Authors and Acknowledgements - Arctic biodiversity, Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF)

CBMP Freshwater Steering Group

Willem Goedkoop (co-lead), Joseph Culp (co-lead), Jennifer Lento, Petri Liljaniemi, KirstenWillem, Goedkoop (co-lead), Joseph Culp (co-lead), Jennifer Lento, Petri Liljaniemi, KirstenS.Christoffersen, Elena Fefilova, Jón S. Ólafsson, Steinar Sandøy, Chris Zimmerman, Jan Rene Larsen, Tom Christensen, Sara Longan,and Kári Fannar Lárusson

Members of the CBMP Freshwater Steering Group at an annual meeting held at the USGS in Alaska. Photo: CAFF A few members of the CBMP FSG in Iceland, 2013. Photo: CAFF

Authors of report

Jennifer Lento, Willem Goedkoop, Joseph Culp, Kirsten Christoffersen, Elena Fefilova, Guðni Guðbergsson, Kári FannarJennifer Lento, Willem Goedkoop, Joseph Culp, Kirsten Christoffersen, Elena Fefilova, Guðni Guðbergsson, Kári FannarLárusson, Petri Liljaniemi, Jón S. Ólafsson, Steinar Sandøy, Christian Zimmerman, Tom Christensen, Patricia Chambers, Jani Heino,Seppo Hellsten, Maria Kahlert, Francois Keck, Sarah Laske, Danny Chun Pong Lau, Isabelle Lavoie, Brianna Levenstein, HeatherMariash, Kathleen Rühland, Emilie Saulnier-Talbot, Ann Kristin Schartau, Martin Svenning.

Contributors to report

Ekaterina Abramova, Per-Arne Amundsen, Jukka Aroviita, Tom Barry, Maria Baturina, Carolina Behe, Daniel Bogan, John Brittain, Bob Brua, Stéphane Campeau, Krista Chin, Catherine Docherty, Olga Dubovskaya, Frauke Ecke, Arni Einarsson, Jaakko Erkinaro, M. Falkegård, Frank Farsø Riget, Laura Forsstrom, Nikolai Friberg, Larisa Frolova, Ole Geertz-Hansen, Brian Hayden, Kerstin Holmgren, Þóra Katrín Hrafnsdóttir, Brian Huser, Haraldur R. Ingvarsson, Elena Ivanova, Dean Jacobsen, Ben Jones, I-R. Jonsson,Kimmo Kahilainen, Satu-Maaria Karjalainen, Jan Karlsson, Jennie Knopp, Elena Kochanova, Olga Kononova, Elena Kravchuk, Ånund Kvambekk, Torben Lauridsen, Olga Loskutova, Annette M Watson, Kjetil Melvold, Alexander Milner, Marit Mjelde, Heikki Mykrä, Gulnara Nigamatzyanova, Anna Novichkova, Panu Orell, Johan Östergren, Michael Power, Courtney Price, Ruslan Rafikov, Milla Rautio, Atso Romakkaniemi, Jukka Ruuhijärvi, Svein Jakob Saltveit, Susanne Schneider, Rebecca Shaftel, John Smol, Jan-Idar Solbakken, Heidi Swanson, Tobias Vrede, Matt Whitman, Jukka Ylikörkkö, Ivan Zuev.

Attendees of the Freshwater Annual Meeting, Hvalso, Denmark, 2015. Photo: CAFF CBMP Freshwater Group, Iceland 2013

Data providers

Ontario Ministry of the Environment (MOE) Cooperative Freshwater Ecology Unit; Parks Canada Western Arctic Field Unit; members of the Paleoecological Environmental Assessment & Research Laboratory, including Dermot Antoniades, Marianne Douglas, Irene Gregory-Eaves, Katherine Griffiths, Kathryn Hargan, Adam Jeziorski, Bronwyn Keatley, Tamsin Laing, Tammy Karst-Riddoch, Darlene Lim, Kathryn McCleary, Neal Michelutti, Alyson Paul, Reinhard Pienitz, Emily Stewart, Jon Sweetman, Joshua Thienpont; Jan Weckström; University of Ottawa Laboratory for Paleoclimatology and Climatology; contributors to the online Circumpolar Diatom Database (CDD), including Reinhard Pienitz, Ghislain Côté, Marie-Andrée Fallu, and Laurence Laperrière; Institute of Biology of the Komi Scientific Centre of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Institute of Biophysics of Federal Research Center “Krasnoyarsk Science Center”; of the Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences; Siberian Federal University; Institute of Geology and Petroleum Technologies of the Kazan Federal University; Lena DeltaNature Reserve; Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), data host for national freshwater monitoring in Sweden; Greenland Ecosystem Monitoring (GEM) program; Icelandic Marine and Freshwater Research Institute; University of Iceland; Hólar University College; the Icelandic Institute of Natural History; the Natural History Museum of Kópavogur.

CAFF would also like to thank the following people who assisted in data identification, acquisition, and formatting: Brittany Armstrong, Beverley Elliott, Julia Howland, Dave Hryn, Courtney Johnson, Bethany Marston, Nicole Nader, Allison Ritcey, Raja Wetuschat, Pernilla Rönnback, Stefan Hellgren, Berit Sers, Trine W. Perlt, Henriette Hansen, Babara Barta, Jónina H. Ólafsdóttir, and Thora K. Hrafnsdóttir.

Contributors at a writing workshop. Photo: CAFF CBMP Freshwater, Helsinki 2016