Towards a Sustained Pan-Arctic Network of Distributed Biological Observatories (DBO´s)

Marit Reigstad1, Anna Nikolopoulos2, Lee W Cooper3, Jacqueline M. Grebmeier4, Arild Sundfjord5, Christina L Goethel3, Kumiko Azetsu-Scott6, Craig Lee7, Jinyoung Jung8, Eun-Jin Yang8, Igor Polyakov9 and Laura M Whitmore10, (1)UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Department of Arctic and Marine Biology, Tromsø, Norway, (2)UiT the Arctic University of Norway, Department of Arctic and Marine biology, Tromsoe, Norway, (3)University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, Solomons, United States, (4)Univ MD Center Enviro Science, Solomons, United States, (5)Norweigan Polar Institute, Tromso, Norway, (6)Bedford Inst Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada, (7)Univ Washington, Seattle, United States, (8)Korea Polar Research Institute, Incheon, South Korea, (9)Univ Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, United States, (10)University of Alaska Fairbanks, International Arctic Research Center, Fairbanks, United States