WHO WE ARE.
OUR TEAM.
TAHNEE PRIOR.
Tahnee Prior is a Killam Postdoctoral Fellow at the Marine and Environmental Law Institute of the Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University. Her research examines the role of law in maintaining or hindering resilience in social-ecological systems, like the Arctic.
Tahnee has published her research on gender and the circumpolar North in various capacities, including as a team member of a Finnish Academy project on “Human Security as a Promotional Tool for Societal Security in the Arctic” and as a contributing author to the 2016 Arctic Resilience Report. Her published research can be found, here.
Tahnee is an avid ice hockey fan, coffee drinker and can often be found starting dance parties.
GOSIA SMIESZEK-RICE.
Malgorzata (Gosia) Smieszek-Rice is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the UiT Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø and a researcher collaborating with the Arctic Centre, University of Lapland in Finland. Her research focuses on the effectiveness of international environmental regimes, Arctic governance and science-policy interfaces.
Between 2017-2018, Gosia was the chair of the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) action group on communicating Arctic science to policy-makers. She also worked on “Finland’s Arctic Council chairmanship in times of increasing uncertainty” for the Office of the Prime Minister of Finland.
Gosia loves wild, open spaces, trail-running, diving and everything ocean.
SOHVI KANGASLUOMA.
Sohvi Kangasluoma is a Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki. Her research focuses on the entanglements of Arctic oil and gas with gender, emotions and environment, which her PhD dissertation examined.
In January 2024 she will begin as a Postdoctoral researcher at the Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, in an Academy of Finland project, titled Rethinking International Relations in an Era of the Planetocene: Case Arctic Ocean Up to 2050, in which she will focus on the role of sea and ice in redefining human-nature relations.
Sohvi lives on a sailboat, currently in Alaska. She loves lighthouses, all things cold and Netflix.
ALUMNI.
LEENA RANTAMAULA.
Leena is a project coordinator and designer at the Arktikum science exhibition of the Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, where she specializes in communicating Arctic issues through exhibition design.
She is one of the original co-founders of WoA.