Overview - Investigators

Principal Investigator
	Andrey Proshutinsky Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts The Principal Investigator of the Beaufort Gyre Exploration program is Andrey Proshutinsky, who is a Senior Scientist in WHOI's Physical Oceanography Department. Proshutinsky has more than 25 years of experience studying the Arctic Seas, and has produced numerous publications concerning the regional oceanography and meteorology, climate change, numerical modeling of ice and water dynamics, Arctic ocean tides and storm surges, and Northern Sea Route climatology and navigation conditions. He will be responsible for the overall program coordination and scientific analyses. This includes organization of the workshops and field programs and collaborations with our international reasearch team. In addition, Andrey will be specifically responsible for analyzing, interpreting, and publishing the ocean and sea ice dynamics results.
Team Members
	Rick Krishfield Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts Rick Krishfield is a Research Specialist with extensive field experience in the Arctic. He will have responsibility for preparation of the instrumentation on the bottom-tethered moorings and buoys, will participate on the deployment and recovery cruises, and will assist Andrey with the data analysis and preparation of the results.
	John Kemp Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts John Kemp is a Senior Engineering Assistant and foremost expert on the design, construction, and installation of instrumented mooring systems of any type in any ocean, including the Arctic. John is responsible for the design and preparation of the moored systems, and will lead the recovery operations in 2005.
	Willie Ostrom Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts Willie Ostrom is a Senior Engineering Assistant who has extensive experience installing and recovering numerous mooring systems. He led the deployment operations in 2004.
	Kris Newhall Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts Kris Newhall is a member of the Mooring Operations Group who participates in the recovery and redeployment operations.
	Chris Linder Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts Chris Linder is the education and outreach specialist for the project. He maintains the website and documented the 2005 field work through dispatches and photos. See more of his work at www.chrislinder.com
	Other personnel Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts Other WHOI personnel who also contribute to the project are: Rick Trask, Steve Murphy, Jack Resse, Larry Costello, Scott Worrilow, Craig Marquette, and Maryanne Lucas (among others).
Collaborators
	McLaughlin, Carmack, Zimmermann, Kawai-Yamamoto, et al. Institute of Ocean Sciences, British Columbia, Canada Collaboration with scientists from Institute of Ocean Sciences (IOS) in British Columbia is included in this program. The IOS effort is co-led by Fiona McLaughlin and Eddy Carmack, and the IOS team also includes Sarah Zimmermann and Michiyo Kawai-Yamamoto. The IOS scientists will be responsible for performing approximately 30 CTD hydrographic casts per cruise, including all personnel, hardware preparation, calibration, travel, sampling, chemical analysis of nutrients, oxygen isotopes and CFCs, and data dissemination.
	Shimada et al. Japan Marine Science and Technology Center, Yokosuka, Japan In addition, we gratefully acknowledge cooperation with Koji Shimada and others from the Japan Marine Science and Technology Center in Yokosuka, Japan to include their participation on the JWACS cruise.