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Foreword  

  • Wendy Warnick, Executive Director, ARCUS

Introduction to the Session: Responding to Global Change: Resilience and Vulnerability in Arctic Systems

  • Igor Krupnik and F. Stuart Chapin, Arctic Forum Co-Chairs

Presentation Abstracts

  • Building Resilience in the Arctic: Cross-scale Institutions and Traditional Environmental Knowledge
    • Fikret Berkes
  • Impact of an Extreme Melt Event on the Hydrology and Runoff of a High Arctic Glacier
    • Sarah Boon, Martin Sharp, Peter Nienow
  • Resilience and Change in Arctic Terrestrial Ecosystems: A Key Role in the Arctic System
    • F. Stuart Chapin
  • We Are Sugpiaq: Archaeology, Environment, and Oral Traditions of the Outer Kenai Coast, Alaska (Film and Discussion)
    • Aron L. Crowell
  • Microorganisms in Arctic Sea-ice Environments and Their Resilience and Vulnerability to Climate Variations and Change
    • Hajo Eicken, Christopher Krembs, Karen Junge, Jody Deming, Rolf Gradinger
  • Women's Participation in Self Government Negotiations in the Northwest Territories, Canada
    • Stephanie Irlbacher Fox
  • Geographic Distribution and Seasonal Patterns of Larval Shedding of the Muscle-Dwelling Nematode Parelaphostrongylus odocoilei in Thinhorn Sheep from Northern North America
    • Emily Jenkins, Alasdair Veitch, G. D. Appleyard, Eric P. Hoberg, Susan J. Kutz, L. Polley
  • Simulation Modeling and Local Communities: Lessons Learned from Assessing Resilience in a Cross-Cultural Setting
    • Gary Kofinas
  • The Earth is Faster Now" or "Have We Seen These Warm Weathers Before?"-- Arctic People Experiencing Rapid Climate Change
    • Igor Krupnik
  • Working Together: Cooperation in the Production and Distribution of Wild Food in Alaska
    • James S. Magdanz, Charles J. Utermohle, Robert J. Wolfe
  • The U.S. Climate Change Science Program and its Relevance to the Arctic
    • James R. Mahoney
  • Panel Discussion: How Will the Challenges Posed by Global Changes be Met by Society?
    • Daniel Mann, Taqulik Hepa, Charles Johnson, Mike Kunz, Roger Simmons
  • Suffering and Solace: Vulnerability and Resilience to Environmental Change in Northern Iceland c. A.D. 1700-1900
    • Astrid E. J. Ogilvie
  • Cumulative Environmental Effects of Oil and Gas Activities on Alaska's North Slope
    • Gordon Orians
  • Alaska Native Subsistence Life Ways Rely on Healthy Ocean Ecosystems
    • George Owletuck
  • We Will Change If We Can, If We Have To: What Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit and Western Scientific Knowledge Tell Us About Resiliency and Vulnerability of a People Living with Climate Change and Caribou
    • Natasha Thorpe
  • Rapid Shifts in the Arctic Climate System: Implications for Vulnerability and Resilience
    • John E. Walsh
  • Interactions Between Carbon and Nitrogen Mineralization and Soil Organic Matter Chemistry in Arctic Tundra Soils
    • Michael Weintraub, Joshua P. Schimel
  • Henrik Ibsen and the Environment
    • Trond Woxen

Poster Abstracts

  • Propagation of the "Great Salinity Anomaly" of the 1990s Around the Northern North Atlantic: Subarctic Gyre Spin-up Confirmed
    • Igor M. Belkin
  • Fronts of the Arctic/Subarctic Marginal Seas From Pathfinder SST Data
    • Igor M. Belkin, Peter C. Cornillon, David S. Ullman
  • Adaptation and Sustainability in a Small Arctic Community: Results of an Agent-Based Simulation Model
    • Matthew Berman, Craig Nicolson, Gary Kofinas, Stephanie Martin
  • Interannual Variability of UV Irradiance, Ozone, and Aerosol in the Arctic
    • Randolph D. Borys, Melanie A. Wetzel, James Slusser, Catherine Cahill
  • Upstream Environment for SBI: Modeled and Observed Biophysical Conditions in the Northern Bering Sea
    • Jaclyn Clement, Wieslaw Maslowski, Lee Cooper, Jacqueline Grebmeier, Waldemar Walczowski, Jeffrey S. Dixon
  • Tree-Ring Reconstructions of Arctic Oscillation Indices Since A.D. 1650
    • Rosanne D. D'Arrigo, Edward R. Cook, Michael E. Mann, Gordon C. Jacoby
  • Archeology of Alaska Glaciers and Snow Fields
    • E. James Dixon, William F. Manley
  • Circulation and Variability in the Western Arctic Ocean from a High-Resolution Ice-Ocean Model
    • Jeffrey S. Dixon, Wieslaw Maslowski, Jaclyn Clement, Waldemar Walczowski
  • Distribution of Zooplankton in Arctic Waters: Spatial Patterns and Temporal Dynamics in Svalbard Waters
    • Ketil Eiane
  • Nitrogen Resorption from Senescing Plant Tissue in Arctic Tundra and its Effects on Whole-Ecosystem Properties
    • Howard E. Epstein, William M. Yeatman
  • Vulnerability of Communities in the Canadian Arctic to Natural Hazards in Light of Climate Change: A Framework for Assessment
    • James D. Ford, Barry Smit
  • Model-Based Monitoring of Pan-Arctic Tundra
    • Haoyu Gu, Hanh Pham, Yi-Ching Chung, Roger D. DeRoo, Anthony W. England
  • Glacier Macroinvertebrates: A Mystery to be Lost
    • Paula L. Hartzell
  • Heterotrophic Bacteria and Phytoplankton Spatial Distribution in the Central Arctic Under Ice Surface Water Layer in April-May
    • Vladimir V. Ilinskiy
  • International Polar Year (IPY)
    • Leonard Johnson
  • Plant Community and Ecosystem Properties in Arctic Frost-Boil Systems
    • Alexia M. Kelley, Howard E. Epstein, Donald A. Walker
  • Cloud Radiative Forcing in Arctic Polynyas: Parameterization and Modeling
    • Erica L. Key, Peter J. Minnett, Robert H. Evans, Bruce A. Albrecht, Tim N. Papakyriakou, Zafer Top
  • The ALIAS Project: Arctic Logistics Information and Support
    • Josh G. Klauder, Thom Depace Wylie Gruenig, Kalina Grabinska-Marusek
  • The Earth is Faster Now: Indigenous Observations of Arctic Environmental Change
    • Igor Krupnik, Dyanna Jolly
  • Alaska Paleoglacier Atlas
    • William F. Manley, Darrell S. Kaufman
  • Polar Bears Use Coastal Habitats as Sea Ice Contracts
    • Rosa H. Meehan, Scott L. Schliebe, Susanne B. Kalxdorff, Kelly Proffitt
  • Modeling Thaw Depth Over Permafrost for the Arctic Drainage Basin and the Comparison to Measurements at CALM Field Sites
    • Christop Oelke, Tingjun Zhang, Mark Serreze, Richard Armstrong
  • Arctic Coastal Dynamics (ACD): Status Report
    • Volker Rachold, Jerry Brown
  • Commander Islands as the Significant Point for Monitoring Some Dangerous Changes in Bering Ecosystem
    • Vladimir F. Sevostianov
  • SBIóMicrozooplankton: Roles as Herbivores and as Food for Mesozooplankton
    • Evelyn B. Sherr, Barry F. Sherr, Carin J. Ashjian, Robert Campbell
  • Variations in White Spruce (Picea Glauca) Performance at and Below Treeline in Three Mountain Ranges Across the Boreal Zone in Alaska
    • Matthew Smith, Tumi Traustason, Bjartmar Sveinbj?rnsson, Roger Ruess
  • Evidence of Compensation in Weekly Production Patterns of a Dominant Arctic Sedge
    • Paddy Sullivan, Jeffrey Welker, Jace Fahnestock
  • Alaska Treelines: Tree Damage and Growth Above and Below the White Spruce (Picea Glauca) Forest Limit in Three Alaskan Mountain Ranges
    • Tumi Traustason, Matthew Smith, Bjartmar Sveinbjornsson, Roger Ruess
  • Facilitating Scientific and Technical Research with the Former Soviet Union
    • Marianna V. Voevodskaya, David H. Lindeman, Shawn T. Wheeler
  • The Arctic Research Consortium of the United States
    • Wendy K. Warnick
  • Coupling of Carbon and Water Cycles in a Cold, Dry Ecosystem: Integrative Physical, Chemical, and Biological Processes and Their Controls on CO2 Exchange
    • Jeffrey Welker, Ron Sletten, Bernard Hallet, Josh Schimel, Jace Fahnestock

Arctic Forum Program
Presenters and Participants
Index
Special Presentation