Subseries contains correspondence, research data, and conference minutes and notes related to the Census of Marine Life subcommittee, Arctic Ocean Diversity (ArcOD). The Arctic Ocean Diversity project was designed to catalogue animal species and microbes found in the Arctic region—on, in and under the sea ice, in deep basins and along the continental shelves. The project was led by American scientists Bodil Bluhm, Rolf Gradinger and Russ Hopcroft, who sought to document the northward extensions of ranges of Arctic fish and invertebrates.
File contains the June 2009 proposal entitled "Arctic Ocean Diversity : Synthesis Phase Renewal Proposal" submitted for consideration to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation by the University of Alaska Fairbanks. The proposal was written by Rolf Gradinger, Bodil Bluhm and Russell Hopcroft. File also includes proposal review notes and correspondence between the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and Ron O'Dor.
File contains the 2008 annual report of the Census of Marine Life ArcOD project. The report was written by R. Gradinger, R. Hopcroft, B. Bluhm, and A. Gebruk.
File contains two different draft manuscripts of a renewal proposal for funding the Census of Marine Life project Arctic Ocean Diversity (ArcOD), dated April 15, 2006. The proposal was written by Rolf Gradinger, Russell H. Hopcroft, Bodil A. Bluhm, Andrey Gebruk, Boris Sirenko, and Ksenia Kosobokova.
Series consists of correspondence, grant applications, newspaper clippings and reports related to the Arctic Shelf Tracking and Physics Array Project, a proposal by Ron O'Dor and his colleagues to commemorate the International Polar Year (IPY).
File includes conference materials and correspondence related to the establishment of an Australia and New Zealand regional subcommittee for the Census of Marine Life. File includes the slides of Ron O'Dor and Cynthia Decker's CoML presentation at the 2001 AMSA NZMSS Conference, CoML poster reproductions by Ron O'Dor, Cynthia Decker and Fred Grassle, and a proposal to the meeting of the CoML Scientific Steering Committee for an Australian Census of Marine Life National Program (written by Ian Poiner and Kim Finney). File includes correspondence between Ron O'Dor and Russ Babcock, Robin Rigby, George Jackson, Micehlle Waycott, Jesse Ausubel, Teresa Lush, Ian Poiner, Bryony Bennett, among others.
File contains drafts for what was eventually published as Unknown Ocean and A Decade of Discovery. File includes correspondence between Ron O'Dor and other Census of Marine Life researchers.
File includes an edited draft of Ron O'Dor's presentation about the status of the first baseline report, as well as editorial correspondence between Ron O'Dor and Jesse Ausubel.
File contains draft manuscript material related to Ron O'Dor's compilation of the Baseline Report of the Census of Marine Life, later published as The Unknown Ocean and A Decade of Discovery. File includes heavily edited manuscript drafts and correspondence between Ron O'Dor, Rainer Froese, George Boehlert, Alasdair MacIntyre, among others.
