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About
The Arctic Research Office (ARO) serves as a focal point for NOAA's research activities in the Arctic, Bering Sea, North Pacific and North Atlantic regions. The office manages the Arctic Research Initiative and other funds allocated to it, supporting both internal NOAA and extramural research. It represents NOAA on the Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee, leads U.S. involvement in the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program, and provides a point of contact between NOAA and the Cooperative Institute for Arctic Research and the International Arctic Research Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
The Arctic Research Office is a component of NOAA's Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research.
Arctic Research Initiative
In 1996, as part of an omnibus appropriation measure, the Congress appropriated $1.00 million to support an Arctic Research Initiative within NOAA. During FY 1997, in cooperation with the Cooperative Institute for Arctic Research, NOAA's Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research used those funds to begin support of 15 research projects in two principal areas: natural varaibility of the Western Arctic/Bering Sea ecosystem, and anthropogenic influences on the Western Arctic/Bering Sea ecosystem. The Congress subsequently appropriated $1.50 million in FY 1998, $1.65 million in FY 1999, $1.65 million in FY 2000, and $1.65 million in FY 2001 to continue the Arctic Research Initiative. A report on the first three years of the Arctic Research Initiative is available from the Arctic Research Office.
Click here for brief summaries of projects supported by the Arctic Research Initiative in FY2001
People
Dr. John Calder is the Director of the Arctic Research Office. John received a doctorate in biochemistry, with specialization in marine organic chemistry and marine microbiology, from the University of Texas. He held the position of Asociate Professor of Oceanography at the Florida State University prior to joining NOAA in 1977. He has served in a number of capacities with NOAA, including Program Manager for Bering Sea Studies, Manager of the National Status and Trends Program, and Deputy Director of the Environmental Research Laboratories, before becoming Director of the Arctic Research Office.
Kathleen Crane received her doctorate in oceanograhy
at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 1977. There she
specialized in the geology and geophysics of mid-ocean ridges
and transform faults and the hydrothermal venting emanating
from the Galapagos Spreading Center. She did post-doctoral
work with Robert Ballard at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
and in 1979 became a research scientist at the Lamont-Doherty
Geological Observatory. While at Lamont, Dr. Crane expanded
her work to include the first deep-ocean side-looking sonar
and imaging operations of the Arctic seafloor using ships
of many nations, including Sweden, Norway, Germany and Russia.
During this time she also worked at the University of Oslo,
and was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Paris. Between
1993 and 1998 she served as the director of the Arctic Environmental
Security Geographic Information System at the Naval Research
Laboratory. Prior to Kathy's appointment as a Program Manager
in NOAA's Arctic Research Office she was a professor of oceanography,
marine geology and geophysics and environmental issues for
seventeen years at Hunter College of the City University of
New York. |
