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    Alec Bennett

    October 28, 2022

    Improving the understanding of Arctic climate-related extreme events and their connection to policy, decision-making efforts, long-term planning, and the effects of long term climate shifts on local, national, and international security concerns.

  • Ginny L. Eckert

    Ginny L. Eckert

    October 28, 2022

    Invertebrates, aquaculture, crab fisheries management. Sustainably managing living marine resources. Fishery management, specifically Dungeness crab, snow crab and king crab.

  • David Maxwell

    David Maxwell

    October 28, 2022

    The problem of constructing initial data for the Cauchy problem in General Relativity; inverse problems related to ice sheet dynamics.