VOLUME 12 SPRING/SUMMER 1998

ARCTIC RESEARCH

OF THE UNITED STATES



Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee

Department of Agriculture

Department of Commerce

Department of Defense

Department of Energy

Department of Health and Human Services

Department of the Interior

Department of State

Department of Transportation

Environmental Protection Agency

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

National Science Foundation

Smithsonian Institution

Office of Management and Budget

Office of Science and Technology Policy

Arctic Research Commission

George B. Newton, Jr., Chairman
    Arlington, Virginia

Richard K. Glenn
    Barrow, Alaska

E. Lee Gorsuch
    Anchorage, Alaska

John E. Hobbie
    Woods Hole, Massachusetts

James A. Palmer     Anchorage, Alaska

Walter B. Parker
    Anchorage, Alaska

John R. Roderick
    Anchorage, Alaska

Neal F. Lane, Ex Officio
    Arlington, Virginia

Managing Editorial Committee

Charles E. Myers, National Science Foundation - Editor

John Haugh, Bureau of Land Management - Associate Editor

David W. Cate, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory - Consulting Editor

Editing and production: Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, New Hampshire Donna R. Valliere, Production Assistant

This issue of Arctic Research of the United States presents highlights and results of major fiscal year 1996 and 1997 Arctic research programs and selected projects of the Federal agenies. For more information, you may contact the agency staff representatives listed on page 152.

Foreword
National Science Foundation
Department of the Interior
    Minerals Management Service
    Fish and Wildlife Service
    National Park Service
    Bureau of Land Management
    Geological Survey
Department of Defense
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Department of Commerce
Department of Agriculture
Department of Energy
Department of Health and Human Services
Smithsonian Institution
Environmental Protection Agency
Department of Transportation
Department of State

Seventh Biennial Report of the Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee to the Congress
Report of Meeting: Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee
Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee Staff