Professor of biology

University affiliation

• Institute of Arctic Biology
• College of Natural Science and Mathematics
• Department of Biology and Wildlife
• University of Alaska Fairbanks (Fairbanks)

Contact information

• Email: dawalker@alaska.edu
• Phone: (907) 474-2460

Media contact

University Relations

• Email: uaf-news@alaska.edu

Areas of expertise

• Biology
• Ecology

Research interests/biography

Skip's research interests are environmental biology; disturbance and recovery of arctic ecosystems; global tundra ecosystems; hierarchical geographical information systems; landscape ecology; landscape response to climate change; quantitative ecology methods and the cumulative effects of climate change and infrastructure expansion, remote sensing and GIS of the Arctic.