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Polar Gateways Arctic Circle Sunrise - Friday, January 25, 2008

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III. Present and Changing Polar Environment of Earth

06:30 – 08:00Breakfast – Iḷisaġvik College Kitchen (hours)

GSFC-I / UA-Fairbanks Videoconference: 08:45 – 12:00

09:00 – 12:00 ICESAT,Sea Ice, Polar Ozone, Carbon Balance

09:00 – 09:30 Polar ozone: Past, Present, and Future

Paul A. Newman, NASA GoddardSpace Flight Center (GSFC Videocon)

Abstract     Slides

09:30 – 10:00 Detecting Tundra Ecosystem Change Using Remote Sensing

K.Fred Huemmrich, University of Maryland Baltimore County (GSFC Videocon)

Abstract     Slides

10:00– 10:30 Break

10:30 – 11:00 Arctic Sea Ice: What We Have Learned From Satellite Passive-Microwave Observations

Claire L. Parkinson, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC Videocon)

Abstract     Slides - 8.4Mb     YearlyChange 1979-2003 - 1.2Mb

DailyChange 2003 - 19Mb     Video - 386Mb     Video - 276Mb

11:00 –11:30 Sea-Ice Change Around Alaska & Impacts on Human Activities

Hajo Eicken, University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF Videocon)

Abstract     Slides (pdf)

Movie - 7.6Mb     Video - 394Mb     Video - 560Mb

11:30 – 12:00 Recent Changes in the Greenland Ice Sheet

Waleed Abdalati, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC Videocon)

Carbon Flux of Arctic Ecosystems: From Barrow and Back, 40+ Years!

Slides - 11Mb     Video - 587Mb     Video - 407Mb

Steve Hastings, Barrow Arctic Science Consortium

Slides - 8.3Mb

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch – Iḷisaġvik College Kitchen (hours)

13:00 – 14:00 Radio Sounding in the Polar Regions

Robert F. Benson^1^, Nathan Kurtz,Kris Atkins, and Thorsten Markus

^1^NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

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14:00 – 15:00 GREAT Ice Rover Robotics Demonstration

Michael A. Comberiate, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (+6 team members)

Conference-Group-LIDAR-Scan (Bitmap Image)

15:00 – 15:30 Geomagnetic Field Evolution and Cosmic Ray Penetration

Don F. Smart and Margaret A. Shea, University of Alabama Huntsville

Slides - 14Mb     Video - 439Mb     Video - 292Mb

15:30 – 16:00 Nitrate Enhancements in Polar Ice: A Historical Recordof Large Fluence Solar Proton Events

MargaretA. Shea and Don F. Smart, University of Alabama Huntsville

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16:00 – 16:30 Break

16:30 – 17:00 Shorebird Migration from the Arctic to Patagonia and Arctic Voyages

Dave Grant, Ocean Institute, Brookdale Community College

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Video - 570Mb     Video - 404Mb