UND ARCTIC Lab

About ARCTIC

With the goal of enhancing the superiority and effectiveness of the U.S. Army in extreme cold weather environments, the UND ARCTIC Lab brings together multiple North Dakota-based resources and collaborations to help create the Defense Resiliency Platform against Extreme Cold Weather.

This cold-weather research effort is in collaboration with Virginia Tech, Stonybrook University, the University of Minnesota, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Cold Regions Research and Engineering Lab (CRREL).

ARCTIC's research and technological innovation will assist CRREL in better understanding changes in Alaskan permafrost – the frozen layer of rock and soil that covers a significant amount of land above the Arctic Circle.

Our tasks include conducting research fieldwork in the air and on the ground in some of the most remote and inaccessible regions of the Alaskan Arctic wilderness. This data is then analyzed through cutting-edge collaborative research in data visualization, advanced modeling, and predictive analytics.

Opportunities

If you are interested in working in our lab, please feel free to reach out to us via our contact link. I count myself privileged in my experience to have worked with and learned from numerous mentors, colleagues, students and friends from many regions globally. As such, I aspire to offer the same level of guidance to my students as well. It is my goal to continue to discover areas of intersection between aspects of my Arctic experience with my teaching and research at the University of North Dakota, in the community of Grand Forks, and Nationally/Internationally. At this time we are particularly interested in students with experience leveraging advanced digital research and development skills in the areas of Arctic Computational Research (broadly defined).