AGU Town Hall Meeting Announcement
Arctic Research: Goals, Updates and Opportunities
Moscone West, Room 2002
Thursday, 18 December 2008, 6:15pm - 8:30pm
For further information, please go to:
http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm08/index.php/Events/TownHall
Or contact:
John Farrell
Email: jfarrell [at] arctic.gov
The U.S. Arctic Research Commission invites the research community to
attend a Town Hall Meeting, "Arctic Research: Goals, Updates and
Opportunities," being held during the American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Fall Meeting, in San Francisco, California. The Town Hall will take
place on Thursday, 18 December 2008, from 6:15pm - 8:30pm, in Moscone
West, Room 2002. Moscone West is located on 4th Street, between Minna
and Howard Streets, in San Francisco.
The meeting is organized by the U.S. Arctic Research Commission and
co-sponsored with the University of Alaska Fairbanks School of Fisheries
and Oceans Science and the International Arctic Research Center. The
Town Hall will focus on updates and opportunities in arctic research.
The following speakers will give brief presentations and will address
questions from the audience:
Mead Treadwell, Chair, U.S. Arctic Research Commission
"Goals and Objectives for Arctic Research, the 2009 USARC Biennial
Report to the President and Congress."
Martin Jeffries, Program Director, NSF/Office of Polar Programs
"Federal Arctic Observing Networks and the International 'Sustaining
Arctic Observing Networks.'"
John Calder, Director, NOAA Arctic Research, Climate Program Office
"NOAA's Arctic Research Programs, Challenges and Opportunities."
Denis Wiesenburg, Dean and Professor, School of Fisheries and Ocean
Sciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks
"Update on the Alaska Regional Research Vessel."
Jackie Richter-Menge, Research Civil Engineer, U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers, CRREL
"A New Science Plan for the Scientific Ice Expeditions (SCICEX) Program
and Opportunities to Participate."
Carin Ashjian, Associate Scientist, WHOI, and Chair of the UNOLS Arctic
Icebreaker Coordinating Committee
"Update and New Scientific Research Opportunities on U.S. Icebreakers."
Larry Mayer, Director of CCOM at UNH and Co-director of the NOAA/UNH
Joint Hydrographic Center
"Mapping the Arctic Ocean for Science and Country: Recent Results and
Availability of Bathymetric Data from the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas."
Larry Hinzman, Director, International Arctic Research Center,
University of Alaska Fairbanks
"Initiating Development of an Arctic System Model."
Charles Vorosmarty, Professor CUNY and USARC Commissioner
"Progress Towards the 'Arctic Scaling' Report"
Betsy Weatherhead, Cooperative Institute for Research and Environmental
Sciences (CIRES), NOAA/CU-Boulder
"Unmanned Autonomous Systems in Arctic Research."
Francis Wiese, Science Director, North Pacific Research Board (NPRB)
"Arctic Research Opportunities Sponsored by the NPRB."
Refreshments will be served.
For further information, please go to:
http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm08/index.php/Events/TownHall.
Or contact:
John Farrell
Email: jfarrell [at] arctic.gov