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ARCTICNET ANNUAL SCIENTIFIC MEETING 2012

TOPICAL SESSIONS AT A GLANCE WEDNESDAY, 12 DECEMBER

Arctic Security - A Changing Geostrategic Reality 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 beluga The Harper government and its plans for Arctic Role of multiyear in the biogeochemical cycling 10:30 Lackenbauer Godin in the Arctic rivers of the 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 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 food 10:45 Lalonde MacDonald cycling of an arctic pond in Wapusk Dmitrenko Foster McKinney condition metric in southern polar Trough (northern Kara ): Causes and consequences webs in Hudson Bay National Park (Manitoba, ) bears

Quantifying contaminant loadings, water quality and An assessment of killer whale Orcinus orca rake mark Canada and the : Entering the Carbon pools and transformations in subarctic Sensitivity study of ocean mixing under sea ice using multi- impacts in the world's largest lake 11:00 Funston Rautio Jin St.Louis Reinhart occurrence in the -West chairmanship thaw ponds between summer and winter column ocean grid in climate model north of 74°N latitude (Lake Hazen, Quttinirpaaq Balaena mysticetus population National Park, Northern , 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 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 and lead exposure among 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 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

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- relationships in reporting in Canada review using Rock-Eval analyses Arctic lakes (, ) Canada’s Arctic the Hudson Bay lowlands, Manitoba, Canada

CSI : 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 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 Territory, Canada) Sea and the Southern Beaufort Sea at Cape Bounty, Melville Island, Nunavut temperature over eastern 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 : 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 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 10:45 ecology: ecology, science and Meisterhans increases heterotrophy in Arctic surface water White Gibéryen Honeyman Northern Ellesmere Island, since 2005 empowerment Inuit knowledge in Nunavik communities

Understanding the feeding ecology of Barriers and facilitators to indigenous knowledge Patchy distribution of Melosira arctica in Arctic first-year Deterioration patterns of ice islands adrift in the 11:00 Gélinas bowhead whales in Nunavik using stables Poulin Crawford Buckham integration in environmental decision-making: A sea ice: Challenges and implications Canadian Arctic isotopes, trace elements and Inuit knowledge case study of the Nunatsiavut government

Smack in the subarctic: Population dynamics and Inuvialuit and ecological knowledge to examine Harbour seals and declining ice in Western Observations beneath Petermann Ice Island–B (PII–B) in 11:15 Hammill Bozman vertical habitat preference of a deep water jellyfish, Forrest Knopp effects of lake environment on growth Hudson Bay: Will climate change be beneficial? the Canadian Arctic Periphylla periphylla , in a subarctic fjord and health

Cascading ecological impacts of climate change: Temporal advances in summer sea ice Life history, annual routine and vertical distribution of an Current ice motion over Penny Ice Cap, Baffin Island, 11:30 Iverson break-up are correlated with increased Grigor Arctic fjord population of the chaetognath Parasagitta Schaffer Nunavut predation of colonial-nesting bird eggs by polar elegans bears

Assessing spatiotemporal variability in the mesozooplankton using a newly developed plankton Comparative study of impact of climate change on 11:45 Schmid Tamil Selvan imaging system: First results from the BaySys 2012 the Canadian Arctic and Himalayan glacier dynamics expedition to Hudson Bay

Arctic Disputes (Panel) Food Security and Human Health Arctic Marine Ecosystems (Part III) Arctic Rangifers Arctic Sea Ice Room: Grand Ballroom ABC Room: Grand Ballroom D Room: Mackenzie Room: Seymour Room: Marine Chair: Michael Byers Chair: Myriam Fillion Chair: Brent Else Chair: Gita Ljubicic Chair: David Barber

Adaptation planning in the Inuvialuit Settlement Sea ice loss and the changing atmospheric CO uptake Arctic maritime boundary disputes: Lessons and 2 Where are the caribou? The curious case of King William Observing the snow and melt pond properties in the 15:30 Byers Fillion Region: Summary and recommendations from a Else capacity of the : Insights from the Ljubicic Prinsenberg opportunities Island, Nunavut Canadian Beaufort Sea workshop on food security and food safety southeastern Canada Basin

Aullak, sangilivallianginnatuk (going off, growing strong): A community-led enhancement of the Characterizing the ice biomass-snow depth Effects of climate on the timing of the spring and fall On the detection and monitoring of sea ice and 15:45 Kolodkin Hirsch community freezer program for improved mental Campbell Le Corre Barber relationship over spring melt using transmitted irradiance migration of migratory caribou glacial ice hazards in the Southern Beaufort Sea health, nutrition and intergenerational skills transmission in Nain, Nunatsiavut

Arctic food security and climate changes: Dynamic and thermodynamic implications of ocean DMSP bacterial metabolism at the ice-water interface Survival and demography of migratory caribou in 16:00 Ulfstein Juillet towards a quantitative integrated approach to Galindo Rasiulis Asplin swell fracturing on summer arctic sea ice as a result during the spring melt period in Arctic Northern Québec and Labrador enhance decision-making capacity of Arctic storms

Investigating associations between macro- and Environmental health risk management in megafauna communities on the Beaufort Shelf and Slope What killed the caribou? A caribou snow investigation Under-ice noise in Eastern Beaufort Sea: Ice drift 16:15 Nankivell Durkalec Nunatsiavut: Negotiating climate change and Nephin Young Kinda --- with applications for future monitoring using biological (CSI) forcing, fracturing and formation of leads health influences of sea ice use surrogates Arctic Charr Chair: Niloshini Sinnatamby

Change at the margin of the North Water , Baffin The effect of lake morphometry on thermal habitat use On the relationship between the decline in sea ice 16:30 Baker Outridge Bay, inferred from organic matter records in dated Murdoch and growth in Arctic charr populations: Implications for Horton and the size, strength and shape of the polar vortex sediment cores understanding climate-change impacts

Ocean and sea-ice variability in the Arctic Ocean Latitudinal compensation in growth and metabolic 16:45 Sinnatamby Nudds and Canadian : High-resolution rate of Canadian young-of-the-year Arctic charr model simulation and assessment with observations TOPICAL SESSIONS AT A GLANCE FRIDAY, 14 DECEMBER Arctic Tundra and Vegetation (Part II) Arctic Wildlife Arctic Marine Ecosystems (Part IV) Arctic Arctic Communities and Resource Development Room: Grand Ballroom ABC Room: Grand Ballroom D Room: Mackenzie Room: Seymour Room: Marine Chair: Esther Lévesque Chair: George Divoky Chair: Caroline Bouchard Chair: Geoffrey Gunn Chair: Frank Tester Impacts of mineral development in the Arctic: A 10- Monitoring nearshore Arctic forage fish with a Distribution and habitat characteristics of polar cod Recent warming in Kangiqsualujjuaq, Nunavik : A time-series analysis of polynya geometry in year review of the monitoring and impacts of the 11:00 Lévesque Divoky nesting seabird: Using prey observations and Benoit ( ) in southeastern Beaufort Sea before Gunn Furgal More shrubs, more trees, less berries? northwestern Hudson Bay, 1980-2012 Voisey’s Bay development on Inuit, Nunatsiavut chick quality to assess temporal variation the formation of dense under-ice winter aggregations. communities and the environment

Ptarmigan in a changing Arctic - Distributional Larval survival in frozen seas: Biological and physical Shrub cover and the carbon dioxide sink The polynya project: The Siberian IBAs and the neoliberalization of Northern resource 11:15 Lafleur Christie patterns and browsing by ptarmigan in Northern Bouchard factors influencing polar cod (boreogadus saida ) Heinemann Cameron strength of canadian low Arctic tundra perspective of the Circumpolar Flaw Lead System extraction Alaska recruitment

Seasonal variation in soil nitrogen availability “The road to Meliadine:” Exploring past, present, and Physiological but not behavioural senescence in Pan-Arctic genetic population structure of the Arctic Cod A study of the dynamics of the North Water polynya 11:30 McLaren across a fertilization chronosequence in moist Elliott Nelson Heinemann Cater future mining encounters in the Kivalliq region, Arctic seabirds Boreogadus saida using different satellite data sets and methods acidic tundra Nunavut

Modelling spatial variation in the densities of Feedbacks between shrubs and temperatures Investigations of gear modifications to reduce the The 2009 North Water anomaly: Mechanisms of Arctic Colonialism, community consultation, and Inuit 11:45 Myers-Smith Robinson different avian guilds in the Northern Arctic Grant Vincent Green across Northern Canada bycatch of Greenland Shark in Turbot longline fisheries amplification employment in an Arctic mine, 1970-2002 ecotone

Reducing gangion breaking strength of Greenland Tall shrub tundra vegetation and drivers of Are tundra lemming populations controlled from halibut (Reinhardtius hippoglossoides ) longline gear to Pioneering on the behalf of Inuit: Planning Canada's 12:00 Ravolainen Bilodeau Munden Lambert change the bottom-up or the top-down? reduce Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus ) first high Arctic mine bycatch in the Cumberland Sound

Experimental warming increases tundra plant "We thought it would last forever”: The social scars and soil C, N, and P pools, with FLYCATCHER: An algorithm for processing insect 12:15 Zamin Robinson Geoffroy An answer to the mystery of the missing arctic cod? Lim and legacy effects of mine closure at Nanisivik, disproportionate effects of Betula glandulosa visitation data from time-lapse cameras Canada’s first high Arctic mine and Eriophorum vaginatum