soa.arcus.orgState of the Arctic 2010

Program Logistics Abstracts Atigun Pass in the Brooks Range, Alaska - Photo by Joed Polly Walrus hauled out on the ice of the Bering Sea - Photo by Brad Benter (USFWS) Polar bear sighting in the Beaufort Sea - Photo by Cristina Galvan (PolarTREC 2009) Ice along the shore near Barrow, Alaska - Photo by Misty Nikula (TREC 2004) A tent camp on the Greenland Ice Sheet in Summit, Greenland - Photo by Kevin McMahon (TREC 2006) Field of cottongrass near the White Mountains in Interior Alaska - Photo by Joed Polly Glacial lake near the Chugach Mountains in southern Alaska - Photo by Zeb Polly A view from the ice of the USCG Icebreaker Healy - Photo by Ute Kaden (TREC 2005) Smoke filled trees near Yukon, Canada during the 2004 Alaska wildfires - Photo by Zeb Polly Whale bones on the beach near Point Barrow, Alaska - Photo by Misty Nikula (TREC 2004) Products All Conference products are now available online . Featured Speakers Jay Gulledge Pew Center on Global Climate Change Senior Scientist and Program Manager for Science and Impacts Jay Gulledge is the Senior Scientist and Program Manager for Science and Impacts at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. Dr. Gulledge oversees the Pew Center’s efforts to assess the current state of scholarly knowledge about the... View All Plenary Speakers Louis Fortier Laval University Louis Fortier is the Project Leader for the Canadian Research Icebreaker Amundsen and the Scientific Director of ArcticNet, a Canadian Network of Centres of Excellence dedicated to the study of the transforming coastal Canadian Arctic. Louis Fortier was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in... View All Plenary Speakers Elke U. Weber Columbia Business School Elke U. Weber is the Jerome A. Chazen Professor of International Business at Columbia Business School and Professor of Psychology at Columbia University. Previously she has held academic positions in both the United States and Europe. She also spent time at the Center for Advanced Studies in the... View All Plenary Speakers Mead Treadwell US Arctic Research Commission Mead Treadwell is Chair of the seven-member U.S. Arctic Research Commission, appointed by the President. The Commission sets goals for the U.S. Arctic Research Program and builds cooperation in research among federal agencies, the State of Alaska, Universities, and international partners. As a... View All Plenary Speakers Valeriy Kryukov Russian Academy of Sciences Valeriy Kryukov graduated as an Economist-Mathematician at the University of Novosibirsk. After this he had finished post graduate course at the Institute of Economics - defended Candidate of Science dissertation (on social-economic evaluation of the profiles of the development of hydrocarbons... View All Plenary Speakers Vera K. Metcalf Eskimo Walrus Commission, Kawerak, Inc. Vera Kingeekuk Metcalf was born and raised in Sivungaq (Savoonga) on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska. She now lives in Nome and has been the Director of the Eskimo Walrus Commission (EWC) with Kawerak, Inc. since 2002. She works to promote local community participation in research that involves a... View All Plenary Speakers Arden L. Bement, Jr. National Science Foundation (NSF) Arden L. Bement, Jr., was sworn in as the 12th Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) on November 24, 2004. Dr. Bement heads the only federal agency that funds research and education in all fields of science and engineering. He directs a budget of more than $6 billion; hundreds of... View All Plenary Speakers Marianne Lykke Thomsen Government of Greenland Marianne Lykke Thomsen has a background in Inuit Studies and has been living in Nuuk, Greenland since 1987. She has been advising the Government of Greenland on foreign policy issues since 1994, before which she held the position of environmental coordinator with Inuit Circumpolar Council.... View All Plenary Speakers Timo Koivurova University of Lapland Timo Koivurova is a research professor and director of the Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law (Arctic Centre, University of Lapland), an institute specialised in northern and Arctic legal issues. Koivurova has lead several EU, Nordic and Finnish funded research projects dealing... View All Plenary Speakers Bob Corell Global Environment & Technology Foundation Dr. Robert W. Corell is a Principal for the Global Environment Technology Foundation, an Ambassador for ClimateWorks, Professor II at the University of the Arctic’s new Institute of Circumpolar Reindeer Husbandry and Professor II at the University of Tromso. He is a Partner of the Sustainability... 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View Products and Resources Products Attendees Sponsors Side Meetings Video Archive Press News Organizing Committee National Science Foundation National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration International Arctic Systems for Observing the Atmosphere Study of Environmental Arctic Change Arctic System Science Program US Arctic Research Commission North Slope Science Initiative International Arctic Science Committee Arctic Ocean Sciences Board Alaska Ocean Observing System Department of Energy National Aeronautics and Space Administration WWF Association of Polar Early Career Scientists Bureau of Land Management International Study of Arctic Change ArcticNet Developing Arctic Modeling and Observing Capabilities for Long-term Environmental Studies This work is supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the ARCUS Cooperative Agreement ARC-0618885. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed do not necessarily reflect the views of the...