ARCUS | Acronyms

The following is a list of some of the organizations that are involved with the Arctic Community.

• ACUNS Association of Canadian Universities for Northern Studies
• AEDD Arctic Environmental Data Directory
• AICC Arctic Icebreaker Coordinating Committee
• ALIAS Arctic Logistics Information and Support
• ARCSS Arctic System Science Data Coordination Center
• ARM Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program
• ARSC Arctic Region Supercomputing Center
• ASF Alaska SAR Facility
• BASC Barrow Arctic Science Consortium
• BEO Barrow Environmental Observatory
• BESIS The Bering Sea Impact Study
• BEST Bering Ecosystem Study
• BLM Bureau of Land Management, Northern District Office at Fairbanks, Alaska
• CIESIN Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network
• CIFAR Cooperative Institute for Arctic Research
• CRCX CRREL Cold Regions Center of Expertise
• CRREL Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory
• EPA Environmental Protection Agency
• GCRIO U.S. Global Change Research Information Office
• GRID Global Resource Information Database
• HARC Human Dimensions of the Arctic System
• IARC International Arctic Research Center
• IARPC NSF Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee
• IASC The International Arctic Science Committee
• ICARP International Conference for Arctic Research Planning
• INSTAAR Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research
• KDI Knowledge and Distributed Intelligence (KDI Initiative)
• LAII Land-Atmosphere-Ice Interactions
• LDEO Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
• MAB Man and the Biosphere Program
• MBL Marine Biological Laboratory
• NERSC Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center
• NOAA National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration
• NSF National Science Foundation
• NSIDC National Snow and Ice Data Center
• OAII Ocean-Atmosphere-Ice Interactions
• OPP NSF Office of Polar Programs
• PARCS Paleoenvironmental Arctic Science
• PRB Polar Research Board
• RAISE Russian-American Initiative for Land-Shelf Environments
• SAM Norwegian Polar Institute Survey of Arctic Meetings
• SEARCH Study of Environmental Arctic Change
• SBI Western Arctic Shelf-Basin Interactions Project
• UNIS University Courses on Svalbard
• UNOLS University - National Oceanographic Laboratory System
• USCG U.S. Coast Guard
• USGS U.S. Geological Survey
• WHOI Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution