Arctic Observing Network Form

Instructions and help about Arctic Observing Network

When the ice comes in, it's very, it becomes very, very cold. In fact, in our language, "When is the winter? When will it be winter? When will winter come in?" When the ice come in, winter began, not December 21. No winter now. The environment is changing more rapidly in the Arctic than anywhere else. Observing these changes is critical to forecasting conditions that will affect people in the Arctic and beyond. Just in the last decade or so, we've realized that the Arctic is really really important and the fact that it's changing so fast has many, many, connections to other parts of the climate system that really matter to billions of people that live way beyond the Arctic. Indigenous people have carefully observed the Arctic environment for thousands of years as their livelihoods depend on knowing where and when to find and safely harvest resources. Much of the hunters behavior, if you look at it, is really, really risk-averse, and that makes a lot of sense. If you're gonna be going o