Understanding Change 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
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
AON: Thermal State of Permafrost (TSP) in North America and Northern Eurasia: The US Contribution to the International network of Permafrost Observatories (INPO)	Vladimir Romanovsky (veromanovsky@alaska.edu)	06/15/2009 - 05/31/2014	Arctic Observing Network
Bering Sea Sub Network: A Distributed Human Sensor Array to Detect Arctic Environmental Change	Lilian Alessa (lalessa@alaska.edu)	09/01/2009 - 08/31/2014	Arctic Observing Network
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: 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
The Circumpolar Active Layer Monitoring Network--CALM III (2009-2014): Long-term Observations on the Climate-Active Layer-Permafrost System	Nikolay Shiklomanov (shiklom@gwu.edu)	08/15/2009 - 12/31/2009	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 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
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
Analysis and attribution of changes in Siberian hydroclimate and implications for the future	Judah Cohen (jcohen@aer.com)	09/01/2009 - 08/31/2012	Arctic System Science Program
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
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
Atmospheric Observatories	Taneil Uttal (taneil.uttal@noaa.gov)	10/01/2003	Arctic Observing Network International Polar Year Study of Environmental Arctic Change
Autonomous Ice Mass Balance Buoys for an Arctic Observing Network	Jacqueline Richter-Menge (Jacqueline.A.Richter-Menge@usace.army.mil)	07/01/2009 - 06/30/2010	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: 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: Sustaining and amplifying the ITEX AON through automation and increased interdisciplinarity of observations	Jeffrey Welker (afjmw1@uaa.alaska.edu)	08/15/2009 - 07/31/2014	Arctic Observing Network
Collaborative Research: Syntheses of Sea Ice, Climate, and Human Systems in the Arctic and Subarctic (SYNICE)	Jeffery Rogers (rogers.21@osu.edu)	09/15/2006 - 08/31/2009	Arctic System Science Program Synthesis of Arctic System Science
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
Dentrification and Global Change in Bering Sea Shelf Sediments	Allan Devol (devol@ocean.washington.edu)	09/01/2006 - 08/31/2010	Bering Ecosystem Study
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
Diamonds and Oil from the Tundra: A System Study on the Impact of Changing Seasons on Mining and Oil Exploration	Matthew Sturm (SnowHydroAK@gmail.com)	09/01/2009 - 08/31/2011	Arctic System Science Program
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
Effects of Lengthening Growing Season and Increasing Temperature on Soil Carbon Fluxes and Stocks in Arctic Tundra	Jianwu (Jim) Tang (jtang@mbl.edu)	09/01/2009 - 08/31/2010	Arctic System Science Program
Effects of warming-induced increases in shrub abundance and changing seasonality on migratory songbirds in Alaskan arctic tundra	Natalie Boelman (nboelman@ldeo.columbia.edu)	09/01/2009 - 08/31/2014	Arctic System Science Program
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
Halomethane Gas Exchange in Northern Alaska Coastal Ecosystems	Robert Rhew (rrhew@atmos.berkeley.edu)	09/15/2004 - 08/31/2008	Study of the Northern Alaska Coastal System
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
How Does Changing Seasonality Affect the Capacity of Arctic Stream Networks to Influence Nutrient Fluxes from the Landscape to the Ocean?	William (Breck) Bowden (breck.bowden@uvm.edu)	09/01/2009 - 08/31/2012	Arctic System Science Program
How the Timing of Summer Precipitation Affects the Responses of Boreal Forest to Climate Change	Georgia Murray	07/01/2009 - 07/30/2012	Arctic System Science Program
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
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