• Employment Opportunity: ARCUS is currently seeking a full time project manager. {more}

Education Join PolarTREC

Visit the PolarTREC website to learn about current expeditions and explore opportunities for teachers, researchers, classrooms and communities.

Ice soccer

A perfect pitch, a perfect day for a game. Playing a little soccer by the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy. (TREC 2004)

Photo by: Patty Cie

PublicationWitness the Arctic

Witness the Arctic - Fall 2009

The Fall 2009 edition of Witness the Arctic is now available. The feature article in the current issue is by Glenn Juday on "Coincidence and Contradiction in the Warming Boreal Forest." Several other timely articles cover arctic research efforts, findings, and agency initiatives. {more}

Meeting State of the Arctic

  • Date: 16–19 March 2010
  • Location: Hyatt Regency Miami, FL

The State of the Arctic Conference will be held 16–19 March 2010 in Miami, Florida. The main goal of the conference is to review our understanding of the arctic system in a time of human-induced, rapid environmental change.

AnnouncementSea Ice Outlook Reports

Sea Ice

The 2009 Sea Ice Outlook Summary Reports are now available. These reports, based on statements from contributors to the 2009 Sea Ice Outlook, provide an initial retrospective review of the 2009 Sea Ice Outlook effort at both the pan-arctic and regional scale. {more}

Host a Speaker Visiting Speakers Program

Patricia Cochran addresses students at a Texas elementary school.

The Arctic Visiting Speakers program, through small travel grants, provides organizations, academic institutions, or communities the opportunity to host scientists and researchers, indigenous peoples, or other persons with arctic expertise to share their knowledge with diverse audiences. {more}
Sea Ice Outlook:
The SEARCH Sea Ice Outlook is an international effort to provide a community-wide summary of the state of arctic sea ice over the summer season. {more}
Internet Media Archive:
The Internet Media Archive is a collection of photos, graphics, videos, and presentations now available through an online archive. {more}
Directory of Arctic Researchers:
Access this directory of more than 4000 international arctic researchers. {more}
Witness the Arctic:
A newsletter providing information on arctic research efforts and initiatives, national policy, international activities, and more. {more}

Arctic Research Consortium of the United States

ARCUS is a non-profit corporation consisting of institutions organized and operated for educational, professional, or scientific purposes. To achieve its mission, ARCUS frequently provides support to workshops to facilitate discussion of important arctic research initiatives, produces workshop reports to publicize researcher recommendations for arctic science priorities, and assists the arctic research community with other publications and information distribution needs. More about ARCUS.