ARCUS | Arctic Forum 2006

Presentation Abstracts

• Polar Politics: The Marriage of Scientists, Stakeholders, and Policy Makers
  • Fran Ulmer, University of Alaska Anchorage
• New Approaches to Understanding a Changing Arctic
  • Peter Schlosser, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
• Panel Discussion: Challenges and Needs of System-Scale Science
  • John E. Walsh, University of Alaska Fairbanks; Tore Furevik; Julienne Stroeve;
    Jörn Thiede; and Cynthia Tynan
• Panel Discussion: Challenges and Needs of Stakeholder and
  Community Partnerships
  • John Crump, United Nations Environment Programme/GRID-Arendal; Hadi Dowlatabadi;
    Kristina Lasko; Honorable Paul Okalik; and Frances Raskin
• International Policy Cooperation in the Arctic
  • Scott Barrett, Johns Hopkins University
• Overview of Arctic Organizations—Who is Who?
  • Volker Rachold, International Arctic Science Committee; Craig Tweedie,
    University of Texas at El Paso (Arctic Forum Co-Chairs)
• Beyond 2009: Broadening the Legacy of the International Polar Year
  • Karen Kraft Sloan, Foreign Affairs Canada
• Case Study 1: The Need for Technological and Scientific Collaboration:
  Arctic Upper Atmospheric Research
  • John D. Kelly, SRI International
• Case Study 2: Science-Industry Partnerships: Planning and Management
  Using Information Technology
  • Mark Sorensen, Geographic Planning Collaborative, Inc.
• Case Study 3: International Education Collaboration: Research Experiences for
  Undergraduates
  • Julie Brigham-Grette, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; Ross D. Powell;
    Al Werner; Steve Roof; and Mike Retelle
• Case Study 4: Planning and Cooperation for Multinational Field Projects
  • Heidemarie Kassen, The Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences-IFM-GEOMAR
• Establishing Successful Community-Research Partnerships
  • Craig Fleener, Council of Athabascan Tribal Governments
• Arctic Rush Film Presentation
  • Andrew C. Revkin, The New York Times; and Craig Duff
• Panel Discussion: Managing Challenges Facing the
  Arctic Research Community
  • Andrew C. Revkin, The New York Times; John Crump; Paul Egerton;
    Shari Gearheard; Andy Mahoney; Susanne Moser; and Simon Stephenson
• Advancing Arctic Research Through Policy and Science Advocacy
  (Speaking Notes)
  • Lisa Murkowski, U.S. Senator, Alaska

Poster Abstracts

• HOTRAX-2005: International Collaborative Research in a
  Trans-Arctic-Ocean Expedition
  • Glenn W. Berger, Desert Research Institute
• Dynamical Downscaling Over Alaska and Its Potential Applications
  • Uma S. Bhatt, University of Alaska Fairbanks; Jing S. Zhang; Craig S. Lingle;
    and Wendell Tangborn
• Arctic Marine Shipping Assessment of the Arctic Council: Responding to
  Changing Marine Access in the Arctic Ocean
  • Lawson W. Brigham, U.S. Arctic Research Commission; Victor Santos-Pedro;
    Ross McDonald; Kimmo Juurmaa; and Soffia Gudmundsdottir
• The Svalbard REU Program: A High-Latitude Undergraduate Research
  Experience in Glacial, Marine, and Lacustrine Processes Relevant
  to Arctic Climate Change
  • Julie Brigham-Grette, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; Ross D. Powell;
    Al Werner; Steve Roof; and Mike Retelle
• The Search For a Past: The Prehistory of the Indigenous Saami of Northern
  Coastal Sweden
  • Noel D. Broadbent, Smithsonian Institution
• Research Opportunities in the Barrow, Alaska Area
  • Tim Buckley, Barrow High School
• Planning the Barrow Cabled Observatory: Real-Time Oceanographic and
  Environmental Data for Northern Alaska
  • Dale N. Chayes, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University; Bernard
    Coakley; Richard Machida; Andrey Proshutinsky; and Thomas Weingartner
• Arctic Science Education: Partnerships Build Bridges Across the
  Learning Continuum
  • Renée D. Crain, National Science Foundation
• Paleolimnological Perspective on Long-term Environmental Change in the
  Canadian High Arctic
  • Marianne Douglas, University of Toronto; Dermot Antoniades; Bronwyn Keatley;
    Darlene Lim; Neal Michelutti; Roberto Quinlan; and John P. Smol
• Biomass-NDVI-LAI Relationships Along the Full Arctic Bioclimate Gradient
  • Howard E. Epstein, University of Virginia; Donald (Skip) A. Walker; Gensuo J. Jia;
    Alexia M. Kelley; and Martha K. Raynolds
• Trends in Circumpolar Photosynthetic Activity from 1982–2003
  • Scott Goetz, Woods Hole Research Center; and Andrew Bunn
• Preparing for IPY in Canada
  • David Hik, University of Alberta
• Migration in the Arctic: Subsistence, Jobs, and Well-Being in
  Urban and Rural Communities
  • Lee Huskey, University of Alaska Anchorage; Matthew Berman; Lance Howe;
    Wayne Edwards; Robert Harcharek; Jack Hicks; and Stephanie Martin
• Learning from the Past: Archaeology of Nuvuk
  • Anne M. Jensen, Ukpeagvik Iñupiat Corporation; Dennis H. O’Rourke; and Shawn Miller
• Northern Material Culture Through International Polar Year Collections, Then
  and Now: In the Footsteps of Murdoch and Turner
  • Anne M. Jensen, Ukpeagvik Iñupiat Corporation
• Village-Based Monitoring of Coastal Dynamics Along the Beaufort Sea in
  Northern Alaska
  • Torre Jorgenson, ABR, Inc.; Jerry Brown; Tim Buckley; and Chien-Lu Ping
• Climate Warming Greatly Restricts Growth and Recovery of Lichens Following
  Heavy Grazing by Reindeer on a Bering Sea Island
  • David R. Klein, University of Alaska Fairbanks
• Scientific Diving Under Ice: A 40-Year Bipolar Research Tool
  • Michael A. Lang, Smithsonian Institution; Adam G. Marsh; and Martin D. Sayer
• The People of Point Hope: Their Past and Their Present
  • Karlene B. Leeper, U.S. Air Force; Aanauraq Lane; and Mark S. Cassell
• The Canadian Circumpolar Institute at the University of Alberta
  • Elaine L. Maloney, Canadian Circumpolar Institute; and Ryan Danby
• Arctic Science Discoveries
  • National Science Foundation
• The International Polar Year 2007–2008
  • National Science Foundation
• The Circumpolar Active Layer Monitoring Network
  • Frederick E. Nelson, University of Delaware; Nikolay I. Shiklomanov;
    Kenneth M. Hinkel; Jerry Brown; and Galina Mazhitova
• The U.S. Permafrost Association
  • Frederick E. Nelson, University of Delaware; Jon E. Zufelt; Kenneth M. Hinkel;
    Michael R. Lilly; Vladimir E. Romanovsky; Larry D. Hinzman; J. David Norton;
    and Jennifer Harden
• Inuit and Scientific Descriptions of the Narwhal: Connecting Parallel Perceptions
  • Martin Nweeia, Harvard School of Dental Medicine; Frederick Eichmiller;
    Cornelius Nutarak; Jack R. Orr; James Mead; and Peter Hauschka
• Six Weeks in the Arctic: A Teacher Research Experience in Svalbard, Norway
  • Robert S. Oddo, Horace Greeley High School
• Coastal Erosion Across Northern Alaska and Community Action
  • Chien-Lu Ping, University of Alaska Fairbanks; Torre Jorgenson; Jerry Brown;
    Laodong Guo; and Yuri Shur
• Multidecadal Variability in the Arctic/North Atlantic Climate System
  • Igor Polyakov, University of Alaska Fairbanks; Uma S. Bhatt; David Walsh;
    Harper L. Simmons; John E. Walsh; Xiangdong Zhang; and Leonid A. Timokhov
• Barrow Sea Ice Observatory: Online, Near-Real-Time Delivery of Ice Conditions
  • Daniel Pringle, University Alaska Fairbanks; Andy Mahoney; Hajo Eicken;
    and Patrick W. Cotter
• A Small Diameter CTD-Rosette for Sampling Through Sea Ice from Aircraft
  • William M. Smethie, Jr., Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University;
    Dale N. Chayes; Richard S. Perry; Peter Schlosser; and Robert T. Williams
• Changes In Arctic Tourism and the Need for a New Outlook on Collaboration
  • John Snyder, Strategic Studies, Inc.
• Alaska’s North Slope Science Initiative: Managing Oil and Gas Development
  Through Science on Alaska’s North Slope
  • Kenton P. Taylor, Bureau of Land Management; John F. Payne; and Ann Claerbout
• An Accessible Arctic: Arctic Education and Outreach
  • Juanita Urban-Rich, University of Massachusetts-Boston
• Greening of the Arctic: An IPY Initiative
  • Donald (Skip) A. Walker, University of Alaska Fairbanks; Howard E. Epstein;
    Jiong Jia; Uma S. Bhatt; Vladimir E. Romanovsky; Josefino Comiso;
    Jed Kaplan; Marina Leibman; Natalia Moskalenko; Bruce Forbes; Gary Kofinas;
    Charles Tarnocai; Hilmar Maier; Chien-Lu Ping; Martha K. Raynolds;
    Corinne Munger; William Gould; and Carl Markon
• Downscaling Characteristics of Sea Ice and Ocean Circulation in the
  Beaufort-Chukchi Seas Simulated by an
  IARC Coupled Ice-Ocean Model
  • Jia Wang, University of Alaska Fairbanks; Haohuo Hu; Kohei Mizobata; and Meibing Jin
• Simulating the 20th Century Arctic Sea Ice and Ocean Circulation Variability
  Using a Global Coupled Atmosphere-Ice-Ocean Model
  • Jia Wang, University of Alaska Fairbanks; Meibing Jin; Jun Takahashi;
    Tatsuo Suzuki; John E. Walsh; and Hiroyasu Hasumi
• Teachers and Researchers Exploring and Collaborating
  • Janet Warburton, Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. (ARCUS);
    Wendy K. Warnick; Helen V. Wiggins; B. Zeb Polly; and Sarah Behr
• Community Needs Assessment and Portal Prototype Development for an
  Arctic Spatial Data Infrastructure
  • Wendy K. Warnick, Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. (ARCUS);
    Helen V. Wiggins; Lamont C. Hempel; Jordan Henk; Mark Sorensen;
    Craig Tweedie; and Allison Gaylord
• The Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S
  • Wendy K. Warnick, Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. (ARCUS)
• Arctic Sea Ice Simulations in the 20th Century and in Global Warming Scenarios
  • Xiangdong Zhang, University of Alaska Fairbanks

Teachers and Researchers Exploring and Collaborating (TREC) Poster Abstracts

• Water Sampling
  • Mattea Bagley, Salisbury Community School; Ashley Macy; and Torbrafe Ley
• Animal Adaptations in the Arctic
  • Brooke Burlett, Salisbury Community School; and Maria Ploff
• Aquatic Invertebrates
  • Amy Clapp, Salisbury Community School
• Sediment Coring!
  • Elizabeth Dwire, Salisbury Community School; and Jesse Otis
• Grow
  • Seth Fisher, Salisbury Community School; and Dino Jandric
• Plots and Transects
  • Morgan LaRoche, Salisbury Community School; Wren Hobbs; and Jennifer Rich
• Arctic Plants
  • Sean MacCallum, Salisbury Community School; and Allison Haskell
• Arctic Weather
  • Heather Ploof, Salisbury Community School; Hailey LaFavel; and Devon Artis-White

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