Andøya Rocket Range
ARR is responsible for all scientific-related balloon and rocket operations in Norwegian territory - the Web site is quite sparse, unfortunately.

CADDET
The Centre for the Analysis and Dissemination of Demonstrated Energy Technologies has a large number of articles on alternative energy, including Northern projects.

Canadian Circumpolar Institute
Based at the University of Alberta, CCI promotes and supports research on northern Canada and other circumpolar nations. The Web site has a great deal of related information.

Centre for Rupert's Land Studies
Established to facilitate scholarly research and publishing concerning the human history of the Hudson's Bay Company territory. The Web site has little information.

Climate Change Research Center
Based at the University of New Hampshire, CCRC collects and analyzes climate data - Baffin Island and Greenland are major focusses.

Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory
The site offers hundreds of ice-feature and related engineering fact sheets, and a searchable database of thousands of titles.

Cooperative Institute for Arctic Research
The site has dozens of abstracts and progress reports from projects sponsored by NOAA and the University of Alaska.

Deep-Sea Sample Repository
The Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory has a searchable database of information from deep sea cores taken from around the world, including the Arctic.

Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research
Located at the University of Colorado at Boulder - the Web site offers brief summaries of past and current projects.

Institute of Arctic Studies
Located at Hanover, New Hampshire, this division of Darmouth College has an extensive Artic research program.

International Arctic Science Committee
IASC is a non-governmental organisation formed to facilitate international cooperation in all aspects of arctic research.

InterRidge
An international and interdisciplinary initiative concerned with all aspects of mid-ocean ridges, including those in the Arctic.

NORDVULK
A Nordic institute for research and training in volcanology and related fields, based in Reykjavík.

Northern Research Institute
The NRI funds a wide variety of projects in the Yukon Territory, which their Web site describes.

Norwegian Polar Institute
The site for Norway's organization for mapping and scientific investigation of the polar areas has information on a few of their activities.

Nunavut Research Institute
Based at Iqaluit, their Web site summarizes their activities, from promoting the sharing of traditional knowledge to wind and solar energy technology development.

Polar Acronyms
Definitions for hundreds of acronyms used in northern research.

Polar Science Center
This unit of the Applied Physics Laboratory at the University of Washington studies air-ice-ocean energy transfer and related climatology issues

Scott Polar Research Institute
There seems to be a lot of material here, but the site navigation is poor, so use the search feature.

Sea Ice Research Unit
A branch of the Icelandic Meteorological Office - current conditions and much more are presented.

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