ARCUS partnered with the SEARCH Open Science Meeting (OSM) sponsoring agencies and the meeting organizers to hold a student poster competition to recognize research excellence in student posters submitted to the SEARCH OSM. The student posters were judged by the meeting organizing committee, which was a representative multi-agency and multi-disciplinary group. The judging criteria included:

  • significant contribution to arctic science research
  • clear, concise statement of problem and organization of ideas and information
  • textual and visual acuity

ARCUS partnered with the Arctic Institute of North America (AINA) to offer awards to the the competition winners. The winners (featured below) will receive support to attend a relevant conference on the Arctic and their work will be highlighted at the 2004 Arctic Forum in Washington DC. They also will receive a two-year Arctic Institute of North America membership, which includes a subscription to the interdisciplinary journal ARCTIC.

Congratulations to Philip, Kenneth, Matthias, and all of the student scholars for their excellent posters and their contributions to SEARCH scholarship. Scroll down the page to view the student posters presented at the meeting.

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Philip Higuera 1st Place
Paleo Investigations of Climate and Ecosystem Archives (PICEA): Holocene Fire and Vegetation History from Ruppert Lake, Brooks Range, Alaska
Philip Higuera, Linda B. Brubaker, Patricia M. Anderson, Feng Sheng Hu, Ben Clegg, Tom Brown, Scott Rupp


View Philip's Poster (2.3 MB - PDF or 1.3 MB - JPEG)

Kenneth Tape Honorable Mention
Photography-based Measurements of the Expansion of Shrubs in Northern Alaska
Kenneth D. Tape, Charles Racine, Matthew Sturm
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Kenneth D. Tape, Matthew Sturm


View Kenneth's Poster (2.3 MB - PDF)

Matthias Zielke Honorable Mention
The Effect of Temperature, Water Content, and Light Intensity and Quality on Nitrogen Fixation in High Arctic Tundra Vegetation
Matthias Zielke, Rolf A. Olsen, Bjørn Solheim


View Matthias' Poster (1.3 MB - PDF)
 
  Late-Holocene Lake-Level Variation in West Greenland
Frank A. Aebly, Sherilyn C. Fritz
  Rapid Wastage of Alaska Glaciers: the Search for Climatic Causes
Anthony Arendt, Keith Echelmeyer, William Harrison, Craig Lingle, Virginia Valentine, Sandra Zirnheld
  The Common Raven (Corvus corax) on the North Slope of Alaska: Wildlife Management and the Human Dimension
Stacia A. Backensto
  Using a Spatially Distributed Model to Characterize the Influence of Permafrost on Hydrological Processes
William R. Bolton, Larry D. Hinzman, Scott Peckham, Douglas L. Kane, Kenji Yoshikawa
  Covariability in Arctic Climate Variables: Observations and Model Simulations
Yonghua Chen, James R. Miller, Jennifer A. Francis, Gary L. Russell, Filipe Aires
  North Atlantic Oscillation Driven Changes To Wave Climate in the Northeast Atlantic and Their Implications for Ferry Services to the Western Isles of Scotland
John Coll, David K. Woolf, Stuart W. Gibb, Peter G. Challenor, Michael Tsimplis
  Shaking up the Neighborhood: Historic Perspective on Resilience and Vulnerability in the Gulf of Alaska
Jennie N. Deo, Catherine W. Foster, Margaret R. Berger, Ben Fitzhugh
  Human Impacts to Fire Regime in Interior Alaska
La'ona DeWilde
  Analyzing the Implications of Climate Change Risks for Human Communities in the Arctic: A Vulnerability Based Approach
James D. Ford, Barry Smit
  Lightweight Shallow Ice Coring and Borehole Logging Can Provide Decadal- to Millenial-Scale Indicators of Climate Change Around the Arctic Basin
Robert L. Hawley, Edwin D. Waddington, Joseph R. McConnell, Dale P. Winebrenner
  In Search of the Younger Dryas at Elikchan Lake, Northeast Siberia
Heather D. Heuser, Patricia M. Anderson, Linda B. Brubaker, Ron S. Sletten, Thomas A. Brown, Anatoly V. Lozhkin
  Carbon Storage and the Role of Cryoturbation in the High Arctic: Thule, Greenland
Jennifer L. Horwath, Ronald S. Sletten
  Field Studies on Basin Scale Water Balance on North Slope, Alaska
Danielle C. Kitover, Doug Kane, Rob Gieck, Larry Hinzman
  The Physical and Hydrological Impacts of a Wildfire on an Arctic Tundra Ecosystem, Seward Peninsula, Alaska
Stefan Kooman, Larry D. Hinzman
  Vertical Export of Particulate Organic Carbon and Calibration of Sediment Traps Using 234Th in the Barents Sea
Catherine Lalande, Jackie M. Grebmeier, Paul Wassmann, S. B. Moran, Lee W. Cooper
  Modelling Ice Algae Growth and Decay in Seasonally Ice-covered Regions of the Arctic Ocean
Diane Lavoie, Ken Denman
  Geological and Geophysical Research into the Impact of Earthquakes on Prehistoric Coastal Occupation: the Mid-Holocene Occupation and Abandonment of the Tanginak Spring Site
Elizabeth Mahrt, Bretwood Higman, Joseph MacGregor, Joanne Bourgeois, Ben Fitzhugh
  An Ecopath Model of the Arctic Ocean: The Time is Ripe
Thomas A. Okey
  Quantitative Importance of Macrofauna: A Test of Sieve Mesh Size Biases on Sampling in a High Benthic Biomass Area
Rebecca Pirtle-Levy, Jackie M. Grebmeier, Lee W. Cooper
  In Situ Warming Chambers Stimulate Early Season Production of Eriophorum Vaginatum Leaves and Roots
Patrick Sullivan, Jeffrey Welker
  Adjustment to Reality- Cases of Detached, Dependent, and Sustained Community Development in Greenland
Daniela Tommasini, Rasmus O. Rasmussen
  Hydrographic Changes in Baffin Bay, 1916-1999
Melissa Zweng