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Foreword

Oral presentations

• Environmental changes in the Arctic and their interactions with people and the global climate
• A new environmental initiative for NSF and advances in climate modeling of the Arctic
• The Arctic Oscillation: Implications for arctic research
• Are recent arctic climate variations consistent with greenhouse projections?
• The summer arctic frontal zone as seen in the NCEP/NCAR reanalysis
• Why is the arctic ice cover so thin?
• Towards prediction of arctic climate change
• A perspective on present and future oceanographic studies in the Canadian Arctic: Change and biodiversity
• Update on the Study of Environmental Arctic Change (SEARCH)
• Circulation of Atlantic-derived intermediate water in the Arctic Ocean
• Decadal variability of the Greenland Ice Sheet mass balance as a cause of the ìGreat Salinity Anomaliesî in the northern North Atlantic
• Millenial-scale global events recorded in Elígygytgyn Crater Lake, eastern Siberia back to 400 ka
• Distribution of d¹³C in sediment organic carbon, Arctic Amerasian continental margin

Winners of the 4th Annual ARCUS Award for Arctic Research Excellence

• Foraging strategies of subarctic wood bison: Energy maximizing or time minimizing?
• "If you got everything, it's good enough": Perspectives on successful aging in a Canadian Inuit community
• Methane emission and transport by arctic sedges in Alaska: Results of a vegetation removal experiment
• Magma storage and mixing conditions for the 1953ñ74 eruption of Southwest Trident Volcano, Katmai National Park, Alaska

Environmental changes in the Arctic and their interactions with people and the global climate, continued

• Impacts of climate change on the arctic coastal Indigenous people
• Marine mammals and seabirds as indicators of environmental variability in the Arctic
• Animals as agents of landscape evolution in the Arctic: The unquantified element
• Living on the edge: Archaeology and coastal dynamics along the Gulf of Alaska coast
• The socio-demography of a Native Siberian village
• The arctic upper atmosphere as a harbinger of global change and space weather
• Arctic clouds at the edge of Space

Special guest speaker

• Capt. Michael A. Healy: The man, his ships, and the Healy

Poster presentations

• Geographic variation of selected PCB congeners in polar bears from Svalbard east to the Chukchi Sea
• The Arctic Research Consortium of the United States (ARCUS)
• ARM Science Education and Training (ASET): Community-based education outreach for the Atmospheric
• Radiation Measurement Program (ARM), North Slope of Alaska
• Barrow area research support recommendations
• USCGC Healy, a new icebreaker to support polar researchd
• Hydrographic observations of the Atlantic/Pacific Front in the central Arctic Ocean
• Scientific practice and community development in the circumpolar north
• Seafloor Characterization And Mapping Pods (SCAMP): Recent results from SCICEX
• Water masses and shelf-basin exchange in the northern Chukchi Sea
• Implications of N* distributions for sedimentary denitrification rates in Antarctica and the Arctic
• The new "Lithostratographic Lexicon of Svalbard"
• Barrow scale model of the Solar System
• Western Arctic Shelf-Basin Interactions (SBI) program
• Ocean-Atmosphere-Ice Interactions (OAII)
• Application of a spatially distributed hydrologic model to a small watershed in the Siberian Arctic
• Hydrologic response and feedbacks to a warmer climate in arctic regions
• MSA from a Svalbard ice core in relation to air temperature, sea ice, and SST variability
• IBCAO (International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean)óThe state of the knowledge of the arctic seafloor in Y2K
• A 1500-year record of accumulation at Amundsen Western Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica, derived from electrical and radioactive measurements on a 120 m ice core
• Streamflow modeling in an Alaskan watershed underlain by permafrost
• Annual water balance for three nested watersheds on the North Slope of Alaska
• Effects of possible changes in the St. Lawrence Island polynya on a top benthic predator, the spectacled eider
• A 1/12 degree eddy-permitting, pan-arctic, coupled ice-ocean model: Preliminary results
• Plankton database of the Barents and Kara seas as the tool for the study of changes in the Arctic
• Teachers Experiencing the Antarctic and ArcticóTEA
• Year-round acoustic observation of temperature variation in the Arctic Ocean
• Data management support for arctic field projects
• Remote data collection in climatologically extreme environmentss
• National Science Foundation/Office of Polar Programs: An overview of recent arctic research and arctic education as conveyed in a visual montage with captions
• Modern trends in the long-term variability of thermohaline structure in the main gates to the Arctic Ocean
• Exchanges between the Norwegian and Barents seas measured by ship-mounted ADCP
• Seasonal and long-term variability of the sea level in the marginal seas of the Arctic Ocean
• Remote sensing of landscape degradation around the Norilísk factories in northern Siberia
• Hydrogeochemistry and microbiology in subarctic ground water: Implications for natural attenuation of trichloroethene
• The role of thermal regime in glacier hydrology and dynamics in an arctic polythermal glacier
• Circum- and cross-polar investigations of the arctic near-earth space environment disturbances triggered by solar-terrestrial interactions
• Estimates of water and solute diffusion in frozen ground utilizing pulsed-field-gradient nuclear magnetic resonance
• BERPAC: A long-term ecological research program of the Bering and Chukchi seas and Pacific Ocean Arctic clouds
• Summary of ocean-ice physics experiments performed in the central Greenland Sea in winter 2000
• Arctic sea ice trendsóobservations and simulations with a Global Climate Model
• Advanced technological education computer-based training modules in the environmental sciences for college-level students
• Atmospheric Radiation and Monitoring (ARM)