2000 Annual Meeting and Arctic Forum | Introduction
Tentative Program, 17-18 May
2000
As of 10 May 2000
As of 10 May 2000
Paper Abstracts | Poster Abstracts
THE ARCTIC FORUM
Room: Columbia I
Wednesday, 17 May 2000
| 8:00 a.m. | Continental Breakfast |
| Session I | ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES IN THE ARCTIC AND THEIR INTERACTIONS WITH PEOPLE AND THE GLOBAL CLIMATE |
| 8:30 a.m. | Welcome and introduction |
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Arctic Forum Chair, Wieslaw Maslowski Member, ARCUS Board of Directors |
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| 8:40 a.m. | Keynote Address: A new environmental initiative for NSF and advances in climate modeling of the Arctic |
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Warren M. Washington National Science Board |
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| 9:30 a.m. | The Arctic Oscillation: implications for Arctic research |
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John (Mike) Wallace (presenting) and David W.J.
Thompson Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington |
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| 10:00 a.m. | Are recent Arctic climate variations consistent with greenhouse projections? |
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John Walsh Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana |
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| 10:30 a.m. | BREAK |
| 10:45 a.m. | The Arctic frontal zone as seen in the NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis |
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Mark Serreze Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado |
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| 11:15 a.m. | Why is the Arctic ice cover so thin? |
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Drew Rothrock University of Washington |
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| 11:45 a.m. | Towards prediction of Arctic climate change |
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Wieslaw Maslowski Department of Oceanography, Naval Postgraduate School |
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| 12:15 p.m. | LUNCH |
| 1:30 p.m. | Present and future oceanographic studies in the Canadian Arctic: change and biodiversity |
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Eddy Carmack Institute of Ocean Sciences, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Canada |
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| 2:00 p.m. | An update on the study of environmental Arctic change |
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James Morison University of Washington |
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| 2:20 p.m. | Circulation of intermediate water in the Arctic Ocean based on transient tracer measurements |
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William M. Smethie, Jr. (presenting) and Peter
Schlosser, et al. Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University |
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| 2:45 p.m. | Decadal variability of the Greenland Ice Sheet mass balance as a cause of the "Great Salinity Anomalies" in the northern North Atlantic |
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Igor Belkin Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island |
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| 3:10 p.m. | Millennial-scale global events recorded in El'gygytgyn Crater Lake, Eastern Siberia back to 400 ka |
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Julie Brigham-Grette Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts |
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| 3:35 p.m. | Distribution of d13C in sediment organic carbon, Arctic Amerasian continental Margin |
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Sathy Naidu Institute of Marine Science, University of Alaska Fairbanks |
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| 4:00 p.m. | BREAK |
| Session II | PRESENTATIONS OF STUDENT PAPERS BY WINNERS OF THE ARCUS AWARD FOR ARCTIC RESEARCH EXCELLENCE |
| 4:20 p.m. | Mark Serreze, Session Chair |
| 4:30 p.m. | Foraging strategies of subarctic wood bison: energy maximizing or time minimizing? |
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Carita M. Bergman University of Guelph |
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| 4:50 p.m. | 'If you got everything, its good enough': perspectives on successful aging in a Canadian Inuit community |
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Peter Collings Pennsylvania State University |
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| 5:10 p.m. | Methane emissions and transport by arctic sedges in Alaska: results of a vegetation removal experiment |
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Jennifer Y. King University of CaliforniañIrvine |
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| 5:30 p.m. | Magma storage and mixing conditions for the 1953ñ68 eruption of Southwest Trident volcano, Katmai National Park, Alaska |
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Michelle Coombs University of Alaska Fairbanks |
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| 5:50 p.m. | Adjourn to Reception |