Updated November 30, 2012
Arctic Research Links are divided into:
Regional and global sources.
Presents news stories from all the four countries in the Barents Region: Russia, Norway, Sweden and Finland.
Views from countries bordering Arctic.
See also Essential Documents on the Arctic, CFR.org's collection of primary source documents.
Five part series about native people in Siberia, Greenland, Alaska, Canada, and Northern Europe.
Scientific and political background for Arctic's "untapped petroleum resources." Further Reading and links to related organizations and charts.
20,000 digitized photos from polar expeditions from 1840's to 1980's, from Scott Polar Research Institute.
"Providing reliable and sufficient information on the status of, and threats to, the Arctic environment."
Links to multiple data sources.
"Data and information from among the...ocean-based, land-based, ice core, paleoclimate and human-dimension communities".
Includes NASA satellite data, green data
"Recent indicators that describe the present state of the Arctic climate and ecosystem."
1997-2006 collaboration between researchers and indigenous residents to understand living conditions in Arctic.
Member States: Canada, Denmark (representing also Greenland and Faroe Islands), Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russian Federation, Sweden, United States.
Government of Inuit people in Canada.
(August 2012) compiled by Industry, Infrastructure and Resources Division within the Parliament of Canada.
Geopolitical and strategic challenges in the Arctic; includes January 2012 report: "A New Security Architecture for the Arctic: An American Perspective."
"Researchers, indigenous leaders, and members of the policy community to frame critical questions." Includes Compendium of proposals on different areas of arctic governance.
Aims "to develop new knowledge about actors and their interests in the High North...led by the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies."
NGO representing Inuit peoples from Canada, Russia, Alaska, and Greenland.
Official NATO documents
(December 10, 1982) governs the Arctic: "allows a coastal state to have exclusive economic control 200 miles off its coast."
University of British Columbia professor's blog about governing the Arctic Regions; includes links to maps, treaties, legislation, research papers, books, and videos on the foreign policy related to the Arctic.
(PDF, December 2011) why the Arctic is now important to U.S. economic, security, and environmental policy; includes full text of National Security Presidential Directive-66: Arctic Region Policy (2009).
(PDF, December 2011) Lieutenant Governor of Alaska testifies about the necessity of using polar class icebreakers to protect U.S. security and economic interests in the Arctic.
(PDF, May 2011)
(PDF, October 2009) "a chronological list of Navy action items, objectives, and desired effects for the Arctic region;" next report expected in 2014.
Links to member organizations and initiatives.
Scientific and cultural studies.
"A center for the study of commonly-owned lands, seas and resources using Alaska as a model."
Sweden-based organization studies regional development, urban and rural systems, demography, governance and gender, innovation and knowledge, green growth, international energy policy, global climate change and local adaptation.
Links to research institutes (many international) studying the region.
Dedicated to preserving the Arctic.
Including biology, environmental and climate sciences. See also Research Links on Climate Change.
Pro-drilling advocacy organization; resources explaining viewpoint and links to federal and petroleum agencies.
From NOAA
University of Alaska; study of complete life ecosystem, including human, wildlife, and plants.
University of Alaska, Fairbanks
Saved search for videos, satellite images, news releases and podcasts related to Arctic and climatology and geology
Arctic research projects, surveys, observatory information and more.
Data, reports, maps, photographs of wildlife, geology, and energy in Alaska-Arctic region.
Last three chapters consider current scientific understanding and science gaps "regarding oil-spill risk, response, and impact, marine mammals and anthropogenic noise, and cumulative impacts."
By location, project, subject, and photographer.
Topography, temperature, environment, peoples and languages, socioeconomic.
News, science, people, organizations, maps, data, acronyms.
Blog on "economy, geopolitics and future of the Arctic world"; includes Arctic news and analysis, definitions.
Collaboration between U.S. and Japan research centers to understand the origins of climate changes and steps .
Background on environment, people, foreign policy issues, exploration.
People and culture, science, historical research.
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