The Arctic Environmental Metadata Centre

The centre opened in September 1997, and was funded by the Natural Environment Research Council until August 1999, via a research grant under the SEEDCORN initiative of NERC.

• NERC Grants awarded for Arctic research;
• NERC Studentships and Fellowships listing PhD students funded by NERC who worked in the Arctic;

In conjunction with these files a metadata system was developed on a trial basis. This used a MetaData Management System provided by the Antarctic Environmental Data Centre at the British Antarctic Survey.

This test metadata can be searched via the NERC MetaData (Access) service.

For this project the Arctic was defined as:
Iceland; Greenland; Scandinavia north of the Arctic Circle; Canada, Alaska and Russia north of the treeline; as well as adjacent seas north of the Arctic Circle.

• NERC ARCICE Programme (Arctic Ice and Environmental Variability).
• NERC OZONE Programme (Ozone in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere)
• NERC UGAMP Programme (UK Universities' Global Atmospheric Modelling Programme)

• Links to UK Arctic Research

The Scott Polar Research Institute was the UK member of the Arctic Environmental Data Directory, (ADD), whose Secretariat is in Norway at UNEP/GRID-Arendal.

[In February 2001 the chair of ADD proposed to the IASC Executive Committee that ADD be discontinued. "The Executive Committee noted the proposal, and agreed that a reorganisation is needed. They also agreed in principle that awaiting the JCAM (Joint Committee on Antarctic Data Management) implementing the AMD (Antarctic Master Directory) could be a step towards a new way forward"].

• The 5th ADD Council Meeting was held 5-7 June 1998 at the Arctic Centre, Rovaniemi, Finland
• The 6th Council Meeting held in June 1999 in Ottawa, Canada
• The final council meeting, in 2000, was held in Copenhagen.