March 2006 SASS I Investigator Meeting | Agenda

Synthesis of Arctic System Science (SASS) Investigator Meeting 26–27 March 2006 Red Lion Hotel on Fifth Avenue Seattle, Washington Agenda
Sunday, 26 March 2006
Sunday sessions in Bainbridge Room
8:00 a.m.	Continental Breakfast
8:30 a.m.	Welcome and Introductions	Don Perovich CRREL, ARCSS Committee Member
8:45 a.m.	ARCSS Program Overview	Neil Swanberg NSF ARCSS Program Director
9:05 a.m.	ARCSS Synthesis Overview	Mark Serreze U. Colorado, ARCSS Committee Member
SASS Project Presentations (~20 minutes presentation, 10 minutes questions/discussion)
9:30 a.m.	Heat Budget	Mark Serreze, U. Colorado
10:00 a.m.	Sunlight and the Arctic System	Don Perovich, CRREL
10:30 a.m.	BREAK
10:50 a.m.	Modes of Climatic Variability	Martin Miles, ESARC
11:20 a.m.	Surface Air Temperature	Ignatius Rigor, U. Washington
11:50 a.m.	Carbon Cycle	Dave McGuire, UAF
12:20 p.m.	LUNCH on your own
1:30 p.m.	Greening of the Arctic	Skip Walker, UAF
2:00 p.m.	Greenland Ice Sheet Freshwater Discharge	Mark Fahnestock, UNH
2:30 p.m.	Humans and Hydrology	Richard Lammers, UNH Dan White, UAF Larry Hamilton, UNH
3:00 p.m.	Human Use of Reindeer and Caribou	Gary Kofinas, UAF
3:30 p.m.	BREAK
4:00 p.m.	Discussion: Overarching themes and project linkages Conceptual linkages Data integration Other approaches to integration
5:00 p.m.	Discuss and determine topics and focus of Monday break-out groups on approaches to integration (e.g. data integration, big science questions, feedbacks, budgets, changes and attributions, component linkages, etc.)
5:30 p.m.	Adjourn for the day
Monday, 27 March 2006
8:00 a.m.	Continental Breakfast (Bainbridge)
8:30 a.m.	Plenary Session: Charge to break-out groups (Bainbridge)
8:45 a.m.	Break-out groups: Approaches to integration (Various break-out rooms) (Break as needed)
10:15 a.m.	Brief reports to plenary (8-10 minute, one slide summary) and discussion on approaches to integration (Bainbridge)
11:30 a.m.	Combined session with Study of the Northern Alaskan Coastal System (SNACS) investigators (Emerald III) Short presentation from one representative from SASS and SNACS (10 minutes each, 20 minutes total) summarizing focus of projects Short presentation from one representative from SASS and SNACS (10 minutes each, 20 minutes total) summarizing respective morning plenary and break-out discussions on synthesis approaches Group discussion on approaches to integration and synthesis for understanding of the arctic system (20 minutes)
12:30 p.m.	Buffet Lunch with SNACS Investigators, ARCSS Committee, SMO (Whidbey and San Juan Rooms)
2:00 p.m.	Plenary Session: Reconvene, revise/adjust break-out group focus/participants (Bainbridge)
2:30 p.m.	Break-out groups: Approaches to integration (Various break-out rooms)
3:30 p.m.	Plenary Session: Report from break-outs (Bainbridge) What are our integration/synthesis methods? What are our potential products? Other topics?
4:30 p.m.	Wrap-up and Action Items Next steps/activities Leadership/Infrastructure needs Others
5:30 p.m.	Meeting adjourns