AON Projects

The most recent collection of AON Project Reports are available here.

The AON projects are categorized by the SEARCH Implementation Plan categories Atmosphere, Ocean and Sea Ice, Hydrology/Cryosphere, Terrestrial Ecosystems, Human Dimensions, and Data.

Atmosphere

Core Atmospheric Measurements at Summit, Greenland Environmental Observatory

Continued Core Atmospheric and Snow Measurements at the Summit, Greenland Environmental Observatory


Pan-Arctic Studies of the Coupled Tropospheric, Stratospheric and Mesospheric Circulation


Development of Data Products for the University of Wisconsin High Spectral Resolution Lidar

A Replacement Laser for the Arctic High Spectral Resolution Lidar


The Collaborative O-Buoy Project: Deployment of a Network of Arctic Ocean Chemical Sensors for the IPY and beyond


Halogen Chemistry and Ocean-Atmosphere-Sea Ice-Snowpack (OASIS) Chemical Exchange During IPY


Cloud Properties Across the Arctic Basin from Surface and Satellite Measurements - An Existing Arctic Observing Network

Integrated Characterization of Energy, Clouds, Atmospheric State, and Precipitation at Summit (ICECAPS)


UV Monitoring Project


Ocean and Sea Ice

The State of the Arctic Sea Ice Cover: An Integrated Seasonal Ice Zone Observing Network (SIZONET)

Collaborative Research on the State of the Arctic Sea Ice Cover: Sustaining the Integrated Seasonal Ice Zone Observing Network (SIZONET)


Bering Sea Sub-Network: International Community-Based Observation Alliance for Arctic Observing Network (BSSN)

Bering Sea Sub Network: A Distributed Human Sensor Array to Detect Arctic Environmental Change


An Innovative Observational Network for Critical Arctic Gateways: Understanding Exchanges through Davis Strait and Fram Straits


North Pole Station: A Distributed Long-Term Environmental Observatory


Aerial Hydrographic Surveys for IPY and Beyond: Tracking Change and Understanding Seasonal Variability


An interdisciplinary monitoring mooring in the western Arctic boundary current: Climatic forcing and ecosystem response


The Beaufort Gyre System: The Flywheel of the Arctic

Continuing the Beaufort Gyre Observing System to Document and Enhance Understanding Environmental Change in the Arctic


Ice Mass Balance Buoy Network: Coordination with DAMOCLES

Autonomous Ice Mass Balance Buoys for an Arctic Observing Network


Coordination, Data Management and Enhancement of the International Arctic Buoy Programme (IABP)

Coordination, Data Management and Enhancement of the International Arctic Buoy Programme


A Modular Approach to Building an Arctic Observing System for the IPY and Beyond in the Switchyard Region of the Arctic Ocean


Ocean-Ice Interaction Measurements Using Autonomous Ocean Flux Buoys in the Arctic Observing System


Toward Developing an Arctic Observing Network: An Array of Surface Buoys to Sample Turbulent Ocean Heat and Salt Fluxes During the IPY


UpTempO: Measuring the Upper Layer Temperature of the Arctic Ocean


Observing the Dynamics of the Deepest Waters in the Arctic Ocean


Design and Initialization of an Ice-Tethered Array Contributing to the Arctic Observing Network

Towards an Arctic Observing Network: An array of Ice-Tethered Profilers to sample the upper ocean water properties during the International Polar Year

Continuation of the of Ice-Tethered Profiler contribution to the Arctic Observing Network


Comparison of Water Properties and Flows in the U.S. and Russian Channels of the Bering Strait - 2005 to 2006


The Pacific Gateway to the Arctic - Quantifying and Understanding Bering Strait Oceanic Fluxes

An Ocean Observing System for the Bering Strait, the Pacific Gateway to the Arctic - an integral part of the Arctic Observing Network


Hydrology/Cryosphere

Arctic Great Rivers Observatory (Arctic-GRO)


Long-term Measurements and Observations for the International Arctic Research Community on the Kuparuk River Basin, Alaska


Dynamic Controls on Tidewater Glacier Retreat


Thermal State of Permafrost (TSP): The US Contribution to the International Permafrost Observatory Network

Development of a Network of Permafrost Observatories in North America and Russia: The US Contribution to the International Polar Year

Thermal State of Permafrost (TSP) in North America and Northern Eurasia: The US Contribution to the International network of Permafrost Observatories (INPO)


The Circumpolar Active Layer Monitoring Network--CALM III (2009-2014): Long-term Observations on the Climate-Active Layer-Permafrost System


A Prototype Network for Measureing Arctic Winter Precipitation and Snow Cover (Snow-Net)


Terrestrial Ecosystems

Study of Arctic Ecosystem Changes in the IPY using the Interantional Tundra Experiment

Sustaining and amplifying the ITEX AON through automation and increased interdisciplinarity of observations


Carbon, Water, and Energy Balance of the Arctic Landscape at Flagship Observatories and in a Pan-Arctic Network


Fire In the Arctic Landscape: Impacts, Interactions And Links To Global and Regional Environmental Change


Development and Implementation of the Terrestrial Circumarctic Environmental Observatories Network (CEON)


Human Dimensions

Is the Arctic Human Environment Moving to a New State?


Data Management and Coordination

ELOKA: Exchange for Local Observations and Knowledge in the Arctic


Cooperative Arctic Data and Information System (CADIS)