Synthesis 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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Title	PIs	Project Period	Related Programs
Understanding Climate-Driven Phenological Change: Observations, Adaptations, and Cultural Implications in Northeastern Siberia and Labrador/Nunatsiavut	Susan Crate (scrate1@gmu.edu)	09/01/2009 - 08/31/2012	Arctic System Science Program
Pan-Arctic Climate and Ecosystem Response to Historical and Projected Changes in the Seasonality of Sea Ice Melt and Growth	Donald Perovich (donald.k.perovich@erdc.usace.army.mil)	08/01/2009 - 07/31/2012	Arctic System Science Program
NOAA-FOCI (Fisheries Oceanography Coordinated Investigations)	Allen Macklin (macklin@pmel.noaa.gov)	01/01/1984
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
IPY: Collaborative Research: Study of Arctic Ecosystem Changes in the IPY Using the International Tundra Experiment	Julia Klein (jklein@cnr.colostate.edu)	02/15/2007 - 01/31/2011	Arctic Observing Network International Polar Year
The White Arctic: A Snow-Impacts Synthesis for the Terrestrial Arctic	Matthew Sturm (SnowHydroAK@gmail.com)	09/15/2006 - 08/31/2010	Synthesis of Arctic System Science
Toward Reanalysis of the Arctic Climate System - Sea Ice and Ocean Reconstruction with Data Assimilation	Andrey Proshutinsky (aproshutinsky@whoi.edu)	08/15/2006 - 07/31/2010	Synthesis of Arctic System Science
Producing an Updated Synthesis of the Arctic's Marine Primary Production Regime and its Controls	Patricia Matrai (pmatrai@bigelow.org)	09/01/2006 - 08/31/2009	Arctic System Science Program Synthesis of Arctic System Science
Heterogeneity and Resilience of Human-Rangifer Systems: A Circumpolar Social-Ecological Synthesis	Gary Kofinas (gary.kofinas@alaska.edu)	09/15/2005 - 08/31/2010	Synthesis of Arctic System Science
The Roles of Clouds and their Accomplices in Modulating the Trajectory of the Arctic System	Axel Schweiger (axel@apl.washington.edu)	09/01/2006 - 08/31/2010	Synthesis of Arctic System Science
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
Humans and Hydrology at High Latitudes	Richard Lammers (richard.lammers@unh.edu)	08/15/2005 - 07/31/2010	Synthesis of Arctic System Science
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
Synthesis of Arctic System Carbon Cycle Research Through Model-Data Fusion Studies Using Atmospheric Inversion and Process-Based Approaches	Qianlai Zhuang (qzhuang@purdue.edu)	08/15/2005 - 07/31/2009	Synthesis of Arctic System Science
Arctic Surface Air Temperatures for the Past 100 years: Analysis and Reconstruction of an Integrated Data Set for Arctic System Science	Ignatius Rigor (ignatius@apl.washington.edu)	08/15/2005 - 07/31/2010	Synthesis of Arctic System Science
A Heat Budget Analysis of the Arctic Climate System	Michael Steele (mas@apl.washington.edu)	09/01/2005 - 08/31/2009	Synthesis of Arctic System Science
Synthesis of Modes of Ocean-Ice-Atmosphere Covariability in the Arctic System from Multivariate Century-Scale Observations	Mark Serreze (serreze@kryos.colorado.edu)	09/15/2005 - 08/31/2009	Synthesis of Arctic System Science