HR: 1340h
AN: GC13A-0943    [Abstracts]
TI: Facilities Enhancement for IPY at Barrow
AU: Sheehan, G
EM: basc@arcticscience.org
AF: Barrow Arctic Science Consortium, PO Box 577, Barrow, AK 99723, United States
AU: Brown, J
EM: jerrybrown@igc.org
AF: International Permafrost Association, PO Box 7, Woods Hole, MA 02345, United States
AU: Coakley, B
EM: Bernard.Coakley@gi.alaska.edu
AF: Geophysical Institute, 903 Koyukuk Drive University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK 99775, United States
AU: * Zak, B
EM: BDZak@sandia.gov
AF: Sandia National Laboratories, 1515 Eubank SE, Albuquerque, NM 87185, United States
AB: In connection with the International Polar Year, research facilities at Barrow have been markedly enhanced. On June 1st, Sen. Ted Stevens cut the ribbon at the Grand Opening of the Barrow Arctic Research Center (BARC). The BARC currently covers 18,000 sq. ft, with future phases anticipated, including 8 research labs, a necropsy lab for animal studies, freezers for biological samples, a state-of-the-art-data system, a planned Internet II connection, meeting spaces, and offices. There is a platform on the roof of the facility for instrumentation, and a communications tower to provide WIFI connections to remote instrumentation located on the adjacent Barrow Environmental Observatory (BEO). The BEO, which consists of 11 square miles of tundra and coastline set aside for environmental and ecological research, has also seen recent enhancements. A power line and a hard- surfaced trail now provide easy access to the interior of the BEO. Users of the BEO (and others) also have access to many different data sets continuously collected at the NOAA Global Monitoring Division Barrow Station and the DOE ARM (Atmospheric Radiation Measurement) Climate Research Facility (see http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/obop/brw.html and http://www.arm.gov/sites/nsa.stm respectively) also adjacent to the BEO. The National Weather Service Barrow Station also provides data of interest. Researchers submitting proposals to the National Science Foundation can include a request for the use of BARC and BEO facilities in their proposals. ARM facilities, recently augmented, can also be made available, but through arrangements made directly with ARM (BDZak@sandia.gov; 505-845-8631 or MDIvey@sandia.gov; 505-284-9092). BARC, BEO and ARM facilities are available to other agency and international users as well. For more information, see http://www.arcticscience.org, or contact Glenn Sheehan (907-852-4881, basc@arcticscience.org). The BEO consists of land owned by Ukpeagvik Inupiat Corporation, which is owned by the native people of Barrow. The BEO is administered by the Barrow Arctic Science Consortium (BASC) under a Cooperative Agreement with the National Science Foundation. BASC is a non-profit entity set up to serve the logistical needs of scientists doing research on the North Slope of Alaska.
UR: http://www.arcticscience.org
DE: 0700 CRYOSPHERE (4540)
DE: 0718 Tundra (9315)
DE: 0740 Snowmelt
DE: 0794 Instruments and techniques
DE: 1621 Cryospheric change (0776)
SC: Global Environmental Change [GC]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting