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2. What specific logistics and research support issues are of concern to your projects?

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Platforms
  • 16 ice breaker
  • 11 housing
  • 8 other marine research platforms
  • 8 additional lab and personnel support at Barrow
  • 7 permanent arctic field stations, esp in Canada
  • 6 lab facilities/office space
  • 5 field camps
  • 4 submarine
  • 3 ice stations
  • 3 AUVs
  • 2 benthic or other long-term observatories
  • 2 user days at Toolik
  • 2 animal housing and experimental housing
  • 2 drilling vessel
  • 2 shore stations
  • 1 UV monitoring in Russia
  • 1 radars and lidars with operators
  • 1 maintenance of large-scale facilities
  • 1 autonomous data collection platforms
  • 1 full service support facility in the US high Arctic
  • 1 sea ice logistics
Access
  • 16 aircraft support
  • 15 transportation/travel support
  • 14 helicopter support
  • 12 access to remote sites
  • 7 snowmachines
  • 6 year round access
  • 6 small boats
  • 5 air freight, problems with priority and customs
  • 4 mountaintop/glacier/ice sheet sites
  • 4 ATV
  • 3 shipping
  • 2 clearance/international cooperation and access
  • 2 marine access
  • 1 ability to obtain sediment cores, etc in ice affected shelf and fjord areas
Equipment Handling
  • 4 fuel handling
  • 3 equipment loan or sharing
  • 3 portable coring capability for shallow permafrost
  • 3 gear storage
  • 2 power supplies for remote instrumentation
  • 2 maintenance
  • 2 CTD/water sample rosette system
  • 1 shop/engineering
  • 1 hazardous material handling
  • 1 acoustic transceivers
  • 1 clothing
  • 1 liquid nitrogen
Data Issues
  • 9 computer resources
  • 3 access to photo, map and satellite imagery databases
  • 2 forcing and validation data sets
  • 1 continuity of wide swath radar data
  • 1 placement and maintenance of buoy arrays for measuring regional scale dynamics and ice stress
  • 1 synthesis meetings
  • 1 cost and poor quality of secondary sources
  • 1 GIS support
  • 1 availability of high quality models
  • 1 higher spatial resolution of predicted ice cover that can be accessed simultaneous to research cruises
  • 1 data for predictive ecological models
  • 1 meteorological and hydrological data are too sparse
  • 1 DGPS
  • 1 data storage, archive and access
  • 1 availability of international operational datasets (surface, sounding, and buoy data)
  • 1 data access--to preliminary data and to archived datasets
Funding
  • 5 cost recovery for ship time
  • 4 technician support
  • 3 more funding for social sciences
  • 1 support for study of forest tree adaptations at natural limits
  • 1 support of surveys, autonomous equipment installation, and process studies in the Arctic Ocean
  • 1 support for small scale projects involving students
  • 1 support for multi year projects
  • 1 funding for planning with communities
General Issues
  • 20 data and voice communications
  • 14 all aspects of remote logistics
  • 6 international collaborations
  • 5 problems with Russian projects
  • 3 relations with local communities
  • 3 availability of local research assistants
  • 3 office space in communities
  • 2 personnel safety, including bear guards
  • 1 umbrella coverage for medivac and liability to supplement PIs insurance
Other
  • 1 hydrographic sections
  • 1 Eulerian and Lagrangian time series observations of T, S and tracers
  • 1 analyses/hindcasts of surface fluxes of momentum, heat and radiation
  • 1 "larger support infrastructure vs. cost of research"
  • 1 "problem of continuity, timeliness of funding, and agreement on objectives"
  • 1 accurate positioning
  • 2 No response

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