Arctic Ocean Biodiversity

Helpful Links

Educational Resources

Alaska Sea Grant (USA) http://www.uaf.edu/seagrant/

Arctic Alive (International) http://www.arcus.org/arcticalive/about.html

Arctic Net Education (Canada) http://www.arcticnet-ulaval.ca/index.php?fa=Education.show

Arctic Sea ice research (USA) http://www.sfos.uaf.edu/research/seaicebiota/

Census of Marine Life (International) http://www.coml.org/

International Polar Foundation (Belgium/International) http://ipf.polarfoundation.org/index.php

NOAA Arctic Research Office Education (USA) http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/education.html

NOAA Ocean Explorer website Arctic (USA) http://www.oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/02arctic/welcome.html

NOAA Ocean Explorer website: Hidden Ocean 2005 http://www.oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/05arctic/welcome.html

POMOR Master Program for Applied Polar and Marine Sciences (Germany/Russia) http://www.pomor.de/

School Project Alfred-Wegener-Institute (Germany) http://www.awi-bremerhaven.de/ClickLearn/SchoolProject/AWI_SP_index_e.html

UAF Museum of the North (USA) http://www.uaf.edu/museum/

University of Alaska Fairbanks http://www.uaf.edu/

University of the Arctic (International) http://www.uarctic.org/

University Studies in Svalbard (Norway) http://students.unis.no/mainpage.htm

Ongoing Arctic Biological Research Projects and Programs

Arctic Coastal Biodiversity (International) http://www.iasc.no/ProjectCatalogue/ACBio.htm

Arctic Ocean Diversity Russia http://www.zin.ru/projects/arccoml/eng/index.html

Benthic Invertebrates in Icelandic Waters BIOICE http://www.ni.is/bioice/objectives.htm

Biodiversity and Fluxes in Arctic Glaciated Fjords BIODAFF (Poland/Norway) http://www.iopan.gda.pl/~sweslaw/BIODAF/

Carbon flux and ecosystem feed back in the northern Barents Sea in an era of climate change -CABANERA ( Norway ) http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/nfi/rapport/?keys=27769&language=en

Canadian Arctic Shelf Exchange Study CASES http://www.cases.quebec-ocean.ulaval.ca/ Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna CAFF (International) http://www.caff.is/

Effects of North Atlantic Climate Variability on the Barents Sea Ecosystem ECOBE ( Norway ) http://ecobe.imr.no/

International Polar Year (International) http://www.ipy.org/

Long-term investigations at AWI Hausgarten ( Germany ) http://www.awi-bremerhaven.de/Research/ProjectGroups/DeepSea/hausgarten.html

Nearshore Geography in Shore Areas NaGISA (North Pacific portion) http://www.nagisa.coml.org/EasternPacificPage.htm

On thin ice? ( Norway ) http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/nfi/rapport/?keys=27216&language=no

Russian-American Long-term Census of the Artic RUSALCA http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/aro/russian-american/

Shelf Basin Interactions Project SBI ( USA ) http://sbi.utk.edu/

Study of Environmental Arctic Change SEARCH ( USA ) http://www.arcus.org/search/searchscience/?Menu=1

Institutions and Networks with Arctic Expertise and/or Marine Stations

Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Research (Germany) http://www.awi-bremerhaven.de/index-e.html

Arctic Group University of Tennessee http://arctic.bio.utk.edu/

ArcticNet ( Canada) http://www.arcticnet-ulaval.ca/index.php?fa=ArcticNet.showArcticNet

Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (Russia) http://www.aari.nw.ru/default_en.asp

ARCTOS Network (Norway) http://www.nfh.uit.no/arctos/intro.html

Barrow Arctic Science Consortium BASC (USA) http://www.sfos.uaf.edu/basc/

British Antarctic Survey Ny Ålesund Research Station http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/BAS_Science/Arctic/ny-alesund.html

Chinese Arctic Program http://www.assw2005.cn/artic/2004-4.htm

Danish Polar Center http://www.dpc.dk/DPC_about/start.html

German-Russian Otto Schmidt Laboratory for Marine and Polar Research http://www.otto.nw.ru/

Greenland Institute of Natural Resources http://www.dpc.dk/Res&Log/ProjectPlanner/Platforms/Natur.html

Institute of Marine Research (Norway) http://www.imr.no/english/about_imr

Institute of Ocean Sciences (Canada) http://www-sci.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/sci/facilities/ios_e.htm

Institute for Polar Ecology IPOE (Germany) http://www.uni-kiel.de/ipoe/

Memorial University of Newfoundland http://www.mi.mun.ca/

National Institute for Polar Research (Japan) http://www.nipr.ac.jp/

Norwegian Polar Institute http://npiweb.npolar.no/

Polar Research Institute of China http://www.coi.gov.cn/eoverview/ejd/

Polish Polar Station Hornsund http://hornsund.igf.edu.pl/index_en.php

Scott Polar Research Institute http://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/

Shirshov Institute of Oceanology (Russia) http://www.sio.rssi.ru/index_en.htm

The University Centre in Svalbard (Norway) http://www.unis.no/

University of Alaska Fairbanks (USA) http://www.uaf.edu/

University of Tromsoe (Norway) http://uit.no/informasjon/english

Zoological Institute St. Petersburg , Russian Academy of Sciences ZIN (Russia) http://www.zin.ru/proj_e.htm

Taxonomic Links and Databases

Arctic Ocean Diversity Russia http://www.zin.ru/proj_e.htm

Centre for Marine Biodiversity Canada http://www.marinebiodiversity.ca/en/databases.html

Fish Base http://www.fishbase.org/search.cfm

Global Biodiversity Information Facility http://www.gbif.org/

Integrated Taxonomic Information System http://www.itis.usda.gov/

International Oceanographic and Data Information Exchange http://ioc3.unesco.org/iode/

Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning MARBEF http://www.marbef.org/data/ermssearch.php

National Oceanographic Data Center http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/

Ocean Biogeographic Information System OBIS http://www.iobis.org/Welcome.htm

List of the World's Algae: Algaebase

http://www.algaebase.org/

Research Icebreakers

Amundsen (Canada) http://www.amundsen.quebec-ocean.ulaval.ca/

Healy (USA) http://www.uscg.mil/pacarea/healy/

Kapitan Dranitsyn ( Russia ) http://www.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu/NABOS/cruise/dranitsyn/index.php

Louis S. St. Laurent (Canada) http://www.ccg-gcc.gc.ca/fleet/details_e.asp?name=LOUIS+S.+ST-+LAURENT

Oden (Sweden) http://www.sjofartsverket.se/templates/SFVXPage____1077.aspx

Polar Sea (USA) http://www.uscg.mil/pacarea/polarsea/home.htm

Polar Star (USA) http://www.uscg.mil/pacarea/pstar/pstar.html

Polarstern (Germany) http://www.awi-bremerhaven.de/Polar/index.html

Sir Wilfrid Laurier (Canada) http://www.wellandcanal.ca/shiparc/ccg/sirwilfredlaurier/laurier.htm

XueLong (China) http://www.coi.gov.cn/eoverview/ejd/jdc.htm

Yamal (Russia) http://www.voyagehollowearth.com/about_icebreaker_yamal.html

If you would like to see a link added to this list, please email the URL to ArcOD@ims.uaf.edu .