International Arctic Research Center

(Redirected from Keith B. Mather Library) Research institution in Alaska, USA

The International Arctic Research Center, or IARC, established in 1999, is a research institution focused on integrating and coordinating study of Climate change in the Arctic. The primary partners in IARC are Japan and the United States. Participants include organizations from Canada, China, Denmark, Germany, Japan, Norway, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Overview

The center is located at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, in the Syun-Ichi Akasofu Building. The Keith B. Mather Library is the science library housed in the Akasofu Building, serving IARC and the Geophysical Institute of UAF. The building also houses the UAF atmospheric sciences department, the Center for Global Change and the Fairbanks forecast office of the National Weather Service.

Study projects are focused within four major themes:

Arctic ocean models and observation
Arctic atmosphere: feedbacks, radiation, and weather analysis
Permafrost/Frozen soil models and observations
Arctic biota/vegetation (ecosystem models)

IARC is devoting specific effort to answering the following three questions:

To what extent is climate change due to natural vs man-made causes?
What parameters, processes and interactions are needed to understand and predict future climate change?
What are the likely impacts of climate change?

References

"About IARC". 9 April 2016.

External links

v t e University of Alaska System
Statewide	President: Pat Pitney Media: University of Alaska Press The Limestone Press
Anchorage	Chancellor: Sean Parnell Academics: College of Education Consortium Library Merrill Field Athletics: Alaska Anchorage Seawolves Alaska Airlines Center Great Alaska Shootout Buckner Fieldhouse Sullivan Arena Men's ice hockey Avis Alaska Sports Complex Media: Alaska Quarterly Review KRUA Northern Light Satellite Campuses: Kenai Peninsula College Kachemak Bay Campus Kodiak College Mat–Su College Prince William Sound College Research: NBMDC
Fairbanks	Chancellor: Daniel M. White Academics: CTC Native Art Center Rasmuson Library Alaska Film Archives SFOS Athletics: Alaska Nanooks Men's ice hockey Carlson Center Media: AlaskaOne/KUAC KSUA Permafrost Sun Star Satellite campuses: Bristol Bay Campus Center for Distance Education Research: AFES Botanical garden Alaska Native Language Archive/Center ARSC CIFAR/IARC Geophysical Institute Alaska Volcano Observatory Poker Flat Research Range SuperDARN Institute of Arctic Biology Museum of the North Smith Lake
Southeast	Chancellor: Aparna D. Palmer Facilities: Egan Library Satellite campuses: Ketchikan Campus Sitka Campus
Founded: 1917

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