PARCS community-wide meeting
PARCS represents a community of researchers who study past climates and environments of the Arctic and sub-Arctic. Through the PARCS structure, this community develops science goals for arctic paleoenvironmental research. Funds are earmarked at NSF for PARCS research, and these goals are used as science guidelines within relevant NSF programs (more on PARCS funding). Investigators funded via PARCS are expected to follow PARCS data collection and archiving protocols and to participate in PARCS meetings. Investigators not funded by PARCS and research students who are working in the Arctic are also encouraged to participate in PARCS activities. The PARCS community holds open science meetings biannually, and its activities are reported in Witness The Arctic, and the occasional publication PaleoTimes. More information can be obtained from the PARCS steering committee and its co-chairs, or by contacting the Science Management Office.
