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
Is the Arctic Human Environment Moving to a New State?	Jack Kruse (afjak@uaa.alaska.edu)	04/01/2007 - 03/31/2011	Arctic Observing Network International Polar Year
Thermal State of Permafrost: The US Contribution to the International Permafrost Observatory Network	Vladimir Romanovsky (veromanovsky@alaska.edu)	09/01/2006 - 12/31/2009	Arctic Observing Network International Polar Year
Long-term Measurements and Observations for the International Arctic Research Community on the Kuparuk River Basin, Alaska	Douglas Kane (dlkane@alaska.edu)	04/15/2004 - 03/31/2010	Arctic Observing Network
State of the Arctic Sea Ice Cover: An Integrated Seasonal Ice Zone Observing Network (SIZONET)	Hajo Eicken (hajo.eicken@gi.alaska.edu)	01/01/2010 - 12/31/2010	Arctic Observing Network
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
NOAA Salmon Survey 2007	Kathleen Crane (kathy.crane@noaa.gov)	01/01/2002	Bering-Aleutian Salmon International Survey
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
Beaufort Gyre System: Flywheel of the Arctic	Andrey Proshutinsky (aproshutinsky@whoi.edu)	10/01/2004 - 09/30/2010	Arctic Observing Network
North Pole Station: A Distributed Long-term Environmental Observatory	James (Jamie) Morison (morison@apl.washington.edu)	09/01/2004 - 08/31/2010	Arctic Observing Network
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
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
The Impact of Changes in Sea Ice Extent on Primary Production, Phytoplankton Community Structure, and Export in the Eastern Bering Sea	S. Bradley Moran (moran@gso.url.edu)	09/01/2007 - 08/31/2008	Bering Ecosystem Study
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
Sea Ice Algae, a Major Food Source for Herbivorous Plankton and Benthos in the Eastern Bering Sea	Rolf Gradinger (rgradinger@ims.uaf.edu)	09/15/2007 - 08/31/2008	Bering Ecosystem Study
Nelson Island Natural and Cultural History Project	Mark John (mjohn@gci.net)	10/01/2006 - 09/30/2008	Bering Ecosystem Study
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
The Trophic Role of Euphausiids in the Eastern Bering Sea: Ecosystem Responses to Changing Sea-ice Conditions	Evelyn Lessard (elessard@u.washington.edu)	09/15/2007 - 08/31/2008	Bering Ecosystem Study
Nitrogen Supply for New Production and its Relation to Climatic Conditions on the Eastern Bering Sea Shelf	Raymond Sambrotto (sambrott@ldeo.columbia.edu)	08/15/2006 - 07/31/2010	Bering Ecosystem Study
Dentrification and Global Change in Bering Sea Shelf Sediments	Allan Devol (devol@ocean.washington.edu)	09/01/2006 - 08/31/2010	Bering Ecosystem Study
The Impact of Changes in Sea Ice on the Physical Forcings of the Eastern Bering Ecosystem - Retrospective Investigation and Future Projection		08/01/2006 - 07/31/2010	Bering Ecosystem Study 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
Synthesis and Scaling of Hydrologic and Biogeochemical Data on the North Slope and Coastal Zones of Alaska: A Basis for Studying Climate Change	Marc Stieglitz (marc.stieglitz@ce.gatech.edu)	01/01/2005 - 12/31/2008	Study of the Northern Alaska Coastal System
Snow and Ice Processes in the Deposition and Fate of Mercury in the Arctic	Matthew Sturm (SnowHydroAK@gmail.com)	09/01/2004 - 08/31/2008	Study of the Northern Alaska Coastal System
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: Development of a Network of Permafrost Observatories in North America and Russia: The US Contribution to the International Polar Year	Vladimir Romanovsky (veromanovsky@alaska.edu)	02/15/2007 - 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
The Role of Ice Melting in Providing Available Iron to the Surface Water of the Eastern Bering Sea Shelf	Jingfeng Wu (jwu@iarc.uaf.edu)	09/01/2006 - 08/31/2009	Bering Ecosystem Study
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
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
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
The Impact of Changes in Arctic Sea Ice on the Marine Planktonic Ecosystem - Synthesis and Modeling of Retrospective and Future	Carin Ashjian (cashjian@whoi.edu)	08/15/2006 - 07/31/2010	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
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
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
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
Sunlight and the Arctic Atmosphere-Ice-Ocean System	Donald Perovich (donald.k.perovich@erdc.usace.army.mil)	09/01/2005 - 08/31/2008	Arctic System Science Program 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