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