NEESPI Cold Land & Arctic Coast (CLAC) Focus Research Center
First Workshop, IARC, Fairbanks, Alaska, April 6 - April 8, 2006
In March 2005, the NEESPI organizers asked IARC to take a lead and establish the NEESPI
Focus Research Center (FRC) or Cold Land Processes and Arctic Coastal Studies in support of NEESPI activities
in the Arctic and sub-Arctic. This Workshop was the first meeting of the interested parties related to
the NEESPI “Cold Land Processes and Arctic Coastal Studies” FRC. At this stage, the most important
goal of the Workshop was to bring together the PIs of the NEESPI-related projects within the University
of Alaska Fairbanks that were funded or just-to-be-funded with several representatives
from the Russian Scientific and Science Management communities. The principle objective was to start
the dialog between the Russian and American scientists to address the scientific and logistics issues
that will help to better coordinate the science and the logistics within and between these newly funded
NEESPI projects. This was rather an informal Workshop with several practical results to achieve in
planning the coming fieldwork campaign in Russia during the next two to three years.
Workshop Agenda
Tuesday - Wednesday: 4 - 5 April 2006 Arrivals: Sophie Station Hotel, Fairbanks, AlaskaThursday: 6 April 2006 (International Arctic Research Center, room 401)
0830 - 0900 Registration
• Opening: Welcomes and objectives.
0900 - 0910 Introduction. Vladimir Romanovsky, Chair of the CLAC FRC
0910 - 0930 Larry Hinzman, IARC Deputy Director: Arctic Studies at the IARC (view pdf file)
0930 - 1000 Pavel Groisman, NEESPI Project Scientist, UCAR. Current State and the Future Directions of NEESPI (view pdf file)
Introduction of the UAF NEESPI Projects
1000 - 1030 Donald (Skip) Walker, University of Alaska Fairbanks. Application of space-based technologies and models to address land-cover/land-use change problems on the Yamal Peninsula, Russia (view large pdf file)
1030 - 1100 Igor Semiletov, University of Alaska Fairbanks. The exploration of the coastal zone in the East-Siberian Sea and adjacent parts of the Laptev and Chukchi Seas (view pdf file)
1115 - 1145 David Atkinson, University of Alaska Fairbanks. Social Vulnerability to Climate Change in Arctic western North America and eastern Russia (view pdf file)
1145 - 1215 Gary Kofinas, University of Alaska Fairbanks. Heterogeneity and Resilience of Human-Rangifer Systems: A Circumpolar Social-Ecological Synthesis
Introduction of the Related Russian Projects
1215 - 1235 Marina Leibman, Earth Cryosphere Institute, Moscow. Current research directions and results (view pdf file)
1235 - 1305 Natalia Moskalenko, Earth Cryosphere Institute, Moscow. Current research directions and results (view pdf file)
1430 - 1630 Discussions in two sub-groups: “Yamal” and “East Siberia”, Rooms 401 and 417
1630 - 1700 Short reports on the discussion in sub-groups, Rooms 401 and 417
1730 - 2100 Reception
Friday: 7 April 2006 (International Arctic Research Center, room 401)
Introduction of the UAF NEESPI Projects (continued)
0900 - 1000 Vladimir Romanovsky, Larry Hinzman, and Kenji Yoshikawa, U. Alaska Fairbanks:
(1) Permafrost dynamics within the Northern Eurasia region and related impacts on surface and sub-surface hydrology
(2) Current climate changes over Eastern Siberia and their impact on permafrost landscapes, ecosystem dynamics, and hydrological regime.
(view pdf file)
Thermal State of Permafrost (TSP): The US Contribution to the International Network of Permafrost Observatories (view pdf file)
1000 - 1030 David McGuire, University of Alaska Fairbanks. Are decreases in snow cover moderated by increased carbon storage in fire-disturbed high-latitude terrestrial ecosystems? ( view pdf file)
Introduction of the Related Russian Projects
1030 - 1100 Alexander Vasiliev, Earth Cryosphere Institute, Moscow. Thermal State of Permafrost (TSP) in Russia: West Siberia. (view pdf file)
1100 – 1130 Mikhail Zheleznyak, Melnikov Permafrost Institute, Yakutsk. Thermal State of Permafrost (TSP) in Russia: East Siberia and Far East
1150 - 1220 Dmitri Sergeev, Institute of Environmental Geoscience, Moscow. Thermal State of Permafrost (TSP) in Russia: Trans-Baykal Region
Emerging Logistics Questions
1220 - 1250 Vladimir Gruzinov, Deputy Director State Oceanographic Institute, Moscow. Introduction to the Polar Foundation: Who We Are and How We Can Help? (view pdf file)
1410 - 1610 Discussion on the logistics needs in two sub-groups: “GOA and CARMA” & “TSP”
1630 - 1700 Short reports on the discussion in sub-groups
Saturday: 8 April 2006 (International Arctic Research Center, room 401)
0930 - 1230 Informal discussion: Specific logistics needs and possible solutions
1230 Adjourn
List of Participants
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