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Arctic Report Card: Update for 2016
Persistent warming trend and loss of sea ice are triggering extensive Arctic changes
Archive of previous Arctic Report Cards
2016 Arctic Report Card

Authors and Affiliations

U. S. Bhatt, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, USA

J. Bjerke, Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, Tromsø, Norway

J. E. Box, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Copenhagen, Denmark

R. Brown, Climate Research Division, Environment Canada, Toronto, Canada

J. Cappelen, Danish Meteorological Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark

J. C. Comiso, Cryospheric Sciences Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA

J. A. Cook, Department of Biology and Museum of Southwestern Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA

L. W. Cooper, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Solomons, MD, USA

J. N. Cross, NOAA – Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, Washington, USA

C. Derksen, Climate Research Division, Environment Canada, Toronto, Canada

H. E. Epstein, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA

S. Farrell, NOAA Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA

R. S. Fausto, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Copenhagen, Denmark

X. Fettweis, University of Liege, Liege, Belgium

B. C. Forbes, Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland

K. E. Frey, Graduate School of Geography, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

S. Gerland, Norwegian Polar Institute, Fram Centre, Tromsø, Norway

R. R. Gradinger, UiT, The Arctic University of Norway

J. M. Grebmeier, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Solomons, MD, USA

S. E. Greiman, Department of Biology, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA, USA

C. Haas, Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany; Earth & Space Science & Engineering, York University, Toronto, Canada

E. Hanna, Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

I. Hanssen-Bauer, Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Blindern, 0313 Oslo, Norway

S. Hendricks, Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany

L. D. Hinzman, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA

E. P. Hoberg, US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville, MD, USA

A. G. Hope, Division of Biology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA

G. Hugelius, Department of Physical Geography, Stockholm University, 10691, Stockholm, Sweden

B. P. Kelly, Executive Director, Study of Environmental Arctic Change (SEARCH); Research Professor, International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks; Senior Fellow, Center for Blue Economy, Middlebury Institute International Studies, Monterey

S. -J. Kim, Korea Polar Research Institute, Incheon, Republic of Korea

T. Krumpen, Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany

M. Loranty, Department of Geography, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, USA

K. Luojus, Arctic Research Centre, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland

M. Macias-Fauria, School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford University, Oxford, UK

J. Mathis, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Arctic Research Program, Silver Spring, MD, USA

W. Meier, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA

T. Mote, Department of Geography, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA

L. Mudryk, Climate Research Division, Environment Canada, Toronto, Canada

J. E. Overland, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, WA, USA

D. Perovich, ERDC – CRREL, 72 Lyme Road, Hanover USA; Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA

G. Phoenix, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

M. K. Raynolds, Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, AK, USA

J. Richter-Menge, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, NH, USA

T. Schuur, Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ

C. J. P. P. Smeets, Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, California, USA

M. Tedesco, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, NY, USA; NASA Goddard Institute of Space Studies, New York, NY, USA

R. L. Thoman, NOAA, National Weather Service, Alaska Region, USA

M. -L. Timmermans, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA

V. V. Tkach, Department of Biology, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, USA

J. -É. Tremblay, Québec-Océan and Takuvik, Biology Department, Université Laval, Québec City, QC, Canada

M. Tschudi, Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA

D. van As, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Copenhagen, Denmark

R. S. W. van de Wal, Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

I. Velicogna, Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, California, USA

C. J. Vörösmarty, Environmental Sciences Initiative, Advanced Science Research Center, City University of New York, USA; Department of Civil Engineering, The City College of New York, USA

J. Wahr, Department of Physics & Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA

D. A. Walker, Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, AK, USA

J. E. Walsh, International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, USA

M. Wang, Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

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