Science Workshop Agenda and Presentations

Western Alaska Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC) Science Workshop
26–27 April 2011
Sheraton Anchorage Hotel
401 East 6^th Avenue, Anchorage, Alaska
Final Agenda and Presentations

Time	Event
Tuesday, 26 April 2011
7:30 a.m. - 8:15 a.m.	Registration and Continental Breakfast (2nd floor)
Introduction and Overview (Kuskokwim Ballroom, 2^nd floor)
8:15 a.m.	Welcome and Opening Remarks Verbal Presentation Only Doug Vincent-Lang LCC Steering Committee Co-Chair, Alaska Department of Fish and Game
8:20 a.m.	LCC Overview and Vision Download PDF (28.4 MB) Karen Murphy LCC Coordinator
8:40 a.m.	Overview of Workshop Goals, Structure, and Process Download PDF (11.3 MB) Joel Reynolds LCC Science Coordinator Karen Jenni Workshop Facilitator
Plenary Talks: Projected Changes in Climate, Geophysical Drivers & Ecosystems (Kuskokwim Ballroom)
9:00 a.m.	Climate Change Projections and Uncertainties for Alaska Download PDF (9 MB) John Walsh University of Alaska Fairbanks
9:20 a.m.	Changes in Permafrost, Observed and Modeled Download PDF (5 MB) Vladimir Romanovsky University of Alaska Fairbanks
9:40 a.m.	Hydrologic Change and the Aquatic Carbon Cycle in Subarctic Alaska Download PDF (11.7 MB) Rob Striegl, U.S. Geological Survey Presenter: Joshua Koch, U.S. Geological Survey
10:05 a.m.	BREAK
10:20 a.m.	Physical Aspects of the Western Alaska Coastal and Near-shore Marine System: Status and Possible Trajectories Download PDF (2.5 MB) Dave Atkinson University of Victoria and International Arctic Research Center/University of Alaska Fairbanks
10:40 a.m.	Vegetation Change in Western Alaska Download PDF (11.8 MB) Amy Breen Scenarios Network for Alaska Planning/University of Alaska Fairbanks
11:00 a.m.	Linkages Among Ecosystems that Drive Freshwater Productivity: Consequences of Environmental Change Download PDF (14.5 MB) Mark Wipfli USGS Alaska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, University of Alaska Fairbanks
11:20 a.m.	Monitoring and Predicting the Effects of Climate Change on Coastal Ecosystems on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta Download PDF (14.4 MB) Torre Jorgenson Alaska Ecoscience
11:40 a.m.	Wrap-up and reminder of afternoon charge and assignments
12:00 p.m.	LUNCH (On Your Own)
1:30 p.m.	Break-Out Groups: South (Kuskokwim Room), Central (Susitna Room), North (Yukon Room) Groups will identify the most important changes in landscape processes in each sub-region, the species assemblages likely to be most impacted by those changes, and the greatest sources of uncertainty regarding those changes.
4:00 p.m.	Back to Plenary: Break-Out Group Reports and Discussion North Breakout Group Report (PDF - 32 KB)
5:00 p.m.	Main Sessions Adjourn
5:30 - 7:30 p.m.	Poster Session and Networking (optional; 2nd floor Atrium/Kuskokwim)

Time	Event
Wednesday, 27 April 2011
7:45 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.	Registration and Continental Breakfast (Facilitators & reporting group leads meet at 8am in Susitna Room, 2nd floor)
Break-Out Groups: Taxa & Habitats
8:30 a.m.	Break-Out Groups: Birds (Boardroom 311), Fish (Susitna), Mammals (Boardroom 308), Landscape Ecology (Yukon), Coastal Marine Mammals/Shore- and Sea-birds (Kuskokwim) Groups will identify the most important scientific questions and information needs relevant to each taxa group at the spatial scale of the LCC.
10:15 a.m.	BREAK
10:30 a.m.	Continue in Break-Out Groups
12:00 p.m.	LUNCH (On Your Own) (Facilitators and managers meet for lunch in Ptarmigan Lounge - in Hotel Lobby)
1:30 p.m.	Continue in Break-Out Groups
3:15 p.m.	BREAK
Final Plenary Session
3:30 p.m.	Plenary: Break-Out Group Reports and Final Discussion Bird Breakout Group Report (PDF - 42 KB) Coastal Birds Breakout Group Report (PDF - 60 KB) Coastal Marine Mammals Breakout Group Report (PDF - 506 KB) Fish Breakout Group Report (PDF - 67 KB) Landscape Ecology Breakout Group Report (PDF - 39 KB) Mammals Breakout Group Report (PDF - 2.6 MB)
5:00 p.m.	Workshop Adjourns
Thursday, 28 April: LCC Writing Groups
Thursday-Friday, 28-29 April: Alaska Climate Downscaling Workshop
Print Version (PDF - 132 KB)