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8. Which types of research do you think are presently inhibited or constrained by lack of research or logistical support?

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22 Long-term environmental monitoring, including:
  • 4 multiple sites for comparative process studies
  • 3 climate (sparse monitoring network now)
  • 2 sea ice mass balance
  • 2 surface energy, water and CO2 flux
  • 2 including smaller scale projects
  • 2 observations coordinated for model verification in all seasons
  • 2 baseline monitoring with web access
  • 2 variability of water masses, sea ice, and atmospheric vertical structure over Arctic Ocean
  • 1 cloud microphysical properties
  • 1 vegetation
  • 1 should be done where feasible by acoustic means for volume inflows and outflows
  • 1 UV estimates suffer from lack of UV monitoring in Arctic Russia
  • 1 long-term socioeconomic data
  • 1 long-term ecological research
  • 1 at other than LTER sites, for example glaciological studies
27 Access Issues
  • 8 access to Russian Arctic
  • 5 open water biological and chemical oceanography/biological studies needing prolonged ship time
  • 4 access to entire North Slope of Alaska/helicopter time
  • 3 year round access to central Arctic and adjacent seas needed for annual cycles and budgets
  • 3 arctic wide, synoptic multi-season hydrographic surveys have never been done
  • 2 biological and limnological inventories limited by lack of helicopter support and need for fuel caches
  • 1 regional studies requiring data analysis on a 2-10 km scale over 100s of km
  • 1 international data on permafrost
  • 1 international collaborations
  • 1 in situ ocean studies
  • 1 research on ice-associated marine mammals limited by lack of icebreaker support
  • 1 high quality swath mapping of arctic seafloor limited by platform access
  • 1 simultaneous hydrographic and biogeochemical time series in a range of key locations have not been done
  • 1 ground drilling in winter
  • 1 remote sites need to be adequately integrated into OPP's logistics framework
  • 1 research done by scientists who do not live in Barrow
  • 1 rapid field sampling (land and ocean/ice) need more effective air support
  • 1 atmospheric sampling over Greenland ice sheet
12 Funding Issues
  • 5 lack of funds
  • 2 computing resources for global coupled ocean and climate modeling
  • 2 get the logistics costs out of the research budgets
  • 2 ship time
  • 1 suggest exploring use of military and other federal resources
  • 1 local technical support to maintain instruments/data streams
16 Disciplinary Issues
  • 2 adaptation of organisms to arctic environment and rapid climate/habitat change
  • 2 geophysical and geological research in the Arctic Basin
  • 2 biology
  • 1 all aspects of solid earth geosciences
  • 1 historical research
  • 1 education programs
  • 1 terrestrial and near-shore paleoenvironmental research
  • 1 biodiversity, biopopulations, soil dynamics
  • 1 environmental impact of human activity
  • 1 atmospheric and hydrological data are sparse in the Arctic
  • 1 ethnographic research in communities
  • 1 anthropology/archaeology
  • 1 traditional knowledge
  • 1 seismic investigations in Arctic Ocean very expensive
  • 1 natural history
  • 1 interdisciplinary work
  • 1 lake, pond, marshland ecology
  • 1 contaminants
20 Platform/Equipment issues
  • 8 adequate research vessels
  • 4 high latitude shore facility (Barrow)
  • 2 permafrost borehole access for temperature profiles
  • 2 deep sea sediment cores
  • 1 studies of physiological and behavioral adaptations of animals require housing facilities
  • 1 archaeological field and lab equipment
  • 1 need occasional large field camps for interdisciplinary collaboration
  • 1 data transmission from ocean to land
  • 1 tropospheric sampling platforms year round
  • 1 seasonal field programs like SHEBA
  • 1 affordable data telemetry limits winter work
  • 1 research is constrained even at established stations
3 Research is not limited by logistics
17 No direct response

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