Ocean Projects

This online project catalog has been developed to provide a tool to the arctic research community for discovering and sharing information about SEARCH-related projects supported through various funding agencies.

There are currently 126 projects contained within this database. The Project Catalog is under continual development and improvement as additional projects and user functionality is added. If you have any questions or suggestions about the SEARCH Project Catalog, please contact Helen Wiggins.

Below is an overview of all projects currently published in the catalog. The tabs above may be used to 'Filter' by keyword, region, or implementation category, or to run a full text 'Search' against all fields contained in the catalog. Full project details may be viewed by clicking on a project title in the table below.

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Titlesort icon PIs Project Period Related Programs
An Array of Autonomous Ocean Flux Buoys to Directly Observe Turbulent Vertical Fluxes of Heat, Salt and Momentum as a Component of the Arctic Observing Network
Tim Stanton (stanton@nps.edu)
08/15/2009 - 07/31/2010 Arctic Observing Network
AON: Continuing the Beaufort Gyre Observing System to Document and Enhance Understanding Environmental Change in the Arctic
Andrey Proshutinsky (aproshutinsky@whoi.edu)
07/01/2009 - 06/30/2014 Arctic Observing Network
Collaborative Research: An Ocean Observing System for the Bering Strait, the Pacific Gateway to the Arctic - an integral part of the Arctic Observing Network
Thomas Weingartner (tjweingartner@alaska.edu)
09/01/2009 - 08/31/2013 Arctic Observing Network
Coordination, Data Management and Enhancement of the International Arctic Buoy Programme
Ignatius Rigor (ignatius@apl.washington.edu)
08/15/2009 - 07/31/2014 Arctic Observing Network
Fire In the Arctic Landscape: Impacts, Interactions And Links To Global and Regional Environmental Change
Gaius Shaver (gshaver@mbl.edu)
06/15/2009 - 05/31/2012 Arctic Observing Network
UpTempO: Measuring the Upper Layer Temperature of the Arctic Ocean
Michael Steele (mas@apl.washington.edu)
06/15/2009 - 05/31/2012 Arctic Observing Network
A Change of Seasonality of the Upper Arctic Ocean in Response to Atmospheric and Sea Ice Forcing
Jiayan Yang (jyang@whoi.edu)
07/01/2009 - 06/30/2012 Arctic System Science Program
A Service Proposal to Examine Impacts of Sea Ice on Hydrographic Structure and Nutrients over the Eastern Bering Sea Shelf
Rolf Sonnerup (rolf.sonnerup@noaa.gov)
09/15/2007 - 08/31/2008 Bering Ecosystem Study
A Service Proposal to Examine Impacts of Sea Ice on Hydrographic Structure and Nutrients over the Eastern Bering Sea Shelf during Summer
Rolf Sonnerup (rolf.sonnerup@noaa.gov)
09/15/2007 - 08/31/2008 Bering Ecosystem Study
A synthesis of rapid meltwater and ice discharge changes: large forcings from the ice with impacts on global sea level and North Atlantic freshwater budgets
Richard Alley (ralley@essc.psu.edu)
09/01/2005 - 08/31/2010 Synthesis of Arctic System Science
An Innovative Observational Network for Critical Arctic Gateways: Understanding Exchanges through Davis Strait
Craig Lee (craig.lee@colorado.edu)
04/01/2007 - 03/31/2008 Arctic Observing Network
An Observational Array for High Resolution, Year-Round Measurements of Volume, Freshwater, and Ice Flux Variability in Davis Strait
Craig Lee (craig.lee@colorado.edu)
10/01/2002 - 03/31/2008 Arctic Observing Network
AON: Continuation of the of Ice-Tethered Profiler contribution to the Arctic Observing Network
John Toole (jtoole@whoi.edu)
08/15/2009 - 07/31/2014 Arctic Observing Network
Beaufort Gyre System: Flywheel of the Arctic
Andrey Proshutinsky (aproshutinsky@whoi.edu)
10/01/2004 - 09/30/2010 Arctic Observing Network
Benthic Ecosystem Response to Changing Ice Cover in the Bering Sea
Jackie Grebmeier (jgrebmei@umces.edu)
11/01/2007 - 08/31/2008 Bering Ecosystem Study
Changing Seasonality of the Arctic: Alteration of Production Cycles and Trophic Linkages in Response to Changes in Sea Ice and Upper Ocean Physics
Carin Ashjian (cashjian@whoi.edu)
08/15/2009 - 07/31/2012 Arctic System Science Program
Climate Response to Future Changes in Arctic Snow Cover and Sea Ice: A New Perspective from the High-Resolution NCAR CCSM3
Clara Deser (cdeser@ucar.edu)
08/15/2006 - 07/31/2010 Synthesis of Arctic System Science
Collaborative Proposal: An interdisciplinary monitoring mooring in the western Arctic boundary current: Climatic forcing and ecosystem response
Robert Pickart (rpickart@whoi.edu)
08/15/2009 - 07/31/2014 Arctic Observing Network
Collaborative Research: A Modeling Comparison of the Alaskan and Mackenzie Shelves
Kevin Arrigo (arrigo@stanford.edu)
09/15/2007 - 08/31/2010 Shelf-Basin Interactions Project II
Collaborative Research: A Modular Approach to Building an Arctic Observing System for the IPY and Beyond in the Switchyard Region of the Arctic Ocean
Peter Schlosser (schlosser@ldeo.columbia.edu)
04/01/2007 - 03/31/2011
Arctic Observing Network
International Polar Year
Collaborative Research: An Ocean Observing System for the Bering Strait, the Pacific Gateway to the Arctic - an integral part of the Arctic Observing Network
Rebecca Woodgate (woodgate@apl.washington.edu)
09/01/2009 - 08/31/2013 Arctic Observing Network
Collaborative Research: Determining the Present and Future Ocean Carbon Dynamics in the Chukchi Sea and Pan-Arctic Ocean: A Contribution to Shelf-Basin Interactions (SBI) Phase III
S. Bradley Moran (moran@gso.url.edu)
09/01/2007 - 08/31/2010 Shelf-Basin Interactions Project II
Collaborative Research: Development of a High-Resolution, Unstructured Grid, Finite-Volume Coupled Ice-Ocean Model for the Arctic Ocean 09/15/2007 - 08/31/2010 Arctic System Science Program
Collaborative Research: Effect of a Warming Climate on Arctic Shelf and Basin Calanus Populations: Implications for Pan-Arctic Ecosystem Dynamics
Carin Ashjian (cashjian@whoi.edu)
09/15/2007 - 08/31/2010 Shelf-Basin Interactions Project II
Collaborative Research: IPY: Arctic Great Rivers Observatory (Arctic-GRO)
Bruce Peterson (peterson@mbl.edu)
07/01/2008 - 06/30/2011 Arctic Observing Network
Collaborative Research: IPY: Dynamic Controls on Tidewater Glacier Retreat
W. Tad Pfeffer (tad.pfeffer@colorado.edu)
04/15/2008 - 03/31/2011 Arctic Observing Network
Collaborative Research: Toward Reanalysis of the Arctic Climate System - Sea Ice and Ocean Reconstruction with Data Assimilation
Gleb Panteleev (gleb@iarc.uaf.edu)
08/22/2006 - 07/31/2009
Arctic System Science Program
Synthesis of Arctic System Science
Comparison of Water Properties and Flows in the U.S. and Russian Channels of the Bering Strait - 2005 to 2006
Rebecca Woodgate (woodgate@apl.washington.edu)
05/15/2005 - 10/31/2007 Arctic Observing Network
Continued Core Atmospheric and Snow Measurements at the Summit, Greenland Environmental Observatory
Joseph McConnell (jmcconn@dri.edu)
07/01/2009 - 06/30/2014 Arctic Observing Network
Coordination, Data Management, and Enhancement of the International Arctic Buoy Program (IABP)
Ignatius Rigor (ignatius@apl.washington.edu)
03/15/2006 - 02/28/2009 Arctic Observing Network
Dentrification and Global Change in Bering Sea Shelf Sediments
Allan Devol (devol@ocean.washington.edu)
09/01/2006 - 08/31/2010 Bering Ecosystem Study
Design and Initialization of an Ice-tethered Array Contributing to the Arctic Observing Network
John Toole (jtoole@whoi.edu)
02/01/2006 - 01/31/2008 Arctic Observing Network
Developing an Understanding and Predictive Capability for the Interconnections Among Arctic Terrestrial, Atmospheric, and Marine Systems
Walter Oechel (oechel@sunstroke.sdsu.edu)
09/15/2004 - 08/31/2008 Study of the Northern Alaska Coastal System
Downscaling Global Climate Projections to the Ecosystems of the Bering Sea with Nested Biophysical Models
Nicholas Bond (nicholas.bond@noaa.gov)
08/15/2007 - 08/31/2008 Bering Ecosystem Study
Environmental Variability, Bowhead Whale Distributions, and Inupiat Subsistence Whaling - Linkages and Resilience of an Alaskan Coastal System
Carin Ashjian (cashjian@whoi.edu)
09/15/2004 - 08/31/2008 Study of the Northern Alaska Coastal System
Flux and Transformation of Organic Carbon across the Eroding Coastline of Northern Alaska
Chien-Lu Ping (cping@alaska.edu)
09/15/2004 - 08/31/2008 Study of the Northern Alaska Coastal System
Greening of the Arctic - Synthesis and Models to Examine the Effects of Climate, Sea-ice, and Terrain on Circumpolar Vegetation Change
Howard Epstein (hee2b@virginia.edu)
09/01/2005 - 08/31/2009 Synthesis of Arctic System Science
Humans and Hydrology at High Latitudes
Richard Lammers (richard.lammers@unh.edu)
08/15/2005 - 07/31/2010 Synthesis of Arctic System Science
Ice Mass Balance Buoy Network: Coordination with DAMOCLES
Jacqueline Richter-Menge (Jacqueline.A.Richter-Menge@usace.army.mil)
02/01/2007 - 01/31/2008
Arctic Observing Network
International Polar Year
Icebergs - International Ice Patrol U.S. Coast Guard
Impacts of Sea Ice on the Hydrographic Structure, Nutrients, and Mesozooplankton over the Eastern Bering Sea Shelf
George Hunt, Jr. (geohunt2@uw.edu)
04/01/2007 - 03/31/2009 Bering Ecosystem Study
Impacts of the Changing Seasonality of Wind-Driven Mixing on the Arctic System
Luc Rainville (rainville@apl.washington.edu)
08/01/2009 - 07/31/2012 Arctic System Science Program
IPY: Collaborative Research on Carbon, Water, and Energy Balance of the Arctic Landscape at Flagship Observatories and in a PanArctic Network
Gaius Shaver (gshaver@mbl.edu)
03/15/2007 - 02/28/2011
Arctic Observing Network
International Polar Year
IPY: Collaborative Research: Aerial Hydrographic Surveys for IPY and Beyond: Tracking Change and Understanding Seasonal Variability
James (Jamie) Morison (morison@apl.washington.edu)
05/15/2007 - 04/30/2011
Arctic Observing Network
International Polar Year
IPY: Collaborative Research: The Pacific Gateway to the Arctic - Quantifying and Understanding Bering Strait Oceanic Fluxes
Thomas Weingartner (tjweingartner@alaska.edu)
03/01/2007 - 02/28/2011
Arctic Observing Network
International Polar Year
IPY: Halogen Chemistry and Ocean-Atmosphere-Sea Ice-Snowpack (OASIS) Chemical Exchange During IPY
Paul Shepson (pshepson@purdue.edu)
10/01/2007 - 09/30/2010
International Polar Year
Study of Environmental Arctic Change
IPY: Observing the Dynamics of the Deepest Waters in the Arctic Ocean
Mary-Louise Timmermans (Mary-Louise.Timmermans@Yale.edu)
03/01/2007 - 02/28/2009
Arctic Observing Network
International Polar Year
IPY: Towards an Arctic Observing Network: An Array of Ice-Tethered Profilers to Sample the Upper Ocean Water Properties During the International Polar Year
John Toole (jtoole@whoi.edu)
02/01/2007 - 01/31/2011
Arctic Observing Network
International Polar Year
Mesozooplankton-microbial Food Web Interactions in a Climatically Changing Sea Ice Environment
Evelyn Sherr (sherre@oce.orst.edu)
09/15/2007 - 08/31/2008 Bering Ecosystem Study
Nansen-Amundsen Basin Observational System (NABOS)
Igor Polyakov (igor@iarc.uaf.edu)
01/01/2002

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