ARCTOS - Arctic Marine Ecosystem Research Network

ARCTOS is a pan-arctic network centered in Tromsø, Norway that builds bridges between senior and young scientists, national and international research, science and industry, science and culture, and add momentum to polar marine ecological research. ARCTOS attempts to figure out how climate change influences the system from a molecular to the community level and how this acts on ecosystems, biodiversity and the biological global flux in the Arctic.
The ARCTOS research network was established in 2002. The ARCTOS scientists conduct science over a broad range of marine ecology topics in the Barents Sea and around Svalbard, and in most of the northern waters. Several important institutions in Russia, North America and the EU are collaborating within the frame of ARCTOS, giving this research a pan-Arctic perspective. Research on the Norwegian side is financed through the Norwegian Research Council, EU-programmes, own institutional funding and support from the petroleum industry (StatoilHydro, ConocoPhillips, Eni and Total).  ARCTOS is organised as a resesarch project based at the University of Tromsø.