Facilitation of Arctic Science

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This award supports a three-year Cooperative Agreement between the Barrow Arctic Science Consortium (BASC) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) that allows BASC to provide a variety of support services to the NSF's Office of Polar Programs. These are:1. Provide logistical support and coordination to NSF funded science projects working in the Barrow area.2. Management of the Barrow Environmental Observatory, a 7,644 acre section of land just to the north-east of Barrow reserved for scientific studies. BASC will also continue to recapture unpublished data associated with BEO and other North Slope and northern research.3. Outreach and Education - providing strong links between the science community and the local community of the North Slope.4. Work towards implementation of the recommendations of the report The Future of an Arctic Resource: Recommendations from the Barrow Area Research Support Workshop (ARCUS 1999) to the degree that NSF accepts them.5. developing a mechanism to provide improved logistical and permitting support for U.S. scientists working in Chukotka (Russia).The agreement expires on 29 August, 2000