Collaborative Research: IPY: Arctic Great Rivers Observatory (Arctic-GRO)

北极大河观测站项目将评估Ob‘、Yenisey、Lena、Kolyma、Yukon和Mackenzie河的河流组成(化学、同位素、营养物质)通量和流量。这些观测将被用来检验关于这些通量的大小、控制和生态意义的假设，并将提供关于北冰洋主要成分通量的年际变化和趋势的新信息。通过测量大陆和北冰洋交界处这些主要河流的水流量和成分，可以有效地评估大陆广大地区发生的变化，从而可以诊断陆地环境变化，并预测北冰洋和北大西洋的环流和生物地球化学过程即将发生的变化。对北极大河的监测是任何综合北极观测站计划的重要组成部分，对于了解北极的环境变化至关重要，这也是搜索的目标。数据收集将代表国际和平年时间框架内的活动脉搏，并将为今后的调查提供遗留数据。北极-GRO建立在美国、加拿大和俄罗斯科学家之间强大的科学合作基础上。它也是北极圈海岸观测网(ACCO-NET)的主要组成部分，该网络是国际海洋年的一项重要倡议，旨在将作为国际北极海岸动力学项目一部分建立的主要海岸侵蚀监测点与作为国家科学基金会淡水综合研究部分建立的主要北极河流采样点连接起来。该项目将与学生伙伴项目联系起来，并将其扩展，这是一项科学和教育努力，涉及每个抽样点的K-12学生及其教师。教师和他们的学生接受了关于全球变化的教育，并反过来以比其他方式更高的频率收集选定选民的河流样本，从而提高了科学水平。

The Arctic Great Rivers Observatory (Arctic-GRO) project will assess river constituent (chemistry, isotopes, nutrients) fluxes and discharge in the Ob', Yenisey, Lena, Kolyma, Yukon and Mackenzie Rivers. These observations will be used to test hypotheses about the magnitude, controls and ecological significance of these fluxes, and will provide new information on inter-annual variability and trends in the major fluxes of constituents to the Arctic Ocean. By measuring the flux of water and constituents in these key rivers at the junction between the continents and the Arctic Ocean, it is possible to efficiently assess changes occurring across vast regions of the continents that may diagnose environmental change on land, and forecast imminent changes in circulation and biogeochemical processes in the Arctic and North Atlantic oceans. Monitoring the great arctic rivers is an essential component of any comprehensive Arctic Observatory program and is critical for understanding environmental change in the Arctic, a goal of SEARCH. The data collection will represent a pulse of activity within the IPY timeframe and will provide a legacy of data for future investigations. Arctic-GRO is based upon strong scientific collaborations among US, Canadian and Russian scientists. It also represents a major component of the Arctic Circumpolar Coastal Observatory Network (ACCO-Net), an overarching IPY initiative designed to link key coastal erosion monitoring sites established as part of the international Arctic Coastal Dynamics project with major arctic river sampling sites established as part of the NSF Freshwater Integration (FWI) study. The project will link with and extend the Student Partners Project, a science and education effort involving K-12 students and their teachers at each sampling site. Teachers and their students are educated in global change and in turn collect river samples of selected constituents at higher frequencies than would otherwise be possible, thereby improving the science.