SEARCH Open Science Meeting Agenda
The first three days of the SEARCH meeting were organized into major themes of Changes and Impacts, Feedbacks, and Drivers/Causes and included a combination of invited keynote talks, parallel science sessions with contributed papers, moderated plenary/panel discussions, and poster sessions. The fourth day included a session on the international implementation of SEARCH. One poster session was not covered by the parallel sessions. To view Science Management, Coordination, and Resources, please click here.
For information about the associated meetings that were held throughout the Open Science Meeting, click here.
Calendar of Events
For an overview of the meeting's events in calendar format, click here.
Parallel Session Agendas - Click one of the parallel sessions below to view its agenda.
Main Agenda
| The agenda is now downloadable in PDF format. (PDF - 26 KB) Agenda last updated: 26 November 2003 |
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| Sunday, 26 October 2003 | ||
| 06:30 pm - 09:30 pm | Icebreaker Reception and Registration (International Promenade) |
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| Day 1 - Monday, 27 October 2003 Theme: Changes and Impacts (Plenary Sessions in Bay Auditorium) |
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| 07:30 am - 08:30 am | Registration (Entry Lobby) | |
| 08:00 am | Continental breakfast (Kiosks) | |
| 08:30 am | Welcome and Introductions James Overland Session Chair Chair, Open Science Meeting Organizing Committee National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
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| 08:50 am | Findings of the Recent Arctic Climate Impact Assessment Robert Corell Senior Fellow Harvard University and American Meteorological Society |
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| 09:20 am | Regional View: Perceptions and Concerns About Change Caleb Pungowiyi President, Robert Aqqaluk Newlin, Sr. Memorial Trust |
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| 09:50 am | Inuit and Climate Change: Influencing the Global Agenda Sheila Watt-Cloutier Chair, Inuit Circumpolar Conference |
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| 10:20 am | BREAK | |
| 10:50 am | Introduction to Parallel Science Sessions Craig Nicolson University of Massachusetts |
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| 11:10 am | Plenary Discussion | |
| 11:30 am | LUNCH (Harbor Dining Room) | |
| 01:00 pm | Parallel Science Sessions: Changes and Impacts SEARCH has been motivated by observations in recent years of a complex of seemingly interrelated, decadal scale, pan-Arctic changes. These have been seen on land, in the sea, and in the atmosphere and appear connected to changes at lower latitudes. Each parallel session will begin with a set of contributed papers and then will open for discussion aimed towards updating our understanding of previously observed changes, exploring new changes, and evaluating their consequences. |
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| I. Changes on Land (Bay Auditorium) Topics such as, but not limited to, snow cover; permafrost; glaciers; hydrology; species composition, distribution, and abundance; subsistence harvesting; carbon (CO2 and methane) Co-chairs: Matthew Sturm, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory Bruce Forbes, University of Lapland |
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II. Changes in the Sea (Sound Room)
Topics such as, but not limited to, salinity, temperature, currents, nutrients, sea ice, marine ecosystems (including people, marine mammals and fisheries) Co-chairs: George Hunt, University of California Irvine Motoyoshi Ikeda, Hokkaido University |
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III. Changes in the Atmosphere (Cove Room)
Topics such as, but not limited to, atmospheric pressure and circulation; temperature; cloudiness; precipitation and evaporation Co-chairs: Hans von Storch, GKSS Research Centre Richard Moritz, University of Washington |
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IV. Coastal Processes (Marina Room)
Topics such as, but not limited to, fate and transport of materials, erosion, effects on human communities Co-chairs: Volker Rachold, Alfred Wegener Institute Steven Solomon, Natural Resources Canada |
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| 04:30 pm | Poster Session/Reception with cash bar (International Promenade) | |
| 06:30 pm | Buffet DINNER and Sea Level Rise Beach Party - LIVE MUSIC (Odyssey Maritime Discovery Center) | |
| Day 2 - Tuesday, 28 October 2003 Theme: Feedbacks (Plenary Sessions in Bay Auditorium) |
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| 08:00 am | Continental breakfast (Kiosks) | |
| 08:30 am | SEARCH Vision and Core Hypotheses James Morison Session Chair Chair, SEARCH Science Steering Committee University of Washington |
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| 09:00 am | The Nature, Measurement, and Modeling of Feedbacks Judith Curry Georgia Institute of Technology |
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| 09:30 am | Arctic Climate Simulations by Coupled Models Annette Rinke Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research |
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| 09:50 am | Terrestrial Feedbacks: Vegetation, Carbon, and Heat F. Stuart Chapin University of Alaska Fairbanks |
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| 10:10 am | BREAK | |
| 10:40 am | The Freshwater Cycle and its Role in the Pan-Arctic System Charles Vörösmarty University of New Hampshire |
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| 11:00 am | Sea Ice: Two Perspectives Was Sea Ice Quite Thin in the 1990's? Yes D. Andrew Rothrock University of Washington Inter-Annual Variability in Arctic Sea Ice Thickness from Space Seymour Laxon University College London |
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| 11:40 am | Human-Environment Relations: Responding to the Challenges and Opportunities of Arctic Environmental Change Mark Nuttall University of Alberta |
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| 12:00 pm | LUNCH (Harbor Dining Room) | |
| 01:30 pm | Parallel Science Sessions: Feedbacks An important working hypothesis of SEARCH is that the complex of pan-Arctic changes is driven by a change in the atmospheric circulation of the Northern Hemisphere. To put this in perspective, it is also hypothesized that feedbacks within the arctic system are important in the complex of change, and that some of these feedbacks, along with other linkages to lower latitudes, are important to changes on a global scale. Each parallel session will begin with a set of contributed papers and then will open for discussion of feedbacks and linkages such as, but not limited to, ice-albedo feedback, vegetation-carbon feedback, effect of the freshwater cycle on global thermohaline circulation, and the nonlinear combined effects of environmental change and human activity on the ecosystem. |
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I. Social Feedbacks (Marina Room)
Co-chairs: Stewart Cohen, University of British Columbia and Environment Canada Matthew Berman, University of Alaska Anchorage |
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II. Biological Feedbacks (Sound Room)
Co-chairs: Sue Moore, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Joshua Schimel, University of California Santa Barbara |
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III. Physical Feedbacks (Bay Auditorium)
Co-chairs: Michael Steele, University of Washington Stephen Vavrus, University of Wisconsin |
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IV. Drivers and Causes (This session relates to Day 3 plenary) (Cove Room)
Co-chairs: James Overland, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Mark Serreze, University of Colorado |
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| 04:30 pm | BREAK | |
| 05:00 pm | Panel Discussion: Connections and Key Scientific Issues (Bay Auditorium) This plenary session will provide an opportunity to further develop and integrate the ideas and discussions from the first two days of Keynote presentations and the "Changes and Impacts" and "Feedbacks" parallel sessions. The panel discussion will begin with an overview by the moderator, followed by several questions posed to the panelists. Each panelist will have an opportunity to address the questions from the perspective of his or her expertise. The brief panel presentations will be followed by an open moderated discussion that includes comments and questions from all panelists and members of the audience. Moderator: Ron Clarke, Marine Conservation Alliance
Panelists: Mark Dyurgerov, University of Colorado Jennifer Francis, Rutgers University Jack Kruse, University of Massachusetts Glen MacDonald, University of California Los Angeles Peter Schlosser, Columbia University Gaius Shaver, Marine Biological Laboratory |
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| 06:30 pm | Poster Session/Reception with hors d’oeuvres and cash bar (International Promenade) | |
| 08:00 pm | Bering Ecosystem Study (BEST) Open Meeting (Sound Room) George Hunt, Chair |
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| Day 3 - Wednesday, 29 October 2003 Morning Theme: Drivers/Causes (Plenary Sessions in Bay Auditorium) |
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| 08:00 am | Continental breakfast (Kiosks) | |
| 08:30 am | Drivers and Causes of Arctic Environmental Change Mark Serreze Session Chair University of Colorado |
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| 08:50 am | Natural and Anthropogenic Drivers of Arctic Climate Change Gavin Schmidt NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies |
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| 09:20 am | Interannual Variations of Polar Climate: Relationship to Annual Modes Murry Salby University of Colorado |
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| 09:50 am | BREAK | |
| 10:20 am | Spatial and Temporal Modes of Arctic Climate Variability Over the Past 600 Years Konrad Hughen Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
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| 10:50 am | The Early 20th Century Warming in the Arctic: A Possible Mechanism Lennart Bengtsson Max Planck Institute for Meteorology |
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| 11:20 am | Arctic System Synthesis: Is the Arctic Headed Toward a New State? Jonathan Overpeck University of Arizona |
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| 11:50 am | Student Presentation | |
| 12:15 pm | LUNCH (Harbor Dining Room) | |
| Afternoon Theme: Understanding and Predicting Change (Bay Auditorium) | ||
| 01:45 pm | How Does SEARCH Fit into the Larger Scheme of U.S. Climate Change Science? James Mahoney Director, U.S. Climate Change Science Program National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
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| 02:15 pm | How Do the Arctic and Subarctic Processes Interconnect? What Have We Learned? Robert Dickson The Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science |
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| 03:05 pm | BREAK | |
| 03:30 pm | Panel Discussion: Understanding and Predicting Change in the Arctic System This session will provide an opportunity to summarize and integrate the ideas and discussions from the three days of keynote presentations, parallel science sessions, and informal discussions. The panel discussion will begin with an overview by the moderator, followed by several questions posed to the panelists. Each panelist will have an opportunity to address the questions from the perspective of his or her expertise. The brief panel presentations will be followed by an open moderated discussion that includes comments and questions from all panelists and members of the audience. Moderator: Andrew Revkin, New York Times
Panelists: Lawson Brigham, U.S. Arctic Research Commission F. Stuart Chapin, University of Alaska Fairbanks Robert Dickson, The Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science Jonathon Overpeck, Institute for the Study of Planet Earth, University of Arizona Elaine Abraham, Alaska Native Science Commission |
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| 05:10 pm | SEARCH Implementation: What is Being Done and Where Are the Gaps? James Morison Chair, SEARCH Science Steering Committee University of Washington |
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| 05:30 pm | Adjournment | |
| Day 4 - Thursday, 30 October 2003 | ||
09:00 am - 12:00 pm: An open forum to provide the international Arctic research community an opportunity to exchange ideas on participation in SEARCH implementation. |
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