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Featured experts

  • Amy Lauren Lovecraft

    October 28, 2022

    Amy Lauren Lovecraft is an expert in public policy, political economy, and political behavior. Her research interests includes policy issues related to the uncertainty of a changing Arctic.

  • 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.

  • Jennifer Schell

    Jennifer Schell

    October 28, 2022

    Research specialties include North American literature, Arctic writing, whaling history, print and visual culture, animal studies and environmental humanities. Current research explores manifestations of ecogothic discourse in North American extinction writing — including that which addresses Arctic animals such as mammoths and whales — published between 1820 and the present.