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Arctic Forum 1999 (PDF - 568 K)

Foreword

Oral presentations

Arctic system response to recent climate changes

• Modeling variability in the Arctic Ocean during 1979–1993
• Simulation of the interannual variability of the wind driven Arctic Sea ice cover during 1958–1998
• 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

• Episodes of contaminiation 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 contamnint 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

• 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

• People of the Arctic: The photographic wanderings of the Running Dog

• 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 Polynya—results 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 locations—Barrow 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