Research programs focused on the Arctic

• New! The Freshwater Switchyard of the Arctic Ocean - from the University of Washington Polar Science Center
• Study of Environmental Arctic Change (SEARCH)
  • Workshop Report on Large-Scale Atmosphere/Cryosphere Observations (February 2002)
  • Implementation Plan (October 2003)
• NSF Arctic Sciences Section of the NSF Office of Polar Programs
• RUSALCA - Russian-American Long-term Census of the Arctic
• Western Arctic Shelf-Basin Interactions (SBI) project: A 10 year NSF/ONR global change program from University of Tennessee
• International Arctic Buoy Program from U of Washington
• Program in Arctic Regional climate Assessment (PARCA) from U of Colorado
• Arctic Research Consortium of the United States (ARCUS)
• Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program (AMAP)
• Center for Disease Control's Arctic Investigations Program
• CRDF - Created by the U.S. government to promote scientific and technical collaboration between the U.S. and the former Soviet Union
• Center for Global Change and Arctic System Research at the University of Alaska
• Arctic Regional Ocean Observing System - European institutions working actively with ocean observation and modelling systems for the Arctic Ocean and adjacent seas - from Arctic ROOS

Research institutions and organizations focused on the Arctic

• U.S. Arctic Research Commission
• New! Arctic TRANSFORM - an international project supporting adaptation in the marine Arctic environment
• Tiksi Arctic observatory  - a US, Russian and Finnish partnership
• Barrow observatory - manned year-round, located near Barrow, AK
• Polar Science Center - APL U of Washington
• National Ice Center
• National Snow and Ice Data Center from U of Colorado
• Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) - U.S. Army
• The Alaska Climate Research Center from U of Alaska - Fairbanks
• International Arctic Research Center
• International Arctic Science Committee - Click on National Plans, Polar Acronyms, Publications, etc.
• Arctic Council Home Page - rich resource
• Canadian Arctic Resources Committee (CARC)
• Arctic Institute of North America - U of Calgary
• University of the Arctic - cooperative network committed to higher education and research in the North
• Arctic Institute of North America (AINA) - from Universities of Calgary and Alaska
• Arctic System Science (ARSS) Data Coordination Center - U of Colorado Boulder
• Arctic Calendar from the International Arctic Science Committee
• Polar Science Center at Univ. of Washington
• Ecological Monitoring and Assessment Network (EMAN) Directory (Canada)
• Arctic and Antarctic Advice Agency / Austria
• Danish Polar Center
• Japanese National Institute of Polar Research
• Arctic and Antarctic Research Institutes in Arctic Countries (from the University of Vienna)
• Scott Polar Research Institute from University of Cambridge
• The Roald Amundsen Centre for Arctic Research
• Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research
• The Rutgers' Coastal and Arctic Oceanography research group
• Cooperative Institute for Arctic Research (CIFAR)
• Center for Global Change & Arctic System Research at the University of Alaska Fairbanks
• Hudson Bay Project for Ecosystem Studies and Conservation of coastal Arctic Tundra
• Norwegian Polar Institute
• The Polar Environmental Center (Norway)
• Hudson Bay Project for Ecosystem Studies and Conservation of coastal Arctic Tundra
• Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute / Russian Federal Service For Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring
• Directory of Polar and Cold Regions Organizations from the Scott Polar Research Institute
• Extensive compilation of Arctic-relevant organizations from the University of the Arctic, an international consortium of academic institutions and programs.
• The Indigenous Peoples' Secretariat
• SnowChange.org - Northern indigenous views on climate change and ecology
• Inuit Circumpolar Conference - representing Inuit living in Alaska, Canada, Greenland and Chukotka, Russia
• Indian and Northern Affairs Canada - supporting Aboriginal people (First Nations, Inuit and Métis) and Northerners - from Canadian government
• Arctic Studies Center from the Smithsonian Institution
• Higher Education and Research in the Barents Euro-Arctic Region from the Barents region portal website
• North Slope Science Initiative - Alaska - Interagency effort to increase collaboration at the local, state, and federal levels to address the research, inventory, and monitoring needs as they relate to development activities on the North Slope. From Argonne National Laboratory.