Louwrens Hacquebord is a professor in Arctic and Antarctic Studies
at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He is also currently
the Director of the Arctic Centre at the University of Groningen, and
was the Vice-president from 2000-2008. He is a council member of the
International Arctic Science Committee (IASC), interim chair of the
IASC Standing committee for Human and Social Sciences, member of the
International Polar Heritage Committee of ICOMOS and a member of the
Dutch national IPY-committee. In 2005, Dr. Hacquebord was elected to
The Explorers Club in New York, USA, as Fellow International.
Subsequently, he co-chaired the scientific steering group of the SCAR/IASC,
Open Science Conference 2008 in St. Petersburg, Russia and currently
co-chairs the Arctic Science Summit Week 2009 in Bergen, Norway.
His research has largely focused on the exploration and exploitation
of natural resources in polar areas in which context many archaeological
excavations and surveys have been conducted in archaeological sites
on Spitsbergen and other polar regions. Most of his publications are
concerned with Whaling on Spitsbergen, Jan Mayen and Hector Station
a whaling station on Deception Island in Antarctica. Most recently,
Hacquebord published articles in international reviewed journals about
whaling in general and the ecological aspects of the Spitsbergen whaling
trade.
Dr. Hacquebord currently leads the very successful and prestigious
International Polar Year project - LASHIPA (www.LASHIPA.nl) - in which
project researchers from six countries are collaborating to study the
history of exploitation of polar areas. The project requires studying
the geopolitical developments around the exploitation of natural resources
in the North Pole area. When not leading LASHIPA, he actively participates
in several international research project-planning groups and is involved
in the Arctic Coastal Dynamic research project.
Louwrens Hacquebord studied physical geography and archaeology at the
University of Utrecht and the University of Groningen. He earned his
Master’s degree in 1976 in physical geography, archaeology and
historical geography and his PhD in archaeology with distinction, at
the University of Amsterdam on the excavations of the 17th century
Dutch whaling settlement in Spitsbergen in 1984.
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