Related Polar links

• Antarctic Related Links
• Arctic Related Links
• Polar Regions Related Links

Antarctic Related Links

U.S. Antarctic Program sites

• Raytheon Polar Services Company (U.S. Antarctic Program support and logistics contractor)
  • Polar Ice (Participant On-Line Antarctic Resource Information Coordination Environment—an online application, operated by Raytheon Polar Services Company for NSF, to enable researchers to submit annual logistic and support needs and to plan for field research in Antarctica)
• University NAVSTAR Consortium, Polar Programs (UNAVCO) provides high-precision GPS technology support to the U.S. Antarctic Program. Surveying, mapping, and other GPS support services are available to NSF-funded scientific investigators working in Antarctica.

U.S. Federal government

• Geographical Names Information System, USGS: Use this form to search for the names of geographic features in Antarctica.
• Meteorites from Antarctica: The official U.S. government site for information concerning antarctic meteorites and how to obtain samples for research. Also, see Astromaterials Curation at NASA Johnson Space Center
• Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center:
• United States Antarctic Resource Center (USARC), U.S. Geological Survey, is a joint venture between NSF and USGS. It maintains the Nation's most comprehensive collection of Antarctic maps, charts, satellite images, and photographs produced by the United States and other member nations of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
• CIA Facts about Antarctica is part of the CIA World Factbook, which is produced by CIA's Directorate of Intelligence. The Factbook is a comprehensive resource of facts and statistics on more than 250 countries and other entities.

Selected NSF-supported projects

• Links to pages by NSF grantees conducting research in Antarctica (This page is maintained by Raytheon Polar Support Company.)
  • 2002-2003 projects
  • 2003-2004 projects
• Antarctic Geologic Database, Byrd Polar Research Center, Ohio State University (An on-line database that allows loading, storage, search, and retrieval of information on Antarctic rock samples)
• Antarctic Muon and Neutrino Detector Array (AMANDA), University of California, Berkeley
• AMANDA, University of Wisconsin
• Antarctic Meteorology Research Center and Antarctic Weathers Stations Project at University of Wisconsin
• Antarctic Research Facility at Florida State University
• Antarctic Search for Meteorites Program (ANSMET), Case Western Reserve University
• Antarctic Working Group for Geology and Geophysics (ANTWGGG)
• Center for Astrophysical Research in Antarctica
• Expedition Antarctica (Hamilton College antarctic research site)
• Joint Australian Centre for Astrophysical Research in Antarctica (JACARA)
• McMurdo Dry Valleys Long-Term Ecologic Research site
• Palmer Station Long-Term Ecological Research site
• Glacier at Rice University
• Seismic Experiment in Patagonia and Antarctica, Washington University in St. Louis
• Southern Ocean GLOBEC information
• Ross Island Meteorology Experiment (RIME) (A basic and applied research program that will explore in detail the atmospheric processes over Antarctica and their interactions with lower latitudes via the Ross sea sector beginning in 2005)
• University of Texas, Institute for Geophysics, Antarctic Projects
• U.S. Antarctic Data Coordination Center, National Snow and Ice Data Center, is supported by NSF/OPP to improve access U.S.-funded antarctic scientific data by creating descriptions for these data and entering them into the Antarctic Master Directory (AMD), a node of the International Directory Network/Global Change Master Directory (IDN/GCMD). The AMD is a Web-based, searchable directory containing data descriptions (metadata in the form of DIF entries).
• The West Antarctica Ice Sheet Initiative (WAIS)

Antarctic Treaty related information and organizations

• Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources oversees the implementation of the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Living Resources (CCAMLR), which is part of the Antarctic Treaty System and is concerned with conserving marine life in the Southern Ocean.
• Council of Managers of Antarctic National Programs (COMNAPS): This site provides information about and links to all Antarctic Treaty Consultative Parties national antarctic programs.
• Antarctic Non-government Activities: Information about non-government expeditions from the Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition, Department of the Environment, Sport and Territories
• Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR):  The interdisciplinary committee of the International Council for Science (ICSU). SCAR charged with initiating, promoting, and coordinating scientific research in Antarctica. It also provides scientific advice to the Antarctic Treaty System. The web site includes links to SCAR working groups, groups of specialists, and other relevant information.

Information resources

• Historic Guide to Ross Island
• Gateway to Antarctica: Maintained by the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, this site aims to increase understanding and to make management of the Antarctic and the Southern Ocean more effective.
• Live from Antarctica 2
• CIA Facts about Antarctica

Arctic Related Links

Arctic Research Program links

• Veco Polar Resources company  (NSF logistic support contractor for arctic research)
• Arctic Research Consortium of the United States (ARCUS)
  • Arctic Geographic Information Systems
  • Teachers and Researchers, Exploring and Collaborating (ARCUS)
• ALIAS (Arctic Logistics Information and Support)

U.S. Federal government

• Arctic Research Commission
• Arctic Studies Center at Smithsonian Institute - National Museum of Natural History 
• Arctic theme page, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Selected NSF-supported projects

• Alaska Native Knowledge Network
• Alaska Native Science Commission
• Arctic Long-Term Ecology Research site
• Arctic Region Supercomputing Center at University of Alaska
• Arctic Systems Data Coordination Center, University of Colorado
• Arctic Environmental Information and Data Center, University of Alaska
• Geophyiscal Institute, University of Alaska-Fairbanks
• Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research at University of Colorado
• Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska-Fairbanks
• North Pole Environmental Observatory (Polar Science Center, Applied Physics Laboratory/University of Washington; Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory/NOAA; Japan Marine Science and Technology Center; and Oregon State University)
• Search (Study of Environmental Arctic Change) home page
• SHEBA home page
• Toolik Lake Field Station
• Greenland Summit Camp (The scientific research station, located at the peak of the Greenland ice sheet and supported by the National Science Foundation. The camp operates year-round supporting studies of air-snow interactions — knowledge of which is crucial for interpreting data from ice cores both drilled in the area and elsewhere.

National and international organizations

• Alaska Climate Research Center
• Arctic Institute of North America (University of Calgary)  
• Arctic Council
• Arctic Environmental Atlas, United Nations Environment Program
• Cooperative Institute for Arctic Research — A joint NOAA/University of Alaska program, the Institute (or CIFAR) was established in 1994. CIFAR is exclusively concerned with arctic studies and works most closely with NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) in Seattle, as well as other parts of NOAA.
• Barrow-area research projects
• Barrow Arctic Science Consortium
• Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee (IARPC)
• International Arctic Science Committee (IASC)
• IASC's arctic funding guide (Offers funding news, funding opportunities and assistance for writing proposals for arctic-related research and organizations.)
• International Arctic Research Center (IARC)
• United Nations Environmental Network, State of the Arctic Environment

Polar Regions Related Links

U.S. Federal government

• U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs is the DOS focal point for foreign policy formulation and implementation in global environment, science, and technology issues, including arctic and antarctic policy.
• Air National Guard of New York, 109th Air Wing provides air support to the U.S. Antarctic Program and to U.S. researchers working in Greenland.
• Climate Monitoring & Diagnostics Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
• Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL), US Army Corps of Engineers.
• National Snow and Ice Data Coordination Center, University of Colorado.
• National Ice Center (a multi-agency operational center representing the U.S. Navy, NOAA, and Coast Guard, which provides worldwide sea ice analyses and forecasts to government and private organizations )
• NASA Goddard Space Flight Center—Earth Sciences Directorate
• National Ice Core Laboratory

National and international organizations

• Polar Research Board, National Academy of Sciences
• U.S. Committee on the International Polar Year, 2007-2008
• Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge
• Polar Libraries Colloquy
  • PolarWeb (A guide to Internet resources dealing with the lands and waters surrounding the North Pole and the South Pole. The Polar Web is a collaborative project of the Polar Libraries Colloquy and the Arctic Centre, at the University of Lapland, Finland.)
• Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
• Biospherical Instruments Incorporated (NSF Polar Programs UV monitoring network)

Universities

• Polar Science Center at Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington.
• Ice Coring and Drilling Services, University of Wisconsin-Madison. ICDS provides ice-coring and drilling services to NSF-sponsored researchers both in polar regions and at high-altitude sites and maintains, operates, and develops new ice-coring systems when needed.
• Byrd Polar Research Center , Ohio State University.
  • U.S. Polar Rock Repository (Supported by NSF, the repository will house rock collections of U.S. scientists from Antarctica and the Arctic, along with materials such as field notes, annotated aerial photos and maps, raw analytic data, paleomagnetic cores, ground rock and mineral residues, thin sections, and microfossil mounts, microslides, and residues)
• Arctic and Antarctic Research Center, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (an archive of more than 70,000 satellite overpasses of the Arctic and Antarctic)

Information resources

• Cold Regions Bibliography Project is supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) under an NSF cooperative agreement (OPP 99-09727) to the American Geological Institute (AGI). AGI maintains the Antarctic Bibliography and the Bibliography on Cold Regions Science and Technology. From 1951 to 1998, the Library of Congress was responsible for the project. This earlier information can be found at the Cold Regions Bibliography Project, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
• Polar Web (a cooperative project of the Polar Libraries Colloquy and the Arctic Center at the University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland)
• Directory of Polar and Cold Regions Organizations, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
• CRREL Virtual Cold Regions Library (Links to antarctic, arctic, and polar information resources from around the world. Maintained by the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory Library)

 

Last modified: March 2004; Office of Polar Programs