Partners

National Archives and Records Administration

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) serves American democracy by safeguarding and preserving the records of our Government, ensuring that the people can discover, use, and learn from this documentary heritage. We ensure continuing access to the essential documentation of the rights of American citizens and the actions of their government. We support democracy, promote civic education, and facilitate historical understanding of our national experience.

For this project NARA archivists and preservationists are providing expert guidance on the logbook holdings of the Archives, training student interns in document preservation and digital imaging, and leading the online publication of selected vessel logbooks – an important resource for understanding the history of Alaska and the Arctic that will be accessible to all.

Old Weather - Citizen Science Alliance

The Citizen Science Alliance is a transatlantic collaboration of universities and museums who are dedicated to involving everyone in the process of science. Growing out of the wildly successful Galaxy Zoo project, it builds and maintains the Zooniverse network of projects, of which Old Weather is part.

Old Weather partners and collaborators include ACRE, UK Met Office, and Naval-History.net. The detailed ship histories found on Old Weather and on this website, as well as other historical expertise, is provided by volunteer-run Naval-History.net. More information can be found at www.oldweather.org/about.

New Bedford Whaling Museum

The New Bedford Whaling Museum seeks to advance understanding related to the influence of the whaling industry and the port of New Bedford on the history, economy, ecology, arts, and cultures of the region, the nation and the world. The Museum can claim many superlatives amongst its holdings including the world’s largest: library of whaling logbooks, prints, journals; collection of scrimshaw; Japanese whaling art and literature outside of Japan; Dutch Old Master marine paintings in the New World.

New Bedford Whaling Museum is providing digital images of logbooks of whaling ships that sailed the Arctic grounds, and coordinating a student project that will design a transcription guide and user interface suitable for a citizen-driven data (and history) extraction program like Old Weather.

Providence Public Library

The Nicholson Whaling Collection at Providence Public Library is now the second largest whaling logbook collection in America. Mr. Paul C. Nicholson, the son of the founder of the world-renowned Nicholson File Company, formed an outstanding collection of over 750 manuscript logbooks describing more than 1,000 whaling voyages, as well as several thousand printed books on whaling.

Providence Public Library has contributed digital images of more than 150 Arctic logbooks from the Nicholson Whaling Collection to the project.

National Marine Sanctuary Foundation

The National Marine Sanctuary Foundation (NMSF) is a private, non-profit, 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization, created to assist the federally managed National Marine Sanctuary Program with education and outreach activities.

NMSF is assisting with the student intern program at the National Archives.

NOAA

Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL)

PMEL carries out interdisciplinary scientific investigations in oceanography and atmospheric science. Current research programs focus on open ocean observations in support of long-term monitoring and prediction of the ocean environment on time scales from hours to decades.

With support from the North Pacific Research Board (NPRB) and the NOAA Arctic Research Program, PMEL and JISAO scientists are coordinating project activities with partners and collaborators, and providing expertise in historical climatology, climate dynamics and information systems.

Office of National Marine Sanctuaries (ONMS)

ONMS Maritime Heritage preserves and protects valuable historical, cultural, and archaeological resources within our coastal, marine, and Great Lakes environments. Maritime heritage includes not only physical resources such as historic shipwrecks and prehistoric archaeological sites, but also archival documents and oral histories. Maritime heritage can also include the stories of indigenous cultures that have lived and used the oceans for thousands of years.

ONMS is contributing expertise in maritime heritage, historical ecology and providing logistical support for student interns working on the project in Washington, D.C.

National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC)

The NODC manages the world's largest collection of publicly available oceanographic data. NODC holdings include in situ and remotely sensed physical, chemical, and biological oceanographic data from coastal and deep ocean areas. These were originally collected for a variety of operational and research missions by U.S. Federal agencies, including the Department of Defense (primarily the U.S. Navy); by State and local government agencies; by universities and research institutions; and private industry. NODC data holdings extend back over one hundred years. Status of the World Oceanographic Database as of June 27, 2012: 12,519,136 stations. Data available via internet without restriction: http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/SELECT/dbsearch/dbsearch.html

NODC scientists are helping to locate and assess heritage data assets in Russia and with manuscript records from the Russian period in Alaska.

Other supporters and collaborators

Arctic Research Program		International Arctic Science Committee (IASC)
		National Climatic Data Center