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Monday, 28 April 2003

Welcome and introduction to the meeting
The U.S. Climate Change Science Program and its Relevance to the Arctic
James R. Mahoney, Director of the United States Climate Change Science Program
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere
and Deputy NOAA Administrator
  5.7 MB
Building Resilience in the Arctic: Cross-scale Institutions and Traditional Environmental Knowledge
Fikret Berkes, Natural Resources Institute
University of Manitoba
15.4 MB  
Rapid shifts in the Arctic system: Implications for resilience of physical, natural and human components
John Walsh, International Arctic Research Center
University of Alaska/Fairbanks
  1.5 MB
Interdisciplinary Research: Interactions Between Carbon and Nitrogen Mineralization and Soil Organic Matter Chemistry in Arctic Tundra Soils
Michael Weintraub
Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology
University of California Santa Barbara
  1.9 MB
Social Sciences: Women's Participation in Self Government Negotiations in the Northwest Territories, Canada
Stephanie Irlbacher Fox
Scott Polar Research Institute
University of Cambridge
105 K  
Tuesday, 29 April 2003

Welcome and introductions
The Cumulative Environmental Effects of Oil and Gas Activities on Alaska’s North Slope
Gordon Orians
Department of Zoology
University of Washington
951 K  
Resilience and Change in Arctic Terrestrial Ecosystems: A Key Role in the Arctic System
F. Stuart Chapin
Institute of Arctic Biology
University of Alaska Fairbanks
  6.7 MB
Suffering and Solace: Vulnerability and Resilience to Environmental Change in Northern Iceland c. AD 1700-1900
Astrid Ogilvie
Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research
University of Colorado
  2.1 MB
We Will Change If We Can, If We Have To: What Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit and Western Scientific Knowledge Tell us About Resiliency and Vulnerability of a People Living with Climate Change and Caribou
Natasha Thorpe
Tuktu and Nogak Project, Canada
  14.5 MB
Working Together: Cooperation in the Production and Distribution of Wild Food in Alaska
James Magdanz, Division of Subsistence
Alaska Department of Fish and Game
2 MB  
Sila Alangotok: Inuit Observations on Climate Change
http://www.iisd.org/casl/projects/inuitobs.htm
(This 14-minute video documents the changes being witnessed by the Inuvialuit of Sachs Harbour, Canada who have lived on the land and have learned its patterns for generations.)
   
Alaska Native Subsistence Life Ways Rely on Healthy Ocean Ecosystems
George Owletuck
Anchorage, Alaska
  3.7 MB
Microorganisms in Arctic sea-ice environments and their resilience and vulnerability to climate variations and change
Hajo Eicken, Geophysical Institute
University of Alaska Fairbanks
  28 MB
Simulation Modeling and Local Communities: Lessons Learned from Assessing Resilience in a Cross-Cultural Setting
Gary Kofinas
Institute of Arctic Biology
University of Alaska Fairbanks
  25 MB