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196 K Arctic Forum Tentative Program
Last Revised 08 May 2002

THE ARCTIC FORUM 2002

14th Annual Meeting of ARCUS
16-17 May 2002
Arlington, Virginia
Hilton Arlington & Towers
Room:Gallery III

Tentative Program
Thursday, 16 May 2002
8:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast
8:30 a.m. Welcome and Introductions
  Arctic Forum Co-Chair:
Sue Moore, National Marine Mammal Laboratory, NOAA
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
Ken Dunton, Marine Science Institute
University of Texas at Austin
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
Arctic Forum Co-Chair: Wieslaw Maslowski, Department of Oceanography
Naval Postgraduate School
3:00 p.m. BREAK
3:20 p.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
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
5:15 p.m.

Poster Session: Presenting Arctic Science
Session Chair: Henry Huntington
Gallery II (Hosted Bar and Reception begin)

Introduction of new publication—
The Earth is Faster Now: Indigenous Observations of Arctic Environmental Change

Igor Krupnik, Arctic Studies Center
Smithsonian Institution

Dyanna Jolly, Centre for Maori and Indigenous Planning and Development
Lincoln University
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.
Friday, 17 May 2002
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
11:45 a.m. Adjourn Arctic Forum
11:45 a.m. LUNCH