| Title | Principal Investigator(s) | Antarctic | Arctic | Location | Cooperators | Scope of Work | ||
| 1 | Adaptive Symbiosis as a Mechanism of Survival of Antarctic Plants | Rusty Rodriguez / WERC | rusty_rodriguez@usgs.gov | Antarctic | Arctic | Palmer Peninsula Devon Island |
Montana State University, Bozman Walla Walla Academy, Walla Walla, WA |
Plant life history |
| 2 | An exploration of the Amundsen Sea Coast for Adelie Penguin colonies using remote sensing | Christine Ribic / WI Coop CRU | caribic@wisc.edu | Antarctic | The Amundsen Sea | Polar Oceans Research Group, Landcare Research New Zealand, Australian Antarctic Division, University of Wisconsin-Madison | Wildlife monitoring and assessment | |
| 3 | An institutional/economic analysis of Alaska and Federal land management agencies in a changing climate | Nina Burkardt / FORT Berton Lee Lamb / FORT Lynne Koontz / FORT |
Nina_Burkardt@usgs.gov | Arctic | Alaska | USFWS, NPS, USFS, State of Alaska | Economic analysis | |
| 4 | APGS - Antarctic Pathogen Geonomic Survey | David S. Blehert / USGS Rebecca Cole / USGS Hon S. Ip / USGS Valerie Shearn-Bochsler / USGS |
dblehert@usgs.gov rebecca_cole@usgs.gov hip@usgs.gov vsb@svm.vetmed.wisc.edu |
Antarctic | Palmer Station, Anvers Island, Antarctic Peninsula | USGS, Wisconsin Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit ; Polar Oceans Research Group, Sheridan, MT | Molecular techniques will be used to characterize the genomes of etiological agents affecting the health of Antarctic shorebirds and to monitor for changes in the species and population structure of polar region pathogens. | |
| 5 | Arctic and Sub-Arctic Decision Support System | Carl Markon / ASC Skip Walker / UAF |
markon@usgs.gov ffdaw@uaf.edu |
Arctic | Circumpolar Arctic and Associated Boreal Watersheds | University of Alaska, Fairbanks Laboratoire THEMA, CNRS, France Helmut Epp, NWT Centre for Remost Sensing, Yellowknofe, Canada ABR Inc, Fairbanks, AK NORUT Information Technology Ltd, Norway |
Decision support system | |
| 6 | Arctic/Boreal Hydrological Interactions | Carl Markon / ASC Tim Brabets / ASC |
markon@usgs.gov tbrabets@usgs.gov |
Arctic | Deltas of the Colville, Yukon-Kushikwlm, and Copper Rivers, Alaska; Severnaya Dvina, Pechora, Ob, Yenlsey, Koruy, Lena, Indigirka, and Kolyma Rivers of Russia and Mackenzie Rivers of Canada | University of Alaska, Fairbanks State Oceanographic Institute, Moscow, Russia ABR Inc, Fairbanks Alaska USDA Forest Service, Puerto Rico |
Landcover and hydrologic monitoring | |
| 7 | Augmentation of USGS Benchmark Glaciers in Alaska | R.S. March / WRD AK Field | rsmarch@usgs.gov | Arctic | Alaska | University of Alaska, Fairbanks and Juneau, Alaska, National Park Service, University of Alaska, World Glacier Monitoring System, National Snow and Ice Data Center | Glacier monitoring /mass balance | |
| 8 | Bacterial and bacteriophage interactions and the impact these interactions have on the geochemical and nutrient cycles in polar regions | John T. Lisle / FISC | jlisle@usgs.gov | Antarctic | Arctic | USGS, Montana State University, College of Charleston, NSF | Microbial assessment and impact to geochemical processes | |
| 9 | Breeding and postnesting ecology of sea ducks along the Beaufort Sea, Alaska | Paul Flint / USGS Margaret Peterson / |
paul_flint@usgs.gov margaret_petersen@usgs.gov |
Arctic | Beaufort Sea Alaska | Wildlife monitoring | ||
| 10 | Bring the Aerial Photography Resources of the 20th Century into the 21st. | Cheryl A. Hallam / ERG Daniel Sechrist / ERG |
challam@usgs.gov dsechrist@usgs.gov |
Antarctic | Arctic | USGS, Gateway Antarctica, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand | Digital data creation (aerial photographs) and dissemination | |
| 11 | Carbon and Nutrient Transport and Cycling in the Mackenzie River, Canada | Rob Striegl / WRD George Aiken / WRD Paul Schuster / WRD |
rstriegl@usgs.gov graiken@usgs.gov pschuste@usgs.gov |
Arctic | Mackenzie River, Canada | Water Survey of Canada, University of Montreal, Yale University, PARTNERS project, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA | Carbon monitoring | |
| 12 | Cenozoic Paleoclimate History of The Arctic | Thomas M. Cronin / GD / ER Harry Dowsett / GD / ER |
tcronin@usgs.gov hdowsett@usgs.gov |
Arctic | Central Arctic Ocean | USGS, NSF, Duke University, NASA, Integrated Ocean Drilling Program | Climate history for climate modeling | |
| 13 | Circumpolar Assessment of the Quantity, Chemical Character, and Biological Reactivity of Organic Carbon in Permafrost Soils | Rob Striegl / WRD George Aiken / WRD Kimberly Wilckland Paul Schuster |
rstriegl@usgs.gov graiken@usgs.gov kpwick@usgs.gov pschuste@usgs.gov |
Arctic | North Slope of Alaska, and the Canadian, Nordic and Siberian Arctic | Finnish Environmental Institute, Helsinki, Uppsala University, Sweden, Yale University, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA; Russian colleagues associated with the PARTNERS project; Water Survey of Canada | Carbon assessment | |
| 14 | Coastal erosion in Arctic and sub-Arctic Alaska | Janet Curran / ASC |
jcurran@usgs.gov | Arctic | Coastal regions of Alaska along the Bering and Chukchi Seas | AWI / Arctic Coastal Dynamics Program USGS Coastal and Marine Program |
Coastal erosion assessment | |
| 15 | Conservation Genetics of the Bog Birch (Betula nana) - Population Structure in the Context of a Changing Arctic Environment | Rocky Ward / USGS BRD | rward@usgs.gov | Arctic | Circumpolar regions of the northern hemisphere | USGS, other agencies, universtiy-based researchers, other countries, etc. To be identified | Floral genetics | |
| 16 | CRYSTAL - South Pole Seismic Array | Bob Hutt / ASL Rhett Butler / CONT Kent Anderson / CONT |
Rhett@iris.edu kanderson@usgs.gov |
Antarctica | Arctic | South Pole | IRIS, USGS, New Mexico Tech, NSF, RPSC | Seismic monitoring, whole-earth geophysics |
| 17 | Determination of natural environmental baselines of poisonous trace metals | Todd Hinkley / NICL | thinkley@usgs.gov | Antarctic | Arctic | Antarctica Greenland |
Geological Survey of Japan and University of Milan Bicocca, Italy | Baseline levels of poisonous trace metals |
| 18 | Development and Application of Genetic Markers Useful in the Monitoring of Species Composition in the Patagonian and Antarctic Toothfish Fisheries | Rocky Ward / USGS BRD | rward@usgs.gov | Antarctic | Southern Ocean | USGS, other agencies, universtiy-based researchers, other countries, etc. To be identified | Fish genetics | |
| 19 | Development of Arctic Monitoring Site, Transact and associated Landscape Vegetation Databases | Carl Markon / ASC Skip Walker / UAF |
markon@usgs.gov ffdaw@uaf.edu |
Arctic | Circumpolar Arctic and near Arctic environments | ABR Inc., Fairbanks, AK USDA Forest Service Puerto Rico GEOLAB, UMR6042 CNRS, France Department of Geography, Finland |
Landcover monitoring | |
| 20 | Eastern Prairie Population Canada Goose Research | David Anderson / MN CRU | dea@umn.edu | Arctic | Cape Churchill, Manitoba, Canada, and adjacent areas in Wapusk National Park | Mississippi Flyway Council, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Canadian Wildlife Service, Manitoba Conservation, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, Iowa Department of Natural Resources, Missouri Department of Conservation, Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, Illinois Department of Conservation, the Wildlife Management Institute, Parks Canada (Wapusk National Park) | Wildlife monitoring and assessment | |
| 21 | Freshwater input and transport of selected water-quality constituents to the Beaufort Sea | Tim Brabets / ASC Robert Holmes / WHOI Jim McClelland / WHOI |
tbrabets@usgs.gov rholmes@mbl.edu jmcclelland@mbl.edu |
Arctic | North Slope of Alaska, Colville, Kuparuk, and Sagavanirktok Rivers, Northwest Canada Mackenzie River | University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Water Resource Center, International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Bureau of Land Management, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Marine Biology Laboratory - Woods Hole, Massachusetts, Water Survey of Canada/Environment Canada | Flow modeling and water quality assessment | |
| 22 | Gamburtsev Aerogeophysical Mapping of Bedrock and Ice Targets (GAMBIT) | Carol Finn / CIC / Denver Robin Bell / LDEO Michael Studinger / LDEO Prasad Gogineni, & David Braatan (U. of Kansas) Linda Hayden (Elizabeth City State University |
cfinn@usgs.gov | Antarctic | Arctic | East Antarctica | John Goodge (U. Minn., Duluth), Detlef Damaske (German Geological Survey), Chris Wilson (U. Melbourne), Wilfried Jokat (Alfred Wegener Institute) | Areogeophyscial survey |
| 23 | Geochemical evaluation of changes in major parameters of climate change | Todd Hinkley / NICL | thinkley@usgs.gov | Antarctic | Arctic | Antarctica Greenland |
Geological Survey of Japan and University of Milan Bicocca, Italy | Climate history |
| 24 | Geologic assessment of the occurrence of gas hydrates within the Circum-Arctic | Tim Collett / Energy / CR Tom Lorenson / Coastal & Marine / WR |
tcollett@usgs.gov tlorenson@usgs.gov |
Arctic | Circum-polar | University of Alaska, Fairbanks DOE, BLM, MMS Natural Resources Canada Geolgical Surve of Norway Geological Survey of Denmark Institute of Natural Gases, VNIIGAZ, Russia Moscow State University, Russia VNIIOkeangeologia, Russia |
Energy resource assessments | |
| 25 | Glacier Volume Changes in the Gulf Alaska | R.S. March / WRD AK Field E.J. Josberger / WRD WA District B.F. Molnia / GD / ER |
rsmarch@usgs.gov ejosberg@usgs.gov |
Arctic | South Gulf Coastal Glaciers of Alaska | UA Fairbanks and Juneau NPS (Denali) University of Alaska, GeoData Center National Snow and Ice Data Center |
Glacier monitoring / mass balance | |
| 26 | GLIMS Alaska Regional Center | R.S. March / WRD AK Field Jeff Kargel / ASTRO |
rsmarch@usgs.gov jkargel@usgs.gov |
Arctic | Alaska | UA Fairbanks and Juneau NPS (Denali) GLIMS Program |
Data dissemination | |
| 27 | Global Climate Change and Salmon Pan-Arctic Migration Modeling | Jennifer Nielsen / ASC | jennifer_nielsen@usgs.gov | Arctic | North Circum-polar | USGS ASC, NASA, University of Alaska, fairbanks, University of New Hampshire, Amherst, University of Guelph, Russian Telemetry Research Laboratory, Magadan | Invasive pathway modeling (salmon) | |
| 28 | High-Resolution Mapping of the Polar Regions for the 21st Century: A GIS/Remote Sensing Collaboration | Jerry Mullins / GD / HQ Michelle Rogan / U. Cant. Cheryl Hallam / ERG |
jmullins@usgs.gov michelle.finnemore@canterbury.ac.nz challam@usgs.gov |
Antarctic | Arctic | New Zealand Canada Norway |
USGS University of Canterbury, NZ North circumpolar nations |
High resolution imagery |
| 29 | History of Polar Science Component Antarctica throughout it's Scientific Age of Discovery | Tony K. Meunier / ERG | tmeunier@usgs.gov | Antarctic | South Polar Region | Ohio State University, NSF, US State Department | Information synthesis | |
| 30 | Hydrology of Arctic regions from satellite passive and active microwave observations | Edward G. Josberger / WWSC | ejosberg@usgs.gov | Arctic | Arctic Ocean and land masses | Other USGS & US French Space Agency Univ. of Bergen, NO |
Snow cover monitoring using satellite and microwave | |
| 31 | Improving breeding population indices of Lesser and Taverner's Canada Geese | John Pearce / USGS | john_pearce@usgs.gov | Arctic | Wildlife monitoring and assessment | |||
| 32 | Increased disease risk among arcitic fish species | James Winton / WERC | jim_winton@usgs.gov | Arctic | Alaska, Northern Canada | University of Washington UAF, Oregon State Univ. AK Dept. of Fish & Game Canada Dept. of Fisheries & Oceans |
Fish disease / risk assessment | |
| 33 | Influence of Large River Deltas on Arctic Processes - emphasis on periods of global warmth and links between Arctic paleoceanography and global climate | Tim Brabets / ASC | tbrabets@usgs.gov | Arctic | Deltas of the Colville, Yukon-Kushikwlm, and Copper Rivers, Alaska; Severnaya Dvina, Pechora, Ob, Yenlsey, Koruy, Lena, Indigirka, and Kolyma Rivers of Russia and Mackenzie Rivers of Canada | USGS - Glaciology, Fairbanks, Alaska, Domaine Universitaire, Cedex, France, State Oceanographic Institute, Moscow, Russia | Water quality assessment | |
| 34 | Integrated monitoring for assessing regional changes in the carbon cycle in Arctic watersheds | Peter Murdoch / WRD | pmurdoch@usgs.gov | Arctic | Alaska | Carbon Cycle Interagency Working Group (CCIWG), USGS Forest Service Global Change Program, Forest Inventory and Analysis Programs, NRCS Natural Resources Inventory, NOAA Arctic Research Program, NSF, PARTNERS project coordinator, Marine Biological Laboratory, Wood Hole, MA, Environment Canada | Carbon monitoring | |
| 35 | Integrative Vegetative Studies in the Arctic Environment | Carl Markon / ASC | markon@usgs.gov | Arctic | Circumpolar | Landcover monitoring | ||
| 36 | Interactive Polar Information Gateway | Douglas Nebert, HQ/GIO Cheryl Morris CR/GIO |
ddnebert@usgs.gov cmorris@usgs.gov |
Antarctic | Arctic | USGS Alaska, University of Alabama, GeoMatics, Natural Resources, Canada | Data dissemination and visualization | |
| 37 | Long Range Radio Frequency Tags for Polar and Brown Bear Research | Steve Amstrup / ASC Dick Shideler Lori Quakenbush |
steven_amstrup@usgs.gov dick_shideler@fishgame.state.ak.us lori_quakenbush@fishgame.state.ak.us |
Arctic | Arctic coast of Alaska | USGS, Alaska Department of Fish and Game, University of Alaska Fairbanks | Wildlife population and habitat assessment | |
| 38 | Measurement and diagnosis of polar geomagnetic activity | Jeffery J. Love / HAZ / Denver | jlove@usgs.gov | Antarctic | Geomagnetism | NSF, NOAA, Intermagnet, Acdemic institutions, IPY and IHY | Geomagnetic observatory | |
| 39 | National Ice Core Lab (NICL) support of U.S. West Antarctica Drilling Program | Geoff Hargreaves / NICL John Rhoades / NICL |
ghargreaves@usgs.gov jfrhoades@usgs.gov |
Antarctic | West Antarctica | NSF and ESF | Ice core acquistion | |
| 40 | Paleotemperature and paleoenvironmental records archived in ice from Gulkana Glacier, Alaska: Global linkage to other ice core records from mid latitude glaciers | Paul F. Schuster / NRP / CO Dennis Trabant / WRD / AK Field Rod March / WRD / AK Field |
pschuste@usgs.gov dtrabant@usgs.gov rsmarch@usgs.gov |
Arctic | Gulkana Glacier | USGS; AK District, WI District, WDMRL; BRR WR, Isotope lab; BRR ER, Isotope lab, Chinese Academy of Sciences | Climate history | |
| 41 | Pathogenic Microorganisms in Migratory Birds: Genetic Characteristis and the Potential for Disease Transmissions to the Arctic | Erik Hofmeister / USGS J. Christian Franson / USGS |
Ehofmeister@usgs.gov chris_franson@usgs.gov |
Arctic | Eastern Russia, Alaska, Scandinavia | Scandinavian and Russian scientists and colleagues in USGS and USFWS | Wildlife genetics | |
| 42 | Permafrost in Alaska: Present, and Future | Leslie Holland-Bartels /ASC | lholland-bartels@usgs.gov | Arctic | Alaska | Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys, University of Alaska-Fairbanks | Permafrost boundaries/GIS | |
| 43 | Polar Bear survival in a vanishing sea ice environment | Steven Amstrup / ASC George Durner / ASC David Douglas / ASC Geoff York / ASC |
steven_amstrup@usgs.gov | Arctic | Arctic coast of Alaska | Russian Academy of Sciences Canadian Wildlife Service UA-Fairbanks North Slope Borough US Fish & Wildlife Service |
Wildlife monitoring | |
| 44 | Polar Data Display and Dissemination Tools for the 21st Century | Cheryl A. Hallam / ERG Daniel Sechrist / ERG Douglas Tallman / WGSC |
challam@usgs.gov dsechrist@usgs.gov dtallman@usgs.gov |
Antarctic | Arctic | USGS, University of New Hampshire, National Science Foundation, SCAR Geographic Information Expert Group members | Data dissemination | |
| 45 | Remeasurement of IGY Glaciers | R.S. March / WRD AK Field E.J. Josberger / WRD WA District B.F. Molnia / GD / ER |
rsmarch@usgs.gov ejosberg@usgs.gov bmolnia@usgs.gov |
Arctic | South Gulf Coastal Glaciers of Alaska | Gephysical Institute, Fairbanks and Juneau, Alaska, National Park Service, University of Alaska, National Snow and Ice Data Center | Glacier change analysis / mass balance | |
| 46 | Response of Fish and Wildlife to Ecological Change on the Arctic Coastal Plain, Alaska | Joel A. Schmutz / ASC Paul Flint / ASC Carl Markon / ASC Gary Clow / ESD / CO Steve Frenzel / ASC |
joel_schmutz@usgs.gov paul_flint@usgs.gov markon@usgs.gov clow@usgs.gov sfrenzel@usgs.gov |
Arctic | Arctic Coastal Plain / Alaskan North Slope | Department of Wildlife Management, Alaska, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Alaska | landcover and wildlife assessment | |
| 47 | Science for a Changing Climate - Alaska, Federal Land Management Agencies and the Future | Joan Fitzpatrick / CRDO Denver | jfitz@usgs.gov | Arctic | Alaska | FWS, NPS, USFS, UAF, State of Alaska Environment Canada |
Ecological succession modeling and monitoring networks | |
| 48 | Surficial Processes in the Arctic - Understanding a Changing Environment | Janet Curran / ASC Chris Waythomas / ASC Larry Hinzman / UAF Jim McNamara / BSU |
jcurran@usgs.gov chris@usgs.gov ffdh@uaf.edu jmcnamara@usgs.gov |
Arctic | Alaska North of Arctic Circle | University of Alaska and Boise State University | Watershed GIS and modeling/surficial processes | |
| 49 | Time Series Vegetation Analysis over the Arctic Landscape | Carl Markon / ASC Brad Reed / EDC / CONT Madeleine Griselin / CNRS |
markon@usgs.gov reed@usgs.gov madeleine.griselin@univ-fcomte.fr |
Arctic | Circumpolar | Laboratoire THEMA, France, UAF, NORUT Information Technology, Norway, Institute of of Tromso, Norway, USGS EROS Data Center | Landcover analyses | |
| 50 | Toxicogenomic analysis of mercury impacts on salmonine population in Arctic regions of North America | Donald Tillitt / USGS Cathy Richter / USGS |
dtillitt@usgs.gov crichter@usgs.gov |
Arctic | Alaska, Yukon Territory, Northwest Territory, and Quebec | USGS, USFWS, Alaska, Department of Fisheries and Oceans - Canada | Fish genetics | |
| 51 | Using genetic markers to determine populations status and management strategies of migratory birds | Sandra L. Talbot / USGS | sandy_talbot@usgs.gov | Alaska | Wildlife genetics | |||
| 52 | Volumetric changes of the glaciers and ice fields southern Alaska | Edward G. Josberger / WRD WA District | ejosberg@usgs.gov | Arctic | Alaska | BLM, Altarum Institute, USGS Civil Applications Committee | Glacier monitoring / mass balance | |
| 53 | Winter Range of Adelie Penguins as related to Sea Ice in Antarctica | Christine Ribic / WI CoopCRU | caribic@wisc.edu | Antarctic | Palmer Station (Antarctic Peninsula), and Cape Crozier (Ross Island) | British Antarctic Survey (BAS), Landcare Research New Zealand, Hokaiido University, Japanese Antarctic Program, NASA | Wildlife monitoring and assessment | |
| 54 | World Energy Project | Tom Ahlbrandt/ Energy Team/ CR Don Gautier/Energy Team / WR |
ahlbrandt@usgs.gov gautier@usgs.gov |
Arctic | United states, Canada, Greenland, Norway, Russia, Arctic Ocean | Norwegian Universtiy of Science and Technology, Statoil, ExxonMobil, Energy Information Administration, British Petroleum, Chevron Texaco, HIS Energy, Petro Canada, Geological Surveys of Denmark and Greenland, Department of Energy, Department of Defense | Energy resource assessments | |
| ASL | Albuquerque Seismological Laboratory |
| ASTRO | Astrogrology Team / GD / Flagstaff |
| CIC | Crustal Imaging and Characterization Team / GD / Denver |
| CNRS | Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique |
| CRDO | Central Region Director's Office / Denver |
| EDC | Eros Data Center / Sioux Falls |
| ERG | Eastern Region Geography / Reston |
| ESD | Earth Surface Dynamics Team / GD / Denver |
| FISC | Florida Integrated Science Center |
| GIO | Geographic Information Office |
| LDEO | Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (Columbia University) |
| NRP | WRD National Research Program |
| NICL | National Ice Core Laboratory / Denver |
| UAF | University of Alaska, Fairbanks |
| WERC | Western Ecological Science Center / Seattle |
| WGSC | Western Geographic Science Center / Menlo Park |
| WHOI | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
| WRD AK Field | WRD Fairbanks Field Office |
| WERC | Western Ecological Science Center / Seattle |
| WWSC | Western Water Science Center Tacoma |