2001 Annual Meeting and Arctic Forum | Meeting Agendas

Council Forum Agenda : Wednesday afternoon, 23 May 2001
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Arctic Forum 2001 Program: Thursday & Friday, 24ñ25 May 2001
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THE COUNCIL FORUM

Thirteenth Annual Meeting of ARCUS
23-25 May 2001
Sheraton Crystal City Hotel

Wednesday, 23 May 2001
Room: Ballroom A
Tentative Agenda
1:00 p.m. Welcome and Introductions
Bernie Zak, President, ARCUS Board of Directors
ARCTIC RESEARCH SUPPORT AND LOGISTICS
1:10 p.m.

 Update from NSF Arctic Research Support and Logistics Program
Simon Stephenson, Program Manager, Arctic Research Support and Logistics, NSF
1:35 p.m. Community Perspectives on Arctic Research Support and Logistics
Peter Schlosser and
Terry Tucker, co-chairs, Arctic Research Support and Logistics Working Group
2:00 p.m. Report from an Arctic Logistics Provider
Jill Ferris, Project Manager, VECO Polar Resources
AGENCY BRIEFINGS: OPPORTUNITIES IN ARCTIC RESEARCH
2:20 p.m. NOAA's Strategy for Arctic Science
John Calder, Director, Arctic Research Office
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
2:50 p.m.

NSF Community Survey on Grant Size/Duration
Thomas Cooley, Director and Chief Financial Officer, Office of Budget, Finance, and Award Management, NSF
Karl Erb, Director, Office of Polar Programs, NSF

3:20 p.m. BREAK
ARCTIC RESEARCH ADVOCACY
3:45 p.m. Panel: Arctic Science Takes the Hill
Suzanne Bishop, Moderator
  The Federal Budget Process
Allen Cutler, Majority Staff Member, U.S. Senate Budget Committee
  Advocating for Science Within Your Institution
George Leventhal, Senior Federal Relations Officer, Association of American Universities
  Letting Science Speak for Itself
David Verardo, Program Director, Paleoclimate Programs, NSF
  Advocating for Arctic Science/USARC Update
Garrett Brass, Executive Director, U.S. Arctic Research Commission
5:00 p.m. BREAK
BUSINESS MEETING OF THE CORPORATION
5:20 p.m. The Annual Report of the Corporation
Bernie Zak, President
5:50 p.m. General Business
 

- Approval of Council Minutes from 12th Annual Meeting
Leslie King, Board Member

 

- Present Slate of Nominees
Mike Retelle, Board Memeber

  - Roll Call and Election of the Board of Directors
Wendy Warnick, Executive Director
  Action: Vote
6:15 p.m. ARCUS Award for Arctic Research Excellence
Mark Serreze, Board Member
  Results, participation, and suggestions for next competition
6:30 p.m. The Arctic Visiting Speakersí Series
Wendy Warnick, Executive Director
6:45 p.m. Member initiatives from the floor
  Open discussion/membersí representatives
7:00 p.m. Close of Council Forum

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THE ARCTIC FORUM 2001

Thirteenth Annual Meeting of ARCUS
23-25 May 2001
Sheraton Crystal City Hotel, Arlington, Virginia

24-25 May 2001
Room: Ballroom A
Tentative Program

Presentation Videos
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Thursday, 24 May 2001
8:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast
8:30 a.m. Welcome and introductions
  Arctic Forum Chair:
John Hobbie, Marine Biological Laboratory
INTERACTIONS BETWEEN BIOLOGICAL AND PHYSICAL SYSTEMS IN THE ARCTIC
8:45 a.m. Research, Assessment, and the Importance of Interdisciplinary Arctic Science
Robert Corell, Atmospheric Policy Program, American Meteorological Society
9:30 a.m. Physical Changes in the Arctic and Their Affect on Animal Behavior and the Subsistence Activities of Arctic Indigenous Peoples
Charles H. Johnson, Executive Director, Alaska Nanuuq Commission
10:15 a.m. BREAK
10:45 a.m. Exchange of Greenhouse Gases Between Arctic Terrestrial Ecosystems and the Atmosphere
Torben Christensen, Climate Impacts Group, Department of Ecology, Lund University
11:15 a.m. Interactions Between Arctic Terrestrial Ecosystems and the Climate System
David McGuire, Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks
11:45 a.m. Summation and discussion
John Hobbie, chair
12:00 p.m. LUNCH
1:30 p.m. A Panel Discussion: Interactions Between Physical, Biological, and Human Cultural Systems of the Arctic
Dave Klein, Panel Leader, Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks
 

Panelists:

  • Linkages between systems
    David McGuire, Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks
  • Marine biological system response to change
    Sue Moore, National Marine Mammal Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
  • Terrestrial biological system response to change
    Greg Henry, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia
  • Arctic resident multi-system perspectives
    Taqulik Hepa, Department of Wildlife Management, North Slope Borough [Alaska]
  • Human dependency on physical/biological systems of the Arctic, Eurasian perspective
    Igor Krupnik, Arctic Studies Center, Smithsonian Institution

Panel Discussion:

3:30 p.m. BREAK
4:00 p.m.

Poster Session: Presenting Arctic Science
 Ballroom B

Session Chair: Michael Retelle, Department of Geology, Bates College

5:00 p.m. Hosted Bar and Reception begins
 

ARCUS Annual Reception and Banquet
Reception: 5:30 p.m. ñ Ballroom B
Banquet: 6:30 p.m. ñ Ballroom C

Award Ceremony
ARCUS Award for Arctic Research Excellence

Friday, 25 May 2001
8:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast
8:30 a.m. Welcome and Introductions Arctic Forum
Chair: John Hobbie, Marine Biological Laboratory
8:40 a.m. The ARCUS Award For Arctic Research Excellence
Session Chair: Mark C. Serreze, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado
8:50 a.m. Interdisciplinary: Reduced growth in Alaskan white spruce in the 20th Century from temperature-induced drought stress
Valerie A. Barber, Institute of Marine Science and Forest Sciences Department, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska
9:10 a.m. Social Sciences: Contributions of traditional knowledge to understanding climate change in the Canadian Arctic
Dyanna Jolly [Riedlinger], Natural Resources Institute, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
9:30 a.m. Life Sciences: Concurrent density dependence and independence in populations of arctic ground squirrels
Tim Karels, Division of Life Sciences, University of Toronto at Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
9:50 a.m. Physical Sciences: Mapping thermal and hydrological conditions beneath a polythermal glacier with radio-echo sounding
Luke Copland, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

10:10 a.m. 		Comments on the Award for Arctic Research Excellence
Mark Serreze
10:15 a.m. BREAK
INTERACTIONS BETWEEN BIOLOGICAL AND PHYSICAL SYSTEMS IN THE ARCTIC
10:45 a.m. Introduction of Session Arctic Forum
Chair: John Hobbie
10:55 a.m. The SCICEX Database Project (SDP) - Developing An Interactive Arctic
Environmental GIS
Paul A. Bienhoff, Applied Physics Laboratory, Undersea Systems, Johns Hopkins University
11:20 a.m. Geographic Information Infrastructures: Applications for Science and Policy
Mark Sorensen, Geographic Planning Collaborative, Inc
11:45 a.m. Bridging Science and Policy
Anthony C. Janetos, Senior Vice President for Program, World Resources Institute
12:30 p.m. LUNCH
1:30 p.m. The Influence of Hydrologic Change on Arctic Biology
John Hobbie (presenting) and Bruce Peterson, The Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory
1:55 p.m. Ecosystem Change in the Northern Bering Sea
Lee W. Cooper (presenting) and Jackie M. Grebmeier, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, The University of Tennessee
2:20 p.m. BREAK
2:45 p.m. The Arctic Oscillation as the Driver of Spring Warmings
James E. Overland, Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
3:10 p.m. Humans and the Arctic Environment: Changing Roles, Changing Research
Henry P. Huntington, Huntington Consulting
3:35 p.m. Summation and acknowledgements for Arctic Forum
John Hobbie, Marine Biological Laboratory
3:45 p.m. Adjourn Arctic Forum

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