RESEARCH

• Research Projects

• Arctic Council Activities

• Research Databases and Portals

• Research Organizations

• Research Funding Sources

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Research Projects

(Alaska) EARTH Study - Education And Research Towards Health
A long-term health and wellness study to better understand how lifestyle, diet, physical activity and other factors influence the health of American Indians and Alaska Natives.

Arctic Social Sciences: Opportunities in Arctic Research
June 1999 report from the Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. (ARCUS) for the National Science Foundation. (5.6MB pdf)

First Nations Regional Longitudinal Health Survey (RHS)
The main objectives of the RHS are to provide scientifically and culturally validated information, while enhancing First Nations capacity and control over research.

People and the Arctic: A Prospectus for Research on the Human Dimensions of the Arctic System (HARC)
May 1997 report published by the Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. (ARCUS) for the National Science Foundation. (PDF size: 5.6MB)

Research Projects Addressing the Health Needs of Alaska Native People
Summary information about recent and ongoing research projects addressing concerns of Alaska Native people. (82.3KB pdf)

Witness the Arctic
This is the newsletter of the Arctic Research Consortium of the United States (ARCUS). The newsletter provides information on current arctic research efforts and findings, significant research initiatives, national policy affecting arctic research, international activities, and profiles of institutions with major arctic research efforts.

Arctic Council Activities

Arctic Climate Impact Assessment - October 2004 Overview
Impacts of a Warming Arctic: Arctic Climate Impact Assessment. ACIA Overview report.

Arctic Climate Impact Assessment
ACIA's mission is to evaluate and synthesize knowledge on climate variability, climate change, and increased ultraviolet radiation and their consequences.

Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program (AMAP)
AMAP's objectives are to measure the levels and assess the effects of pollution (contaminants) from human sources in the Arctic environment.

Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF)
Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF) is a Working Group of the Arctic Council. It mission is to conserve Arctic biodiversity and to ensure that the use of Arctic living resources is sustainable.

Protection of the Arctic Marine Environment (PAME)
PAME was established in 1993 with a mandate to address policy and non-emergency pollution prevention and control measures related to the protection of the Arctic marine environment. 

Sustainable Development Working Group (SDWG)
The objective of the SDWG is to protect and enhance the economies, culture, and health of the inhabitants of the Arctic, in an environmentally sustainable manner.

Survey of Living Conditions in the Arctic (SLICA)  
Survey of Living Conditions in the Arctic: Inuit, Saami, and the Indigenous Peoples of Chukotka.

Research Databases and Portals

Arctic Health Research Database
Use the Arctic Health Research Database to locate past and present research projects relating to human health, including environmental studies impacting the health of people in the arctic.

Arctic Portal
The Arctic Portal provides a comprehensive gateway to the Arctic on the internet, increases co-operation between both public and private parties across the Arctic and grants exposure to Arctic related information.

Arctic Science and Technology Information System (ASTIS)
The ASTIS database contains records describing publications and research projects about northern Canada. ASTIS, a project of the Arctic Institute of North America at the University of Calgary, also maintains subset databases about specific regions, subjects and projects.

ArcticStat
ArcticStat is a permanent, public and independent statistical database dealing with the countries, regions and populations of the Circumpolar Arctic. For the most part, the data indexed in ArcticStat come from national statistical agencies of the countries of the Arctic or their regional offices.

Circumpolar Health Bibliographic Database
The Circumpolar Health Bibliographic Database contains records describing publications about all aspects of human health in the circumpolar region. The database is a project of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Team in Circumpolar Health Research.

Exchange for Local Observations and Knowledge of the Arctic (ELOKA)
The purpose of ELOKA is to provide data management services and support to Arctic communities and others who are working with local and traditional knowledge (LTK) or who are gathering community-based monitoring data and information.

High North Research Documents
High North Research Documents is developed and run by the University of Tromsø Library. The service gives everybody free access to research documents where the content is of relevance to the high north. The database includes documents of relevance to the high north, within any subject area, written by scholars anywhere in the world. The service thus includes documents in many different languages, though primarily in english.

International Polar Year Publications Database 
The International Polar Year Publications Database (IPYPD) will attempt to identify and describe all publications that result from, or that are about, the International Polar Year(IPY) 2007-2008 and the three previous IPYs. The IPYPD is part of the IPY Data and Information Service (IPYDIS).

Inuvialuit Settlement Region Database
Contains descriptions of more than 8400 publications and research projects about the Inuvialuit Settlement Region in Canada's Northwest Territories and Yukon. 

North Slope Science Initiative (NSSI)
A federal, state, and local multi-agency initiative to support inventory, monitoring, and research on the North Slope of Alaska.

Polar Web
Guide to Internet resources dealing with the lands and waters surrounding the North Pole and the South Pole. A collaborative project of the Polar Libraries Colloquy and the Arctic Centre. 

RePORTER - NIH Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tool
This comprehensive search database combines NIH project databases and funding records, PubMed abstracts, full-text articles from PubMed Central, and information from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office with a robust search engine, allowing users to locate descriptions and funding details on NIH-funded projects along with research results that cite the NIH support.

Tribal Connections
American Indian/Alaska Native community health and information resource portal funded by the National Library of Medicine under a contract with the University of Washington.

University of Manitoba Aboriginal Health Collection
Materials in the collection support an interdisciplinary approach to health and are used by students, faculty, community-based researchers and health care professionals.

University of New Mexico Native Health Database
The database contains bibliographic information and abstracts of health-related articles, reports, surveys, and other resource documents pertaining to the health and health care of American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Canadian First Nations.

Research Organizations

Alaska Native Science Commission (ANSC)
The Alaska Native Science Commission was established in 1994 to bring together research and science in partnership with the Native community. 

Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium
The Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium is a non-profit health organization owned and managed by Alaska Native tribal governments and their regional health organizations.

Arctic Health Research Network (AHRN)
The AHRN network includes health research centers based in the Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut. It is a community-driven, northern-led health and wellness research network that facilitates the identification and action on health research priorities in the three territories.

Arctic Public Health Research, National Institute of Public Health, Denmark
Part of the Denmark's national public health institute.

Arctic Research Consortium of the United States (ARCUS)
The Arctic Research Consortium of the United States (ARCUS) was formed in 1988 to identify and bring together the resources of the Arctic research community. 

Arctic Studies Center
The Arctic Studies Center explores cultures, history and environments of the northern part of the globe, and conducts research throughout the circumpolar region.

Barrow Arctic Science Consortium (BASC)
A community-based organization dedicated to helping make closer contacts between scientists and community members in Alaska's North Slope, the adjacent portions of the Arctic Ocean, and in Chukotka, Russia. 

Center for Alaska Native Health Research (CANHR)
CANHR faculty and staff work with tribal groups and health care agencies to frame research questions, develop methodologies and procedures, and interpret and apply data to prevention and treatment.

Centre for Aboriginal Health Research
Researchers affiliated with the centre work collaboratively to advance the health and wellbeing of indigenous peoples in Manitoba, Canada and internationally.

Centre for Arctic Medicine
The mission of the Centre for Arctic Medicine is to advance the sustainable development of health and wellbeing in northern circumpolar area through research, education and social influence.

Centre for Indigenous Peoples' Nutrition and Environment (CINE)
CINE was created in response to a need expressed by Aboriginal Peoples for participatory research and education to address their concerns about the integrity of their traditional food systems.

Centre for Inuit Health and Changing Environments
Actively creates an environment in which Inuit communities and researchers can cooperatively identify critical environmental health issues and conduct the appropriate training and innovative research needed to address them.

Centre for Saami Health Research

Greenland Institute for Circumpolar Health Research
The aim of the Institute is to enhance cooperation between researchers from other countries and health professionals in Greenland, to further research cooperation within Greenland, and to facilitate the interaction of researchers from other countries with the Greenland community at large.

Institute for Circumpolar Health Studies, University of Alaska
The Institute aims to develop new solutions to health problems in Alaska and the circumpolar north. The Institute provides support and coordination for health research, information, and training.

Institute of Arctic Biology
Located at University of Alaska Fairbanks, IAB supports faculty and post-doctoral research and graduate education in the life sciences of wildlife, physiology, genetics and evolutionary biology, ecology and ecosystems, biomedicine, and bioinformatics and computational biology.

International Arctic Research Center (IARC)
Based in Fairbanks, Alaska, the Center provides the international arctic research community an unprecedented opportunity to share knowledge about science in the Arctic.

International Network for Circumpolar Health Research
The INCHR is a voluntary network of individual researchers, research trainees, and supporters of research based in academic research centres, Indigenous people’s organizations, regional health authorities, scientific/professional associations, and government agencies, who share the goal of improving the health of the residents of the circumpolar regions through international cooperation in scientific research.

National Science Foundation Polar Program Arctic Sciences (ARC)
For information on research funded by the National Science Foundation in the Arctic. 

Native American Research Centers for Health (NARCH)
NARCH is supported by a joint partnership between the Indian Health Service (IHS) and the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) of the National Institutes of Health. NARCH supports partnerships between AI/AN tribes or tribally based organizations and institutions that conduct intensive academic-level biomedical, behavioral, and health services research.

Polar Research Board
A unit of the U.S. National Research Council providing independent analysis to the federal government and the nation on matters of science and technology affecting public policy on research needs, environmental quality, natural resources, and other issues in the Arctic, the Antarctic, and cold regions in general.

Scott Polar Research Institute
The Institute is a well-known and long-established centre for research into both polar regions. It is part of the University of Cambridge and is a sub-department of the Department of Geography.

The Sami Research and Project Database  
The projects deal with the Sami people or the Sami areas. The projects in the database were carried out by different institutions and researchers and represent different disciplines. Eventually the database will include information on other indigenous peoples in the Arctic. The database is maintained by the Arctic Indigenous Peoples and Sami Research Office and the Information Service of the Arctic Centre. 

Southcentral Foundation Research
This site is designed for the Native community served by the Southcentral Foundation to explain the research process, the need for research and the foundation's own research projects. 

Thule Institute
Thule Institute is a multidisciplinary research centre in the field of environmental issues, natural resources and materials.  The basis of research consists of three multidisciplinary research programmes: Global Change in the North, Northern Land Use and Land Cover as well as Circumpolar Health and Wellbeing.

University of Iceland Centre of Public Health Sciences
The Centre is the University of Iceland's research institute in the field of public health. Research is conducted in collaboration with Icelandic and international professionals in the field.

US Arctic Research Commission (USARC)
The commission's principal duties are to develop and recommend an integrated national Arctic research policy and to assist in establishing a national Arctic research program plan to implement the policy.

ArcticNet
ArcticNet at the University of Laval is part of the Network of Centres of Excellence bringing together scientists and managers in the natural, human health and social sciences with their partners in Inuit organizations, northern communities, federal and provincial agencies and the private sector to study the impacts of climate change in the coastal Canadian Arctic.

WWAMI Rural Health Research Center (RHRC)  
Established in the fall of 1988 and is based in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine.

Research Funding Sources

Grants.gov
Grants.gov is a central storehouse for information on over 1,000 United States federal grant programs and provides access to approximately $500 billion in annual awards. 

Health and Human Services Office of Grants Management and Policy
Offers support and educational resources for grant seekers.

National Library of Medicine (NLM) Funding Opportunities
NLM's grants and funding - extramural programs.

National Institutes of Health (NIH): Grants & Funding Opportunities
Good starting point for NIH funding opportunities 

National Science Foundation (NSF)
NSF is the only federal agency whose mission includes support for all fields of fundamental science and engineering, except for medical sciences. In addition to funding research in the traditional academic areas, the agency also supports "high-risk, high pay-off" ideas, novel collaborations and numerous projects that may seem like science fiction today, but which the public will take for granted tomorrow.

ScanGrants
ScanGrants, developed by Samaritan Health, a non-profit network of Oregon hospitals, is designed to facilitate the search for funding sources to enhance individual and community health. The funding sources listed here may be of interest to virtually anyone associated with the health field: medical researchers, social workers, nurses, students, community-based health educators, academics, and others. The listing is selective and is intended to supplement other search methods. To view the full grant announcement, click on the link to the source URL provided for each funding opportunity.

Grants and Foundation Center, University of Alaska Anchorage
Websites chosen by the grants and foundations specialist at the University of Alaska Anchorage Consortium Library.

Juneau Public Library Grant Resources
Juneau Public Library is a Cooperating Collection of the Foundation Center. As a member of this nationwide network of libraries, community foundations, and other nonprofit agencies, the library provide visitors with free public access to grantmaker directories, books on fundraising and nonprofit management, and the Foundation Center's electronic database.