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6. We plan to update the logistics report using overarching scientific themes, similar to the five themes used in Opportunities in Arctic Research rather than using the traditional disciplinary categories. What are your thoughts on this approach? What thematic areas do you think should be incorporated?

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38 Support the thematic approach:

satellite communications critical
not all for mega-projects, support for individual projects is needed too
some logistics is discipline specific
scope and depth of logistics increases (with a thematic approach) and may complicate an assessment
chemical contaminants should include integration of land/ocean/atmosphere
include development of predictive modeling capability for ecological systems
needs more solid earth geosciences (2 responses)
minimize "territorial" advocacy (2 responses) biological and chemical oceanography and atmospheric chemistry
widespread time-series observations
include data management
include "determining potential impacts of global change on resident populations, including the ways humans have adapted to previous changes
biological changes are very important
include ecosystem and wildlife health assessment and monitoring
include long-term observations of variability of water masses, sea ice, and stmosphere over Arctic Ocean
include traditional knowledge in advance planning of projects, not just social science
add more detail for themes 1, 2, & 4. Add more on biocomplexity and climate change.
include paleo perspective and circumArctic, not just Alaska
effects of scale for improving climate models
like the themes idea, but logistics are often related to discipline
High priority: #3 (Effects of change on biological resources, including animals in arctic systems, dynamics of riparian systems, predicting land cover change, Arctic marine ecosystems, adaptational and organismal biology) should be high priority. Low priority: #2 (Chemical cycling and contaminants) and #5 (Dynamics of human systems in the Arctic, including: historical and temporal variations in human-environmental systems, interaction between local knowledge and academic science, communication of scientific knowledge and data to arctic communities).
Important themes by priority: 1. Long term physical data collection; 2. international collaboration; 3. Indicator species; 4. Permatfrost; 5. Local knowledge/paleoclimatology

14 Do not support the thematic approach:

prefer disciplinary org (5 responses)
prefer domain based (4 responses)
transport, work, communications
should be room for research motivated by curiosity not concern
perhaps geographic categories
prefer original themes (from Logistics Report)
how does this clarify logistics issues?

44 No direct response to question

include coastal land-marine system
use of fuel and other chemicals, disposal of human wastes
landscape change in response to changing climate
effects of geophysics on global change and the paleo perspective on global change
don't compartmentalize so that logistics program can meet changing needs
climate change, human disturbance, effects on fisheries
feedbacks due to ecosystem change are important
climate change should be highest priority
lacks boundary layer and middle atmosphere process studies, hydrologic process studies, coupled atmospheric-hydrologic modeling
social change and industrial development--effects of biological resources
hard to create overarching themes that include all dimensions of arctic science: 1. Arctic influences on the global system and vice versa, 2. Documenting the full dynamic range of the arctic system under different boundary conditions
human-environment interactions
developing the elements of the system for the Arctic-scale acoustic monitoring
middle and upper atmosphere need to be included in studies of global change not just space weather and aurora

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