ARCUS | Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S.

New Website: Western Alaska Landscape Conservation Cooperative {more}

Education Join PolarTREC

Antarctica expeditions are underway! Follow the research teams and PolarTREC teachers here.

It is amazing that these little krill can feed such immense whales! Photo taken near Barrow, AK. (TREC 2004)

Photo by: Misty Nikula

The Fall 2011 issue of Witness the Arctic is now available. This issue includes news on the Study of Environmental Arctic Change (SEARCH) and related programs, an article and interview on the new arctic data management project, Advanced Cooperative Arctic Data and Information Service (ACADIS), and articles on other arctic science, policy, logistics, and funding issues. {more}

Meeting Oil and Gas Forum

The 2^nd Canada-US Northern Oil and Gas Research Forum featured technical, engineering, and scientific research on topics related to oil and gas activities. The final agenda and presentations from the Forum are now available. {more}

Outreach Joint Science
Education Project

High School Students are invited to apply today for the Joint Science Education Project - a summer research experience in Greenland. Applications are due Feb 17, 2012. A limited number of students from the United States will join their peers from Denmark, and Greenland to spend three weeks this summer doing field science in and around Kangerlussuaq, Greenland and visit a research station on the Greenland ice sheet. {more}

UpdateSea Ice Outlook Summary

A post-season report for 2011 is now available! Twenty-six groups contributed to the 2011 Sea Ice Outlook and Outlook estimates did extremely well this year. Outlooks based on May data had a mean value of 4.7 million square kilometers; the sea ice monthly extent for September 2011 was 4.6 million square kilometers, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center. Read the report for a full discussion and lessons learned. {more}

Projects CSAS Projects

The National Science Foundation's Arctic System Science Program (ARCSS) funded a set of interdisciplinary projects on "Changing Seasonality in the Arctic System" to explore shifts in the timing, length, and pattern of events that are occurring throughout the Arctic. This website has information about these research projects, including products, findings, photos, and more. {more}

Arctic Items for Sale:: The Earth is Faster Now: Indigenous Observations of Arctic Environmental Change, Watching Ice and Weather Our Way, and an umbrella printed with a chart of the Arctic Ocean. {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}

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Arctic Research Consortium of the United States

ARCUS is a 501©(3) non-profit organization 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.