Arctic Division

54TH ARCTIC SCIENCE CONFERENCE :: EXTREME EVENTS
Understanding Perturbations to the Physical and Biological Environment

 


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22-24 September 2003 :: Westmark Hotel & Convention Center :: Fairbanks, Alaska


Conference Schedule

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  Sunday, September 21
time event location
3:00 pm Registration Westmark Gold Room
7:00–9:00 pm

Welcoming Reception

Westmark Gold Room

8:00–8:30 pm

"Anticipating the Unexpected"
John Eichelberger, UAF

Westmark Gold Room

 

  Monday, September 22
time event location
7:30 am–5:00 pm Registration
Continental breakfast
Westmark Gold Room Lobby
8:30–9:00 am Welcoming Addresses Westmark Gold Room
Hans Nielsen, Associate Director, Geophysical Institute
Marshall Lind, Chancellor, UAF
Craig Dorman, VP Research, UA
9:00–9:10 am Introduction: Westmark Gold Room
"Extreme Events and Their Consequences"
John Eichelberger, UAF
  Plenary Keynotes Westmark Gold Room
9:10–9:50 am "Geological and Geophysical Observations of the MW 7.9 Denali Fault Earthquake on 3 November 2003"
Jeff Freymueller, UAF & Patricia Craw, ADGGS
9:50–10:30 am "Eruptions That Shook the World"
Clive Oppenheimer, Cambridge University
10:30–10:50 am Break Westmark Gold Room
10:50–11:30 am Plenary Keynotes, continued Westmark Gold Room
"The Nature of Impact?s Impact on Nature: As Extreme as it Gets"
Virgil Sharpton, UAF
11:30–12:10 am  "Wildland Fire: A Unique Extreme Event, A Unique Challenge
for Science"

Tim Hammond, BLM
12:10–2:00 pm Lunch Break Westmark Gold Room
12:30–2:00 pm AWIS Luncheon
Guest Speaker: Joan Braddock, IAB
"Mighty Microbes and Me"
Elena Sparrow Coordinator
Westmark Gold Room
  Plenary Keynotes, continued Westmark Gold Room
2:00–2:40 pm "Severe Weather in a Changing Arctic Climate"
John Walsh, UAF
2:40–3:20 pm "The Biopolitics of Steller Sea Lions and Alaska Fisheries"
Mike Castellini, UAF
3:20–3:40 pm Break Westmark Gold Room
  Plenary Keynotes, continued Westmark Gold Room
3:40–4:20 pm "Use of an Integrated Food-Web Bioindicator Based Design for Environmental Monitoring of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill"
Larry Duffy, UAF
4:20–5:00 pm "The Complex Dynamic of Social and Environmental Catastrophe: The Southern Bering Sea and North Pacific in a Dynamic Global System"
Herb Maschner, ISU
5:00–5:20 pm Concluding Remarks and Discussion
John Eichelberger, UAF
5:20 pm Adjourn Westmark Gold Room
8:00–10:00 pm  Public Lecture: "Nuclear Events: Real and Imagined"
Guest Speaker: Dan O'Neill, Author
Westmark Gold Room

 

  Tuesday, September 23
time event location
7:30 am–5:00 pm Registration
Continental Breakfast
Westmark Gold Room Lobby
  Technical Sessions
8:20–10:00 am The October–November 2002 Earthquake Sequence on the Denali Fault, Alaska
Chairs: Jeff Freymueller, UAF & Patty Craw, ADGGS

Westmark Gold Room East

8:20–12:00 pm Terrestrial Animal Biology
Chair: Terry Bowyer

Westmark Gold Room West

8:20–12:00 pm Cold Region Engineering
Chair: Debendra Das

Westmark Gold Room Center

10:00–10:20 am Break  
  Technical Sessions
10:20 am–12:00 pm

Large Scale Human Created Environmental Events
Chairs: Douglas Dasher and John Kelley, UAF

Westmark Gold Room East

12:00 pm Lunch Break  
12:30–2:00 pm AAAS Business Meeting Luncheon
All Conferees are Welcome!
1:00 pm Poster Session Westmark Rampart Room
  Technical Sessions
2:00–6:00 pm Severe Weather & Climate Change
Chair: John Walsh, UAF
Westmark Gold Room East
2:00–6:00 pm Terrestrial Animal Biology
Chair: Terry Bowyer

Westmark Gold Room West

2:00–7:00 pm Cold Region Engineering
Chair: Debendra Das

Westmark Gold Room Center

3:30 pm Break  
8:00–10:00 pm  AINA - Roundtable
Carl Benson: Moderator
Guest Speaker: TBA
Westmark Gold Room

 

  Wednesday, September 24
time event location
7:30 am–5:00 pm Registration
Continental Breakfast
Westmark Gold Room Lobby
  Technical Sessions
8:20–10:00 am Anthropology of Extreme Events
Chair: Peter Schweitzer, UAF
Westmark Gold Room East
8:20–10:00 am Marine Biology Session
Chair: Kartin Iken, UAF
Westmark Gold Room West
8:20 am–12:00 pm Great Volcanic Eruptions
Chair: Tina Neal
Westmark Gold Room Center
10:00–10:20 am Break  
  Technical Sessions
10:20 am–12:00 pm Circumpolar Health: The Future of Behavioral and Neuroscience Research
Chair: Abel Bult-Ito
Westmark Gold Room East
10:20 am–12:00 pm Terrestrial Plant Biology
Chair: Christa Mulder

Westmark Gold Room West

12:00 pm Noon Break  
12:30–2:00 pm AAAS Business Meeting Luncheon
All Conferees are Welcome!
1:00 pm Poster Session Westmark Rampart Room
2:00–3:40 pm Circumpolar Health Business Meeting Westmark Gold Room East
  Technical Sessions
2:00–6:00 pm Focusing Science Education Outreach
Chair: Daniel Solie
Westmark Gold Room West
2:00–6:40 pm Extreme Events: Glaciology
Chairs: Roman Motyka, UAS & Martin Truffer, UAF
Westmark Gold Room Center
4:00–7:00 pm Public Policy: Science in Disaster Mitigation
Chairs: Craig Dorman, UA & John Eichelberger, UAF
Westmark Gold Room East
7:30–9:30 pm Farewell Dinner/Closing Activities Westmark Gold Room
Introduction of incoming president
Announcement of next meeting
Student awards

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