Western Arctic Shelf-Basin Interactions (SBI)
Open Community Meetings
Implementation Planning for Phase III Modeling and Synthesis
30 January 2006: Online Meeting
22 February 2006: Town Hall Meeting at AGU/ASLO/TOS Oceans Meeting, Hawaii
For more information, please contact:
Jackie Grebmeier
Director, SBI Project Office
Email: jgrebmei [at] utk.edu
http://sbi.utk.edu
Dear Colleagues:
The Western Arctic Shelf-Basin Interactions (SBI) Advisory Committee and
Project Office will be sponsoring two open community meetings in early
2006 for input to SBI Phase III synthesis and modeling planning efforts:
ONLINE eTOWN MEETING
Date: 30 January 2006
Time: 9:00 a.m. Alaska Standard Time (10:00 a.m. PST; 11:00 a.m. MST;
12:00 p.m. CST; 1:00 p.m. EST). Further information on this online
meeting, including how to register, will be provided in early January
2006.
TOWN HALL MEETING
Date: 22 February 2006
Start Time: 6:30 p.m. Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time
Location: Hawaii Convention Center Level 3 Room 316A, in conjunction
with the 2006 Ocean Sciences Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii. Additional
information on the Ocean Sciences Meeting can be found at:
http://www.agu.org/meetings/os06/
The purpose of the Town Hall and eTown Meeting is to have an open forum
to discuss implementation objectives and planning for SBI Phase III and
to solicit community input for a systems approach to understanding
arctic shelf-basin dynamics.
The goal of the ongoing Western Arctic Shelf-Basin Interactions (SBI)
project is to improve our understanding of the impacts of global change
on the physical and biogeochemical connections among the continental
shelves, slopes, and deep basins of the western Arctic. SBI was
developed to include three phases: Phase I (1999-2001) included
retrospective synthesis, opportunistic sampling and modeling, Phase II
(2002-2006) is the on-going multi-year field program and modeling effort
in the Amerasian Arctic, and the planned Phase III will be the
pan-arctic synthesis and modeling component.
Best wishes for the holidays.
Jackie Grebmeier
Director, SBI Project Office
http://sbi.utk.edu