Prof. dr. philos. Ole Henrik Magga. Saami Univ. College, Guovdageaidnu. Chairman: Saami Programme, Research Council of Norway (RCN). Education: Dr. philos. in Saami lingustics and Bachelor (cand. mag. ) in science (mathematics, chemistry, biology), Univ. of Oslo. Experience: Former Chairman UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. Coordinator of the project Saami syntax and phraseology, Nordic Saami Institute 1983-1986. Member: RCN Programme on Saami and Kven history, culture social life 1981-1990. Coordinator of the Indigenous Resaerch Network (Univ. of Tromsø, Nordic Saami Institute, Saami Univ. College) 1997-2001. Relevant publications last years: Tyler, N.J.C. and Magga, O.H. (2002) Overlappende eller forskjellig perspektiv? Sammenligning av samiske og økologiske begreper om rein og reinens liv. * Magga, O.H. Oskal, N. & Sara, M.N. (2001): Dyreetikk i samisk kultur. Sara. 'Samisk forskning i et selvbestemmses-perspektiv', Diedut 2, 2002 Diversity in Saami terminology for snow and ice (forthcoming).

Prof. dr. philos. Svein D. Mathiesen, Physiologist. Norwegian School of Veterinary Science, Prof. II Nordic Saami Institute. Long time experience in co-ordination of large scientific programs related to reindeer herding. Relevant publications last 3 years: Turner, B.L. et al. (2003) Illustrating the coupled human-environment system for vulnerability analysis: three case studies. PNAS 100: 8080-8085. * Mathiesen et. al 2004. Microbial ecology of the digestive tract in reindeer - seasonal changes. (In press Elsevier). * Maynard et al (2004). Integrating indigenous traditional, local and scientific knowledge to improve management, policy and decision making in reindeer husbandry in Russian Arctic, IASS (in press). * Bull et al. (2004) Assessing vulnerability: A new strategy for the arctic. (Submitted). * Maynard et al. (2004) Shared knowledge for decision-making on environment and health Issues in the Arctic. (Submitted) * McCarthy, J.J et al. (2005) Climate change in the context of multiple stressors and resilience. Arctic Climate Impact Assessment: Arctic Council.

Dr. Rasmus Benestad D. Phil. (Oxon). Senior scientist, Norwegian Meteorological Institute. Experience: Leader for a project on seasonal forecasting at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute. Norwegian contact person for the European Meteorological Society. Relevant publications last 3 years: * Benestad, R.E., 2003: What can present climate models tell us about climate change? Climatic Change, 59, 311-332 * Benestad, R.E., 2003: How often can we expect a record-event? Climate Research, 23, 3-13. * Benestad, R.E., 2004: clim.pact: Empirical-Statistical Downscaling for Everyone. EOS * Benestad, R.E., 2004: Tentative probabilistic temperature scenarios for northern Europe. Tellus 56A, 89-101 * Benestad, R.E., 2004: Record-values, non-stationarity tests and extreme value distributions. Global and Planetary Change. Vol 44, issue 1-4, p.11-26 * Benestad, R.E., 2005: A review of the solar cycle length estimates. GRL/32 doi:10.1029/2005GL023621 * Benestad, R.E., 2005: Climate change scenarios for northern Europe from multi-model IPCC AR4 climate simulations, GRL/32 doi:10.1029/2005GL023401 * Benestad, R.E., 2006: Can we expect more extreme precipitation on the monthly time scale? J.Clim., Vol.19, 630-637

Dr. Robert Corell, PhD. Senior Research Fellow. Atmospheric Policy Program of the American Meteorological Society. Member of the scientific committees of NASA, Arctic Council, Open GIS, ICSU, NATO. Chairman ACIA. Relevant publications last 3 years: Kates RW, et al. (2001) Environment and development - Sustainability science. Science 292 (5517): 641-642 * Clark, W. C., et al (2000) Assessing Vulnerability to Global Environmental Risks. Vulnerability to Global Environmental Change. Report: http: //www. ksg.harvard.edu/sust * A framework for vulnerability analyses in sustainable science (2003) 100 * Parson E.A., Corell, R.W. Understanding Climate Impacts, Vulnerability and Adaptation in the United States; Building Capacity for Assessment (2003) 57: 9-42.

Cand. mag. Nils Isak Eira Fossbakken. Reindeer herder, traditional knowledge producer. cand. mag. philosophy and language; Univ. Troms. 1978, Relevant publications last 3 years: Eira, N.I. 1984 Reindeer herders language, Diedut- Nordic Saami Institute, * Eira, N.I. Among the reindeer, 1994, DAT. * McCarthy, J.J et al. (2005), Climate change in the context of multiple stressors and resilience. Arctic Climate Impact Assessment: Arctic Council (in press)

Cand.philol Inger Marie G. Eira. Linguistic researcher, Department of Linguistics, Nordic Sami Institute. Relevant publications last 3 years: Eira, I.M.G. (2003) Giella vákkis vággái. Gáivuona dialeavtta suokkardallan. Diedut 2/2003. Sami Institute. *Eira, I.M.G. (2004) Guohtunterminologiija kárten (documentation of traditional terminology related to pastures and reindeer grazing). (in press). * McCarthy, J.J et al. (2005) Climate change in the context of multiple stressors and resilience. Arctic Climate Impact Assessment: Arctic Council (in press). Eira, I.M.G. (2005) (red.) Muohtasánit ja eará sánit mat leat dehálaččat sámiide. Árbevirolaš máhttu dološ áiggis dálá áigái. Sámi allaskuvla.

Prof. Mads C. Forchhammer, National Environmental Research Institute, Denmark Denmark. Research interest: Life history strategies and analytic population dynamics of plants and animals in the Northern Hemisphere in relation to both density-dependent as well as climatic processes. Relevant publications last 3 years: Forchhammer et al. (2001): Climate and population density induce long-term cohort variation in a northern ungulate. J. Animal Ecology 70, 721-729; -- Forchhammer et al. (2002): Long-term responses in arctic ungulate dynamics to changes in climatic and trophic processes. Pop. Ecol. 44, 113-120; -- Post & Forchhammer (2002): Synchronization of animal population dynamics by large-scale climate. Nature 420, 168-171; -- Forchhammer & Post (2004) Using large-scale climate indices in climate change ecology studies. Population Ecology 46, 1-12, Forchhammer et al. (2005) Local-scale and short-term herbivore-plant spatial dynamics reflect influences of large-scale climate. Ecology 86 (10): 2644-2651 OCT 2005.

Dr. Inger Hanssen-Bauer, dr. scient. (Univ. Bergen). Senior scientist, Norwegian Meteorological Institute. Member of the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program (AMAP) expert group on climate/UV and of the International Association for the Promotion of Co-operation with Scientists from the New Independent States of the Former Soviet Union (INTAS) Council of Scientists. Relevant publications last 3 years: * Hanssen-Bauer I, EJ Førland, JE Haugen , OE Tveito (2003) Temperature and precipitation scenarios for Norway - Comparison of results from dynamical and empirical downscaling. Climate Research, 25, 15-27 * Hanssen-Bauer I, Achberger C, Benestad R, Chen D, Førland EJ (2005) Statistical downscaling of climate scenarios over Scandinavia: A review. Climate Research, 29, 255-268. * Kattsov, VM et al. (2005) Modeling and Scenarios for the Arctic, pp 99-150 in: Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, Cambridge University Press. * McCarthy, JJ et al. (2005) Climate change in the context of multiple stressors and resilience, pp 945-988 in: Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, Cambridge University Press. * Hanssen-Bauer, I (2006) Climate variation in the European sector of the Arctic: Observations and scenarios, in: JB Ørbæk (ed) Arctic-Alpine Ecosystems and People in a Changing Environment. Springer-Verlag. (In press.)

Dr. Grete K. Hovelsrud, Ph.D. Social Anthropology(Univ. Brandeis). Research Director of Research at CICERO and Associate, Harvard Univ. Kennedy School of Government. Member of the international IPY 2007/8 Joint Committee, the Norwegian National Committee for the IPY 2007/8 and a co-chair of the International Study of Arctic Change Programme (ISAC). Relevant publications last 3 years: McCarthy, J.J et al. (2005) Climate change in the context of multiple stressors and resilience. Arctic Climate Impact Assessment. Chapter 17 in ACIA. Cambridge University Press p 945-988.* 'User Knowledge and Scientific Konwledge in Management Decision-Making'. Editor G. K. Hovelsrud and C. Winsnes, North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission (NAMMCO). (2006). Turner, B.L., et al. (2003) Illustrating the coupled human-environment system for vulnerability analysis: three case studies. PNAS 100: 8080-8085

Dr. Marybeth Long Martello. Research Associate, Kennedy School of Government; Policy Fellow, American Meteorological Society. Relevant publications last 3 years: Long, M, D. Entekhabi, and S.E. Nicholson. 2000. "Interannual Variability in Rainfall, Water Vapor Flux, and Vertical Motion over West Africa.' J. Climate; * Long, M. "A Paradox of Virtue? 'Other' Knowledges and Environment-Development Politics.' 2001. Global Environmental Politics; * Long Martello, M. "Global Nature and Local Culture: The Case of Makah Whaling.' In A Patchwork World: Local and Global in Environmental Politics, edited by S, Jasanoff and M. Long Martello. Under review. *Long Martello, M. and A. Iles. "Framing Climate Change Impacts: Adaptation and Vulnerability in Agriculture and Coastal Zone Assessments.' Submitted.

Dr. Nancy G. Maynard, Ph.D. Senior scientist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Relevant publications last 3 years: Maynard et al (2005) Space Technologies for Enhancing the Resilience and Sustainability of Indigenous Reindeer Husbandry in the Russian Arctic. Proc. 31st International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment. Yurchak and Maynard (2005) Time Series SAR Observations of Chukotka SubArctic Lakes and Forest Tundra Fire Scars. Proc. 31st International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment. Maynard (2006) Satellites, Settlements, and Human Health. In: Remote Sensing of Human Settlements. Vol. 5. pp. 379 - 399. Am. Soc. of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. Maynard et al (submitted) Reindeer Mapper: An observing and information system for addressing impacts of environmental change on reindeer husbandry in Northern Russia. J. Global and Planetary Change.

Leena Niska (Philosophy licenciate, Natural Sciences, BA Environmental Research and Sami History and Cultural Studies). Working with microlevel climate changes and how they impact to reindeer herding, with a focus on Utsjoki, Finland. Relevant Publications: 2007: Porotutkimus tänään. Raportti monitieteisen porotutkimuksen näkökulmista. Publications of Giellagas Institute, Nr 8, University of Oulu, 35 pages.

Prof. dr.art. Nils Oskal, (Philosopher), Saami University College, Kautokeino. Relevant publications last 3 years: Oskal, N. (1999) The nomad - thinking about nomads and how nomads think. Arran (14). * Oskal, N (2000) On nature and reindeer luck. Rangifer 20: 153-174; Oskal, N. (1999) Saami Situation in Norway: Normative Foundations of Claims on Securing a Voice and Place for Aboriginality in a Context of a Nationstate. F. Sejersen (ed.): Changes in the Circumpolar North. Culture, ethics, and Self-Determination. Topics in Arctic Social Sciences 3, IASSA, 1999; * Oskal, N. Political Inclusion of the Saami as Indigenous People in Norway. Internat.l J. Minority Group Rights. 8 (2/3); * Bull, K. S., Oskal, N. and Sara, M. N. (2001) Reindriften i Finnmark - Rettshistorie 1852 - 1960, (Reindeer herding in Finnmark. The legal history of reindeer herding 1852 - 1960) Cappelen Akademisk Forlag. * McCarthy, J.J et al. (2005) Climate change in the context of multiple stressors and resilience. Arctic Climate Impact Assessment: Arctic Council (in press)

Dr. Erik Reinert. BA (University of St. Gallen, Switzerland), MBA (Harvard University), Ph.D., economics (Cornell University). Relevant publications: Reinert, E. (2000) 'Verdiskapningsprogrammet for reindrift' (Adding value in the reindeer herding industry), Ministry of Agriculture/State Development Bank (SND). 'Reinert, E. (2002) Reinkjøtt: Natur, Politikk, Makt og Marked' (Reindeer Meat: Nature, Politics, Power and Markets), State Development Bank, E. Reinert, ‘Development and Social Goals: Balancing Aid and Development to Prevent Welfare Colonialism’, United Nation Department of Social Affairs, DESA Working Paper No. 14, 2006, downloadable on http://www.un.org/esa/desa/papers/, Reinert, E. (2006) 'The Economics of Reindeer Herding: Sami Entrepreneurship between the Planning Paradigm and Oligopoly Market Powers´, British Food Journal, (in press). * McCarthy, J.J et al. (2004) Climate change in the context of multiple stressors and resilience. Arctic Climate Impact Assessment: Arctic Council (in press)

Mikkel-Nils Sara. Reindeer herder. Social scientist, Assistant Professor, Saami College. Relevant publications last 3 years: *Sara (2006): K. Nissena jearahallamat Suoma bealde 1911:s. *Sara (2006): Guovdageainnu boazodoalu siiddastallan áiggiid čađa. Muhtun čilgehusat, listtut, ártihkkalat, čoahkkinčállosat ja jearahallamat. Bull, Oskal & Sara (2001): Reindriften i Finnmark. Rettshistorie 1852-1960. * Sara (2001): Reinen - et gode fra vinden. Reindriftens tilpasningsformer i Kautokeino. *Sara (2001): Gumpe, boazu ja sápmelaš (Wolves, reindeer and the Saami herder). *Magga, Oskal & Sara (2001): Dyreetikk i samisk kultur. Sara (1999): Praktisk reinbeitebruk - tradisjonelle kunnskaper in Rangifer no. 3 1999. * Sara: Eatnamat (Herding land) in Eira (1994): Bohccuid luhtte.

Prof. Kirsti Strøm Bull (Lawyer). Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, Univ. of Oslo and Professor II, Nordic Sami Institute. Relevant publications last 3 years: Bull, K. S., Oskal, N. and Sara, M. N. (2001) Reindriften i Finnmark - Rettshistorie 1852 - 1960, (Reindeer herding in Finnmark. The legal history of reindeer herding 1852 - 1960) Cappelen Akademisk Forlag. * Bull, K. S., The Right to Herd in the Light of the Report of the Sami Law Committee, International on Minority and Group Rights, 8: Kluwe Law International 2001. * Bull, K. S., Rettsoppfatninger om samisk bruksutøvelse - med fokus på reindriften i Finnmark; (Customary law regarding Sami usage - with focus on reindeer herding in Finnmark) i Rettsteori og rettsliv, Festskrift til Carsten Smith, Universitetsforlaget 2001. * Bull, K. S., Om rettsanvendelse og etikk. Samisk forskning og forskningsetikk: Forskningsetiske komiteer 2002. * McCarthy, J.J et al. (2005) Climate change in the context of multiple stressors and resilience. Arctic Climate Impact Assessment: Arctic Council (in press).

Dr. philos. Monica A. Sundset, Associate professor (Physiology and rumen microbiology) Dept of Arctic Biology, Univ. of Tromsø. Relevant publications last 3 years: * Mackie RI, et al. 2003. Ecology of uncultivated Oscillospira species in the rumen of cattle, sheep and reindeer as assessed by microscopy and molecular approaches. Appl. Env. Microbiol. 69(11): 6808-6815. 533-535. * Storeheier PV, et al.. 2003. Effects of seasonal changes of food quality and food intake on the transport of sodium and butyrate across ruminal epithelium of reindeer. J. Comparative Physiology 173:391-399. * Sundset MA, et al. 2003. Rumen Manipulation in Arctic Reindeer: Effects of artificial feeding on bacterial ecology and development of natural probiotics. Trop. Subtrop. Agroecosystems 3.

Ellen Inga Turi, Phd Student. MA University of Oslo (Living with Climate Variation and Change; A Comparative Study of Resilience embedded in the Social Organisation of Reindeer Pastoralism in Western Finnmark and Yamal Peninsula). Turi's research sits within WP 4 (Social and economic adaptation - institutions and governance as constraints and opportunities) and she will be continuing research within these themes, namely social organisation, resilience and adaptation in reindeer herding communities, with a focus on Finnmark, northern Norway and the Yamal Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia. Turi's host institution will be the Sami University College and the University of Umeå and her supervisor is Carina Keskitalo.

Dr. Nicholas J.C. Tyler. University of Tromso, Centre for Sami Studies. Selected Publication List: Stokkan Karl-Arne; van Oort Bob E H; Tyler Nicholas J C; Loudon Andrew S I. Adaptations for life in the Arctic: evidence that melatonin rhythms in reindeer are not driven by a circadian oscillator but remain acutely sensitive to environmental photoperiod.  van Oort Bob E H; Tyler Nicholas J C; Gerkema Menno P; Folkow Lars; Stokkan Karl-Arne. Where clocks are redundant: weak circadian mechanisms in reindeer living under polar photic conditions. van Oort Bob E H; Tyler Nicholas J C; Gerkema Menno P; Folkow Lars; Blix Arnoldus Schytte; Stokkan Karl-Arne. Circadian organization in reindeer.

Dr. P.A. Wookey Ph.D., Reader, Univ. Stirling. Research: Ecosystem ecology; impacts of environmental change on the structure and functioning of northern terrestrial ecosystems. Relevant publications last 3 years: Wookey PA, et al. (2002) Surface age, ecosystem development, and C isotope signatures of respired CO2 in an alpine environment, north Iceland. Arc., Antarc. Alp. Res. 34:76-87. * Aanes R, et al.(2002) The Arctic Oscillation predicts effects of climate change in two trophic levels in a high-arctic ecosystem. Ecol.Lett. 5:445-453. * Sjögersten S & Wookey PA (2002) Climatic and resource quality controls on soil respiration across a forest-tundra ecotone in Swedish Lapland. Soil Biol. Biochem. 34:1633-1646. * Cooper EJ & Wookey PA (2003) Floral Herbivory of Dryas octopetala by Svalbard Reindeer. Arc., Antarc. Alp. Res. 35:369-376.

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