2006 Annual Meeting and Arctic Forum | Council Forum Agenda

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Council Forum Agenda

THE COUNCIL FORUM 2006

Thursday, 25 May 2006
8:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast
8:30 a.m.
Welcome and Introductions
Vera Alexander, President
BUSINESS MEETING OF THE CORPORATION
8:50 a.m.

Approval of Council Minutes from Seventeenth Annual Meeting
Bernard Zak, Secretary
                       
Present Slate of Nominees and Call for Nominations from the Floor
William Manley, Chair
Nominating Committee

                       
Roll Call and Election of the Board of Directors
Action: Vote

Wendy Warnick
ARCUS Executive Director

9:10 a.m. The Annual Report of the Corporation
Vera Alexander, President
ARCUS Board of Directors
Wendy Warnick
ARCUS Executive Director
9:30 a.m. BREAK
MEMBER INSTITUTION ACTIVITIES
9:50 a.m.

Short 3–4 minute (2 slides) presentations from ARCUS member institutions on arctic research activities at their institutions

Glenn Berger, Desert Research Institute
Julie Brigham-Grette, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Aron Crowell, Smithsonian Institution
Bruce Forbes, University of Lapland
Scott Goetz, Woods Hole Research Center
Mark Ivey, Sandia National Laboratories
John Kelly, SRI International
Herbert Maschner, Idaho State University
Bill Roebuck, Dartmouth College
William Smethie, Jr., Columbia University
Jörn Thiede, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
John Weatherly, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory

11:00 a.m.

International Arctic Research Center:  International Collaboration for Circumpolar Synthesis
John Walsh, Chief Scientist
International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks

11:20 a.m.

Update on International Polar Year Activities
Igor Krupnik
IPY Joint Committee

11:40 a.m. Discussion of Arctic Issues and Advocacy Needs
12:00 p.m. Buffet Lunch for All Participants