Date

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
Live Webcast of ARCUS 20th Annual Meeting and Arctic Forum 2008
Wednesday, 14 May 2008 and Thursday, 15 May 2008

The ARCUS 20th Annual Meeting and Arctic Forum 2008 "Tipping Points-The
Arctic and Global Change" will be webcast live, on Wednesday, 14 May
2008, beginning at 10:00 a.m. EDT and Thursday, 15 May 2008 beginning at
8:30 a.m. EDT.

For further information and to connect to the webcast, please go to:
http://www.arcus.org/annual_meetings/2008/webcast.html


The ARCUS 20th Annual Meeting and Arctic Forum 2008, held at the
National Association of Home Builders Conference Center in downtown
Washington, DC, will be broadcast live via webstream. The theme of this
year's Arctic Forum is: "Tipping Points-The Arctic and Global Change."

The increasing pace and scale of observed environmental change in the
Arctic and around the globe raises an important question: Have we
reached major tipping points in the arctic system? The
interconnectedness of the Arctic is demonstrated when a single change
sends ripple effects throughout the marine, terrestrial, atmospheric,
socioeconomic, and global systems. Participants at the Arctic Forum will
discuss how such changes may be "tipping points" that represent new,
unknown, and potentially irreversible vanguards of arctic and global
change.

The 2008 Arctic Forum is being co-chaired by Martin Miles, Environmental
Systems Analysis Research Center in Boulder, Colorado, and Craig
Fleener, Gwich'in Council International.

The meeting will be webcast live on Wednesday, 14 May beginning at 10:00
a.m. EDT, and Thursday, 15 May beginning at 8:30 a.m. All talks will be
video-streamed with an online bulletin board so that those unable to
attend in person can participate virtually.

In order to view the live webcast, you will need: A high-speed Internet
connection with a minimum speed of 256 kbps and a browser with Quicktime
7 support (http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download). In order to view
and post to the message board, your browser must be JavaScript enabled.

The agenda and webcast information is available at:
http://www.arcus.org/annual_meetings/2008/webcast.html