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2002 ARCSS All-Hands Workshop | Agenda

Bell Harbor International Conference Center

Seattle, WA February 20-22, 2002

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Tuesday, February 19, 2002
Evening (Sound Conference Room and Lobby outside Harbor Dining Room)
07:00pm	Pre-conference ice breaker reception and registration

*Day 1 - Wednesday, February 20, 2002*
*Morning*
07:30am	Continental breakfast (kiosks)
	Registration (Entry Lobby)

Plenary (Bay Auditorium)
08:30am	Welcome and introduction to the meeting
	Jack Kruse, Chair, ARCSS Committee University of Massachusetts & University of Alaska Anchorage
	The workshop aims to identify the central scientific themes and approaches that will allow the ARCSS Program to build on work to date and develop new research focused on environmental impacts and biocomplexity as well as global change.

08:50am	The Evolution of the ARCSS Program: Past, Present, and Future
	Past, Present, and Future
	Mike Ledbetter, Director, ARCSS Program Office of Polar Programs, National Science Foundation
09:20am	Current ARCSS Research: Introduction to Component Talks
	Amanda Lynch, University of Colorado
	Component talks will focus on major discoveries, key uncertainties and their readiness for research, and priorities for integrative research. The presentation time will include time for questions and discussion.

09:30am	Paleoenvironmental Arctic Sciences (PARCS)
	Glen MacDonald, University of California, Los Angeles

10:00am	Ocean-Atmosphere-Ice Interactions (OAII)
	Lou Codispoti, University of Maryland Richard Moritz, University of Washington Jackie Grebmeier, University of Tennessee


10:45am	BREAK

11:00am	Land-Atmosphere-Ice-Interactions (LAII)
	Terry Chapin, University of Alaska Fairbanks

11:30am	The Russian–American Initiative on Shelf-land Environments in the Arctic (RAISE)
	Lee Cooper, University of Tennessee

11:50am	Human Dimensions of the Arctic System (HARC)
	Henry Huntington, Huntington Consulting

12:10pm	LUNCH

*Afternoon*
Plenary (Bay Auditorium)

	New Research Initiatives
01:30pm	The Hydrologic Cycle and its role in Arctic and Global Environmental Change (Arctic-CHAMP)
	Charles Vörösmarty, University of New Hampshire

02:00pm	Study of Environmental Arctic Change (SEARCH)
	James Morison, University of Washington Lou Codispoti, University of Maryland

02:30pm	Nearshore and Coastal Processes Initiative
	Ken Dunton, University of Texas

02:45pm	Biophysical Feedbacks and Transitions in the Arctic Regional System: Life Webs
	Matthew Sturm, Cold Regions Research & Engineering Laboratory

03:00pm	BREAK

Plenary (Bay Auditorium)
03:15pm	Current ARCSS Research: Key Uncertainties and Next Steps
	Moderator: Craig Nicolson, University of Massachusetts

	Each panelist will make a five-minute presentation focused on one ARCSS question, addressing the key uncertainties and priorities for research from their disciplinary or programmatic perspective. Each pair of five-minute presentations will be followed by approximately ten minutes of comments, questions, and discussion from workshop participants and panelists on that question, allowing a few minutes for the moderator to summarize before moving on to the next question and pair of panelists. Thus each of the four questions will have approximately 20 minutes for presentation, discussion, and summarization.

	How will the arctic climate change over the next 10-100 years?
	Amanda Lynch, University of Colorado Konrad Hughen, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

	How will human activities interact with future global change to affect the sustainability of natural ecosystems and human societies?
	Bruce Forbes, University of Lapland Matthew Berman, University of Alaska Anchorage

	How will changes in arctic biogeochemical and hydrologic cycles and feedbacks affect arctic and global systems?
	Glen MacDonald, University of California, Los Angeles Kelly Falkner, Oregon State University

	Are predicted changes in the arctic system detectable?
	Marilyn Walker, University of Alaska Fairbanks Wieslaw Maslowski, Naval Postgraduate School

Plenary (Bay Auditorium)
04:45pm	Introduce thematic working groups, working group co-facilitators, working group instructions, and assign working group locations.
	Jack Kruse, Chair, ARCSS Committee University of Massachusetts & University of Alaska Anchorage

	a. Nearshore and coastal processes Room: Ken Dunton, University of Texas Lee Cooper, University of Tennessee

	b. Biophysical feedbacks and transitions in the arctic regional system: Life webs Room: Matthew Sturm, Cold Regions Research & Engineering Laboratory Terry Chapin, University of Alaska Fairbanks

	c. The pan-Arctic community-wide hydrological analysis and monitoring Program (Arctic-CHAMP) Room: Charles Vörösmarty, University of New Hampshire Larry Hinzman, University of Alaska Fairbanks

	d. Modes of variability in the arctic system Room: James Morison, University of Washington Larry Hamilton, University of New Hampshire

Working Groups Meet (Sound, Cove, Marina, Pacific Board Rooms)
05:00pm	Working groups begin discussions Each working group will designate a rapporteur(s) to present the group’s summary in plenary session and a recorder to track and summarize discussions.

*Evening*
06:15pm	DINNER
	Dinner buffet in the International Promenade for $20 Or on your own (but hurry back).

07:30pm	Poster Session (Harbor Dining Room) No-host bar and dessert.

*Day 2 - Thursday, February 21, 2002*
*Morning*
07:30am	Continental breakfast (kiosks)

Plenary (Bay Auditorium)
08:30am	Brief review of working groups, questions Identify smaller breakouts that have developed within each working group.
	Jack Kruse, Chair, ARCSS Committee University of Massachusetts & University of Alaska Anchorage

Working groups (Sound, Cove, Marina, Pacific Board Rooms)
09:00am	Working groups; groups may break into smaller groups as needed The smaller rooms (Coastal, Channel, Port, Seaway, Waterway) will be available “on-demand” so that 5-15 people may break out to work on a specific sub-topic.

12:00pm	LUNCH (International Promenade)

*Afternoon*
Working groups (Sound, Cove, Marina, Pacific Board Rooms)
01:00pm	Working groups continue

03:15pm	BREAK

Plenary (Bay Auditorium) Reports from Working Groups
Reports include presentation by rapporteur and discussion.

03:30pm	Nearshore and coastal processes Rapporteur

03:50pm	Biophysical feedbacks and transitions in the arctic regional system Rapporteur

04:10pm	The pan-Arctic community-wide hydrological analysis and monitoring program (Arctic-CHAMP) Rapporteur

04:30pm	Modes of variability in the arctic system Rapporteur

04:50pm	Summary discussion

05:00pm	BREAK

05:30pm	Student Poster Session No-host bar and appetizers.


*Evening*
7:30pm	BANQUET
	Special Multimedia Presentation Gift of the Whale: The I ñupiat Bowhead Hunt, A Sacred Tradition By Bill Hess, Running Dog Publications

*Day 3 - Friday, February 22, 2002*
*Morning*
7:30am	Continental breakfast (kiosks)

Plenary (Bay Auditorium)
08:30am	Discuss burning questions, clarify working group process, progress, and products expected from the groups. Jack Kruse, Outgoing Chair, ARCSS Committee

	A word from the incoming ARCSS Committee chair Jonathan Overpeck, University of Arizona

Working groups (Sound, Cove, Marina, Pacific Board Rooms)
09:00am	Working groups continue discussions, review progress, and prepare summary presentations.

12:30pm	LUNCH (International Promenade)

*Afternoon*
Plenary (Bay Auditorium)

01:30pm	Working Group Summaries
	The designated rapporteur for each working group will present the group’s summary. During the summaries, a small panel will participate in the process of clarifying, questioning, and synthesizing the presentations. The rapporteur for each group will have 20 min. to present a summary, the panel members will have 15 min. to respond, and the panel moderator will have 5 min. to synthesize and summarize. The members and process of this ad hoc panel may change as the workshop develops.

	Moderator: Mary Edwards, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Ad Hoc Panel: Linda Brubaker, University of Washington Henry Huntington, Huntington Consulting Mark Serreze, University of Colorado Don Perovich, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory John Hobbie, The Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory

01:45pm	Summary: Near shore and coastal processes working group

02:30pm	Summary: Biophysical feedbacks and transitions working group

03:15pm	BREAK

03:45pm	Summary: Hydrologic cycle working group

04:30pm	Summary: Modes of variability working group

05:15pm	What’s Next?
	Jack Kruse, Outgoing Chair, ARCSS Committee

05:30pm	Closing comments
	Mike Ledbetter, Director, ARCSS Program Office of Polar Programs, National Science Foundation

*Day 4 - Saturday, February 23, 2002*

Plenary (Sound Room)
09:00am	The ARCSS Committee, Science Management Office directors, and Science Steering Committee chairs will spend the morning developing and packaging the conference results so that they are available via the Internet soon after the workshop ends to promote community discussion and follow-up.

10:20am	BREAK

10:40am	ARCSS Committee, SMO directors, SSC chairs meeting continues

12:00pm	LUNCH (on your own)

*Afternoon (Sound Room)*
01:00pm	ARCSS Committee meeting

04:00pm	AC meeting adjourns

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