AON Projects

The AON projects are categorized by the SEARCH Implementation Plan categories Atmosphere, Ocean and Sea Ice, Hydrology/Cryosphere, Terrestrial Ecosystems, Human Dimensions, and Data.

Atmosphere

Core Atmospheric Measurements at Summit, Greenland Environmental Observatory

Pan-Arctic Studies of the Coupled Tropospheric, Stratospheric and Mesospheric Circulation

Development of Data Products for the University of Wisconsin High Spectral Resolution Lidar

    PI: Ed Eloranta
    Affiliation: University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Cloud Properties Across the Arctic Basin from Surface and Satellite Measurements - An Existing Arctic Observing Network

UV Monitoring Project

    PI: Germar Bernhard
    Affiliation: Biospherical Instruments Inc.
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Ocean and Sea Ice

The State of the Arctic Sea Ice Cover: An Integrated Seasonal Ice Zone Observing Network (SIZONET)

Bering Sea Sub-Network: International Community-Based Observation Alliance for Arctic Observing Network (BSSN)

An Innovative Observational Network for Critical Arctic Gateways: Understanding Exchanges through Davis Strait

The Collaborative O-Buoy Project: Deployment of a Network of Arctic Ocean Chemical Sensors for the IPY and beyond

Collaborative Research: North Pole Station: A Distributed Long-Term Environmental Observatory

Aerial Hydrographic Surveys for IPY and Beyond: Tracking Change and Understanding Seasonal Variability

The Beaufort Gyre System: The Flywheel of the Arctic

Ice Mass Balance Buoy Network: Coordination with DAMOCLES

Coordination, Data Management and Enhancement of the International Arctic Buoy Programme (IABP)

A Modular Approach to Building an Arctic Observing System for the IPY and Beyond in the Switchyard Region of the Arctic Ocean

Ocean-Ice Interaction Measurements Using Autonomous Ocean Flux Buoys in the Arctic Observing System

    PI: Tim Stanton
    Affliation: Naval Postgraduate School
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Toward Developing an Arctic Observing Network: An Array of Surface Buoys to Sample Turbulent Ocean Heat and Salt Fluxes During the IPY

    PI: Tim Stanton
    Affliation: Naval Postgraduate School
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Observing the Dynamics of the Deepest Waters in the Arctic Ocean

Design and Initialization of an Ice-Tethered Array Contributing to the Arctic Observing Network

Towards an Arctic Observing Network: An array of Ice-Tethered Profilers to sample the upper ocean water properties during the International Polar Year

Comparison of Water Properties and Flows in the U.S. and Russian Channels of the Bering Strait - 2005 to 2006

The Pacific Gateway to the Arctic - Quantifying and Understanding Bering Strait Oceanic Fluxes


Hydrology/Cryosphere

Arctic Great Rivers Observatory

    PI: Robert Max Holmes
    Affilition: Woods Hole Research Center
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Long-term Measurements and Observations for the International Arctic Research Community on the Kuparuk River Basin, Alaska

Columbia Glacier Project

    PI: Tad Pfeffer
    Affilition: University of Colorado, Boulder
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Thermal State of Permafrost (TSP): The US Contribution to the International Permafrost Observatory Network

    PI: Vladimir E. Romanovsky
    Affiliation: University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute
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Development of a Network of Permafrost Observatories in North America and Russia: The US Contribution to the International Polar Year

    PI: Vladimir E. Romanovsky
    Affiliation: University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute
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A Prototype Network for Measureing Arctic Winter Precipitation and Snow Cover (Snow-Net)


Terrestrial Ecosystems

Study of Arctic Ecosystem Changes in the IPY using the Interantional Tundra Experiment

Carbon, Water, and Energy Balance of the Arctic Landscape at Flagship Observatories and in a Pan-Arctic Network

Development and Implementation of the Terrestrial Circumarctic Environmental Observatories Network (CEON)


Human Dimensions

Is the Arctic Human Environment Moving to a New State?


Data Management and Coordination

ELOKA: Exchange for Local Observations and Knowledge in the Arctic

    PI: Shari Gearheard
    Affiliation: CIRES - University of Colorado at Boulder
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Cooperative Arctic Data and Information System (CADIS)

    PI: James Moore
    Affiliation: NCAR/EOL
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