Program

Wednesday November 3, 2010

Location: Tory Building, Henry Marshall

	Room: 3-36
9:30	PPS Arctic Canada
1:00	CiCAT

Location: Lister Conference Centre

	Wild Rose Room
4:00	"Icebreaker Reception, Registration and Poster Hanging" cash bar (until 9:00pm)

 

Thursday November 4, 2010

Location: Lister Conference Centre

7:00	Registration: in the Lister Conference Centre Foyer
	Maple Leaf Room	Aurora
8:00	Welcome and Announcements
8:30	Tanuja Kulkarni and Robert Fortin: Canadian International Polar Year 2007-2008
9:15	Annika Hofgaard: Are Trees Invading the Arctic? Circumpolar Treeline Research during IPY
10:00	Health Break: Wild Rose Room
	REMOTE SENSING	DISTURBANCE
	Chairs: Gareth Rees & Scott Williamson	Chairs: Peter Kershaw & Carissa Brown
10:30	Analysis of vegetation, fire and lake change on pan-arctic and local scale within the ESA Data User Element Permafrost Marcel Urban	Detecting the undetectable: A new dendroecological method for dealing with low-level disturbance at treeline Andrew Trant
10:50	Rapid retreat of a unique ecosystem, the Northern Ellesmere Island Ice shelves, and the role of a thinning perennial sea ice zone Benjamin Lange	Fire effects on plant-soil interactions drive alternate successional trajectories in boreal forest Jill Johnstone
11:10	Evaluating the quality of clear-sky MODIS Terra daytime Land Surface Temperatures (LST) using ground based meteorology station observations Scott N. Williamson	Research of the forest-tundra ecotone structure and changes in Russia Elena Golubeva
11:30	IPEM - A Cost Effective Predictive Modelling Approach for Developing Process-based Ecological Inventories for Arctic National Parks Donald McLennan	Linking fire frequency and seed production in northern black spruce (Picea mariana) forests Jayme N. Viglas
11:50	Lunch: Maple Leaf Room	APECS mentoring session: Polar Careers Post-Graduation
	AQUATIC	TREELINE RESPONSE TO CLIMATE CHANGE
	Chairs: Brent Wolfe & Jennifer Nafziger	Chairs: Annika Hofgaard & Steven Mamet
1:20	Assessing Present and Past Lakewater Balance Conditions in the Old Crow Flats, Yukon Territory Kevin W. Turner	Altitudinal treeline dynamics in response to climate change in the vinicity of Kangiqsualujjuaq (Nunavik, Québec) Geneviève Dufour Tremblay
1:40	Tracking hydrological responses of a thermokarst lake in the Old Crow Flats (Yukon, Territory, Canada) to recent warming using aerial photos and paleolimnological methods Lauren A. MacDonald	North vs. South: Aspect-related differences in treeline pattern and process Ryan Danby
2:00	Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions: Does Life (and Death) in the water influence Arctic climate? A.L. Norman	Forest-tundra dynamics during the last 400 years: is treeline advancing in northern Manitoba? Steve D. Mamet
2:20		The effect of daily climate variability on the Canadian boreal forest Tana Stratton
2:40	Health Break: Wild Rose Room
	SOCIAL	CLASSIFICATION and SPATIAL PATTERN
	Chairs: Nancy Doubleday & Bryan Grimwood	Chairs: Karen Harper & Heather Morrison
3:10	Critical Inuit Studies and the EU Seal Ban Barret Weber	Evolution of Satellite Radar Backscatter and Snow and Sea Ice Properties on Miquelon Lake, Alberta Justin Beckers
3:30	Social science perspectives in developing synthesis activities in PPS Arctic beyond the IPY Tatiana Vlasova	Classification of Vegetation in Arctic Regions Catherine E. Kennedy
3:50	Photos and plants through time: Sharing knowledge – building adaptation Nancy Dubleday	Changes in the spatial pattern of vegetation across the Canadian forest-tundra ecotone Karen Harper
4:10		Spatial and temporal patterns in growth-climate relationships at the northern treeline in the western Canadian Arctic Scott Green

 

Friday November 5, 2010

Location: Lister Conference Centre

	Maple Leaf Room	Aurora
	Plenary Talks
8:00	Charles Tarnocai: Organic Carbon Pools in Soils of the Northern Circumpolar Permafrost Region
8:40	Greg Henry: Tundra vegetation change over the past 30 years: results of plot based monitoring across the tundra biome
9:20	Peter Lafleur: Arctic Tundra - Climate Change Time Bomb or Lifeline
10:00	Health Break: Wild Rose Room
	PRODUCTIVITY	SHRUBS
	Chairs: Robert Grant & Craig Emmerton	Chairs: David Cairns & Isla Myers-Smith
10:30	Ecological Controls on Net Ecosystem Productivity of a Mesic Arctic Tundra under Current and Future Climates Robert Grant	Investigating potential impacts of shrub encroachment on arctic ground squirrel behaviour and density Helen Wheeler
10:50	Primary Productivity in the High Arctic: Measurements and Predictions for Climate Change Craig Emmerton	On the ecological causes and consequences of the rapid response of dwarf birch to climate change at treeline Stéphane Boudreau
11:10	Microtopographic effects on vegetation cover and productivity in arctic tundra John A. Gamon	Shrubline advance in Arctic and alpine tundra of the Yukon Territory Isla H. Myers-Smith
11:30	The Greening Valleys of the Lewis Glacier and Isortoq River, North central Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada Patrick J Webber	Tall shrub encroachment in the Mackenzie Delta Uplands, Northwest Territories, Canada. Trevor Lantz
11:50	Lunch: Maple Leaf Room
	CARBON DYNAMICS	VEGETATION CHANGE
	Chairs: Peter Lafleur & Sara Kuleza	Chairs: Ryan Danby & Andrew Trant
1:20	Characterization of GHG Distributions and Processes in Peatlands along a Permafrost Climatic Gradient using Stable Isotopes Dr. Michael J. Whiticar	Influence of environmental variation on tree growth and climate interactions at the western Canadian subarctic treeline Sean Sweeney
1:40	Spatial variability in soil fertility in the forest-tundra ecotones of the Kola Peninsula, Russia Maria Orlova; Natalia Lukina; Tatiana Kravchenko	Reproductive potential of forest expansion in the circumpolar north Carissa D. Brown
2:00	Role of landscape position and permafrost thawing on seasonal variations of methane emissions and soil concentrations in four ecoregions in Mackenzie Valley, region of Canada Natalia Startsev	The reproduction, establishment, and growth of white spruce at its northern range limit in Canada Xanthe Walker
2:20	Trace gas fluxes from three high-Arctic plant communities along a soil moisture gradient Ioan Wagner	Ancient Yukon trees of southeastern Beringia Rodney Savidge
2:40	Health Break: Wild Rose Room
	SOILS and GREENHOUSE GAS DYNAMICS	Environment-Vegetation Interactions
	Chairs: Jagtar Bhatti & Ruth Errington	Chairs: Greg Henry & Geneviève Dufour Tremblay
3:10	Carbon dynamics of Canada's northern forests estimated by the National Forest Carbon Monitoring Accounting and Reporting System (NFCMARS) Juha M. Metsaranta	Comparing Warming and Grazing Effects on Birch Sapling Growth in the Tundra Environment – a 10 Year Experiment Annika Hofgaard
3:30	Processes controlling the watershed-scale carbon balance of high-Arctic ecosystems at Cape bounty, Melville Island, Nunavut Ioan Wagner	The role of changing vegetation on the hydrology of northern ecosystems Philip Marsh
3:50	NorthSTAR – a network for monitoring ecosystem carbon uptake and phenology in northern ecosystems John A. Gamon, M. Syndonia Bret-Harte	Dryas integrifolia responses to experimental warming conditions in a subarctic environment Sara D. Kuleza
4:10	Options and limitations of operational mapping of forest biomass – a summary of 12 years of pan-boreal vegetation mapping with radar remote sensing in Siberia, China and Canada Marcel Urban for Cristina Schmullius	Ecosystem Classification in the Northwest Territories Dave Downing
4:30		Atmospheric, edaphic, geological, and terrain controls on Hg in lake sediments of Great Bear Lake in North West Territories, Canada Mina Nasr
6:00	Banquet: Maple Leaf Room Speaker: Pat Webber "Measuring within and beyond your hypothesis increases the legacy"

 

Saturday November 6, 2010

Location: Lister Conference Centre

	Maple Leaf Room
	Plenary Talks
8:30	Donald McLennan: Working Together to Develop Effective Biodiversity Climate Adaptation Strategies in the Arctic
9:15	Discussion on biodiversity issues in the Arctic – Moderator: David Hik
10:00	Health Break: Wild Rose Room
10:30	Data Management Workshop – Moderators: Greg Henry & Gareth Rees
11:50	Lunch: Maple Leaf Room
1:00	Cross-Project Synthesis Workshop – Moderators: David Cairns & Karen Harper
2:15	Health Break: Wild Rose Room
2:45	Future Collaboration Workshop – Moderators: Jagtar Bhatti & Annika Hofgaard
4:00	Closing Remarks: Jagtar Bhatti & Annika Hofgaard

 

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