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Novel Methods to Observe Heat and Ice in the High Latitudes Using PIES
This project will develop and test a non-traditional method to measure the time-varying heat content and vertical temperature profile in high-latitude seas, shelves, and fjords... -
Barrow-based environmental observatories
The Barrow area is home to a number of atmospheric, oceanic and landbased observatories. Since 1973 the National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration has operated the... -
Edge of the Arctic Shelf
SBI is a multi-year, multi-disciplinary program sponsored jointly by the National Science Foundation’s Office of Polar Programs and the High-latitude branch of the Office of... -
The Arctic Great Rivers Observatory (Arctic-GRO II)
Massive northern rivers transport huge quantities of freshwater, carbon, and other compounds from the continents to the Arctic Ocean. The overarching scientific rationale for... -
Boundary Current in Western Arctic (AON)
This project focuses on the fate of the Pacific water that enters the Arctic Ocean through the Bering Strait. Pacific water plays a critical role in the western Arctic... -
Arctic Observing Network: Continuing the Beaufort Gyre Observing System in 2018-2021 to Document and Enhance Understanding of Arctic Freshwater Transformations and Fate
Our project uses samples from ships and moored instruments to study the mechanisms controlling the amount of freshwater and other ocean properties in the western Arctic Ocean... -
Monitoring the Western Arctic Boundary Current in a Warming Climate: Atmospheric Forcing and Oceanographic Response
Our project focuses on the fate of the Pacific water that enters the Arctic Ocean through the Bering Strait. As part of our project we will continue to maintain a mooring... -
Shelf-Basin Exchange in the Chukchi Sea
The observed ongoing decline of summer sea ice coverage in the Arctic Ocean results, in part, from heat carried by ocean waters. This heat enters the Arctic Ocean by direct... -
Copepod life history and lipid strategy in a changing Arctic - A new trait-based approach to data synthesis, modeling, and end-to-end integration
Many people have argued that the diminishing summer Arctic sea ice extent will result in enhanced growth of small aquatic plants and, consequently, the small marine animals... -
Assessing the Western Arctic Boundary Current and its role in the Arctic ecosystem and climate change
The Western Arctic Boundary Current, which flows out of Barrow Canyon onto the continental slope of the Beaufort Sea. A multi-disciplinary mooring is located at 152o W in the...
