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Arctic Forum 1998 (PDF - 300 K)

Foreword

Oral presentations

Arctic system response to recent climate changes

• Pleistocene biogeography of mammals and Late Glacial climate change
• Arctic controls on global climate change—insights from Greenland ice cores
• A compilation of annual paleoclimate records over the last 400 years
• A Paleoenvironmental Atlas for Beringia and beyond
• Paleoclimate reconstruction in the southwest Yukon Territory, Canada
• Temperature, accumulation, and ice sheet elevation in central Greenland through the last deglacial transition

Terrestrial research in the Arctic

• Opportunities for integrative research in the NSF ARCSS Program
• Observational evidence of recent change in the northern high-latitude environment
• Forage variation in brood-rearing areas used by Pacific black brant geese on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, Alaska
• Human adaptation to large-scale environmental changes in the North Atlantic Arc (NAARC)
• Carbon cycling in the Arctic—some results from the ARCSS-LAII Flux Study
• CH₄ oxidation by tundra wetlands as measured by a selective inhibitor

Focus on the Arctic Ocean

• Distribution and variability of freshwater sources within the Arctic Ocean surface and halocline waters
• Ventilation of intermediate water in the central Canadian Basin observed on the SCICEX 96 cruise
• Enhanced geophysical instrumentation for SCICEX; the Seafloor Characterization and Mapping Pods (SCAMP)
• Study of Arctic change
• The Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic Ocean (SHEBA) field experiment

Poster Presentations

• Circum-Arctic Map of Permafrost and Ground Ice Conditions
• Site fidelity and movements of brood-rearing brant in the oil fields of northern Alaska
• Contemporary water and constituent balances for the Pan-Arctic Drainage System: continent to coastal ocean fluxes

Special Guest Speaker

• The peopling of the New World: an alternative view