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ACADIS: Advanced - Cooperative Arctic Data and Information Service
ACADIS is the continuation and expansion of CADIS, or Advanced CADIS. The Advanced Cooperative Arctic Data and Information Service (ACADIS) is a joint effort between the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), the National Center for Atmospheric...
Adaptive long-term fasting in land and ice-bound polar bears: Coping with ice loss in the Arctic
The population biology of polar bears occupying land in summer months is comparatively well known. Much less is known about the larger fraction of polar bear populations which stays on the ice through the summer. A better understanding of the...
Aerial Hydrographic Surveys for IPY and Beyond: Tracking Change and Understanding Seasonal Variability
This collaborative project is composed of the following: 0634226 (Morison, UW, LEAD), 0634122 (Collier, Oregon State), 0634097 (McPhee, McPhee Research Company), 0633979 (Proshutinsky, Woods Hole) and 0634167 (Guay, Pacific Marine Sciences and...
A Modular Approach to Building an Arctic Observing System for the IPY and Beyond in the Switchyard Region of the Arctic Ocean
This collaboration consists of 0633878 (Schlosser, Columbia University, LEAD), 0633885 (Steele, University of Washington) and 0633343 (Kwok, NASA). In this continuation of the Switchyard project (Steele/Schlosser/Kwok, 0230427), researchers will...
Ancillary Data Sets for CADIS
This project covers the ancillary data sets available to support CADIS.
An Innovative Observational Network for Critical Arctic Gateways--Understanding Exchanges through Davis and Fram Straits
This coordinated international effort plans to quantify the variability of fluxes connecting the Arctic and subpolar oceans, understand the role played by the Arctic and sub-Arctic in steering decadal scale climate variability and establish a...
Annual Observations of the Biological and Physical Marine Environment in the Chukchi and Nearshore Beaufort Seas near Barrow, AK
The Arctic Ocean ecosystem may respond dramatically to climate change through already observed modification of the physical environment (e.g., hydrography and ice cover). A better understanding of the coupled biological-physical ocean ecosystem,...
An Ocean Observing System for the Bering Strait, the Pacific Gateway to the Arctic
Given the significant role of Pacific waters in the Arctic, quantifying the Bering Strait throughflow and its properties is important to understanding the present functioning of the Arctic system, as well as the causes and prediction of present and...
A Prototype Network for Measuring Arctic Winter Precipitation and Snow Cover (SnowNet 1 and 2)
The grant, a collaboration between 0632131 (Sturm, CRREL, LEAD), 0632160 (Kane, UAF) and 0632133 (Liston, CSU). The chief goal is working to develop better instruments and ways of measuring snow in the Arctic, and analyzing the resultant data. At...
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...
A Replacement Laser for the Arctic High Spectral Resolution Lidar
This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This award supports the purchase of a new laser to replace the current laser in the lidar at Eureka, Nunavut, Canada. The installation of the new...
Autonomous Ice Mass Balance Buoys for an Arctic Observing Network
This award supports the deployment of ice mass balance (IMB) buoys as part of the Arctic Observing Network (AON) and the Study of Environmental Arctic Change (SEARCH). The autonomous, ice-based drifting buoys measure, delineate and, importantly,...
Bering Sea Sub Network: A Distributed Human Sensor Array to Detect Arctic Environmental Change
This award will support the continued implementation of the Bering Sea Sub-Network (BSSN), a regional initiative of community-based organizations in Western Alaska and Northeast Russia. The "Intellectual Merit" of BSSN lies in its operation as a...
Bering Sea Sub-Network: International Community-Based Observation Alliance for Arctic Observing Network (BSSN)
Indigenous peoples around the economically important Bering Sea region are launching a project that will monitor environmental changes in the region. The project will involve Native organizations in western Alaska and in the Russian northeast. The...
Canopy gas exchange and growth of white spruce near the Arctic treeline: confronting measurements with models along natural and experimental resource gradients
The position of the arctic treeline has important implications for surface energy budgets and carbon cycling in a changing climate. Modeling efforts suggest these effects are relevant on regional and global scales. Our understanding of the controls...
Carbon, Water, and Energy Balance of the Arctic Landscape at Flagship Observatories and in a Pan-Arctic Network
This grant is a collaboration with 0632264 (Bret-Harte, UAF). The research will (1) establish observatories at two existing sites of research on landscape-level carbon, water, and energy balance at Toolik Lake (Alaska) and Cherskiy (Siberia) and...
Chromophoric dissolved organic material (CDOM) in Arctic surface waters, implications for solar heating
CDOM has been identified as a major factor in the absorption of solar energy into Arctic surface waters, controlling the vertical partitioning of solar energy and directly impacting the degree of solar heating, ice melt and thermal stratification....
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...
Cloud Properties Across the Arctic Basin from Surface and Satellite Measurements - An existing Arctic Observing Network
The work of this research grant involves the integration and analysis of measurements from the surface-based sites at SHEBA (Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic), Barrow, and the new observatory in Eureka, Canada, as well as satellite data over the...
Collaborative Research: An Interdisciplinary Monitoring Mooring in the Western Arctic Boundary Current: Climatic Forcing and Ecosystem Response
Funds are provided to deploy a single, strategically placed mooring in the core of the western Arctic boundary current east of Barrow Canyon, which will collect measurements permitting estimation of both the alongstream and cross-stream fluxes of...
Collaborative Research: A pan-Arctic, storm-by-storm isotopic investigation of the influence of Arctic sea ice on precipitation - a crucial link in the coupled climate system
This project will quantify the relationship between the ice-free area of the Arctic Ocean and surrounding seas, and evaporation and precipitation in the Arctic region. The methodology uses isotopic compositions of storm-by-storm precipitation...
Collaborative Research: Cold-season gas exchange of arctic plants - resolving winter carbon and water balances of Alaskan arctic tundra
Investigators from the University of Alabama Tuscaloosa and Florida International University have received funding to investigate physiological processes of arctic tundra vegetation during the winter. The study will increase our understanding of...
Collaborative Research: Controls on the motion of soft-bedded glaciers from hourly to seasonal observations of force budget and basal conditions at Breidamerkurjokull, Iceland
Funds are provided to support a study of the spatial and temporal variability in basal stress regime of Breiðamerkurjökull, a glacier with deformable sediments at its base (a soft-bedded glacier). Soft-bedded ice masses are thought to be...
Collaborative Research: Diamonds and Oil from the Tundra: A System Study on the Impact of Changing Seasons on Mining and Oil Exploration
Natural resource extraction is the backbone of the arctic economy. Oil and gas exploration and production taxes account for 88% of the State of Alaska's revenue, providing $10.2 billion in fiscal year 2008. In addition, 4,400 direct and 37,344...
Collaborative Research: High-resolution studies of glacier dynamics at two major outlet glaciers in East Greenland
The Principal Investigators request support for an interdisciplinary, high-resolution study involving remote sensing and field investigations at two of Greenland's largest outlet glaciers. The study of the Helheim and Kangerdlugssuaq Glaciers will...
Collaborative Research: IPY Observation and Modeling of Tundra Ecosystem Responses to Climate Change
Researchers from the Woods Hole Research Center and the American Museum of Natural History will investigate the "greening"of the Alaskan Arctic tundra and its relationship to climate change. Using satellite imagery, field validation, and modeling,...
Collaborative Research: Linking belowground phenology and ecosystem function in a warming Arctic
This project comprises a four-year, passive warming experiment of low-Arctic tundra vegetation at a long-term study site in Greenland, with the primary aim of measuring the response of plant roots to warming, and the role of this response in...
Collaborative Research: Long-term observations in the Switchyard region of the Arctic Ocean as part of the Arctic Observing Network
The project “Collaborative Research: Long-term observations in the Switchyard region of the Arctic Ocean as part of the Arctic Observing Network” (NSF Award Numbers 1022475 and 1023529) is a continuation of the work of the AON project “A Modular...
Collaborative Research: Nonlinearities in the Arctic climate system during the Holocene
Rapid changes in the arctic climate system that occurred in the relatively recent past can be compared with the output of climate models to improve the understanding of the processes responsible for nonlinear system change. This study focuses on...
Collaborative Research on the State of the Arctic Sea Ice Cover: Sustaining the Integrated Seasonal Ice Zone Observing Network (SIZONET)
Funds are provided to build on activities of the Seasonal Ice Zone Observing Network (SIZONet). SIZONet Phase I led to the development of the sea-ice system services (SISS) concept, describing societal benefits (and potentially negative impacts)...
Collaborative Research: P2C2--Ice Core Paleoclimate Records from Combatant Col, British Columbia, Canada
Funding is provided to obtain new ice core accumulation records from Combatant Col, Mt. Waddington, in southwestern British Columbia (BC), Canada. Combatant Col is located significantly farther south than other existing ice core sites along the...
Collaborative Research: Science Coordination Office for Summit Station and the Greenland Traverse
The Science Coordination Office (SCO) serves the scientific community, NSF/OPP, and the arctic logistics contractor by coordinating input and providing an organized mechanism for OPP to consult with regarding decisions at Summit Station. SCO makes...
Collaborative Research: Seasonality of circumpolar tundra - ocean and atmosphere controls and effects on energy and carbon budgets
The major research goal of this project is to characterize the seasonal linkages between land surface greenness and a suite of land, atmosphere and ocean measures in the context of Arctic tundra vegetation. We have analyzed the seasonality of...
Collaborative Research: The Changing Seasonality of Tundra Nutrient Cycling: Implications for Ecosystem and Arctic System Functioning
Arctic soils have large stores of carbon (C) and may act as a significant CO2 source with warming. However, the key to understanding tundra soil processes is nitrogen (N), as both plant growth and decomposition are severely N limited. However,...
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...
Collaborative Research: Toward a Circumarctic Lakes Observation Network (CALON)-- Multiscale observations of lacustrine systems
The scientific goals and methods that address the intellectual merits of the research are: (1) Expand on existing lake monitoring sites in northern Alaska by developing a network of regionally representative lakes along environmental gradients...
Collaborative Research: TransArctic Paleoclimate of the Eocene
This collaborative research effort sought to apply the stable isotope techniques pioneered by the principal investigators for Axel Heiberg terrestrial fossils across a Trans-Arctic trajectory of Eocene field sites. The principal investigators...
Comparison of Water Properties and Flows in the U.S. and Russian Channels of the Bering Strait - 2005-2006
The Bering Strait throughflow is critical for the Chukchi Sea and the upper Arctic Ocean. It is important in the global freshwater cycle and influences the Atlantic overturning circulation and possibly world climate. The throughflow variability...
Continued Core Atmospheric and Snow Measurements at the Summit, Greenland Environmental Observatory
This award supports the continuation and expansion of long-term measurements of the Arctic atmosphere, snow, and other Earth system components at the Summit, Greenland, Environmental Observatory (GEOSummit). The original measurement program began...
Continuing the Beaufort Gyre Observing System to Document and Enhance Understanding Environmental Change in the Arctic
This Arctic Observing Network (AON) project will conduct Beaufort Gyre Observational System (BGOS) operations begun in 2003 during 2009-2014 to document the unprecedented changes in sea ice and ocean parameters that are presently occurring in the...
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...
Core Atmospheric Measurements at Summit, Greenland Environmental Observatory
This project involves long-term core measurements of the Arctic atmosphere, snow and other Earth system components at the Summit Greenland Environmental Observatory (GEOSummit). GEOSummit was the site of the GISP2 ice core, completed in 1993, and...
Core Measurements at Summit, Greenland Environmental Observatory
This 5-year project supports continuing and expanding the collection of long-term measurements of the Arctic atmosphere, snow and other Earth system components at the Summit Greenland Environmental Observatory (GEOSummit), located at an elevation...
Design and Initialization of an Ice-Tethered Profiler Array Contributing to the Arctic Observing System
This project will continue development and deployment in the Arctic Ocean of new ice-tethered profiling (ITP) buoys that are an automated profiling CTD instrument capable of returning daily high-vertical-resolution measurements of the upper 800 m...
Development of a Network of Permafrost Observatories in North America and Russia: The US Contribution to the International Polar Year
Researchers under this grant will provide long-term measurements on permafrost and related activities for a three-year period. Activities include the upgrading and maintenance of the existing Alaskan and Russian borehole sites and technological,...
Development of data products for the University of Wisconsin High Spectral Resolution Lidar
This project will maintain the University of Wisconsin Arctic High Spectral Resolution Lidar (AHSRL) at Eureka on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic. Instruments were initially deployed at Eureka in August of 2005 in efforts to extend 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...
EAGER: Developing a high-resolution late Holocene sediment record of rapid Arctic climate change from the Colville delta and adjacent Beaufort Sea inner shelf
The PIs propose to develop a new, high-resolution (annual to sub-decadal) paleoclimate record (0-1,000 y) from sediment cores taken on the Arctic inner continental shelf. The proposal is a follow-up to a regular Arctic Natural Sciences panel...
ELOKA: Exchange for Local Observations and Knowledge of the Arctic
This project, Exchange for Local Observations and Knowledge of the Arctic (ELOKA), addresses a gap in data management for Arctic research - the urgent need for effective and appropriate means of recording, storing, and managing data and information...
Factors Controlling Seasonal Changes in the Structure and Function of Food Webs of Perennial Spring Streams in Arctic Alaska
This research will investigate nutrient cycling in spring-fed streams in northern Alaska. Spring-fed streams with perennial flow and near-constant water temperatures (3- 7oC) are relatively widespread on the eastern North Slope of Alaska, where...
Fire In the Arctic Landscape: Impacts, Interactions And Links To Global and Regional Environmental Change
The 2007 Anaktuvuk River (AR) fire created a unique opportunity to observe the response of a pristine tundra landscape to a major disturbance. The area burned is large enough ( is greater than 1000 km2) that its impacts can be measured directly at...
Halogen Chemistry and Ocean-Atmosphere-Sea Ice-Snowpack (OASIS) Chemical Exchange During IPY
The objective of this project is to develop a novel instrument for ultra-trace level determination of the halogen atom (Cl, Br, and I) and radical (ClO, BrO and IO) concentrations in the air above the Arctic Ocean. The development of the instrument...
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...
Integrated Characterization of Energy, Clouds, Atmospheric State, and Precipitation at Summit (ICECAPS)
This award supports a field campaign that will expand the Arctic Observing Network (AON) by adding cloud, atmosphere, and precipitation measurements, and associated higher-order data products, to Summit, Greenland, at the top of the Greenland Ice...
IPY Back to the Future (BTF): Re-sampling old research sites to assess change in high latitude terrestrial ecosystem structure and function
Craig Tweedie of the University of Texas at El Paso will determine how key structural and functional characteristics of high latitude terrestrial ecosystems in the Arctic have changed over the past 25 or more years and predict whether such changes...
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...
Longitudinal variation in the physiology, growth and reproduction of white spruce at the Arctic treeline in Alaska
The position of the Arctic treeline is an important regulator of surface energy budgets, carbon cycling, habitat availability and subsistence resources in high latitude environments. Changes in the health and spatial extent of the arctic forest are...
Long-term Measurements and Observations for the International Arctic Research Community on the Kuparuk River Basin, Alaska
High latitude regions of the world are very sensitive to the climate and this is reflected in the hydrologic response of watersheds. Because of increasing greenhouse gases in our atmosphere, it is predicted that climate dynamics will change for...
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...
Near-inertial wave generation, propagation, and shoaling in a seasonally ice-covered ocean
This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The PI proposes to leverage the ongoing ICORTAS (Ice-Covered Ocean Response to Atmospheric Storms) field observations by augmenting the existing...
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...
Observing the Dynamics of the Deepest Waters in the Arctic Ocean
The goal of this research is to measure explicitly the horizontal and vertical motion in the deep Canada Basin over one year. The researchers will add instruments to the deep portion of two moorings that are scheduled to be deployed in the Canada...
Ocean-Ice Interaction Measurements using Autonomous Ocean Flux Buoys in the Arctic Observing System
This project will continue deployment of Autonomous Ocean Flux Buoys (AOFB) in the Central Arctic and to extend deployment to the Western Arctic on ice floes with co-located instruments measuring T/S profiles, ice fluxes and surface forcing...
Pan-Arctic Studies of the Coupled Tropospheric, Stratospheric and Mesospheric Circulation
This observational study combines satellite measurements, lidar measurements, and meteorological soundings and analyses to study the troposphere, stratosphere, and mesosphere will be conducted. The study is an international collaboration between...
RAPID: Tracking Radioactive Fallout from the Fukushima Dai-ichi Disaster in Arctic Snow
The goal of this project is to investigate the long-range transport of radioactive material from the March 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor incident to sites in Alaska (Denali National Park) and Greenland (Thule and Summit Station). Fallout...
Science Plan and Workshop Support for Bering Strait Environmental Observations
This award will support two workshops, including one in the Bering Strait region, that will bring together representatives from the scientific research, local/native and operational observing communities to develop a science plan and recommend...
Study of Arctic Ecosystem Changes in the IPY using the International Tundra Experiment
This collaborative project is composed of the following: 0632277 (Oberbauer, Florida International University, LEAD), 0632184 (Welker, UAA), 0632144 (Klein, CSU) and 0632263 (Hollister, GVSU) and will use isotopes and remote sensing to measure...
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)....
Sustained Observations of the North Pole Environment to Characterize Ongoing Arctic Change
This award supports the continuation of the aerial hydrographic surveys component of the North Pole Environmental Observatory (NPEO) as part of the Arctic Observing Network (AON) and the Study of Environmental Arctic Change (SEARCH). During the...
Sustaining and Amplifying the ITEX AON Through Automation and Increased Interdisciplinarity of Observations
This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The goal of this project is to maintain the existing ITEX AON and increase the applicability of the data collected to the greater scientific...
Terrestrial Circumarctic Environmental Observatories Network (CEON)
The key objective of this three-year award is to further the international and multidisciplinary development of the terrestrial Circumarctic Environmental Observatories Network (CEON, www.ceoninfo.org). CEON's mission is to strengthen the capacity...
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 Collaborative O-Buoy Project: Deployment of a Network of Arctic Ocean Chemical Sensors for the IPY and beyond
This grant is a collaboration of 0612331 (Matrai, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, LEAD), 0611992 (Perovich, CRREL), 0612047 (Shepson, Purdue University) and 0612457 (Simpson, UAF). The focus of this project is on the measurement of three key...
The Pacific Gateway to the Arctic-Quantifying and Understanding Bering Strait Oceanic Fluxes
This project is a collaboration between Woodgate, UW (0632154), and Weingartner, UAF (0631713). The Bering Strait, a narrow (~ 85 km wide), shallow (~ 50 m deep) strait at the northern end of the Pacific, is the only ocean gateway between the...
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...
Thermal State of Permafrost (TSP): The US Contribution to the International Permafrost Observatory Network
Researchers under this grant will provide long-term measurements on permafrost and related activities for a three-year period. Activities include the upgrading and maintenance of the existing Alaskan and Russian borehole sites and technological,...
The State of the Arctic Sea Ice Cover: An Integrated Seasonal Ice Zone Observing Network (SIZONET)
In a rapidly changing Arctic, the shrinking and thinning sea-ice cover plays an important role as indicator and agent of environmental change. A dramatic shrinking of the perennial ice cover has greatly increased the extent and hence importance of...
The Svalbard REU: Holocene and Modern Climate Change in the High Arctic
Since 2003, the Principal Investigators have been administering a summer REU site on the Svalbard archipelago for motivated geoscience undergraduate students. The students undertake important climate change research and experience the challenges...
Toward Developing an Arctic Observing Network: An Array of Surface Buoys to Sample Turbulent Ocean Heat and Salt Fluxes During the IPY
This project will deploy ocean flux buoys in the Arctic ocean as part of a group effort to contribute to the goals of the IPY and the Study of Environmental Arctic Change (SEARCH) project by: (1) implementing automated monitoring of oceanic fluxes...
Towards an Arctic Observing Network: An array of Ice-Tethered Profilers to sample the upper ocean water properties during the International Polar Year
This grant will work in conjunction with multiple national and international IPY projects to include: the Russian Central Arctic Ocean Complex Study (CAOCS), the Canadian Ocean Monitoring Experiment (COME) and the Canadian Arctic Margin Experiment...
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...
UpTempO: Measuring the Upper Layer Temperature of the Arctic Ocean
Ice-based buoys exist that can measure temperature profiles, but these are not optimized for observing the open sea. Thus the objective of this proposal is to fill this gap in the Arctic Observing Network measurement strategy, i.e., to measure the...
Young Scholars Project in Interdisciplinary Environmental and Earth Sciences
The Foundation for Glacier and Environmental Research offers an eight week, residential, Young Scholars project in interdisciplinary environmental earth sciences for 15 students entering grade 12 and 3 teachers in an MSTP component. The program...