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March 2005 ARCSS Committee Meeting | Agenda

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ARCSS Committee Meeting
Arlington, VA
8-10 March 2005

Agenda

Tuesday, 8 March

7:45a.m.

 Continental Breakfast
8:00a.m. Brief ARCSS Committee planning meeting (Georgetown AB)
ARCTIC RESEARCH ACTIVITIES (OPEN SESSION)

[20-minute presentations, followed by 5 minutes for discussion; the morning session ends with time for a 20-minute summary discussion.]
9:00a.m. Welcome and Overview
Jonathan Overpeck
Chair, ARCSS Committee
9:10a.m. Remarks from the National Science Foundation (NSF)
Neil Swanberg
ARCSS Program Director
STATUS REPORTS ON ARCSS RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
9:25a.m. SBI: Shelf-Basin Interactions
Jackie Grebmeier
University of Tennessee
9:50a.m. Arctic Freshwater Cycle: Land/Upper-Ocean Linkages
Jonathan Pundsack
University of New Hampshire
10:15a.m. SNACS: Study of Northern Alaska Coastal Systems
Carin Ashjian
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
10:30a.m. BREAK
DEVELOPING COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE
10:55a.m. HARC: Human Dimensions of the Arctic System
Maribeth Murray
University of Alaska Fairbanks
11:20a.m. Surface Dynamics and Human Environments of the Arctic System
(from the integration planning workshop led by LAII SMO)
Andrea Lloyd
Middlebury College
COMMUNITY PROPOSAL FOR NEW RESEARCH AREA
11:45a.m. OASIS: Ocean-Atmosphere-Sea Ice-Snowpack
Patricia Matrai
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences
12:10p.m. Summary discussion
12:30p.m. LUNCH (provided for all participants)
ARCSS COMMITTEE (CLOSED SESSION)
COORDINATION WITH OTHER KEY PROGRAMS
1:30p.m. Committee discussion of SEARCH and ARCSS
(When and how to best coordinate planning, research, data and other activities.)
3:15p.m. BREAK
3:35p.m. Committee discussion: ARCSS connections and interactions with other programs
(International Polar Year [IPY], Arctic Climate Impact Assessment [ACIA], Second International Conference on Arctic Research Planning [ICARP II])
5:30p.m. Adjourn for day
7:00p.m. ARCSS Committee dinner
Wednesday, 9 March
ARCSS COMMITTEE (CLOSED SESSION)
PLANNING ARCSS PRIORITIES AND FUTURE ACTIVITIES
8:30a.m. Advancing ARCSS synthesis: future activities and implementation
10:00a.m. BREAK
10:30a.m. ARCSS data coordination needs and goals: planning and implementation
(including exploration of what to do with model results, code, sample data sets, sample output)
12:00p.m. LUNCH (provided)
1:30p.m. Updating ARCSS five-year science plan: planning and implementation
3:15p.m. BREAK
3:30p.m. Development of new ARCSS process/structure: Define, clarify, and describe process/structure and plan steps necessary for implementation.
5:30p.m. Adjourn for day
Thursday, 10 March
ARCSS COMMITTEE (CLOSED SESSION)
8:00a.m. Discussion of approach and implementation for community planning, outreach and communication
  • Fall 2005 Meeting - goals, participants, agenda, etc.
  • Community input/planning/outreach activities pre- and post meeting
  • Long-term planning/outreach activities
10:10a.m. BREAK
10:30a.m. Programmatic issues related to ARCSS structure and communities of practice
  • Review AC membership for gaps and discuss potential candidates to address any gaps
  • Review Terms of Reference and revise as needed
  • Determine an appropriate AC member rotation schedule
  • Review human dimension/social science candidates for ARCSS Committee and select candidates if appropriate.
11:30a.m. Summary of discussions, review key points, and finalize action items
1:30p.m. ARCSS Committee meeting adjourns
12:30p.m. LUNCH (provided)
1:30p.m.-2:30p.m. Meeting of the ARCSS Committee's Executive Committee
(Jonathan Overpeck, Jennifer Francis, Craig Nicolson, Matthew Sturm)