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Julie
Brigham-Grette
Senior Personnel
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Dr. Julie Brigham-Grette has been teaching at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst for 21 years. She has been conducting research in the Arctic for nearly 30 years including eight field seasons since 1991in remote parts of NE Russia, participating in both the science program as well as dealing with difficult logistics. Her research interests and experience span the broad spectrum from the regional stratigraphy of glacial and interglacial marine and glacimarine sequences in coastal environments, to continental shelf stratigraphy and paleoceanography, especially in the Bering Strait region. She is the US Chief scientist of the Lake El’gygytgyn Drilling Program in NE Arctic Russia which is aimed at understanding the history of terrestrial Arctic change since the middle Pliocene. Her research work includes masters and Ph.D. students at the University (many of them women), along with a number of projects offering research experience and independent studies to undergraduates working in her laboratory. She also assists with mentoring of undergraduate students from the other four Colleges nearby UMass where interests overlap. From 1996 to 1999 Julie was a guest lecturer for a course on the Quaternary History of the Arctic offered in the Fall at UNIS in Longyearbyen. Brigham-Grette is currently Chairman of the International Geosphere/Biosphere Program’s Science Steering Committee on Past Global Change (PAGES) with an international program office in Bern, Switzerland.
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