ARCUS | Acronyms

The following is a list of some of the organizations
that are involved with the Arctic Community.

• ACUNS Association of Canadian
  Universities for Northern Studies
• AEDD Arctic Environmental Data Directory
• AICC Arctic Icebreaker
  Coordinating Committee
• ALIAS Arctic Logistics Information and
  Support
• ARCSS Arctic System Science Data
  Coordination Center
• ARM
  Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program
• ARSC
  Arctic Region Supercomputing Center

• ASF Alaska SAR Facility

• BASC Barrow Arctic Science Consortium
• BESIS The Bering Sea Impact Study
• BEST
  Bering Ecosystem Study

• BLM Bureau of Land Management, Northern
  District Office at Fairbanks, Alaska

• CIFAR Cooperative Institute for Arctic
  Research
• CRCX CRREL Cold Regions Center of
  Expertise
• CRREL Cold Regions Research and
  Engineering Laboratory
• EPA

  Environmental Protection Agency

• GCRIO U.S. Global Change Research
  Information Office
• GRID Global Resource Information Database
• HARC
  Human Dimensions of the Arctic System
• IARC International Arctic Research Center

• IARPC NSF Interagency Arctic
  Research Policy Committee

• IASC
  The International Arctic Science Committee
• INSTAAR Institute of Arctic and Alpine
  Research
• LDEO Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
• MAB Man and the Biosphere Program
• MBL

  Marine Biological Laboratory

• NERSC Nansen Environmental and Remote
  Sensing Center
• NOAA National Oceanographic and
  Atmospheric Administration
• NSF
  National Science Foundation
• NSIDC National Snow and Ice Data Center

• OAII Ocean-Atmosphere-Ice
  Interactions

• OPP NSF Office of Polar Programs
• PARCS Paleoenvironmental Arctic
  Science
• PRB Polar Research Board
• RAISE Russian-American Initiative for
  Land-Shelf Environments
• SEARCH Study of Environmental
  Arctic Change
• SBI
  Western Arctic Shelf-Basin Interactions Project

• UNIS
  University Courses on Svalbard

• UNOLS University - National Oceanographic
  Laboratory System
• USCG U.S. Coast Guard
• USGS U.S.
  Geological Survey
• WHOI
  Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution