March 2006 ARCSS Committee Meeting | Agenda

ARCSS Committee Meeting
29-30 March 2006
Red Lion Hotel on Fifth Avenue
Seattle, Washington
Agenda

Tuesday, 28 March 2006
6:30 p.m. Informal ARCSS Committee Dinner (AC, NSF, SMO, as available)
Wednesday, 29 March 2006
7:45 a.m. ARCSS Committee Executive Session (Whidbey and San Juan, Continental breakfast available in room)
8:15 a.m. Continental Breakfast available (Emerald III)
Begin Open Session (Emerald III)
8:45 a.m.

Welcome and Introductions

Jonathan Overpeck, Josh Schimel
9:00 a.m. NSF ARCSS Program Overview Neil Swanberg, Janet Intrieri
9:15 a.m. Overview of ARCSS community science planning and ARCSS Committee direction and activities Jonathan Overpeck
Community Science Activities (~20 minutes presentation, 5 minutes discussion)
Briefings from ARCSS community groups on science goals and questions, key unknowns, future priorities and activities.
Funded ARCSS Projects
9:35 a.m. Shelf-Basin Interactions (SBI) Bob Campbell, Wieslaw Maslowski
10:00 a.m. Freshwater synthesis Bruce Peterson
10:25 a.m BREAK
10:55 a.m. Human Dimensions of the Arctic System (HARC) Maribeth Murray
11:20 a.m. Paleoenvironmental Arctic Sciences (PARCS) 2kyr Feng Sheng Hu
11:45 a.m. Study of the Northern Alaska Coastal System (SNACS) Tom Douglas
12:10 p.m. Synthesis of Arctic System Science (SASS) Ignatius Rigor
12:35 p.m. LUNCH Buffet
Communities of Practice
2:00 p.m. Surface Dynamics Andrea Lloyd
Synthesis Focused Community Modeling and Data Management Needs
2:35 p.m. Report from Data and Modeling Working Group Charlie Vörösmarty
3:00 p.m. BREAK
3:30 p.m. Group Discussion:
  • Connections and linkages among ARCSS research activities
  • Current and emerging ARCSS science priorities
  • Community development and science planning needs
5:00 p.m. Open Session Adjourns
Begin Executive Session (ARCSS Committee, NSF, SMO)
5:20 p.m. Executive Session
  • Discussion of presented community science activities and progress
  • Relevance to current or emerging ARCSS science priorities
  • Initial discussion of support needs and next steps for community groups (discussion to be continued Thursday)
  • Plan for next day
7:00 p.m. Dinner (AC, NSF, SMO)
Thursday, 30 March 2006
7:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast available
Executive Session all day (AC, NSF, SMO)
8:00 a.m. NSF Programmatic Updates Neil Swanberg
ARCSS Science Priorities
8:15 a.m. ARCSS 2006 Announcement of Opportunity (AO)
  • Theme(s), scope, timing, finalize plan for drafting and forwarding recommendations to NSF
9:15 a.m. ARCSS Science Priorities: What are the critical science priorities for arctic system research for the next 5 years?
10:30 a.m. BREAK
10:50 a.m. ARCSS Data Management and Modeling
  • Update from NSF
  • Planning for data workshop, other community activities
  • Action items for working group and SMO
12:00 p.m. LUNCH
Mechanisms and Process for Community Science Planning
1:30 p.m. Community Science Planning Process
  • Communities of Practice - Discuss/refine process and define next steps, timelines.
  • Synthesis Process - What are the planning activities or products needed to advance "system-wide" synthesis in order to assess state of knowledge and identify gaps?
  • Identify community-wide activities for broad input and implementation- eTown Meetings, All Hands Workshop, etc.
2:30 p.m. Community Science Planning Infrastructure (Necessary development/support)
  • SBI
  • Freshwater
  • HARC/Human Dimensions
  • PARCS
  • SNACS
  • SASS1
  • SASS2
  • Surface Dynamics Co-oP
  • Thaw Lakes Co-oP
  • Others
3:00 p.m. BREAK
3:20 p.m. Discuss and finalize recommendations for new AC members and rotation
4:00 p.m. Action Items and Timelines for Community Science Planning and Communicating Science Priorities
  • eMeetings, Workshops, and Conferences: Topics and Timelines
  • ARCSS Science Plan: What is needed, for what purposes, when, and how?
  • Other
5:30 p.m. Wrap-up/Action items
6:00 p.m. Adjourn