Ms. Anne Barker

Ms. Anne Barker is the director of Arctic and Northern Challenge Program at National Research Council Canada (NRC-CNRC). Ms. Barker has been involved in numerical simulations, field work, physical modelling and paper studies of ice cover behaviour and ice-structure interaction. 

Her projects include working with high-resolution numerical models to simulate ice-structure interaction scenarios, investigating pack ice driving forces and managing a field work project studying the overwintering of barges in ice.  She has previously managed a number of physical model studies that investigated subjects such as ice scour behaviour, ice friction and ice floes interacting with offshore wind turbine foundations as well as field work projects examining ice rubble behaviour and its implications for offshore structures in the Beaufort Sea. 

She was a member of the ISO 19906 Arctic Offshore Structures technical panel for man-made islands and was involved with the Canadian Standards Association Arctic Offshore Structures committee reviewing the document.

professor Jukka Tuhkuri

Prof. Jukka Tuhkuri carries out research on ice mechanics and arctic marine technology. He has studied, among other topics: fracture of ice, formation and strength of sea ice ridges, ice failure process against inclined structures, and crushing of ice. He is conducting numerical work by using the discrete element method, but also experimental research including field experiments - which has taken him both to the Arctic and the Antarctic – and laboratory experiments in the Aalto Ice Tank.

This research is important because global warming is increasing the marine activities in the Arctic. Even ships without any ice-strengthening are entering areas with decreasing, but yet significant, ice coverage. This trend includes major human and environmental risks that need to be properly addressed. The research by Jukka Tuhkuri will help to understand the ice loads on ships and marine structures.

Jukka Tuhkuri currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of Cold Regions Science and Technology and will host the IUTAM Symposium on Physics and Mechanics of Sea Ice at Aalto in 2019. He has been a professor of solid mechanics at Aalto since 2001, a visiting scientist in Canada and USA, and has spent a sabbatical at UCL in the UK in 2017-2018.

Professor Sveinung Løset

Prof. Sveinung Løset, who has been at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) since 1995, serves as vice dean of research in the NTNU Faculty of Engineering.

He served as director of NTNU's Sustainable Arctic Marine and Coastal Technology (SAMCoT), a center for research-based innovation, from 2011 to 2019.

Løset is a pioneer in arctic marine engineering, which is based on an understanding of the physics and mechanics of ice combined with numerical modeling and physical experiments, both in the field and laboratory. 

He has been a member and technical panel deputy leader of ISO WG8, an international standard for arctic offshore structures. Løset has published more than 75 international peer-reviewed journal papers and 190 international conference papers and the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway has widely used the findings of his research. 

Løset is a recipient of Statoil’s Excellence in Research Award and the POAC (Port and Ocean Engineering Under Arctic Conditions) Founders Lifetime Achievement Award.

ProfESSOR Erland M. Schulson

Prof. Erland M. Schulson received his B.A.Sc. (Honors, 1964) and his Ph.D (1968) in Metallurgical Engineering from the University of British Columbia. He has been a visiting senior research fellow at Oxford University (1968-'69), a research officer in materials science at Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories (1969-'78), a visiting research fellow at the General Electric Corporate Research and Development Center (1988), a visiting professor at the University of Grenoble (1989) and a Fulbright Foreign Scholar at the Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Geophysique de l'Environnement of Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Grenoble (1999). Also, he was the Fulbright Arctic Chair 2013-14, at Norwegian University of Science and Technology–Trondheim. At Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering, he is the first George Austin Colligan Distinguished Professor of Engineering. Schulson founded the Ice Research Laboratory at Dartmouth in 1983 and since then has served as its director. He teaches both undergraduate and graduate students about materials science, mechanical behavior of solids and phase transformations, and has directed the research of over 50 graduate students and post-doctoral fellows. He focuses his research on the relationship between the structure and mechanical behavior of metals, ice and other crystalline materials. Prof. Schulson has lectured widely in USA and abroad and he consults internationally for both industry and government. He has authored over 300 publications on physical/mechanical metallurgy and on the mechanical behavior of ice, holds or shares four patents relating to zirconium intermetallics and electron beam apparatus for generating selected area channeling patterns, and is co-author of the book "Creep and Fracture of Ice" (Schulson and Duval, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2009). Prof. Schulson is a member of the American Geophysical Union and the International Glaciological Society and was elected Fellow of ASM International (2003) and of Metals, Minerals and Materials Society (2006).