IARC at AGU
IARC researchers and students are excited to participate in the 2020 American Geophysical Union fall meeting. We hope to connect virtually with our colleagues and friends. Join us for the following presentations and events. All times are shown in Alaska time.
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Wednesday, December 2
| 12:50 | Joanna Young | Six surprising ways glacier loss impacts humankind | Ignite Talk |
Monday, December 7
Tuesday, December 8
| 03:00 – 19:59 | Bob Bolton | Identification of regions susceptible to thermokarst initiation on the Alaska Arctic Coastal Plain using random forest models | Poster |
| 03:00 – 19:59 | Go Iwahana | Geochemical characteristics of frozen active layer and near-surface permafrost in the Anaktuvuk River Fire scar, Alaska | Poster |
| 03:00 – 19:59 | Yongwon Kim | Understory CO2 emissions in tussock tundra of Imnavait Creek, Alaska | Poster |
| 04:54 – 04:58 | Kristin TImm | Online newspaper, television, radio, digital native, and partisan news coverage of the fourth National Climate Assessment | Talk |
| 07:00 – 09:00 | Rick Thoman, Alison York | 2020 Arctic Report Card | Press Conference |
Wednesday, December 9
| 03:00 – 19:59 | Donna Hauser | A co-production of knowledge approach to understand how sea ice loss constrains Indigenous hunting opportunities for traditional marine mammal resources in northwest Alaska | Poster |
| 03:00 – 19:59 | Elizabeth Figus | Climate change, knowledge co-production, and partnership in Kake, Alaska | Poster |
| 03:00 – 19:59 | Josh Jones | Long-term monitoring of Arctic shorefast sea ice along whale hunting trails at Utqiaġvik, Alaska | Poster |
| 09:00 – 09:30 | Katie Spellman, Kristin Timm, Elena B Sparrow | GIFTs (great ideas for teaching) climate change in the undergraduate classroom | Conversation Pod |
| 15:40 – 15:44 | Alison York | Boundary spanning and co-production with management partners in Arctic/Boreal systems: lessons from 10 Years of the Alaska Fire Science Consortium | Talk |
| 18:28 – 18:32 | James White | Use of machine learning to characterize and predict wildfire activity in Alaska | Talk |
Thursday, December 10
| 03:00 – 19:59 | Elena B Sparrow | Cultivating diversity, equity, inclusion and access within the International Arctic Research Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks to foster a caring, trusting and safe work environment | Poster |
| 03:00 – 19:59 | Bob Busey | Tools for generating positive team cohesion in high intensity field trips | Poster |
| 03:00 – 19:59 | Bob Bolton | Developing a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion in all our work, in all our places II | Poster Convener |
| 03:00 – 19:59 | Kristin TImm | Science and society: science communication practice, research, and reflection IV | Poster Convener |
| 06:00 – 07:00 | Bob Bolton | Developing a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion in all our work, in all our places I | Talk Convener |
| 15:39 – 15:42 | Elena Sparrow | Broadening participation in community scientific endeavors | Invited Talk |
| 18:00 – 19:00 | Kristin TImm | Science and society: science communication practice, research, and reflection I | Talk Convener |
Friday, December 11
| 03:00 – 04:00 | Kristin TImm | Science and society: science communication practice, research, and reflection II | eLightning Convener |
| 03:00 – 19:59 | Nancy Fresco | The Alaska Garden Helper: a web tool addressing food security and climate change | Poster |
| 03:00 – 19:59 | Vladimir Alexeev | Testing an implementation of WRF-hydro for the Chena River (AK) watershed | Poster |
| 03:07 – 03:11 | Katie Spellman | Moving from citizen science to stewardship action through scenarios storytelling | Talk |
| 03:16 – 03:20 | Marc Oggier | Ice core studies of autumn-to-spring sea ice evolution at the MOSAiC floe | Talk |
| 03:25 – 03:28 | Bob Bolton | Humanizing science by building bridges through shared conversation — The Alaska Voices Project | Talk |
| 15:00 – 16:00 | Kristin TImm, Rick Thoman | Science and society: science communication practice, research, and reflection III | eLightning |
| 15:22 – 15:25 | Rick Thoman | Old meets new at the cross of the continents: providing climate services in Western Alaska and the Bering Strait Region | Talk |
Monday, December 14
| 03:00 – 19:59 | Bob Busey | Adding utility to automated snow depth measurements across a number of remote sites in subarctic and Arctic Alaska | Poster |
| 18:00 – 18:04 | John Walsh | Arctic cyclones: an impact-targeted assessment of trends | Talk |
| 18:20 – 18:24 | Thomas Ballinger | Frequent winter 2020 storms over the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas continue recent trend | Talk |
Tuesday, December 15
| 03:00 – 19:59 | Zeke Ziel | Detecting temporal changes in land cover based on disturbance in Alaska | Poster |
| 03:06 – 03:10 | Cecilia Borries Strigle | Applying seasonal forecasts for summer fire weather outlooks in Alaska at a 3-month lead | Talk |
| 10:42 – 10:46 | Christi Buffington | Perspectives, practitioners, and purpose: Infusing a pedagogy of place in an undergraduate watershed management course | Talk |
Wednesday, December 16
| 03:00 – 19:59 | Alec Bennett | Modeling future flooding extremes to explore unidentified risks in the Arctic | Poster |
| 03:00 – 19:59 | Sarah Thunberg | Surface moisture budget of tundra and Boreal ecosystems in high latitudes: variations and drivers | Poster |
| 07:30 – 07:34 | John Walsh | Arctic climate change: sensitivities to the forcing scenario in CMIP6 | Invited Talk |
Thursday, December 17
| 04:42 – 04:46 | Olivia Lee | Spring sea ice forecasts and Bering Sea Indigenous marine mammal harvests | Talk |
| 06:00 – 07:00 | Xiangdong Zhang | Arctic and midlatitude linkage: causes and effects I | Talk Convener |
See presentations by the Alaska Climate Adaption Science Center and explore other relevant sessions including those on Indigenous Knowledge and other Arctic-topics.