ARCSS Program | January 2006 SBI Planning eTown Meeting
Monday, 30 January
2006
9:00 a.m. Alaska
Standard Time
(10:00 a.m. PST; 11:00 a.m. MST; 12:00 p.m.
CST;
1:00 p.m. EST)
Approximately
1.5 hours
Western Arctic Shelf-Basin Interactions (SBI)
Implementation Planning for Phase III Modeling and Synthesis
The Western Arctic Shelf-Basin Interactions (SBI) Advisory Committee and Project Office sponsored this eTown Meeting to provide an open forum to discuss implementation objectives and planning for SBI Phase III and to solicit community input for a systems approach to understanding arctic shelf-basin dynamics.
A second SBI Town Hall Meeting will be held in
conjunction with the 2006 Ocean Sciences Meeting in
Honolulu, Hawaii on 22 February 2006. More
information about the Hawaii meeting is available at
the bottom of this page.
The goal of the ongoing SBI project is to improve our understanding of the impacts of global change on the physical and biogeochemical connections among the continental shelves, slopes, and deep basins of the western Arctic. SBI was designed through cooperative science planning to include three phases: Phase I (1999-2001) included retrospective synthesis, opportunistic sampling and modeling; Phase II (2002-2006) is the on-going multi-year field program and modeling effort in the Amerasian Arctic; and the planned Phase III (2007-2009) will be the synthesis and modeling component.
SBI Phase III will produce syntheses from the
regional to the entire Arctic and, in some cases, the
entire global ecosystem in the context of SBI
objectives. The SBI Advisory Committee anticipate
that results from the SBI Phase I and II data sets
will form the basis of western Arctic synthesis
studies and may also include results from coincident
field programs that occurred during the SBI program
to date. Projects would examine broad scale
implications of these results in order to develop a
better systems understanding of shelf-basin
interactions in the Arctic and its connection to
global processes.
SBI Planning
eTown Meeting Presentation (6.1MB - PPT)
SBI Planning
eTown Meeting Audio Archive (8.7MB - MP3)
Access the complete archive (including slides and audio) of the eTown Meeting in three easy steps:
- Click on the HorizonWimba archive link here.
- HorizonWimba will prompt you to log in. For Room ID, enter "ARCUS_Live" (case sensitive); for Name, simply enter your name (first and last).
- The archive should start automatically after a moment; if it does not, click on "Class Start."
Note: Please be sure to have pop-ups enabled on your Internet browser.
Upcoming SBI Phase III Implementation Planning Meeting:
Town Hall Meeting at 2006 Ocean Sciences Meeting
Date: 22 February 2006
Time: 6:30 p.m. Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time
Location: Hawaii Convention Center, Level 3, Room
316A
For further information, please contact:
Director, SBI Project Office