Preface 



This book is a report of investigations of several small ponds on the 

 arctic tundra near Barrow, Alaska. The main study, which ran from 1971 

 through 1973, was funded from three sources: The National Science 

 Foundation, the State of Alaska through the University of Alaska, and 

 individual companies and members of the petroleum industry. The NSF 

 funding was under the joint sponsorship of the U.S. Arctic Research 

 Program (Division of Polar Programs) and the U.S. International 

 Biological Program (Ecosystem Analysis Program). The U.S. Tundra 

 Biome Program was under the overall direction of Jerry Brown of the U.S. 

 Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory and consisted 

 of aquatic and terrestrial sections. A companion volume to this reports the 

 findings of the terrestrial projects (Brown et al. in press). 



The principal investigators of the aquatic projects were: 



Vera Alexander, University of Alaska 



Robert J. Barsdate, University of Alaska 



Donald A. Bierle, Sioux Falls College 



James N. Cameron, University of Alaska 



Raymond D. Dillon, State University of South Dakota 



John E. Hobbie, North Carolina State University 



C. Peter McRoy, University of Alaska 



Michael C. Miller, University of Alaska 



Raymond G. Stress, The University (SUNY) at Albany. 



Other scientists who took part in the project were Staffan Holmgren 

 (Uppsala University), Tom Fenchel (Aarhus University), Stanley Dodson 

 (University of Wisconsin), John Kelley (University of Alaska), Patrick 

 Coyne (U.S. Army, CRREL), Ralph Daley (North Carolina State 

 University), Richard Prentki (University of Alaska), Tor Traaen 

 (Norwegian Institute for Water Research), Donald Stanley (North 

 Carolina State University), and Jawahar Tiwari (North Carolina State 

 University). 



Additional information on the macrobenthos came from a study in 

 1975, 1976, and 1977 carried out by Samuel Mozley and Malcolm Butler 

 (University of Michigan) which was funded by the U.S. Department of 

 Energy. 



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