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International Polar Year (IPY) 2007-2008
"This site features IPY activities supported by the United States Government."
Sections include: Science & Nature ; People & Culture ; Explore & Learn For Students & Teachers ; Multimedia ; News.

Alaska Climate Research Center

• Alaska-Polar Weather Links - (dead link)

Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) - (dead link) (German or English)
"Polar and Marine research are central themes of Global system and Environmental Science. The Alfred Wegener Institute conducts research in the Arctic, the Antarctic and at temperate latitudes."

• Click & Learn - (dead link) (K12)
  "The Alfred Wegener Institute gets a vast number of enquiries from school children, their teachers and occasionally their parents. Almost everyone wants to know more about the Arctic and the Antarctic, the polar fauna and flora, work on a polar research station, life in the sea, life on board a research vessel or how to become a marine scientist...Here are the most "frequently asked questions" (and answers)."

Arctic Council
"...is a high-level intergovernmental forum that provides a mechanism to address the common concerns and challenges faced by the Arctic governments and the people of the Arctic...Members of the Arctic Council are Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, the Russion Federation, Sweden and the United States of America."

• Arctic Environmental Protection Strategy Documents - (dead link)

Arctic Council Indigenous Peoples' Secretariat

• Traditional Knowledge - (dead link) [.pdf]
  A Report Prepared for the Arctic Council Indigenous Peoples' Secretariat
  By Philip Burgess, 1999.

Arctic Environmental Atlas
GRID-Arendal Maps - UN Environmental Programme

Arctic Research Consortium of the United States

Arctic Research of the United States
Published by the National Science Foundation.

Arctic Science and Technology Information System

Arctic Science Journeys Radio Scripts - (dead link)
Alaska Sea Grant College, University of Alaska, Fairbanks

Birds and Mammals of Mount McKinley National Park
By Joseph S. Dixon
U.S. National Park Service - Fauna Series No.3 - 1938
Fauna of the National Parks of the United States

California Academy of Sciences - Exhibits

• Artic National Wildlife Refuge - Seasons of Life and Land
  49 Photographs by Subhankar Banerjee

[Canada] Northwest Territories - Resources, Wildlife and Economic Development
Sections include: West Nile Virus ; Hunting Guide ; Fishing Guide ; Economic Development ; Non-Renewable Resources ; Renewable Resources ; Tourism.

Canadian Ice Service - (dead link) "...promotes safe and efficient maritime operations and protects Canada's environment by providing reliable and timely information about ice conditions in Canadian waters."

Canadian Polar Commission - (dead link)

Danish Polar Center

Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council - (dead link)

• Historical Information - (dead link)
• Publications
  • Restoration Update - (dead link)
    "The Restoration Update is the official newlsetter [sic] of the Trustee Council and is published 4-6 times yearly."
  • Restoration Notebook Series - (dead link)
    "This is a natural history series that highlights species on the injured resources list. They are written by researchers who have studied these species or subjects within the spill region."
  • Resources and Services - (dead link)
    "The Update is a detailed account of injury and recovery of resources and services within the spill region. This Update is dated March 1999 and was published after the Trustee Council updated the recovery status to mark the 10th anniversary of the spill."
  • 2001 Status Report - (dead link)
  • 2000 Status Report - (dead link)
• Exxon Valdez : Legacy of an Oil Spill 10 Years After - (dead link) [10-Year Report]
  "...provides information about the impacts of the oil spill, the injury and recovery of fish, wildlife, and people of the spill region, and information about ongoing restoration and research activitites [sic].
  • The Settlement - (dead link)

The Fate of Franklin
A Multimedia Museum of the Cultural Histories of Arctic Exploration
Sections include: Franklin in the Public Eye: 1818-1859 ; The Arctic in Popular Culture ; Searching for Franklin ; Sir John Franklin Links ; The Arctic Book Review.
Maintained by Russell A. Potter, Ph.D.

Global Ice-Core Research
"...studies ice that is sometimes thousands of years old to determine what the earth's climate was like in the past. Once information about the past is known, we can apply the knowledge to the present and future."
Water Resources of Idaho, USGS

Glossary of Glacier Terms
By Ellin Beltz

Japanese National Institute of Polar Research

JPL Polar Oceanography Group - Publications - (dead link)

Marine Science in the Arctic: A Strategy - (dead link)

Natural Resources Canada

• Geological Survey of Canada - (dead link)
  • Arctic Refraction Catalogue - (dead link)
  • National Diatom Database - (dead link)
    "...will include two components, the first one will contain approximately 5,000 diatom samples with their description, precise geographic location and associated information, and the second one will consist of 1,500 entries giving information on the environmental and ecological tolerance of individual diatom species. Diatoms are powerful indicators of environmental conditions as they respond quickly to environmental changes...This key source of climate indicators will provide an invaluable long term time series to determining climate variations in the Canadian Arctic."

National Academy Press (free downloads)

• 2003
  • Cumulative Environmental Effects of Oil and Gas Activities on Alaska's North Slope
    Committee on the Cumulative Environmental Effects of Oil and Gas Activities on Alaska's North Slope, National Research Council, 2003.
• 2002
  • A Century of Ecosystem Science: Planning Long-Term Research in the Gulf of Alaska
    Committee to Review the Gulf of Alaska Ecosystem Monitoring Program, National Research Council, 2002.
  • The Ongoing Challenge of Managing Carbon Monoxide Pollution in Fairbanks, Alaska
    Committee on Carbon Monoxide Episodes in Meteorological and Topographical Problem Areas, National Research Council, 2002.
• 2001
  • Enhancing NASA's Contributions to Polar Science: A Review of Polar Geophysical Data Sets
    Committee to Review NASA's Polar Geophysical Data Sets, Polar Research Board, National Research Council, 2001.
• 1996
  • The Bering Sea Ecosystem
    Committee on the Bering Sea Ecosystem, National Research Council, 1996.

National Ice Core Laboratory (NICL)
"...is a facility for storing, curating, and studying ice cores recovered from the polar regions of the world. It provides scientists with the capability to conduct examinations and measurements on ice cores, and it preserves the integrity of these ice cores in a long-term repository for current and future investigations."
- USGS

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

• Arctic Theme Page
  "...provides access to widely distributed Arctic data and information for scientists, students, teachers, academia, managers, decision makers and the general public."
  Sections include: Scientific ; General Interest ; Gallery ; Essays ; FAQ.
  • Gallery [includes some historical photos]
    Includes: North Pole Photographs ; Arctic Photographs ; Animal Photographs ; Whale Photographs ; Seal and Walrus Photographs ; Ships and Boats ; Ice Pictures.
• Polar Operational Environmental Satellite (POES)
  "...collect global data on a daily basis for a variety of land, ocean, and atmospheric applications. Data from the POES series supports a broad range of environmental monitoring applications including weather analysis and forecasting, climate research and prediction, global sea surface temperature measurements, atmospheric soundings of temperature and humidity, ocean dynamics research, volcanic eruption monitoring, forest fire detection, global vegetation analysis, search and rescue, and many other applications."

National Science Foundation - Office of Polar Programs

National Snow and Ice Data Center
"...We distribute data and maintain information about snow cover, avalanches, glaciers, ice sheets, freshwater ice, sea ice, ground ice, permafrost, atmospheric ice, paleoglaciology, and ice cores."

• Data Catalog
• NSIDC Notes
• 
  "Our quarterly publication is intended to inform the polar research community of current research and the data and services we provide."
• Arctic Climatology and Meteorology
  Sections include: Basics ; Factors ; Patterns ; Glossary ; Gallery ; Map.
• Arctic System Science (ARCSS) Data Coordination Center
• Distributed Active Archive Center

Northern Alaska Environmental Center
"...promotes conservation of the environment in Interior and Arctic Alaska through advocacy, education, and sustainable resource stewardship."
Sections include: Arctic ; Boreal Forest ; Denali Watch ; Local Issues ; Mining ; Camp Habitat.

Norwegian Polar Institute

Ohio State University - Byrd Polar Research Center

• Polar Pointers - (dead link)
  Meta-directory of online resources
• Ice Sheets Newsletters - (dead link)

Polar Bear Central
Sections include: Learn About Polar Bears ; WWF at Work in the Arctic ; Multimedia Gallery ; Polar Postcards.
From WWF-Central

Polar Bear Tracker
Sections include: Where are They? ; About Polar Bears ; Polar Bears at Risk.
- WWF

The Russian Association ofIndigenous Peoples of the North

Scott Polar Research Institute

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A Study of Environmental Arctic Change
"...government agencies will cooperate to understand the full scope of the changes going on in the Arctic. Scientists will research exactly how the observed changes relate to the Arctic's natural variability and if the changes indicate the start of a major climate shift in the North."

UN - World Conservation Monitoring Centre

• Biodiversity Bulletin
  Themes include: Priorities for Biodiversity in the Tropics ; Tropical Montane Cloud Forests: An Urgent Priority for Conservation ; Patterns of Biodiversity in Arctic Birds.

US Army Cold Regions Research & Engineering Laboratory - (dead link)

U.S. Geologic Survey

• Energy Resources Program
  • The Oil and Gas Resource Potential of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge 1002 Area, Alaska - (dead link) (Open File Report 98-34)
    By ANWR Assessment Team
• Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center
  • A Ten-Year History of the Demographic and Productivity of an Arctic Wolf Pack - (dead link)
    by L. David Mech, 1995.

University of Alaska, Fairbanks - Alaska Sea Grant Program
- School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences

University of Alaska, Fairbanks - Geophysical Institute

University of Alaska, Fairbanks - International Arctic Research Center (IARC)

• Japanese Frontier Research System for Global Change (FRSGC) Program
  "The overall goal of the IARC/Frontier Atmosphere/Ocean/Ice Physics group is to contribute, individually and as a group, to an evolving understanding of the physical processes and interactions within the arctic climate system."

University of Calgary (Canada) - Arctic Institute of North America

University of Colorado - Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR)

University of Washington - Polar Science Center

• North Pole Environmental Observatory
  "A Year-Round Automated Environmental Observatory in the Central Basin of the Arctic Ocean."
• Data Sets - (dead link)
• Report on the Arctic Change Workshop (Final Draft) [.pdf]
  University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 10-12 November 1997.

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