ARCSS: NSF Arctic System Science
The National Science Foundations (NSF) Arctic System Science (ARCSS) Program is a multidisciplinary approach to understanding polar processes for climate and global change. ARCSS is the only element of the U.S. Global Change Research Program...
Arctic Great Rivers Observatory
The river linkage between the land and the Arctic Ocean plays a central role in the rapidly evolving dynamics of the Arctic System. Six great rivers provide the majority of the continental fresh water to the Arctic Ocean, the most landlocked and...
Circumpolar Active Layer Monitoring Network--CALM III
This award will support the continuation of the Circumpolar Active Layer Monitoring (CALM) program as an integral part of the Arctic Observing Network (AON) and the Study of Environmental Arctic Change (SEARCH). The active-layer network of 168...
Collaborative Research: The NEEM Deep Ice Core
The North Eemian (NEEM) Deep Ice Core Project was designed to acquire a new ice core in northern Greenland. NEEM is an international effort, led by the glaciology group at the University of Copenhagen. More than a dozen countries have expressed a...
Cooperative Arctic Data and Information Service (CADIS)
This project is a collaboration with Barry, CIRES, University of Colorado, Boulder (0632296). This project will develop a Cooperative Arctic Data and Information Service (CADIS) that will support the Arctic Observing Network (AON) and Study of...
Coordination, Data Management and Enhancement of the IABP
This project is a renewal of NSF funding of the International Arctic Buoy Programme (IABP) through the U.S. Interagency Arctic Buoy Program (USIABP). The project will coordinate data management and deployment of enhanced buoys by the USIABP. The...
Dynamic Controls on Tidewater Glacier Retreat
This is a proposal to study both ongoing and historical changes in dynamics at the rapidly retreating Columbia Glacier, in south central coastal Alaska. Tidewater glaciers (TWGs) like Columbia Glacier terminate in the ocean and merit special...
IASOA - Eureka Observatory
Eureka, Nunavut, Canada 80.050 N, 86.417 W, Ellesmere Island The Eureka station is composed of three sites: Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory (PEARL), Zero altitude Pearl Auxiliary Laboratory (0PAL), and Surface and Atmospheric...
Ice Mass Balance Buoy Network: Coordination with DAMOCLES
Researchers supported by this grant will deploy an array of autonomous ice mass balance buoys designed to ascertain thermodynamic changes in the mass balance of arctic sea ice. Specifically, the ice mass balance (IMB) buoys will be incorporated in...
Is the Arctic Human Environment Moving to a New State?
This collaboration of Kruse, University of Alaska, Anchorage (0638408, LEAD) and Hamilton, University of New Hampshire (0638413) is part of the Arctic Observation Network (AON), initiated as part of the International Polar Year, and will implement...
Modeling patch-scale expansion of arctic shrubs
Studies of Arctic vegetation change have typically been done at either the plot level or at regional/ecosystem scales. The intermediate scales associated with patches of individual shrubs have largely been ignored. This research will explore patch...
North Pole Station: A Distributed Long-Term Observatory
The purpose of the North Pole Environmental Observatory (NPEO) is to help track and understand ongoing changes in the arctic environment, and to increase the availability of long-term environmental data in the Arctic by providing a data and...
Support for Atmospheric Field Research at Thule, Greenland
Funding for this award will enable continuation for three years of a program of trace gas measurements in the middle atmosphere (stratosphere and mesosphere) over Thule Air Base, Greenland, using a ground-based millimeter-wave spectrometer (GBMS)....
The Beaufort Gyre System: Flywheel of the Arctic Climate?
This project explores the hypothesis that the state and variability of the Beaufort Gyre (BG) system (ocean, sea ice and atmosphere) are natural indicators of Arctic climate health. The major goal of this project is to understand the structure of...
The Polaris Project: Rising Stars in the Arctic
The Polaris Project is engaging students and early career scientists in a multifaceted effort that includes: a field course and research experience for undergraduate students in the Siberian Arctic; several new arctic-focused undergraduate courses...
Ultraviolet Radiation in the Arctic
In 1987, responding to serious ozone depletion reported in Antarctica, the National Science Foundation established a network of instruments to observe solar ultraviolet (UV) radiation at high latitudes. The network eventually grew to seven sites...
Ultraviolet Radiation in the Arctic: 2012-2015
In 1987, responding to serious ozone depletion reported in Antarctica, the National Science Foundation established a network of instruments to observe solar ultraviolet (UV) radiation at high latitudes. The network eventually grew to seven sites...