Rapid Arctic Changes due to Infrastructure and Climate (RATIC) in the Russian North

Donald A Walker1, Gary Kofinas2, Martha K Raynolds1, Mikhail Z Kanevskiy3, Yuri Shur2, Ken Ambrosius4, George V Matyshak5, Vladimir E Romanovsky6, Timo Kumpula7, Bruce C. Forbes8, Artem Khomutov9, Marina O Leibman10, Olga Khitun11, Mickaël Lemay12, Michel Allard13, Scott F Lamoureux14, Trevor Bell15, Donald L Forbes16, Warwick F Vincent17, Elena Kuznetsova18, Dmitry A Streletskiy19, Nikolay I Shiklomanov20, Gail Fondahl21, Andrey N Petrov22, Louis-Philippe Roy23, Peter Schweitzer24 and Marcel Buchhorn2, (1)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Institute of Arctic Biology, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (2)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (3)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Institute of Northern Engineering, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (4)Quantum Spatial Co., Anchorage, AK, United States, (5)Earth Cryosphere Institute, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Tyumen, Russia, (6)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (7)University of Eastern Finland, Department of Geographical and Historical Studies, Joensuu, Finland, (8)University of Lapland, Arctic Centre, Rovaniemi, Finland, (9)Earth Cryosphere Institute, Tyumen Scientific Centre of Russian Academy of Sciences (Siberian Branch), Moscow, Russia, (10)Russian Academy of Sciences, Earth Cryosphere Institute, Tyumen Scientific Centre (Siberian Branch), Moscow, Russia, (11)RAS, Komarov Botanical Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia, (12)CEN - U. Laval, Québec, QC, Canada, (13)Laval University, Quebec City, QC, Canada, (14)Queens University, Department of Geography, Kingston, Canada, (15)Memorial University of Newfoundland, Department of Geography, St. John's, NL, Canada, (16)Geological Survey of Canada, Dartmouth, NS, Canada, (17)Laval University, Biology, Quebec City, QC, Canada, (18)Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, (19)The George Washington University, Department of Geography, Washington, United States, (20)The George Washington University, Department of Geography, Washington, DC, United States, (21)University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, BC, Canada, (22)University of Northern Iowa, Department of Geography, Cedar Falls, IA, United States, (23)Yukon College, Yukon Research Centre, Whitehorse, YT, Canada, (24)University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria