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Arcticnet Annual Scientific Meeting 2012 ARCTICNET ANNUAL SCIENTIFIC MEETING 2012 TOPICAL SESSIONS AT A GLANCE WEDNESDAY, 12 DECEMBER Arctic Security - A Changing Geostrategic Reality Arctic Lakes, Rivers and Estuaries (Part I) Arctic Marine Ecosystems (Part I) Arctic Contaminants Arctic Marine Mammals (Part I) Room: Grand Ballroom ABC Room: Grand Ballroom D Room: Mackenzie Room: Seymour Room: Marine Chair: Rob Huebert Chair: Milla Rautio Chair: Alexandre Forest Chair: Feiyue Wang Chair: Yvan Simard Tracing the terrigenous sources of POC and DOC Integrating marine ecological processes of the The offshore diet of the Eastern Beaufort sea beluga The Harper government and its plans for Arctic Role of multiyear sea ice in the biogeochemical cycling 10:30 Lackenbauer Godin in the Arctic rivers of the Hudson Bay using lignin Forest Canadian Arctic environment within a community-based Beattie Choy population and the energetic effects of climate security of mercury in the Arctic Ocean biomarkers, δ13C and Δ14C modeling framework change Avian-driven alterations in seasonal carbon Validation of adipose lipid content as a body Protecting canadian sovereignty in the Heat loss from the Atlantic water layer in the St. Anna Mercury biomagnification in marine zooplankton food 10:45 Lalonde MacDonald cycling of an arctic tundra pond in Wapusk Dmitrenko Foster McKinney condition metric in southern Beaufort Sea polar Northwest Passage Trough (northern Kara Seas): Causes and consequences webs in Hudson Bay National Park (Manitoba, Canada) bears Quantifying contaminant loadings, water quality and An assessment of killer whale Orcinus orca rake mark Canada and the Arctic Council: Entering the Carbon pools and transformations in subarctic Sensitivity study of ocean mixing under sea ice using multi- climate change impacts in the world's largest lake 11:00 Funston Rautio Jin St.Louis Reinhart occurrence in the Eastern Canada-West Greenland chairmanship thaw ponds between summer and winter column ocean grid in climate model north of 74°N latitude (Lake Hazen, Quttinirpaaq bowhead whale Balaena mysticetus population National Park, Northern Ellesmere Island, Nunavut) Spatial and temporal patterns of net ecosystem Global warming effects on Arctic and subarctic The arrival of the asian tigers into the Arctic: exchange of carbon dioxide and ecosystem The Oceanographic dynamics of a subarctic Fjord - Lake Total and methylated mercury in the Beaufort Sea: The 11:15 Manicom Scott deYoung Wang Simard underwater soundscapes and marine mammal New challenges respiration at the Cape Bounty Arctic Watershed Melville: Avativut, Kanuittailinnivut role of local and recent organic remineralization frequentation from an acoustic observatory Observatory, Melville Island, Nunavut Seasonal changes of chromophoric dissolved Low visibility event climatology and synoptic drivers, Food insecurity is compounded by increased mercury 11:30 Huebert Arctic security - A changing geostrategic reality Walker organic matter (cdom) quality: A comparison of Atkinson Fillion Bering Strait region and lead exposure among Inuit in the Canadian Arctic large arctic rivers The estuarine mixing behaviour of terrestrially derived dissolved organic carbon and its 11:45 Panel session discussions Gueguen relationship to colored dissolved organic matter in two Hudson Bay estuaries Arctic tundra and vegetation (Part I) Arctic Lakes, Rivers and Estuaries (Part II) Ocean mapping, Coastal & Shelf Processes Arctic Remote Sensing Arctic Monitoring, Modeling and Data Management Education and Outreach Room: Grand Ballroom ABC Room: Grand Ballroom D Room: Mackenzie Room: Seymour Room: Marine Room: Stanley Park Ballroom Chair: Greg Henry Chair: Fred Wrona Chair: Steve Blasco Chair: Monique Bernier Chair: Jill Watkins Chair: Thierry Rodon Migration potential of tundra plant species in a Temporal variations in the structure of the subarctic warming Arctic: Responses of southern Hydro-ecological responses of Arctic upland Distribution of seabed ice scour caused by grounded Identifying indicators for monitoring Arctic marine Local people’s accounts of climate change: To 15:30 Bjorkman Wrona Bennett Bernier snowpack and its effects on SAR satellite imagery at X- Watkins Berkes ecotypes of three species to experimental lakes to a changing cryosphere icebergs on the Canadian Baffin shelf biodiversity in Canada what extent are they influenced by the media? and C-band warming in the High Arctic Populations’ dynamic and growth pattern of Complex thermal storage and mixing of High The overlooked importance of communication Boulanger- Outer shelf and upper slope seabed dynamics, Biophysical modeling and monitoring in the Canadian Developing a circumpolar monitoring framework for 15:45 the Arctic willow in High Arctic Canada and Bonnaventure Arctic lakes: Transitioning to seasonal ice cover Blasco Collingwood Culp Reinfort processes in disseminating contaminants research Lapointe Canadian Beaufort Sea based on geological data High Arctic with RADARSAT-2 Arctic freshwater biodiversity Greenland and a longer ice-free period to Inuvialuit Organic matter sources and cycling in soils, Examining the effect of catchment disturbance 21st century methods to derive and deliver coastal High school student-led research examining A potential role for CHARS in Arctic monitoring and 16:00 Carrie sediments, peats and coal: A comparative Medeiros on nutrients and biological communities of Hughes Clarke A new inshore seabed mapping capability in Nunavut Duffe information: Improved emergency preparedness in McLennan Rudin peatland vegetation-permafrost relationships in reporting in Canada review using Rock-Eval analyses Arctic lakes (Seward peninsula, Alaska) Canada’s Arctic the Hudson Bay lowlands, Manitoba, Canada CSI Husky Lakes: Evaluation of hydro-climatic Does enhanced winter snow accumulation Vertical land motion, sea-level fingerprinting, and Processing of high resolution polarimetric sar data to A necessary voice: The importance of engaging drivers of contaminant transfer in aquatic food Preliminary study of NEMO and its use in the Arctic Petrasek 16:15 Christiansen affect tundra carbon and nutrient dynamics Gantner James projections of relative sea-level change in Northern Roth support mapping and monitoring of Arctic Liu and including Inuit youth in Northern research and webs in the Husky Lakes watershed, Northwest IRIS process MacDonald during the growing season? Canada environments policy Territories, Canada Phototrophic and heterotrophic respiration Late glacial and Holocene vegetation and Organic carbon release from coastal erosion on ice-rich Satellite change detection techniques and object- A Transition from CMIP3 to CMIP5 for climate Schools on Board - from ship to shore; authentic associated with cryptoendolithic 16:30 Fritz climate history from easternmost Beringia Omelon Lantuit permafrost coasts: A comparison of the Southern Laptev Rudy based analysis to identify permafrost slope disturbances Markovic information providers: the case of surface Watts and simulated Arctic science research experiences microorganisms, Ellesmere Island, Canadian high (Northern Yukon Territory, Canada) Sea and the Southern Beaufort Sea at Cape Bounty, Melville Island, Nunavut temperature over eastern North America for high school students and teachers Arctic Research in action: Improving access to university A network of millennial tree ring chronologies The effects of warming and nutrient enrichment Glacial isostatic adjustment in Northern Canada: Land cover characterization of Arctic environments by Przytulska- The future of citizen science and social media in polar education in the Canadian Arctic, learning from 16:45 Gennaretti for climate reconstructions from the margin of on bloom-forming cyanobacteria in subarctic Simon Improving innuitian and laurentide ice sheet Ullmann means of polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (SAR) LeDrew Rodon Bartosiewicz data management past experiences, listening to the Inuit students the Eastern Canadian Arctic lakes reconstructions using relative sea-level and GPS data and digital elevation model (DEM) data and developing tools and policies Annual variations in growing season length in a Lake Melville: Avativut, Kanuittailinnivut (our High spatial resolution remote sensing models for 17:00 Henry warming Arctic: Changes at Alexandra Fiord, Bell Atkinson environment, our health) landscape-scale CO exchange Ellesmere Island, Nunavut 2 TOPICAL SESSIONS AT A GLANCE THURSDAY, 13 DECEMBER Future Directions in Inuit Education Research: Arctic Marine Mammals (Part II) Arctic Marine Ecosystems (Part II) Arctic Glaciers. Ice Shelves and Ice Islands Indigenous Knowlege & Community Adaptation A Roundtable Discussion Room: Grand Ballroom ABC Room: Grand Ballroom D Room: Mackenzie Room: Seymour Room: Marine Chair: Mike Hammill Chair: Scot Nickels Chair: C.J. Mundy Chair: Christian Haas Chair: Jennie Knopp Graphical models of co-management Particulate absorption in the bottom layer of first-year Doniol- frameworks: Applying a bayesian decision Thickness of sea ice, ice islands, and ice shelves in the The ARCTIConnexion program: Bridging northern 10:30 Mundy sea ice in the Canadian Arctic: Characterization and Haas L'Hérault Valcroze network to the subsistence hunt of Eastern High Canadian Arctic communities and Arctic research seasonal trends Hudson Bay beluga Enhancing understandings in marine mammal Dissolved organic matter input from sea-ice melt Breton- Changes to the Petersen Ice Shelf and epishelf lake, Life on permafrost in Nunavik: Community planning
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