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Arctic Forum 2002 (PDF - 268 K)

Foreword  

• Wendy Warnick, Executive Director, ARCUS

• Sue Moore, Wieslaw Maslowski, Arctic Forum Co-Chairs

Presentation Abstracts

• Rapid Wastage of Alaska Glaciers and Their Contribution to Rising Sea Level
  (Previously entitled: Elevation and Volume Changes of Alaskan Glaciers,
  Measured from Airborne Laser Altimetry)
• Anthony Arendt, Keith Echelmeyer, Will Harrison, Craig Lingle, Virginia Valentine
• Adaptations of Euro-Canadian Schools to Inuit Culture in Selected Communities in Nunavut
• Paul Berger
• Arctic People in Complex Adaptive Systems: The Case of Climate Change
• Fikret Berkes
• Are Goose Nesting Success and Lemming Cycles Linked? Interplay Between
  Nest Density and Predators
• Joël Bêty, Gilles Gauthier, Jean-Francois Giroux, Erkki Korpimäki
• Using Permafrost DNA to Examine the Effects of Environmental Change
• Alan Cooper
• The North Water: An Arctic Ecosystem Poised for Change
• Jody W. Deming
• The Arctic Nearshore Environment: A System Defined by Complex
  Hydrological and Biogeochemical Linkages and Feedbacks
• Kenneth H. Dunton
• Paleogenetic Assessment of Human Migration and Population Replacement
  in North American Arctic Prehistory
• M. Geoffrey Hayes, J.B. Coltrain, D.H. O'Rourke
• Perspectives from the Arctic
• Orville H. Huntington
• Biocomplexity in the Arctic: The Bowhead Whale Nexus
• Sue Moore, Carin Ashjian, Robert Campbell, Wieslaw Maslowski, Stephen Okkonen, Barry Sherr, Evelyn Sherr, Yvette Spitz, Craig George
• Climate and Subsistence Hunting: The Sustainability of Arctic Communities
• Craig Nicolson, Jack Kruse, Gary Kofinas, Matthew D. Berman, Don Russell, Brad Griffith, Craig George, Harry Brower Jr., Stephen Braund
• Biocomplexity of Marine and Terrestrial Environments and Human Populations in Iceland
• Astrid Ogilvie
• Quantifying Pan-Arctic Environmental Change
• James E. Overland
• Interactions Between Hydrological and Biotic Process in the Arctic Landscape
• Joshua Schimel
• Biocomplexity of Frost Boil Ecosystem on the Arctic Slope, Alaska
• Donald A. Walker, Vladimir E. Romanovsky, William B. Krantz, Chien L. Ping, Rorik A. Peterson, Martha K. Raynolds, Howard E. Epstein, Jiong G. Jia, David C. Wirth

Poster Abstracts

• Association of Canadian Universities for Northern Studies
• Frances Abel
• Sea Surface Temperature Fronts of the Arctic and Subarctic Seas from Satellite Data
• Igor M. Belkin
• Subsurface Warming Versus Surface Cooling of the North Pacific Polar Front
• Igor M. Belkin, Richard Krishfield, Susumu Honjo
• Adaptations of Euro-Canadian Schools to Inuit Culture in Selected Communities in Nunavut
• Paul Berger
• The Earth is Faster Now: Indigenous Observations of Arctic Environmental Change
• Igor Krupnik and Dyanna Jolly, editors
• Evolution of Temperature in the Atlantic Water Core Over the Period 1995 to 2001
• John T. Gunn, Timothy Boyd, Robin D. Muench, Michael Steele
• World Ocean Database 2001
• Sydney Levitus, Margarita Conkright, Todd O’Brien, Timothy Boyer, Cathy Stephens, Ricardo Locarnini, Hernan Garcia, Paulette Murphy, Daphne Johnson, Olga Baranova, John Antonov, Renee Tatusko, Robert Gelfeld, Igor Smolyar
• Illimmarfik: A New University Campus in Greenland
• Aqqaluk Lynge, Marianne Stenbaek
• Regional Variation in Cloud Radiative Forcing at the Arctic Surface
• Peter J. Minnett, Tim N. Papakyriakou, Cristina Ananasso, Erica L. Key, Jennifer A. Hanafin
• An Ecological Analysis of the Spread of Tuberculosis Among the Inuit of the Canadian Eastern Arctic
• Helle Moeller
• SEARCH: Quantifying Pan-Arctic Environmental Change
• James E. Overland
• The Arctic Research Consortium of the United States
• Wendy K. Warnick
• Arctic Alive!
• Janet Warburton