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SUMMARY:Research and Governance Needs in the Age of an Accessible Arctic -
  Hon. Mead Treadwell\, Chair\, U.S. Arctic Research Commission
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CONTACT:William Eucker
DESCRIPTION:Mead Treadwell was appointed to the US Arctic Research Commiss
 ion in 2001 and was designated chair by the President in 2006.\n\nDuring h
 is 30 years residency in Alaska\, Mead Treadwell has played an active role
  in Arctic research and exploration. His focus has been on development of 
 natural resources\, protection of the Arctic environment and fostering int
 ernational cooperation after the Cold War. In business\, government and th
 e academy\, Treadwell has helped establish a broad range of research progr
 ams in technology\, ecology\, social science and policy.\n\nCurrently\, Tr
 eadwell serves as Senior Fellow of the Institute of the North\, founded by
  former Alaska Governor Walter J. Hickel. He served as the Institute’s fi
 rst full time Managing Director and Adjunct Professor of Business when the
  Institute was part of Alaska Pacific University. Treadwell’s research at
  the Institute focuses on strategic and defense issues facing Alaska and A
 rctic regions\, management of Alaska’s commonly owned resources and integ
 ration of Arctic transport and telecommunications infrastructure.\n\nConcu
 rrently\, in business\, Mead Treadwell is Chairman and CEO of Venture Ad A
 stra\, an Anchorage\, Alaska based firm which invests in and develops new 
 geospatial and imaging technologies. He is non-executive chairman of Immer
 sive Media Company\, a publicly listed corporation Venture Ad Astra helped
  refinance in 2003. Since 1982\, Treadwell has worked on his own account o
 r in conjunction with Walter J. Hickel to invest in and provide support fo
 r the development of new ventures\, including Yukon Pacific Corporation (a
  natural gas pipeline firm sold to CSX Corporation in 1989)\, Digimarc Cor
 poration (NASDAQ: DMRC) and Owner State Wireless\, LLC\, which developed a
  wireless joint venture with Nextel. He is a board member of Baltimore Dre
 dge Enterprises\, a manufacturer of dredge equipment with operations in Ma
 ryland\, Wisconsin and Kansas\, and Arctic Transportation Services\, an Al
 aska native-owned cargo airline operating in rural areas of the state.\n\n
 Treadwell served as Deputy Commissioner of Alaska's Department of Environm
 ental Conservation in the Hickel Cabinet from 1990-1994\, and represented 
 the State of Alaska on US Delegations as three circumpolar government grou
 ps: the eight-nation Arctic Environmental Protection Strategy\, the follow
 -on Arctic Council and the regional Governors’ Northern Forum – formed d
 uring the early 1990’s. He joined Governor Hickel at the United Nations 
 “Earth Summit” in Rio de Janeiro\, Brazil\, in 1992. He served as a memb
 er of the board of the Alaska Science and Technology Foundation from 1994 
 to 1999\, which helped provide funding for design of the Alaska Regional R
 esearch Vessel and initial financing for the Kodiak Launch Complex. He is 
 a member of the board of the Prince William Sound Science Center\, home of
  the Prince William Sound Oil Spill Recovery Institute\, an endowed resear
 ch program he worked with Congress to create after the Exxon Valdez oil sp
 ill disaster in 1989. As an alternate Trustee of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spil
 l Trustee Council\, and later as a member of the Council’s Public Advisor
 y Group\, Treadwell has helped guide land acquisitions\, restoration scien
 ce and ecosystem modeling in Prince William Sound\, Kodiak\, and Kachemak 
 Bay/Cook Inlet.\n\nTreadwell helped establish the Siberia Alaska Gateway P
 roject of the Alaska State Chamber of Commerce which worked to open the US
 -Russia border with the Friendship Flight and a series of follow-on exchan
 ges in 1988 and 1989. He led two expeditions to Wrangell Island in the Rus
 sian Arctic in 1990\, and led a team of US nuclear safety experts to the B
 ilibino Nuclear Power Plant in Chukotka in 1993. For the United States\, h
 e hosted RADEX\, the Arctic nations’ first circumpolar radiation release 
 response exercise in 1994. The Siberia-Alaska Trading Company\, a firm he 
 founded and chaired which did business in the Russian Far East throughout 
 the 1990’s\, pioneered eco-tourism\, ship-based tours and science support
  in Chukotka. He is a member of the Alaska Siberia Research Center board. 
 Treadwell was elected a Fellow National of the Explorers Club in 2002.\n\n
 He serves on the Board of the Yale Library Associates\, his undergraduate 
 alma mater\, and has served as Secretary of the Class of 1982 of the Harva
 rd Graduate School of Business where he earned his MBA. He is a 2004 winne
 r of the Hotchkiss School’s Alumni Public Service award recognizing his w
 ork in the Arctic. In 2005\, he received a certificate of commendation fro
 m the Foreign Minister of Japan for his work in US-Japan relations. In 198
 3\, he was awarded the first Robert Hartig Memorial Fellowship for work on
  comparing natural resource regimes in Arctic regions. In 1981\, he was se
 lected a Japan Society Business Fellow. In 1980\, he was a member of a tea
 m of writers at the Anchorage Times which won the Blethen Award\, top priz
 e for investigative reporting in the Pacific Northwest. During the 1980’s
 \, Treadwell served as a member of NASA’s Lunar Base Working Group. In 19
 99\, he chaired the Fifth North Pacific Fisheries Conference\, convening m
 inistries of fisheries from Pacific Rim nations. Treadwell is Honorary Com
 mander of the 611th Air Support Group of the Alaska Command\, operator of 
 the DEW line radar facilities in the Arctic.\n\nHe is past president of th
 e Alaska World Affairs Council\, the Japan America Society of Alaska and t
 he Visual Arts Center of Alaska. Treadwell is president of the Millennium 
 Society\, an international charity which raises scholarship funds and has 
 established a series of scholarships in science education for young people
  in Alaska. A Rotarian\, he is also member of the Board of Commonwealth No
 rth.\n\nWith his late wife Carol\, he has three children. The family enjoy
 s skiing\, hiking and camping. 
LOCATION:Friends' Room\, Scott Polar Research Institute
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