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It is not neccessary to print the program as it will be included in the Program & Abstracts volume given to all registrants at check-in on Wednesday evening or Thursday morning.

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Check-In

Check in during the Icebreaker on Wednesday evening (5 - 8 pm) in RL-1 rm 269 or at the start of the Workshop on Thursday morning (8 - 8:30 am) in RL-3 rm 620. You will receive a packet including a printed Program and Astracts volume, and other materials. Extra abstract volumes can be purchased for $30. Poster presentations should put up right away, and left up as long as possible during the workshop.

Program Summary

WEDNESDAY 15 MARCH 2006

5:00 to 8:00pm

Icebreaker, Check in, & Registration Hors d'oeuvres, beer, wine, and soft drinks will be served; Please load PowerPoint presentations onto our computer. INSTAAR Conference Room, Bldg. RL-1, Rm. 269

 

THURSDAY 16 MARCH 2006

08:00	Check-in & Registration (Load PowerPoint presentations onto our computer) INSTAAR Auditorium, Bldg. RL-3, Rm. 620
08:45	Workshop Welcome & Introduction
09:00	Lacustrine Records 1
10:15	Morning Break
10:30	Modern Arctic Environmental Change
12:00pm	Lunch Break (meal not provided)
1:30	Marine Records
2:45	Afternon Break
3:00	Glacial History 1
3:45	Afternon Break
4:00	Glacial History 2
5:00	End of the day
5:30 to 8:00	Student Pizza and Beer Party (students only) INSTAAR Conference Room, Bldg. RL-1, Rm. 269

 

FRIDAY 17 MARCH 2006

08:30am	Continental Breakfast Provided INSTAAR Conference Room, Bldg. RL-1, Rm. 269
08:30	Posters
12:00pm	Box Lunch Provided INSTAAR Conference Room, Bldg. RL-1, Rm. 269
1:15	Atmospheric & Meteorologic Processes
2:15	Afternoon Break
2:30	Human Dimensions & Archeology 1
3:30	Afternon Break
3:45	Human Dimensions & Archeology 2
4:30	End of Main Sessions
5:30-10:00	Workshop Dinner Provided (Hors d'oeuvres, meal, beer, wine, soft drinks) University Memorial Center (UMC), main campus. Rm. 235
5:00 5:15 & 5:30	Shuttle bus pickup at INSTAAR Shuttle bus pickup at Boulder Inn Best Western
6:00	Keynote: Ray Bradley "Global Warming and Washington Heat"
9:30 & 10:00	Shuttle bus from UMC to Boulder Inn Best Western

 

SATURDAY 18 MARCH 2006

08:30	Lacustrine Records 2
09:30	Morning Break
09:45	Lacustrine Records 3
10:45	Morning Break
11:00	Glaciology 1
11:45	Final Morning Break
12:00pm	Glaciology 2
1:00	End of The Meeting Thanks for attending. See you in Iceland in 2007

Program

PM WEDNESDAY 15 MARCH 2006

5:00 to 8:00pm

Icebreaker, Check in, & Registration Hors d'oeuvres, beer, wine, and soft drinks will be served; Please load PowerPoint presentations onto our computer. INSTAAR Conference Room, Bldg. RL-1, Rm. 269

AM THURSDAY 16 MARCH 2006

08:00	Check-in & Registration (Load PowerPoint presentations onto our computer) INSTAAR Auditorium, Bldg. RL-3, Rm. 620
08:45	Workshop Welcome & Introduction INSTAAR Auditorium, Bldg. RL-3, Rm. 620 James Syvitski (INSTAAR Director) Tad Pfeffer (Workshop Director)

Lacustrine Records 1 Thurs. am    Chair: Jason Briner

09:00	Visible reflectance spectroscopy in arctic paleoecology Wolfe, Alexander P ; Michelutti, Neal ; Vinebrooke, Rolf ; Rivard, Ben
09:15	INFERRED PALEOTEMPERATURES FROM HANGING LAKE, YUKON TERRITORY: A CHIRONOMID COMMUNITY PERSPECTIVE ON BERINGIAN CLIMATE Kurek, Joshua ; Cwynar, Les C
09:30	Hydrological variability since AD 1533 reconstructed from a meromictic lake at the northern extreme of the Canadian High Arctic Tomkins, Jessica D ; Lamoureux, Scott F ; Antoniades, Dermot ; Vincent, Warwick F
09:45	Limnology, sedimentology, and hydrology of a jökulhlaup into a meromictic high arctic lake Lewis, Ted ; Francus, Pierre ; Bradley, Raymond S.
10:00	High-resolution Holocene Paleomagnetic Secular Variation Records from Iceland: Towards Marine - Terrestrial Synchronization Olafsdottir, Saedis ; Stoner, Joseph ; Geirsdottir, Aslaug ; Miller, Gifford
10:15	Morning Break

Modern Arctic Environmental Change Thurs. am    Chair: Ray Bradley

10:30	Arctic glaciers dynamic characteristics and implicit sensitivity: global sea level implications Dyurgerov, Mark B ; Box, Jason E.
10:45	Arctic Sea Ice Changes in the 20th and 21st Century: Views from the Recent IPCC Model Simulations Zhang, Xiangdong
11:00	NSIDC Showcases the State of the Cryosphere via Google Earth Ballagh, Lisa ; Parsons, Mark ; Swick, Ross
11:15	Advanced geospatial visualizations and data sharing for Arctic science Manley, William F
11:30	Using MODIS Land surface temperature product to calculate active layer thickness of continuous permafrost Hachem, Sonia ; Allard, Michel ; Duguay, Claude R.
11:45	GLIMS test of variability in glacier analysis from satellite imagery Raup, Bruce H ; Khalsa, Siri Jodha S ; Helm, Christopher ; Armstrong, Richard
12:00	Lunch Break

PM THURSDAY 16 MARCH 2006

Marine Records Thurs. pm    Chair: James Syvitski

1:30	Do Gulf of Alaska marine strata contain evidence of increased late 20th Century glacial melting and runoff? Jaeger, John M ; Vienne, William ; Finney, Bruce ; Stoner, Joseph ; Channell, James
1:45	Major shifts in marine climate and environment between 1000 and 11,500 cal yr BP recorded in a marine sediment core from Skotufjordur, a fjord on the Vestfirdir peninsula, NW Iceland Quillmann, Ursula ; Andrews, John T ; Jennings, Anne E
2:00	Neogloboquadrina pachyderma (dex. and sin.) Mg/Ca and d18O records from the Norwegian Sea Nyland, Birgitte F. ; Jansen, Eystein ; Elderfield, Henry ; Andersson, Carin
2:15	Rising temperatures, shrinking ice: the deglaciation in the Bering Sea based on diatoms, alkenones, and oxygen isotopes Caissie, Beth E. ; Brigham-Grette, Julie ; Lawrence, Kira T. ; Cook, Mea S.
2:30	The Holocene mineralogy of marine sediments from the Iceland, East Greenland, and eastern Canadian margins from quantitative XRD analysis: changes in supply and processes Coleman, George C. ; Diefenbach, Gregory ; Roth, Wendy ; Andrews, John T. ; Eberl, Dennis D.
2:45	Afternoon Break

Glacial History Thurs. pm    Chair: John Andrews

3:00	What controls the location of Laurentide palaeo-ice streams? Winsborrow, Monica ; Clark, Chris ; Stokes, Chris
3:15	The last glacial cycle on Jameson Land, East Greenland: local glaciation, ice-free conditions and perhaps an ice sheet Alexanderson, Helena ; Håkansson, Lena
3:30	Sedimentary processes beneath ice streams, inferred from 3D seismic data from the south-western Barents Sea Andreassen, Karin
3:45	Afternoon Break

Glacial History 2 Thurs. pm    Chair: John Andrews

4:00	LGM GLACIER RETREAT RATES AND THE TIMING OF TERRACE FORMATION IN THE ANIMAS RIVER DRAINAGE, SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS, COLORADO Guido, Zackry S ; Anderson, Robert S
4:15	Using cosmogenic isotopes to reconcile two contrasting hypotheses for ice extent in East Greenland during the last glaciation Håkansson, Lena ; Alexanderson, Helena ; Aldahan, Ala ; Briner, Jason ; Hjort, Christian ; Possnert, Göran
4:45	Was there a marine transgression on the Laptev Sea Shelf during the last interglacial? Evidence of continental climate in the Siberian Arctic by terrestrial plant macrofossils Kienast, Frank W ; Schirrmeister, Lutz ; Grosse, Guido ; Tarasov, Pavel ; Siegert, Christine ; Hubberten, Hans W
5:00	End of Day
5:30 to 8:00	Student Pizza and Beer Party (Students Only). INSTAAR Bldg. RL-1, Rm. 269

AM FRIDAY 17 MARCH 2006

Cryosphere - Posters Fri. am

1	Icebergs in the Atlantic and Indian Sectors of Antarctic region: their mean distribution and interannual variation inferred from ships-born observations Romanov, Yuri A ; Romanov, Peter
2	Surface Velocities Near Ice Cliff Margins at Taylor Glacier, Antarctic Dry Valleys Whorton, Erin ; Pettit, Erin ; Hallet, Bernard ; Fountain, Andrew
3	Short-Term Changes in Terminus Geometry at Columbia Glacier, AK Walter, Jacob I. ; O'Neel, Shad ; Pfeffer, W. Tad
4	GPS Infrastructure Support for Real-Time and Post-Processed Surveys at Summit Camp, Greenland Nylen, Thomas H. ; White, Seth ; Johns, Bjorn

Geomorphology, Soils, & Landscapes - Posters Fri. am

5	Regional Landslide Mapping: Landslide Spatial Database and Case Studies in the Mackenzie Valley, Northwest Territories, Canada Couture, Réjean ; Riopel, Simon
6	Ecosystem development on the historical lava fields of Mt. Hekla, Iceland Cutler, Nick
7	Chemical weathering in loess soils of the Matanuska Valley, Alaska Cacy, Cynthia ; Anderson, Suzanne P. ; Blum, Alex ; Mann, Dan

Glacial History - Posters Fri. am

9	Latest Wisconsin deglaciation and postglacial vegetation development in the Turnagain Arm area, upper Cook Inlet, southcentral Alaska Ager, Thomas A. ; Carrara, Paul E.
10	Preservation of landforms under ice-sheet : the example of the blockfields of the Chic-Choc Range (Québec, Canada) Tsao, Cécile ; Filion, Louise ; Hétu, Bernard
11	RECONSTRUCTING HOLOCENE GLACIER CHANGES IN WEST GREENLAND FROM MULTISPECTRAL ASTER IMAGERY Huh, Kyung In ; Csatho, Bea M ; van der Veen, Cornelis

Paleoceanography - Posters Fri. am

12	Arctic catastrophes: sea ice changes and impacts in the Eastern Arctic during the past 4,000 years Mudie, Peta J. ; Levac, Elisabeth ; Rochon, André
13	Holocene Paleotemperature Estimates of Atlantic Water in the Irminger Current Jennings, Anne E ; Ólafsdóttir, Saedis ; Woody, Kristin M ; Andrews, John T
14	Marine Evidence For Glacial Ice Advances In Viscount Melville Sound And Byam Martin Channel, Canadian Arctic Archipelago MacLean, Brian ; Sonnichsen, Gary ; Blasco, Steve ; Bennett, Robbie ; Rainey, Walli

Interdisciplinary Research - Posters Fri. am

15	The Morphology and Paleobiology of Late Cretaceous Lingulids from the Canadian High Arctic Barton, David L ; Chin, Karen
16	The Bishop's Cows - An improved 18th century landscape in subarctic Iceland Hambrecht, George
17	Exploring Climate Change Issues in Iceland: The Perils and Promise of Interdisciplinary Research McNie, Elizabeth ; Axford, Yarrow ; Rosner, Hillary ; Haag, Amanda
18	Cyclones of the Arctic: Definitions, Seasonal Trends and Patterns, and links to Freshwater cycle Byrkjedal, Oyvind ; Tsukernik, Maria ; Alexeev, Vladimir

Svalbard REU: Modern Process Studies - Posters Fri. am

19	Determination of Stratiform Cloud Formation and its Effect upon Glacial Ablation at Linnébreen, Svalbard for the Summer of 2005 Szembek, Carlos D. ; Colby, Frank
20	Relationships Among Weather, Glacial Ablation, and Fluvial Processes, Svalbard, Norway Gercke, Emily S
21	SIX WEEKS IN THE ARCTIC, A TEACHER RESEARCH EXPERIENCE IN SVALBARD, NORWAY Oddo, Robert
22	ICE-MARGINAL DELTA FORMATION AND SEDIMENTARY PROCESSES OF KONGSVEGEN GLACIER IN KONGSFJORDEN, SVALBARD, NORWAY Cumpston, Ryan M ; Trusel, Luke ; Powell, Ross D ; Brigham-Grette, Julie
23	FJORD SEDIMENTATION ASSOCIATED WITH A SUBMARINE MELTWATER JET AND PLUME DISCHARGING FROM KRONEBREEN GLACIER, KONGSFJORDEN, SVALBARD, NORWAY Trusel, Luke D ; Cumpston, Ryan M ; Brigham-Grette, Julie ; Powell, Ross D
24	The role of the valley braidplain as a sediment sink: Linnédalen, Spitsbergen, Svalbard Matell, Nora ; Cox, Rónadh
25	Solute Distribution and Transport in the Linne Catchment, Svalbard Moore, Frances
26	Mineralogical analysis of sediment source changes to Linnévatnet, Svalbard Perreault, Lauren M
27	Sedimentation in Linnévatnet, Svalbard during 2004-2005: a modern process study using sediment traps Motley, Brooks
28	Three Timescales of Suspended Sediment Transport in Lake Linné, Svalbard Yellen, Brian ; Donnelly, Jeffrey P.
29	Characterization and Calibration of Lamination Stratigraphy of Cores Recovered from Lake Linné, Svalbard Norway Pratt, Emily M ; Werner, Al ; Roof, Steve R

Paleolimnology - Posters Fri. am

30	Recent changes in small lakes of western Spitsbergen, Svalbard (Norwegian High Arctic) Holmgren, Sofia ; Wolfe, Alexander P ; Ingolfsson, Olafur
31	Holocene paleoclimate and ecosystem change in the Alaska and Yukon sub-Arctic from lake sediment records Anderson, Lesleigh ; Abbott, Mark B ; Finney, Bruce P ; Edwards, Mary E ; Witthaus, Lindsey ; Franklin-Smith, Lee ; Tsukernik, Maria
32	HOLOCENE PALEOCLIMATE FROM STABLE ISOTOPE GEOCHEMISTRY OF SQUANGA LAKE, SOUTHERN YUKON TERRITORY, CANADA Witthaus, Lindsey ; Abbott, Mark ; Anderson, Lesleigh ; Ortiz, Joseph
33	High resolution analysis of late Holocene laminated sediments from Cape Hurd Lake, southwestern Devon Island, Nunavut, Canada: a contribution to the Arctic 2,000 year synthesis of climate variability from arctic lakes Retelle, Mike ; Johnson, Bev ; Putnam, Aaron
34	Delayed response of diatom assemblages to eutrophication in an arctic lake Michelutti, Neal ; Smol, John P. ; Douglas, Marianne S.V.
35	Comparing radiocarbon ages from aquatic moss macrofossils, humic acids and chironomid head capsules in arctic lake sediments Thomas, Elizabeth K ; Briner, Jason P ; Axford, Yarrow ; Miller, Gifford H.
36	A compact percussion piston corer for surface sediments Briner, Jason P ; Miller, Gifford H ; Axford, Yarrow ; Werner, Al ; Kaufman, Darrell S ; Axford, Ted ; Cunningham, Kevin
37	Preliminary paleoclimate proxy data from high-resolution surface sediment cores from two Baffin Island lakes: A context for the Anthropocene Szymanski, Jason ; Thomas, Elizabeth K ; Briner, Jason P ; Axford, Yarrow ; Miller, Gifford H
38	Sedimentary Evidence of Climate and Landscape Changes from Upper and Lower Murray Lakes in the Canadian High-Arctic Cook, Tim ; Patridge, Whit ; Bradley, Raymond S.
39	PATTERNS OF HOLOCENE LAKE ONTOGENY IN WEST GREENLAND Perren, Bianca B ; Anderson, N. John ; Douglas, Marianne S.V. ; Fritz, Sheri
40	HOLOCENE MIDGE-INFERRED TEMPERATURE RECONSTRUCTIONS FROM SOUTHERN GREENLAND LAKES: A CONTRIBUTION TO THE ARCSS 2 KYR PROJECT Francis, Donna R. ; Miller, Gifford H.
41	A Sedimentological Study of Lake Cores with Implications for Late Holocene Climate and Settlement Dynamics in South Mainland, Shetland Islands, United Kingdom Mazur, Sarah E ; Retelle, Michael ; Bigelow, Gerald ; Jones, Michael

PM FRIDAY 17 MARCH 2006

Atmospheric & Meteorologic processes Fri. pm    Chair: William Manley

--	Presentation withdrawn Climate Variability and Trends along the Western Slope of the Greenland Ice Sheet Steffen, Konrad ; Huff, Russell
1:15	An enhanced characterization of the NAO influence on seasonal precipitation variation in West Greenland Aebly, Frank A ; Hu, Qi ; Fritz, Sherilyn C
1:30	Long Distance Pollen transport to Greenland: Survey of evidences recorded in 2004 and 2005 in four stations Rousseau, Denis-Didier ; Schevin, Patrick ; Jackie, Ferrier
1:45	Modeling DMS in the Arctic Atmosphere - Meteorological processes explaining the observed variability Mattsson, Jenny ; Svensson, Gunilla ; Leck, Caroline
2:00	Ozone exchange at the air-snow interface at the polar site of Summit, Greenland Bocquet, Florence ; Cohen, Lana ; Helmig, Detlev
2:15	Afternoon Break

Human Dimensions & Archeology 1 Fri. pm    Chair: E. James Dixon

2:30	EFFECTS OF CLIMATIC VARIABILITY ON NATIVE SUBSISTENCE-FISHING ECONOMIES IN SOUTHWEST ALASKA: IMPLICATIONS FOR FISHERIES-MANAGEMENT POLICIES McGoodwin, James R. ; Engelhaupt, Erika
2:45	Getting it Almost Right: Climate Fluctuation, Grazing Management, and Soil Erosion in Medieval Northern Iceland McGovern, Thomas H ; Casely, Andy ; Dugmore, Andy ; Simpson, Ian ; Vesteinsson, Orri ; Perdikaris, Sophia ; Hambrecht, George
3:00	Good for glaciers, bad for people? Disentangling climate and human impact in Medieval Iceland Casely, Andrew F ; Dugmore, Andrew J
3:15	The Last Famine in Iceland Ogilvie, Astrid E.J. ; Jonsson, Trausti
3:30	Afternoon Break

Human Dimensions & Archeology 2 Fri. pm    Chair: E. James Dixon

3:45	Rethinking the Archaeology of Beringia Hoffecker, John F ; Elias, Scott A
4:00	Assessing the Origin and Function of Early Period Microblade Technology in Southeast Alaska Lee, Craig M ; Dixon, E. James
4:15	IMPLICATIONS OF CLIMATE CHANGE FOR ARCTIC TOURISM Snyder, John
4:30	End of the Day

Workshop Dinner and Keynote Address Fri. pm    Location: UMC on main campus, Rm. 235

5:00 5:15 5:30	Shuttle bus pickup at INSTAAR Shuttle bus pickup at Boulder Inn Best Western Shuttle bus pickup at Boulder Inn Best Western
5:30 to 10:00	Dinner provided by Arctic Workshop Hors d'oeuvres, main meal, beer, wine, and soft drinks will be served. University Memorial Center (UMC) Rm. 235 on main campus.
6:00	Keynote: “Global Warming and Washington heat” by Ray Bradley
9:30 10:00	Shuttle bus from UMC to Boulder Inn Best Western Shuttle bus from UMC to Boulder Inn Best Western

AM SATURDAY 18 MARCH 2006

Lacustrine Records 2 Sat. am    Chair: Alexander Wolfe

08:30	Calibrating the lamination stratigraphy of Linné Valley, Svalbard, Norway: Research results from the Svalbard REU Project Werner, Al ; Roof, Steve ; Retelle, Mike
08:45	Ice cap retreat in northern Baffin Island: providing a context for current Arctic warming Anderson, Rebecca ; Miller, Gifford ; Briner, Jason
09:00	High-Amplitude Holocene Temperature Changes on Northeastern Baffin Island Inferred from Subfossil Midges Axford, Yarrow ; Briner, Jason P. ; Francis, Donna R. ; Miller, Gifford H.
09:15	Post-glacial climate change on Boothia Peninsula, Nunavut, Canada Zabenskie, Susan ; Gajewski, Konrad
9:30	Morning Break

Lacustrine Records 3 Sat. am    Chair: Lesleigh Anderson

09:45	Hydroclimatic controls over the formation of varves in the Canadian High Arctic: do warmer temperatures produce thicker varves? Cockburn, Jaclyn M. H. ; Lamoureux, Scott F.
10:00	Quantitative mineralogy of Yukon River sediments Eberl, Dennis D. ; Frederick, Zan
10:15	Diatoms as proxies for a fluctuation Holocene Ice Cap margin in Hvítárvatn, Iceland Black, Jessica L ; Miller, Gifford H ; Geirsdottir, Aslaug
10:30	Salmon-derived contaminants in lake sediments from Alaska and northern British Columbia Krümmel, Eva M. ; Gregory-Eaves, Irene ; Macdonald, Robie W. ; Kimpe, Lynda E. ; Demers, Marc J. ; Smol, John P. ; Finney, Bruce ; Blais, Jules M.
10:45	Morning Break

Glaciology 1 Sat. am    Chair: Mark Dyurgerov

11:00	Surface meltwater flow in the accumulation area of the Greenland Ice Sheet Rick, Ursula K ; Pfeffer, Tad
11:15	Local-scale snow accumulation variability on the Greenland ice sheet from ground-penetrating radar (GPR) Maurer, John ; Steffen, Konrad ; Huff, Russell
11:30	Detection and Analysis of Icequakes at Columbia Glacier, AK O'Neel, shad ; Marshall, Hans Peter ; McNamara, Daniel ; Pfeffer, Tad
11:45	Morning Break

Glaciology 2 Sat. am    Chair: Mark Dyurgerov

12:00	Ice Cliffs and the Terminus Dynamics of Polar Glaciers Pettit, Erin C ; Fountain, Andrew G ; Hallet, Bernard ; Whorton, Erin ; Sniffen, Peter ; Nylen, Thomas H
12:15	MODELED GLACIAL VALLEY PROFILES AND A FIELD TEST OF MODEL PREDICTIONS Anderson, Robert S ; Molnar, Peter ; Kessler, Mark A ; Briner, Jason ; Ward, Dylan
12:30	Tidewater glaciers of Franz Josef Land and Novaya Zemlya and their iceberg production Glazovsky, Andrey ; Macheret, Yuri ; Vasilenko, Evgeniy
12:45	Columbia Glacier, Alaska, at Mid-Retreat Pfeffer, W Tad ; O'Neel, Shad ; Howat, Ian ; Krimmel, Robert M. ; Meier, Mark F.
1:00	End of the Workshop! Thanks for attending. See you in Iceland in Spring 2007

 

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