THE COUNCIL FORUM 2008

Wednesday, 14 May 2008

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Welcome and Introductions
Vera Alexander, President, ARCUS Board of Directors
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Business of the Corporation

Approval of Council Minutes from Nineteenth Annual Meeting
William Manley, Secretary, ARCUS Board of Directors

Present Slate of Nominees and Call for Nominations from the Floor
Nominations from the floor
Peter Minnett, Chair, ARCUS Board Nominating Committee

Roll Call and Election of the Board of Directors (Action: Vote)
Wendy Warnick, ARCUS Executive Director 		#########
The Annual Report of the Corporation
Vera Alexander, President
Wendy Warnick, Executive Director 		11 MB -
Unedited archive footage of the Council Forum 10:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. (93 MB) #########

Council Forum Program

Recognition of Student Scholarship Recipients
Craig Tweedie, ARCUS Board member 		#########

Member Institution Activities
Short 3–4 minute presentations from ARCUS member institutions

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University of Massachusetts
Nicholas Balascio 		1.4 MB 1.3 MB
Texas A&M University
David Cairns 		8.1 MB 7.3 MB
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
James Cochran 		19.5 MB 16 MB
Marine Biological Laboratory
Linda Deegan 		1.5 MB 1.3 MB
Arizona State University
Brian Eddie 		2.6 MB 3 MB
Smithsonian Institution
William Fitzhugh 		*
McGill University
William Fitzhugh (for Marianne Stenbaek) 		*
University of Miami
Dennis Hansell 		468 K 588 K
Woods Hole Research Center
Max Holmes 		2.2 MB 2.4 MB
University of Lapland Arctic Centre
Paula Kankaanpää 		2.8 MB 5.3 MB
University of Delaware
Fritz Nelson 		628 K 640 K
Alaska's North Slope Borough Department of Wildlife Management
Michael Pederson 		43 MB 67 MB
University of Greenland
Aage Rydstrøm-Poulsen 		*
Sterling College
Pamela Stern 		3.6 MB 3.7 MB
University of Colorado
Julienne Stroeve 		10.5 MB 11 MB
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Susan Sugai 		1.6 MB 1.8 MB
University of Alaska Anchorage
Bart Sveinbjornsson 		2 MB 2 MB
Sandia National Laboratories
Bernard Zak 		11.4 MB 24 MB

Roundtable:

New Paradigms in Polar ResearchóRecommendations for Member
Institution Actions to Overcome Obstacles to Interdisciplinary
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Moderator:
Vera Alexander President, ARCUS Board of Directors, and U.A.F. 		*
Panelists:
Jenny Baeseman
Association of Early Career Polar Scientists (APECS) 		992 K -
Lawson Brigham
U.S. Arctic Research Commission 		*
Bruce Forbes
Arctic Centre, University of Lapland 		*
Sean Topkok
Alaska Native Knowledge Network 		*

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