Funded Research

Funded Research Projects

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

• Funded IPY projects

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Activities in Support of IPY

National Science Foundation

• National Science Foundation (NSF) International Polar Year Awards List

                 Awards made in 2006-2007

                 Awards made in 2007

U.S. Department of the Interior's IPY site

• http://www.doi.gov/issues/polar_year.html

U.S. Geological Survey

• U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) International Polar Year Projects and Related Facilities

Funded Participating Organizations

• Arctic Council
• Arctic Research Consortium of the US (ARCUS)
• Arctic Slope Regional Corporation
• The National Academies Polar Research Board
• Northern Pacific Research Board
• Pacific Arctic Group -- NOAA
• U.S. Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee (IARPC)
• U.S. Committee to the International Polar Year 2007-2008

Scientific Centers, Collections and Repositories

• Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy -- NOAA, University of Alaska Fairbanks
  
• Alaska Science Center -- USGS
• Alaska Volcano Observatory --USGS, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska division of geological and geophysical surveys
• Arctic Region Supercomputing Center
• Arctic Science Laboratory -- NOAA
• Arctic Studies Center -- Smithsonian Institution
• Atmospheric Radiation Measurement / Climate Research Facility -- Department of Energy
• Bureau of Land Management / Arctic Field Office -- Department of the Interior
• Center for Alaska Native Health Research -- UAF, NIH
• Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets -- University of Kansas, NSF
• Cooperative Institute for Research in Envirionmental Sciences (CIRES) Cryospheric and Polar Process Division,-- University of Colorado at Boulder, NOAA
• Earth System Research Laboratory -- NOAA
• Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (South Pole Telescope participant)
• Institute for Arctic Biology -- University of Alaska Fairbanks
• International Polar Year Data and Information Service (IPYDIS) -- NSIDC
• National Ice Center (global tracking of icebergs and sea ice) -- NOAA, U.S. Coast Guard and the U.S. Navy
• National Ice Core Laboratory -- NSF, USGS
• National Marine Mammal Laboratory -- NOAA

            Alaska ecosystems research program

            Antarctic ecosystems

            Polar ecosystems

• National Snow and Ice Data Center -- University of Colorado at Boulder, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), NOAA, NSF
• Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory  (Arctic research) -- NOAA
• Polar Research for Ice Sheet Measurements (PRISM) -- University of Kansas, NASA, NSF
• The Antarctic Search for Meteorites (ANSMET) -- Case Western Reserve University, NASA, NSF, and the Smithsonian Institution.

             Antarctic Meteorites, Antarctic meteorite curation at NASA

• U.S. Polar Rock Repository -- NSF

Large-scale and International Scientific Projects

• Alaska Region Research Vessel
• Arctic Human Health Initiative (AHHI)  
• ANtarctic geological DRILLing project (ANDRILL)
• IceCube Neutrino Observatory -- University of Wisconsin-Madison, NSF
• International Space Station IPY site -- NASA
• International Arctic Social Sciences Association IPY Facilitation Initiative -- NSF
• Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network sites -- NSF

            Arctic (North Slope of Alaska)

            Bonanza Creek (interior Alaska)

            McMurdo Dry Valleys (Antarctica)

            Palmer Station (Antarctic Peninsula)

• Mt. Erebus Volcano Observatory (MEVO) -- New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, NSF
• NASA's Balloon Program Office
• North Pole Environmental Observatory -- University of Washington, NSF
• Norwegian-U.S. Scientific Traverse of East Antarctica -- NSF
• Polar Earth Observatory Network (POLENET) -- NSF
• Sondrestrom Research Facility, Greenland (Space Weather) -- NSF, SRI International
• South Pole Telescope
• Study of Environmental Arctic Change (SEARCH) -- ARCUS
• Study of the Northern Alaskan Coastal System (SNACS)
• Summit Camp, Greenland --NSF
• U.S. Extended Continental Shelf Project -- an interagency initiative led by the State Department
• U.S. Subglacial Antarctic Lake Environments (SALE) Program
• U.S. Southern Ocean GLOBal ECosystems Dynamics Program (GLOBEC)
• U.S. International Trans Antarctic Scientific Expedition (US ITASE)
• West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide Ice Core Project
• Western Arctic Shelf-Basin Interactions (SBI) Project

Institutions of Higher Education

• Alaska Sea Grant Program -- NOAA
• Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
• Dartmouth College Institute of Arctic Studies
• International Arctic Research Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks
• Ohio State University's Byrd Polar Research Center
• Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Polar Research
• University of Alaska IPY page
• University of Delaware IPY page
• University of Washington IPY page

             Polar Science Center, the university's Applied Physics Laboratory