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UA Participant

Title

14

Igor Polyakov, UAF

Integrated Arctic Ocean Observing System

26

Hajo Eicken, Rolf Gradinger, Igor Dmitrenko, UAF

The Pan Arctic cluster for Climate forcing of the Arctic Marine Ecosystem

29

Sarah Fowell, UAF

The Bering Strait, Rapid Change, and Land Bridge Paleoecology

34

Katrin Iken, UAF

Impact of CLImate induced glacial melting on marine and terrestric COastal communities on a gradient along the Western Antarctic PENinsula (ClicOPEN)

35

JingFeng Wu, UAF

International Polar Year GEOTRACES: An international study of the biogeochemical cycles of Trace Elements and Isotopes in the Arctic and Southern Oceans

37

Matt Nolan, UAF

The dynamic response of Arctic glaciers to global warming

49

Virgil (Buck) L. Sharpton, UAF

International Polar Year (IPY) Data and Information Service (DIS) for Distributed Data Management

50

Vladimir Romanovsky, Larry Hinzman, Gary Kofinas, Matt Nolan, Tom Osterkamp, Chien Lu Ping, Buck Sharpton, Kenji Yoshikawa, Doug Kane, Donald (Skip) Walker, UAF

Permafrost Observatory Project: A Contribution to the Thermal State of Permafrost

69

Peter Schweitzer, Anne Sudkamp, UAF

International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences VI in Nuuk, 2007-2008

77

Bernard Coakley, Sarah Fowell, Leonard Johnson, UAF

Plate Tectonics and Polar Gateways in Earth History

78

Scott Bailey, UAF

Synchronized observations of Polar Mesospheric Clouds (PMC), Aurora, and other large-scale polar phenomena from the International Space Station (ISS) and ground sites

90

David Atkinson, UAF

Arctic Circum-Polar Coastal Observatory Network

95

Hajo Eicken, Jennifer Hutchings, Rudiger Gens, Rolf Gradinger, Mark Johnson, Virgil (Buck) Sharpton, UAF

The state of the Arctic sea ice cover: Physical and biological properties and processes in a changing environment

104

Douglas Kane, UAF

The Arctic Hydrological Cycle Monitoring, Modelling and Assessment Program

105

Jeffrey Welker, UA

Craig Lingle, UAF

The State and Fate of the Cryosphere

107

Martin Truffer, UAF

IPY in the Antarctic Peninsula – Ice and Climate

112

Ray Barnhardt, Oscar Kawagley, UAF

Circumpolar Center for Learning and Indigenous Knowledge Systems

113

Vladimir Romanovsky, UAF

Deep Permafrost Scientific Drilling

114

Gerd Wendler, Martha Shulski, UAF

Climate change in the Arctic with special emphasis on Alaska

122

Russ R Hopcroft, UAF

Ecosystem West Greenland

123

Lawrence D Kaplan, James Ruppert, Patrick Marlow, UAF

Glocalization – Language, Literature and Media among Inuit and Sami people

130

Matt Nolan, UAF

Bipolar Climate Machinery - A study of the interplay of northern and southern polar processes in driving and amplifying global climate as recorded in paleoclimate archives and their significance for the generation of realistic estimates of future climate and sea level development

134

Todd O'Hara, UAF

Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) circumpolar health assessment in relation to toxicants and climate change

138

Larry Hinzman, Vladimir Romanovsky, Igor Semiletov, Donald (Skip) Walker, UAF

Cold Land Processes in the Northern Hemisphere continents and their Coastal Zone: Regional and Global Climate and Societal-Ecosystem Linkages and Interactions

139

Donald (Skip) Walker, Andrew Balsar, Uma Bhatt, Keith Boggs, Brian Barnes, Rick Caulfield, Terry Chapin, Craig Dorman, Hajo Eicken, Brad Griffith, Tom Heinrichs, Larry Hinzman, John Kelly, Gary Kofinas, Hilmar Maier, Gary Michaelson, Corinne Munger, Matt Nolan, Chien-LU Ping, Anupma Prakesh, Peter Prokein, Martha Raynolds, Vladimir Romanovsky, Mike Sfraga, Buck Sharpton, John Walsh, UAF

Greening of the Arctic: Circumpolar Biomass

150

Frank Willams, UAF

High Performance Computing and Mass Storage Resources for IPY Research Support

162

Gary Kofinas, Perry Barboza, Brad Griffith, Kris Hundertmark, Robert White, Greg Finstad, UAF

Starting the clock for the CARMA Network: Impacts on Human-Rangifer Systems in the Circumarctic

166

David Norton, Martin Robards, UAF

Sea Ice Knowledge and Use: Assessing Arctic Environmental and Social Change

167

Karen Perdue, UAF

Kathy Murray, Carl Hild, UAA

Arctic Human Health Initiative

171

Catherine F. Cahill, UAF

POLAR-AOD: a network to characterize the means, variability, and trends of the climate-forcing properties of aerosols in polar regions

185

Roger Hansen, Jeff Freymueller, UAF

Polar Earth Observing Network

188

Syndonia Bret-Harte, UAF

International Tundra Experiment (ITEX): impacts of long-term experimental warming and climate variability on tundra ecosystems

189

Martin Jeffries, UAF

The University of the Arctic: Providing Higher Education and Outreach Programs for the International Polar Year

196

Richard Collins, UAF

International Arctic Systems for Observing the Atmosphere

197

Larry Hinzman, UAF

The hydrological cycle of the Canadian Polar Regions: processes, parameterization, prediction and change

205

David Atkinson, UAF

Impacts of Surface Fluxes on Arctic Climate: Severe Storms, Effects on Coastal Processes and Relationships to Changing Climate

216

Richard Boone, UAF

Biodiversity of soil meso- and macro- fauna and latitudinal gradient impact assessment along the proposed Alaska gas pipeline

217

Richard Collins, UAF

The Structure and Evolution of the Polar Stratosphere and Mesosphere and Links to the Troposphere during IPY

220

Shusun Li, Martin Jeffries, Kim Morris, UAF

Assessment of surface albedo feedback and the variability of surface radiation budget in the Arctic climate system using satellite and ground observations

226

Jack Kruse, UAA

The Political Economy of Northern Development

246

Dave McGuire, UAF

Arctic Biosphere-Atmosphere Coupling across multiple Scales

247

Martin Jeffries, UAF

Bering Sea Sub-Network of Community-Based Environmental Monitoring, Observation and Information Stations

262

Chien-Lu Ping, UAF

Response of Arctic and Subarctic soils in a changing Earth: dynamic and frontier studies

266

Martin Truffer, UAF

Remote sensing monitoring and forecast of surging glaciers’ evolution with the investigation of modern fluctuations of surging glaciers of the Alaska, Svalbard and high elevated Asia glaciers

275

Stuart Chapin, UAF

Polar Disturbance and Ecosystem Services: Links between Climate and Human Well-being

305

Martin Jeffries, UAF

Consortium for coordination of Observation and Monitoring of the Arctic for Assessment and Research

310

Maribeth Murray, UAF

The Impacts of Oil and Gas Activity on Peoples in the Arctic Using a Multiple Securities Perspective

328

Martin Jeffries, UAF

Integrated Communication, Education and Evaluation

333

Rolf Gradinger, Russ Hopcroft, Bodil Bluhm, Falk Huettmann, Rob Cermak, John Kelley, Stephen Jewett, UAF
Oliver Hedgepeth, UA

Arctic Ocean Diversity (ArcOD)

339

Martin Truffer, Roman Motyka, UAF

Measurement and Attribution of recent Greenland Ice sheet chaNgeS (MARGINS)

355

Scott Goldsmith, UAA

The Economy of the North

373

Chien-Lu Ping, Vladimir Romanovsky, UAF

Carbon Pools in Permafrost Regions

386

Jack Kruse, UAA

Survey of Living Conditions in the Arctic, SLiCA - Remote Access Analysis System

390

Elena B. Sparrow, Donald A. (Skip) Walker, UAF

Biodiversity and Climate Induced Lifecycle Changes of Arctic Spiders

400

Gary Kofinas, Patty Gray, UAF

ANTLER Network Secretariat and Workshop Series

436

Peter Schweitzer, UAF

Moved by the State: Perspectives on Relocation and Resettlement in the Circumpolar North

438

Todd Sherman, Jean Flanagan Carlo, UAF

International Polar Year Arctic Nations Exhibition and Activities including Symposia, Seminars, Workshops, Residencies, Documentation and Event Coordination

439

Todd O'Hara, Alan Springer, UAF

MERSAM (MERcurySeabirdArticMonitoring)