An international collaborative effort to inventory biodiversity in the Arctic sea ice, water column and sea floor from the shallow shelves to the deep basins using a three-step approach: compilation of existing data, taxonomic identification of existing samples, and new collections focusing on taxonomic and regional gaps.
Links:
[1] http://www.arcodiv.org/
[2] http://www.coml.org/projects/arctic-ocean-diversity-arcod