ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 



The research program reported here was possible only throigh diversified bases of funding 

 and logistics. The individuals involved are far too numerous to acknowledge separately. How- 

 ever, it is imperative to mention the following aganizations which undertook a significant role 

 in the planning, funding, and execution, of this prc^ram: 



The National Science Foundation and its staff for providing guidance and the critical research 

 funding to seven separate institutions under the grant entitled Effects of Perturbations on the Cold- 

 Dominated Ecosystems in Alaska, J. Brown and G.C. West, coprincipal investigatas. This funding 

 formed the fiscal base from which the program was feasible. 



The Office of Naval Research which, through the Naval Arctic Research Laboratory, Barrow, 

 Alaska, and its staff, provided without cost the room, board, and logistics for the Barrow phase 

 of the program. Without this support the pr(^ram in northern Alaska would not have been con- 

 ceptually feasible during 1970. The Tundra Biome Program makes special recognition of this 

 fact and applauds ONR for it. 



The University of Alaska, at College, Alaska, for welcoming the Tundra Biome Program into 

 its research organizations, for providing administrative services for private grants, office space, 

 and other forms of support, and fa making available specialized groups within the University, 

 such as the data processing section of the Geophysical Institute. Without this collective support, 

 the Tundra Biome Prc^ram would not have been able to operate as an effective research organi- 

 zation. 



The USA Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory for providing personnel, equip- 

 ment, facilities, and other forms of support in cooperative research with the Tundra Biome at 

 Barrow and for supporting the efforts of the Biome Director in execution of his responsibilities to 

 the U. S, International Biological Program. These contributions were possible through an early 

 reccgnition of the joint-Congressional resolution which requests federal agencies to support the 

 U.S. IBP (Public Law 91-438). 



The Army Research Office for providing funds to USA CRREL for use by the Biome Director 

 in planning and administering several aspects of the Tundra Biome Program (ARO-D) and for 

 providing funds to pursue research in the ecology of oil pollution in the cold regions. 



The USA Natick Laboratories for providing the expertise, data ledger and micromet equipment 

 used in the acquisition of the Barrow environmental information. 



The British Petroleum (BP) and Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO) for each making indi- 

 vidual, nonrestrictive grants to the Tundra Biome Program. These grants made possible the total 

 integration of the program by providing funds for data processing and sample analyses, travel, and 

 salaries for supplemental personnel, all essential ingredients for pursuing innovative and cooper- 

 ative research. Both companies also provided ground transportation, room and board at Prudhoe 

 Bay and air travel to and from Prudhoe on numerous occasions. Three hundred gallons of Prudhoe 

 Bay crude oil were supplied under the auspices of the Budhoe Bay Environmental Subcommittee 

 for use in the Barrow phase of the program. Finally, the cooperative attitude demonstrated by 

 the petroleum industry, in general, has provided the scientists involved in this program with a 

 broader view of the environmental conflicts facing the nation today. 



The Trans Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS), now Alyeska, for making sites available, pro- 

 viding air transportation, and freely allowing discourse among its own and contractual research 

 scientists and engineers and the Tundra Biome scientists. 



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