Photograph credits
Our home page features a photograph from a US-Russian Arctic project: Russian and US researchers at Ice Camp TURPAN north of Svalbard during the Transarctic Acoustic Propagation (TAP) Experiment in April 1994. The TAP Experiment was the first basin-scale observation of warming of the Atlantic Layer of the Arctic Ocean, and led to the US-Russian Arctic Climate Observations using Underwater Sound (ACOUS) Project. The principal objective of ACOUS is to establish a long term, real-time Arctic Ocean observing system utilizing cabled moorings that integrate point measurements with acoustic remote sensing measurements. The acoustic remote sensing is used to monitor basin-scale changes in the ocean temperature and thickness of the ice cover in the Arctic Ocean. The ACOUS project has been an approved US-Russian Joint Commission on Economic and Technological Cooperation project since 1995.
Photograph contributed by M. Lents.
For additional information on the ACOUS Project, contact:
Peter Mikhalevsky
Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)
1710 Goodridge Drive, M/S 1-3-5
McLean, Virginia 22102
U.S.A.
703-676-4784
peter@osg.saic.com