Share to: Facebook Twitter Larry Hinzman, Vice Chancellor for Research Professor Hinzman’s primary research interests involve permafrost hydrology. He has conducted hydrological and meteorological field studies in Arctic Alaska for over 30 years while frequently collaborating on complementary research in the Russian and Canadian Arctic. His work has involved characterizing and quantifying hydrological processes and their inter-dependence with climate and ecosystem dynamics. Dr. Hinzman is committed to facilitating international partnerships to advance our understanding of the arctic system. He has conducted extensive field research in Alaska and other Arctic countries since the mid-1980s. He provides free and open access to all his data, which include many meteorological and hydrological networks, including uncommon and therefore highly valuable observations of surface radiation, water and energy balances. Dr. Hinzman’s approach to maintaining high quality, completely open and comprehensive environmental data streams (both historical and near-real time) enabled establishment of numerous collaborative programs including the Freshwater Integration Program, FROSTFIRE, Seward Peninsula ATLAS project and the Kuparuk River hydrologic network. He also led establishment of the IARC Data Archive, which serves as a repository for any arctic data set to help prevent further loss of observations and modeling results. Selected Achievements Was a member of the US Polar Research Board and now serves as an Ex-Officio member of that board. Was U.S. Representative to the International Permafrost Association and a member of the Universities Council on Water Resources. Served as co-chair of the U.S. National Science Foundation’s study on the Arctic Freshwater Integration and presently serves as chief scientist for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Next Generation Ecosystem Experiments (NGEE-Arctic). Served on the U.S. SEARCH (Study of Environmental Arctic Change) Observing Change Panel, and the Alaska Governor’s Sub-cabinet Economic Activities Technical Working Group. Serves on the International Advisory Board for the Korea Polar Research Institute, and for the Canadian Changing Cold Regions Network (CCRN). Member of the Scientific Steering Group for WRCP Climate and Cryosphere (CliC) program. Advisory Committee Member for the Alaska Center for Energy and the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS). Serves as the US delegate to the International Arctic Science Committee and was recently elected to serve as vice-president of that organization. Other personnel at the Office of the VCR John Blake, Associate Vice Chancellor for Research (VCR) Rich Collins, Director, UAF Office of Intellectual Property & Commercialization Nathan George, Fiscal Manager Gretchen Hundertmark, Research Integrity Administrator Cassie Pinkel, Assistant to the VCR Bridget Watson, Senior Research Compliance Officer Last updated: Jul 7, 2016
