Fulbright Panel: Research in the Arctic!

Curious about where research in the Arctic can take you? Join us for an engaging Fulbright panel featuring UAF faculty and visiting guest Belinda Theriault, Executive Director of Fulbright Iceland, as they share their experiences working across Iceland, Russia and Alaska—and how those opportunities shaped their careers.

❄️Fulbright: Research in the Arctic
📅 Date: Friday, April 10, 2026
🕓 Time: 12:00 - 1:30 PM
📍 Location: Gruening 503H
💻 Zoom Option: https://alaska.zoom.us/j/82066492936

The event is co-sponsored by the UAF College of Liberal Arts, the UAF Geophysical Institute, the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, and the UAF Department of Political Science.

About our Panelists:

Belinda Theriault
Belinda Theriault holds a master’s degree in International Relations from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and an MBA from Reykjavik University. She has led the Fulbright Commission since 2011. Her career has focused on international cooperation, including 13 years working for the Icelandic Parliament, 10 of these as Director of the International Department. She also spent three years in Brussels working for EFTA and has worked as a consultant for various organizations. Belinda oversees the strategic direction of Fulbright Iceland and advises the board on strategy, policy and programs. She serves as CFO and head of HR, manages governmental and external relationships and leads organizational development to meet the opportunities and challenges of a changing world. In cooperation with the Board of Directors, Belinda and her team work to provide value to all stakeholders, with an emphasis on providing relevant and sought-after opportunities to top-notch scholars, scientists, students and artists, who are making the world a better place.

Carolyn Kremers
Carolyn Kremers writes literary nonfiction and poetry, and is a lifelong musician. Her books include Place of the Pretend People: Gifts from a Yup’;ik Eskimo Village (memoir), The Alaska Reader: Voices from the North (anthology), and Upriver (poems). She holds degrees from Stanford, Metropolitan State College in Denver, and the University of Alaska Fairbanks. She designed and implemented the MFA creative nonfiction program at Eastern Washington University and taught for many years at UAF. In 2008-09 and 2015-16, she was a Fulbright Scholar at Buryat State University in Ulan Ude, Russia. Her website is www.pw.org/directory/writers/carolyn_kremers.

Dogacan Ozturk
Assistant Professor of Space Physics & Scientific Computing. Originally from Turkey, she came to the U.S. through the Fulbright Foreign Student Program to complete her PhDs at the University of Michigan.

Martha Reynolds
Martha Raynolds studies and maps arctic vegetation. She has been with the University of Alaska since 2000, and in 2011 had a 6-month Fulbright in Akureyri, Iceland. She will be talking about how satellites have recorded the effects of climate warming, sheep and volcanoes in Iceland.

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