Russian-American Initiative on

Russian-American Initiative on

Shelf-Land Environments in the Arctic

***RAISE***

Sponsored by the Arctic System Science Program (ARCSS) of the Office of Polar Programs, U.S. National Science Foundation and the Department of Earth Sciences, Russian Foundation for Basic Research

Objective: To facilitate collaborative research between Russian and American scientists in order to understand processes and events in terrestrial, shelf, and ocean environments in northern Eurasia in the context of a globally changing environment

Overview

Research Prospectus, Steve Forman and G. Leonard Johnson, editors, 1998. Arctic Research Consortium of the United States (ARCUS). Fairbanks, Alaska, 50 pp.

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U.S. members, International Science Steering Committee

Russian members, International Science Steering Committee

Download Minutes from the November, 2000 RAISE meeting in Seattle, Washington, USA

Download list of attendees and their coordinates

Download Minutes from the Steering Committee Meeting, November, 2000 in Seattle

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OUR NEXT MEETING of Principal Investigators/Science Steering Committee:

November 14-17, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.A. This meeting will be in conjunction with meetings of the Ocean-Atmosphere-Ice Interactions (OAII) and the Land-Atmosphere-Ice-Interactions (LAII) components of the U.S. National Science Foundation Arctic System Science Program (ARCSS). Additional information will be forthcoming through both the LAII and OAII websites and project management offices. Information on the OAII portion of the meeting is now available at: http://arcss-oaii.hpl.umces.edu/AllHands/Mtg2001.html

Science Plan Development

Currently, work is underway on the early stages of a bilateral science plan that may lead to an Announcement of Opportunity for funding of RAISE-oriented research, particularly at the land-sea margin, and on Arctic continental shelves. This science planning effort does not preclude submission of RAISE-related research proposals to the U.S. National Science Foundation or the Russian Foundation for Basic Research. If you are interested in contributing to this science planning effort, please contact Steering Committee Chair Lee Cooper.

A bibliography of recent references (last decade) supporting this effort is available for downloading or viewing here. These scientific references are neither all-inclusive nor will all references be ultimately critical to development of the science plan.

Additional nominations of other papers are welcome; please e-mail to Lee Cooper.