Lead Principal Investigator

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Dr. Shiklomanov joined the Water Systems Analysis Group at the University of New Hampshire in 1997 and currently serves as a Research Associate Professor. The focuses of Alexander's research are on cold region hydroclimatology, hydrological and water management modeling and analysis. Research interests also include: hydrological monitoring systems; impacts of changes in climate and hydrology on human; effect of land cover and land use change on hydrology.

Lawrence Hamilton is professor of sociology and senior fellow in the Carsey School of Public Policy at the University of New Hampshire. His research includes surveys and studies of human-environment interactions, in the Arctic and beyond.

Vera Kuklina is an Indigenous scholar born and raised in a Buryat village in Siberia. She is a Research Professor at the Department of Geography at The George Washington University. Her research interests include urbanization of Indigenous people, traditional land use, socio-ecological systems, cultural geographies of infrastructure and remoteness. Her research is based on field studies and collaborations with local and Indigenous communities in the Baikal region, northern Mongolia and Alaska. Dr. Kuklina leads, co-leads and participates in the research projects funded by the National Science Foundation and Research Council of Norway.  She also co-leads an ArtSLInK initiative, focused on convergence of science, arts, and place-based local and Indigenous Knowledge systems. Vera Kuklina is the author of about eighty publications including papers in Arctic Science, Environmental Research Letters, Polar Science, Polar Record, and Geoforum.

Vladimir Alexeev is a Research Professor at the International Arctic Research Center of the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Uses a hierarchy of models and observational data to study dynamics of climate. His research interests include climate dynamics, large-scale circulation of the atmosphere/ocean, hydrology, coastal processes, permafrost.

Dr. Alexander Kholodov, Research Assistant Professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Alexander's area of expertise is the thermal state of permafrost, cryostratigraphy, and soils. The main research interest is the ecological and social consequences of permafrost degradation.

Richard Lammers is a Research Associate Professor in the Earth Systems Research Center, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space at the University of New Hampshire.  He was one of the founding members of the Water Systems Analysis Group and has been Co-Director since 2008.  The focus of Dr. Lammers’ research is understanding the dynamics of global and regional-scale hydrology with an emphasis on human interactions within the hydrological cycle.  His recent work involves integrating hydrology with multi-sector dynamics of power generation systems, economic models and water rights to understand the resilience and vulnerability of the water, land, food, and energy systems. His research interests also include understanding the convergence of human and biogeophysical datasets, modeling, and analysis; the hydrological cycle at high latitudes; tracking glacier water through land surface hydrology; inter-basin hydrological transfers; coupling agent-based and physically-based models; future change; spatial datasets and geoprocessing; river networks; and techniques of Internet-based data serving and analysis.