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 Database  Contact information  Purpose
Alaska State Climate Center (ASCC) email ASCC
Data Requests
The Alaska State Climate Center provides climatological information and and official weather data to the public. The climate center library contains a wide variety of publications of climatological interest. The library is open by appointment.

Boreal Forest Observatory (BFO)
Boreal Forest Observatory The Boreal Forest Observatory is a research and teaching platform located on the University of Alaska Anchorage Campus. The observatory's aim is to quantify the abiotic and biotic processes of a forest in an urban setting and to provide real-time data for use by students, researchers, the public and resource managers.

Arctic Observing Network
   The Arctic Observing Network (AON) is a new program in NSF that seeks to monitor and measure Arctic climate change processes on land, in aquatic, in marine and in atmospheric arenas. ENRI has two AONs, one addressing vegetation change in the Pan Arctic and the other addressing native community responses to changing conditions.

Alaska StreamTeam Database
astdatabase home page This is an online database to enter, view, and/or share basic chemical and biological information collected using educational- or volunteer-level Stream Team methods.

Bering Sea Sub Network for Coastal Community Observations of their environment

http://bssn.net/  
Ground Squirrel Network
   
International Polar Year (IPY)

www.ipy.org
The International Polar Year is a program that focuses on the state and fate of the arctic today using a network of simultaneous studies in the biological, earth and social sciences supported by all of the arctic countries (US, Russia, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, United Kingdom, Iceland, Canada and Japan).  ENRI has received IPY funding from the National Science Foundation, Office of Polar Programs (J Welker and colleagues) to study snow-shrub processes and feedbacks in northern Alaska at the Toolik Lake Field Station.  The second ENRI IPY project has been awarded to Lil Alessa and Andy Kliskey to study water resources and their use by societies in Alaska.

Arctic Enviroment Information Data Center (AEIDC)  907-257-7547 AEIDC is becoming an electronic information and data center that serves as a foci for ENRI data compilation, data archiving, data synthesis activities, data collection, sample storage, data sharing and the provision of data and information to scientists and society.

United States Network for Isotopes in Precipitation (USNIP) USNIP home page
The United States Network for Isotopes in Precipitation (USNIP) is collaboration between the University of Alaska Anchorage and the University of Colorado at Boulder. This project constitutes an effort to provide d 18 O and d D isotopic values for ~80 sites across the United States 


Below is a list of other databases and networks in Alaska

Geographic Network Information for Alaska

UA Museum Herbarium

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