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Foreword

Oral presentations

Arctic system response to recent climate changes

  • Modeling variability in the Arctic Ocean during 1979ñ1993
  • Simulation of the interannual variability of the wind driven Arctic Sea ice cover during 1958ñ1998
  • The response of the polar regions to greenhouse warming in a global climate model
  • The fall and future of Newfoundland's cod fishery
  • Analytic representation of the active layer thickness field, Kuparuk River Basin, Alaska
  • Permafrost temperature dynamics in Alaska and east Siberia during the last 50 years
Contaminants in the arctic environment
  • Episodes of contamination in the Arctic: GIS provides means to assess transport pathways, sources, sinks and episodes of events
  • Persistent organic pollutants in the Arctic: Food webs, metabolic processes, and contaminant patterns in the higher marine vertebrates
  • Factors affecting organochlorine contaminant concentrations in milk and blood of northern fur seals (Callorhinus ursinus) dams and pups from St. George Island, Alaska
  • The Environmental Protection Agency's efforts to bridge traditional knowledge, Arctic envrionmental research, and decision-making processes
Building bridges: Indigenous knowledge, education, and science
  • An examination of traditional knowledge: The case of the Inuit sled dog
  • The integration of science education and Arctic research: Teachers Experiencing the Arctic and other research/education partnerships
Special Guest Speaker
  • People of the Arctic: The photographic wanderings of the Running Dog
Poster Presentations
  • Holocene records of river runoff in Arctic Siberia (Laptev Sea)
  • Holocene vegetational change in northern Siberia as reflected in Arctic Shelf sediments
  • Diatom assemblage studies reflect hydrographical changes in the Laptev Sea
  • Preliminary lake coring results from Elgygytgyn Crater, eastern Siberia
  • Status of the proposed international permafrost monitoring network and service
  • Canadian High Arctic paleoclimatic reconstruction: Preliminary data from the laminated sediments of Sawtooth Lake
  • The Nansen Arctic Drilling Program
  • Shelf sedimentation in the Siberian Arctic reveal past global changes
  • Nansen Arctic Drilling Program: Understanding the history and climate of the Arctic through scientific ocean drilling
  • Arctic Climate Observations using Underwater Sound (ACOUS)
  • Seascapes of Iceland: Climate change and fisheries history
  • PALE Paleoclimates from Arctic Lakes and Estuaries: Paleoenvironmental research in the Arctic and subarctic
  • Sediment transport to the Laptev Sea: Heavy mineral studies of recent and Holocene sediments
  • East Siberian transect of ATLAS/ARCSS
  • An Arctic Ocean meltwater event at the onset of the Younger Dryas
  • Evidence of the unified factors contributing to the climatic signal in soil temperatures in Russia
  • O2 and nutrients in deep-sea sediment pore waters of the Arctic Ocean
  • High-resolution measurements of dissolved organic carbon in the Arctic Ocean by in situ fiber-optic spectometry
  • Geochemistry of surficial sediments and newly formed ice of the Laptev Sea (Siberia)
  • Riverine nutrient flux from Russia to the Arctic Ocean
  • Variability of freshwater export through Fram and Davis straits from a high resolution model
  • The influence of clouds on the heat budget of the North Water Polynyaóresults for 1998
  • Satellite remote sensing for the Atmospheric Radiation Measurements program (ARM) North Slope of Alaska/adjacent Arctic Ocean region
  • ARM NSA/AAO: From sea to land
  • The year at the North Slope of Alaska and adjacent Arctic Ocean ARM cloud and radiation testbed site
  • SHEBA: An interdisciplinary experiment on the Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic Ocean
  • Development and deployment of a powered tethered balloon system at the SHEBA ice camp for measurements of cloud micro-physical and radiative properties
  • Seasonal evolution of albedo during SHEBA
  • Seasonal production and respiration in the central Arctic Ocean: Results from the SHEBA/JOIS biology program
  • The many faces of melt
  • Comparative predator-prey assimilation of polychlorinated biphenyls in polar bears and ringed seals from Barrow, Alaska
  • The Alaska Marine Mammal Tissue Archival Project (AMMTAP): An arctic environmental monitoring resource
  • Alaska standards for culturally responsive schools
  • Fixed cabin and camp locationsóBarrow and Atqasuk area
  • ARM Science Education and Training (ASET): Community-based education outreach for the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement program (ARM), North Slope of Alaska
  • Students in Arctic Research (STAR) with the Teachers Experiencing Antarctica and the Arctic (TEA) program
  • Barrow scale model of the Solar System
  • The Barrow Environmental Observatory (BEO): A window on the future
  • Reconnaissance survey to confirm reports of scattered small conifer trees in the Ikpikpuk Drainage, North Slope, Alaska
  • Effects of elevated atmospheric CO2 and needle loss on plant structure and needle anatomy of white spruce seedlings
  • Origin of Populus balsamifera along the eastern North Slope of Alaska
Arctic Forum program
Presenters and participants
Index of authors