• 1997-present: Researcher at NPI, Biology, Biodiversity.
• 1994-1997: Biologist, PhD research scholar, NPI's Svalbard Office, Longyearbyen-Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard, Norway.
• 1994: Director of the Svalbard Office, NPI, post as deputy, Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway.
• 1993-1994: Biologist, post as deputy, NPI, Svalbard Office, Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway.
• 1991-1993: Biologist, Environmental Manager, NPI, Oslo.
• 1991: Cand. scient., “Energetic cost of running in starving Wistar rats”, University of Oslo, Norway.
• 1988: Cand. mag., Norwegian University of Sport and Physical Education, Oslo, Norway.

RESEARCH INTERESTS/AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Physiology, ecology, ecophysiology, ecotoxicology, ecosystems, Arctic mammals, predators, arctic fox, Svalbard rock ptarmigan
• Experience with fieldwork since 1990 on Svalbard. 2002–2003 experience with fieldwork from Iceland on arctic foxes.

CURRENT ACTIVITIES/PROJECT INVOLVEMENT

• 1990-ongoing: Arctic fox den monitoring program and population dynamic in Svalbard.
• 1993-1997: Ecophysiological research on arctic foxes in Svalbard. Including energetic studies, blood samples, radio- and satellite telemetry.
• 2000-ongoing: Population monitoring of Svalbard Rock Ptarmigan (Lagopus muta hyperborea): point count survey of territorial cocks in spring.
• 2001-ongoing: Genetic structure of the arctic fox population in the Arctic and in Svalbard.
• 2002-2006: The role of climatic variation in the dynamics and persistence of an Arctic predator-prey/host-parasite system in Svalbard. Financed by the Research Council of Norway (NFR).
• 2002-ongoing: Energy cost of parental care in free-ranging arctic foxes on Iceland. Including field metabolic rate, double-labelled water, blood samples, GPS telemetry.
• 2002-ongoing: Monitoring rabies, parasites and infectious diseases or agents in the arctic fox population in Svalbard.
• 2003-2005: Bioavailability and effects of organochlorine contaminants in relation to seasonal lipid cycles in arctic fox. Fieldwork in Svalbard, and samples are collected from Svalbard, Greenland and Russian Arctic. Financed by NFR.
• 2007-2010: Arctic predators as Indicators of Tundra Ecosystem State. A Norwegian IPY project. Financed by NFR.

1. Lønne I, Fuglei E. 1997. Carcass of a bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) found in the lateral moraine of the Jemelianovbreen glacier, eastern Svalbard. Polar Research, 16(1):9-18. 1997.

2. Fuglei E, Øritsland NA. 1999. Body composition, resting and exercise metabolic rates in rats during starvation. Acta Physiologica Scandinavica 165:203-210.

3. Fuglei E, Øritsland NA. 1999. Seasonal trends in body mass, food intake and resting metabolic rate, and induction of metabolic depression in arctic foxes (Alopex lagopus) at Svalbard. Journal of Comparative Physiology B 169: 361-369.

4. Pomponi M, Bertonati C, Fuglei E, Wiig Ø, Derocher A. E. 2000. 2,3-DPG-Hb complex: a hypothesis for an asymmetric binding. Biophysical Chemistry 84: 253-260.

5. Fuglei E, Aanestad M, Berg J. P. 2000. Hormones and metabolites of arctic foxes (Alopex lagopus) in response to seasonal variations, starvation and re-feeding. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A 126: 287-294.

6. Henttonen H, Fuglei E, Gower C, Haukisalmi V, Ims RA, Niemimaa J Yoccoz NG, 2001. Echinococcus multilocularis on Svalbard: introduction of an intermediate host has enabled the local life cycle. Parasitology 123: 547-552.

7. Fuglei E, Mercer JB, Arnemo JM. 2002. Anesthesia and surgical implantation of radio transmitters in arctic foxes (Alopex lagopus) on Svalbard. Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine 33(4): 342-349.

8. Ahlstrøm Ø, Fuglei E, Mydland LT. 2003. Comparative nutrient digestibility of arctic foxes (Alopex lagopus) on Svalbard and farmed-raised blue foxes (Alopex lagopus). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A 134(1): 63-68.

9. Fuglei E, Øritsland NA, Prestrud P. 2003. Local variation in arctic fox abundance on Svalbard, Norway. Polar Biology 26: 93-98.

10. Fuglei E, Øritsland NA. 2003. Energy cost of running in an arctic fox (Alopex lagopus). The Canadian Field-Naturalist 117(3): 430-435.

11. Fuglei E, Mustonen A-M, Nieminen P. 2004. Effects of season, food deprivation and re-feeding on leptin, ghrelin and growth hormone in arctic foxes (Alopex lagopus) on Svalbard, Norway. Journal of Comparative Physiology B 174: 157-162.

12. Dalèn L, Fuglei E, Hersteinsson P, Kapel C, Roth J, Samelius G, Tannerfeldt M, Angerbjørn A. 2005. Population history and genetic structure of a circumpolar species: the arctic fox. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 84: 79-89.

13. Sørensen KK, Mørk T, Sigurdardottir OG, Åsbakk K, Åkerstedt J, Bergsjø B, Fuglei E. 2005. Acute toxoplasmosis in three wild arctic foxes (Alopex lagopus) from Svalbard; one with co-infections of Salmonella enteritidis PT1 and Yersinia pseudotuberculosis serotype 2b. Research in Veterinary Science 78: 161-167.

14. Ims RA, Fuglei E. 2005. Trophic Interaction Cycles in Tundra Ecosystems and the Impact of Climate Change. BioScience 55(4): 311-322.

15. Våge DI, Fuglei E, Snipstad K, Beheim J, Landsem VM, Klungland H. 2005. Two cysteine substitutions in the MC1R generate the blue variant of the arctic fox (Alopex lagopus) and prevent expression of the white winter coat. Peptides 26: 1814-1817.

16. Fuglesteg BN, Haga ØE, Folkow L, Fuglei E, Blix AS. 2006. Seasonal variation in basal metabolic rate, lower critical temperature and responses to temporary starvation in the arctic fox (Alopex lagopus) from Svalbard. Polar Biology 29: 308-319.

17. Pedersen ØÅ, Lier M, Routti H, Christiansen HH, Fuglei E. 2006. Co-feeding between Svalbard rock Ptarmigan (Lagopus muta hyperborea) and Svalbard reindeer (Rangifer tarandus platyrhynchus). Arctic 59(1): 61-64.

18. Dalén L, Kvaløy K, Linnell JDC, Elmhagen B, Strand O, Tannerfeldt M, Henttonen H, Fuglei E, Landa A, Angerbjörn A. 2006. Population structure in a critically endangered arctic fox population: does genetics matter? Molecular Ecology 15: 2809-2819.

19. Fuglei E, Bustnes JO, Hop H, Mørk T, Björnfoth H, van Bavel B. 2007. Environmental contaminants in arctic foxes (Alopex lagopus) in Svalbard: relationships with feeding ecology and body condition. Environmental Pollution 146(1): 139-149.

20. Gwynn JP, Fuglei E, Dowdall M. 2007. 137Cs in Arctic Foxes (Alopex lagopus) on Svalbard. 2007. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity 92: 30-40.

21. Pedersen ÅØ, Jepsen JU, Yoccoz NG, Fuglei E. 2007. Ecological correlates of the distribution of territorial Svalbard rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta hyperborea). Can. J. Zool. 85: 1-11.

22. Johnson N, Dicker A, Mork T, Marston DA, Fooks AR, Tryland M, Fuglei E and Müller T. 2007. Phylogenetic comparison of Rabies viruses from disease outbreaks on the Svalbard Islands. Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases 7(3):457-460.

23. Carmichael, L.E., Krizan, J., Nagy, J.A., Fuglei, E., Dumond, M., Johnson, D., Veitch, A., Berteaux, D. and Strobeck, C. 2007. Historical and ecological determinants of genetic structure in arctic canids. In press. Molecular Ecology.

24. Geffen, E., Waidyaratne, S., Dalén, L., Angerbjörn, A., Vila, C., Hersteinsson, P., Fuglei, E., White, P. A., Goltsman, M., Wayne, R. K. 2007. Sea ice occurrence predicts genetic isolation in the arctic fox. In press. Molecular Ecology.

Books:
Blom, K. and Fuglei, E. 2004. The arctic fox. Children's book, Cappelen, Oslo, Norway.

Blom, K. and Fuglei, E. 2003. Fjellreven. Children's book, Cappelen, Oslo, Norway