Dr. Maribeth Murray
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Office: +1 (403) 220-6361
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Educational Background
Doctor of Philosophy Anthropology, McMaster University, 1997
M.A. Anthropology, Memorial University, 1992
B.A. Archaeology, Wilfrid Laurier University, 1989
Biography
Dr. Maribeth Murray is a transdisciplinary scholar with expertise in both the social and natural sciences. Trained as an environmental archaeologist, she transitioned to focus on contemporary climate change and impacts on people and the environment in the Arctic. In 2016, Dr. Murray initiated the development of the Canadian Consortium for Arctic Data Interoperability (CCADI), a national coalition of universities, Indigenous organizations, federal departments, not-for-profit and private-sector partners. The CCADI is engaged in the development of an Arctic Research Data Infrastructure for Canada to improve access to data, data interoperability and data analytics in support of decision-making across scales and organizations, and for research.
Dr. Murray joined the University of Calgary in 2013. Her personal research is now focused in three areas: the integration of climate, historic, oceanographic and ecological data to better understand how the Arctic functions as a system; mobilizing genomics and genomics tools for Arctic biodiversity conservation and wildlife management; and research and strategic planning for the ongoing development and implementation of an internationally supported Arctic Observing System. She is the Executive Director of the Arctic Institute of North America at the University of Calgary a member of the Board of Directors of Polar Knowledge Canada, a past member of the Board of Directors of the Arctic Research Consortium of the United States, and a past faculty member of the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
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