tourism and entrepreneurship; Arctic; local impact of tourism

Carol Devine – (Advocate; NGOs) – Antarctic; plastics; medical care; Svalbard; environmental clean-up; climate change and environmental degradation

Catherine Hirst – (Geochemistry) – Sweden; Northern Russia; Lena River; isotopes, microscopy and spectroscopy techniques; understanding weathering processes

Charlotta Hilli – (Distance Education) – Nordic countries; virtual learning environments; Sami; Finland; Sweden

Charlotte Gehrke – (Social Science) – Arctic; environmental policy; media; political communication; science communication; science diplomacy

Clare Eayrs – (Natural Science) – Antarctica; climate change; solar radiation; sea ice levels

Corine Wood-Donnelly – (Political Geography and International Relations) – Sovereignty and legitimacy; Sweden; maritime governance; sustainable development

Courtney Price – (Communications Manager Arctic Council CAFF Working Group; Journalism; Communications) – Iceland; communication strategy; Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Program; Arctic Biodiversity Assessment; Arctic Biodiversity Congress; Arctic Migratory Birds Initiative

Daniella McCahey – (History) – Gender history in Antarctic field sites; the histories of Antarctic volcanology and botany; Antarctic whaling; history of South Georgia

Danita Catherine Burke – (International Relations and Political Science) – Arctic diplomacy, security and history; Arctic Council; environmental and animal rights organisations; identity; Newfoundland and Labrador; Canada

Daria Shapovalova – (Law) – Arctic; international law; offshore petroleum development and regulation; human rights

Dina Brode-Roger – (Cultural Studies) – Svalbard; Longyearbyen; Norway; identity; local identity; sustainability; policy; media representation; geographical and geopolitical significance

Eimear Tynan – (Architecture and Design) – Norway; Svalbard; Greenland; Russia; Iceland; Arctic landscape; High Arctic coastlines

Ekaterina Uryupova – (Environmental Science) – Arctic; Antarctic; Environmental Protection; Marine Pollution; fishery; biodiversity; and environmental policies

Elizabeth Buchanan – (International Relations and Defence Studies) – Russian Arctic strategy; Russian-Ukrainian natural gas relations; Arctic energy development; Russian foreign energy strategy and critical infrastructure security

Emily Choy – (Natural Resource Science) – Arctic; wildlife conservation; Canada; Nunavut; Northwest Territories; seabirds; beluga whales; Franklin (Erebus and Terror search)

Emily Stevenson – (Geochemistry) – Greenland; glacial erosion; Arctic rivers; Arctic weathering; carbon cycle and climate

Eva la Cour – (Visual artist) – Denmark; Sweden; Norway; Svalbard; media and visual anthropology; the film ‘The Tour’; imaginary geographies and their materialities

Gabriella Gricius – (International Relations) – Russian Arctic strategy; human security; Great Power competition; Russia-US relations; Decolonial Theory; Critical Theory

Giuditta Celli – (Photochemistry) – Antarctica; photochemistry of mercury and iodine; ice cores; ozone depletion

Hanna Kauko – (Biology and Biological Oceanography) – Antarctic; Dronning Maud Land; Svalbard; Norway; phytoplankton; marine food webs; autonomous monitoring possibilities

Heather Exner-Pirot – (International Relations) – Arctic; Human Security; Regionalisation; Arctic Council; Arctic governance; Southern Chile; Huilliche

Hrefna D Gunnarsdóttir – (Law) – Human Dignity and Health; Health Law, Ethics and Science; Research Regulation; Research Reciprocity; Social Welfare Law; Disasters, Mitigation and Risk Reduction.

Ingrid Medby – (Political Geography) – Arctic identity; national narratives; geopolitics; sovereignty; Canada; Iceland; Norway

Irene Quaile – (Environmental Journalist) – Svalbard; Alaska; Greenland; climate change; Antarctic

Jasmiini Fransala (née Pylkkänen) – (Development Studies and Environmental Politics) – Resource Extraction; Sustainable Arctic Communities; Natural resource governance; Arctic and sub-Arctic; Finland; Canada; Nunavut; Greenland; Sweden; Norway

Jessica Houston – (Visual Art) – Agency of ice; Canadian Arctic; Iceland; Antarctica; Northwest Passage; oral histories

Jessica Penney – (Global Health, Sociology and Public Policy) – Nunatsiavut; Newfoundland and Labrador; Nunavut; Development projects; health and social issues

Joanna Kafarowski – (Natural Resources and Environmental Studies) – Inuit women; contaminants and decision-making; resource management; Arctic; Arctic Council; Antarctic

Karen Everett – (Canadian and Indigenous Studies) – Canadian North; Arctic; border management; economic inequality; regional governance

Kimberly Aiken – (International Environmental Policy) – Arctic; Antarctic; Stakeholder engagement; Polar political policy; Diversity; Inclusion; Indigenous knowledge

Kirsi Latola – (Plant Ecology and Networks) – Arctic; Finland; EU; UArctic; communications and thematic networks

Kirstine Møller – (Archaeology and Sustainable Heritage Management) – Inuit: Greenland; Labrador; Moravians; memory and practice

Laura Barbero Palacios – (Ecology) – Iceland; Arctic; herbivores; tundra; wildlife management and conservation

Lisa M. Smith (Inuit Rights) – Inuit Circumpolar Council; Canadian Senate; Indigenous languages;  self–determination; Inuit sovereignty; Inuktitut

Lisbeth Iversen – (Regions and Regionalization, Art, Architecture, Architectural and Building Conservation; Ethnology and Cultural Heritage; International Politics) – Community-based monitoring; Arctic; climate change; sustainable welfare; Arendal

Madeleine Brasier – (Marine Biology) – Antarctica; Antarctic invertebrate; DNA barcoding and genetic analysis; Antarctic polychaetes; changing environmental conditions; species and habitat management and protection

Maria Ackrén – (Political Science and International Relations) – Arctic; Greenland; Finland; Sweden; Thule Base; Greenlandic Independence issues; Democracy; Uranium mining

Maria Scheel – (Biogeochemistry) – Arctic; Greenland; greenhouse gases; nucleic acids; APECS Denmark

Marianne Falardeau – (Natural Resource Sciences) – Arctic marine ecology; sustainability science; food web dynamics and ecosystem services; northern communities; Indigenous and local knowledge holders   

Marisol Maddox – (Environmental Studies and Security) – Arctic; US strategy; polar governance; geopolitics; climate change risk mitigation

Maud van Soest – (Natural Sciences) – West Greenland; Biogeochemical cycles; de-glaciated terrain; permafrost

Maxine King – (Palaeoclimate and Antarctic Geosciences) – Antarctic; Ross Sea West Antarctic Ice Sheet History; sedimentary processes

Mindy Jewell Price – (Food Systems) – Sociology and Political Ecology; Arctic; Canada; agrarian change; Indigeneity; land sovereignty; critical theory

Megan Sheremata – (Environmental Science) – Canada; Inuit knowledge and land-users; environmental change on sea ice and salinity; environmental management

Mette Bendixen – (Geomorphology) – Arctic geomorphology; coastal and sediment dynamics; natural resource exploitation; global sand scarcity; Greenland

Michaela Stith – (Environmental Justice) – Arctic; Alaska; Indigenous politics; environmental science and policy

Mîtdlârak Lennert – (Social Sciences, Education) – Arctic; Greenland; education systems; Governance of primary school systems; stakeholder prioritization

Narissa Bax – (Marine Biology) – Antarctic; Sea corals; Patagonia; Southern Ocean; conservation; blue carbon; ocean chemistry and acidification

Nastasia Freyria – (Oceanography and Environmental Biology) – Arctic microbial phytoplankton; organism genetic capacity; marine biology; molecular biology

Nicole Covey – (Canadian Studies) – Canadian Arctic; security; NATO; NORAD; Arctic Council; broadband connectivity; Central Arctic Ocean

Olwyn Friesen – (Biology and Biogeography) – molluscs; snails; Canadian Arctic; Canadian North; conservation; Arctic wolves; red fox

Penny Clarke – (Marine Conservationist) – Arctic; Western Antarctic Peninsula; remote sensors; satellite imagery; British Antarctic Survey; ‘Whales from Space’; cetaceans

Rachel Downey – (Natural Sciences) – Antarctic; sub-Antarctic; fish; crustaceans; annelids; sponges; seabed shelf biomass

Rebecca Lynge – (Greenlandic Civil Servant; International development) – Arctic; Greenland; international cooperation; Kingdom of Denmark; trade policy; SDWG Strategic Framework; Indigenous peoples rights and policy

Samantha Saville – (Human Geography) – Norway; Longyearbyen; Svalbard; conservation and environmental protection; human-nature relations

Sanne Moedt – (Natural Sciences) – Arctic; Greenland; Svalbard; aquatic ecology; community ecology; climate change; microscopy; APECS Denmark

Sarah Di Giglio – (Biology) – Antarctic; Ocean acidification; CO2; Biomechanical characteristics of calcified skeletons; Hydrothermal vents; echinoderms

Shalaka Kiran Patil – (Microbiology) – Arctic; Svalbard; Arctic permafrost; Arctic pingos; microbiomes; Methane oxidizers

Sigrun Sigurdardottir – (Health Science and Nursing) – Arctic; Childhood sexual abuse for women; Psychological trauma and violence; Gender based violence

Silja Bára Ómarsdóttir – (International Relations) – Arctic; Iceland; Icelandic foreign policy analysis; security policy; negotiations; international and US politics; feminism

Silke Reeploeg – (History) – Arctic; Greenland; Shetland Islands; Patagonia; historical and cultural encounters in the Arctic; coastal communities; feminist approaches

Siri Gulliksen Tømmerbakke – (Newspaper Editor) – High North News; politics; business; climate; society; Arctic

Sophie Watson – (Natural Sciences) – Arctic; bacterial and parasitic communities; climate change; anthropogenic stressors; polar bears; wolverines; gastrointestinal health; ecosystem impact of resource development

Steinunn Thorarinsdottir – (Artist/Sculpture) – Public Art; Iceland; Communication and Understanding; Arctic

Tara Cater – (Geography and Political Economy) – Arctic; Canada; Nunavut; resource development; community engagement; mining; Inuit

Tayana Arakchaa – (Linguistics) – Russia; Siberia; Alaska; Sweden; Antarctica; Tozhu reindeer herder-hunters; international agreements; marine resource and minerals; Indigenous peoples

Tina Soliman Hunter – (Marine sediments and Geology) – Arctic; Russia; oil spills; microplastics; High North; seabed sediments and contamination; petroleum law

Victoria Buschman – (Conservation Biologist) – Arctic; Indigenous knowledge; conservation assessments; flora and fauna

Victoria Heinrich – (Psychological Sciences) – Antarctic; sub-Antarctic; weather observation; how, when, and why people use weather, climate and other environmental information

Zdenka Sokolickova – (Interdisciplinary Studies, Environmental Ethics) –  Arctic; Norway; Svalbard; Longyearbyen; Social Anthropology; identity politics; mining; tourism; globalization

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