2002 Annual Meeting and Arctic Forum | Arctic Forum Agenda
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Arctic Forum
Tentative Program Last Revised 08 May 2002 |
THE ARCTIC FORUM 200214th Annual Meeting of ARCUS16-17 May 2002 Arlington, Virginia Hilton Arlington & Towers Room:Gallery III Tentative Program Presentation Videos Videos of each
talk are available through the Internet Media
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| Thursday, 16 May 2002 | |
| 8:00 a.m. | Continental Breakfast |
| 8:30 a.m. | Welcome and Introductions |
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Arctic Forum Co-Chair: Sue Moore, National Marine Mammal Laboratory, NOAA |
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| BIOCOMPLEXITY IN THE ARCTIC | |
| 8:40 a.m. |
The Arctic as a Biocomplex System Rita Colwell, Director, National Science Foundation |
| 9:30 a.m. |
Perspectives from the Arctic Orville Huntington, Department of Subsistence U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Commissioner, Alaska Native Science Commission |
| 10:00 a.m. | BREAK |
| 10:20 a.m. |
Biocomplexity in the Arctic: the Bowhead Whale
Nexus Sue Moore, National Marine Mammal Laboratory National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
| 10:50 a.m. |
Climate and Subsistence Hunting: The
Sustainability of Arctic Communities Craig Nicolson, Department of Natural Resources Conservation University of Massachusetts |
| 11:20 a.m. |
Arctic People in Complex Adaptive Systems: The
Case of Climate Change Fikret Berkes, Natural Resources Institute University of Manitoba |
| 11:50 p.m. | LUNCH |
| 1:30 p.m. |
Biocomplexity of Marine and Terrestrial
Environments and Human Populations in
Iceland Astrid Ogilvie, Institute of Arctic & Alpine Research University of Colorado at Boulder |
| 1:55 p.m. |
The Arctic Nearshore Environment: A System
Defined by Complex Hydrological and
Biogeochemical Linkages and Feedbacks |
| 2:20 p.m. |
Interactions between Hydrological and Biotic
Process in the Arctic Landscape Joshua Schimel, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology University of California Santa Barbara |
| 2:45 p.m. |
Biocomplexity in the Arctic: summary and
discussion
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| 3:00 p.m. | BREAK |
| 3:20 p.m. |
The ARCUS Award For Arctic Research
Excellence |
| 3:30 p.m. |
Interdisciplinary Research: Paleogenetic assessment of human migration and population replacement in North American arctic prehistory M. Geoffrey Hayes, Department of Anthropology University of Utah |
| 3:50 p.m. |
Social Sciences: Adaptations of Euro-Canadian schools to Inuit culture in selected communities in Nunavut Paul Berger, Faculty of Education Lakehead University, Canada |
| 4:10 p.m. |
Physical Sciences: Rapid Wastage of Alaska Glaciers and their Contribution to Rising Sea Level Anthony Arendt, Geophysical Institute University of Alaska Fairbanks |
| 4:30 p.m. |
Life Sciences: Are goose nesting success and lemming cycles linked? Interplay between nest density and predators Joël Bêty, Biologie (Centre d'Études Nordiques) Université Laval, Canada |
| 4:50 p.m. |
Comments on the Award for Arctic Research
Excellence Mark Serreze |
| 5:00 p.m. |
Science Education: An NSF Priority Robert Wharton Jr., Executive Officer, Office of Polar Programs National Science Foundation of Alaska Fairbanks |
| 5:15 p.m. |
Poster Session: Presenting Arctic Science
Introduction of new publicationó |
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ARCUS Annual Reception and Banquet Reception: 5:15 p.m. - Gallery II Banquet: 7:00 p.m. - Gallery I Award Ceremony ARCUS Award for Arctic Research Excellence Special Presentation VINLAND 1000 -Trond Woxen-In his guise as "Trond the Skáld," master story-teller Trond Woxen brings the latest and most up-to-date information on the Vikings and the new world to you in his historically accurate yet humorous one-man show telling the story of Leif Eriksson and his family. Trond Woxen: Actor-Writer and Artistic Director of the Scandinavian Theater Company in Los Angeles. International lecturer and master storyteller. Honorary cultural representative of the Royal Norwegian Consulate General in Los Angeles. |
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Friday, 17 May 2002 |
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| 8:00 a.m. | Continental Breakfast |
| 8:30 a.m. |
Welcome and Introductions Arctic Forum Co-Chair: Wieslaw Maslowski, Naval Postgraduate School |
| 8:40 a.m. |
Biocomplexity of Frost Boil Ecosystem on the
Arctic Slope, Alaska Donald (Skip) Walker, Institute of Arctic Biology University of Alaska Fairbanks |
| 9:05 a.m. |
Using Permafrost DNA to Examine the Effects of
Environmental Change Alan Cooper, Department of Zoology Oxford University |
| 9:30 a.m. |
The North Water Polynya: an Arctic Ecosystem
Poised for Change Jody Deming, School of Oceanography University of Washington |
| 9:55 a.m. |
Quantifying Pan-Arctic Environmental Change James E. Overland, Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
| 10:20 a.m. |
Defining Biocomplexity in the Arctic: closing
comments Arctic Forum Co-Chair: Sue Moore, National Marine Mammal Laboratory, NOAA |
| 10:35 a.m. | BREAK |
| AGENCY BRIEFINGS: OPPORTUNITIES IN ARCTIC RESEARCH | |
| 11:00 a.m. |
The Study of Environmental Arctic Change
(SEARCH): Progress and Plans John Calder, Director, Arctic Research Office National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
| 11:25 a.m. |
ONR High Latitude Dynamics Research Program Dennis Conlon, Office of Naval Research
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| 11:45 a.m. | Adjourn Arctic Forum |
| 11:45 a.m. | LUNCH |