Key figures
WP2
WP2 leader
Joachim Schwarz has studied Civil Engineering/Hydraulics at the Technical University of Hannover, where he received 1970 the Dr.-Ing.- degree with the dissertation on "Ice Forces on Structures". In the same year he accepted an invitation from the University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA to continue...
WP2 co-leader
Dr. Lawson W. Brigham is Distinguished Professor of Geography & Arctic Policy at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He is also a Visiting Researcher at the Department of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics(DAMTP) where he is working on Arctic issues. Dr. Brigham was Deputy Director of the ...
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* NBC PressRelease: The Northern Sea Route - 30.08.2011
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WP2 co-leader

Dr. Lawson W. Brigham is Distinguished Professor of Geography & Arctic Policy at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He is also a Visiting Researcher at the Department of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics(DAMTP) where he is working on Arctic issues. Dr. Brigham was Deputy Director of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission. His research interests include Arctic marine transport, the Russian marime Arctic, ice navigation, remote sensing of sea ice, polar geopolitics, and Arctic & Antarctic climate change.