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A two-week workshop on Arctic Terrestrial and Freshwater Ecosystems that emphasizes ecosystem interactions with hydrology and climate.
This workshop is offered by the International Arctic Research Center (IARC) of the University of Alaska, Fairbanks and the Ecosystems Center of the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, MA.
It is designed to take advantage of resources offered by IARC, a collaboration of international arctic researchers, as well as those of a team of scientists from MBL and other institutions, who are undertaking a research project on BioComplexity (Land-water Interaction at the Catchment Scale: Linking Biogeochemistry and Hydrology), funded by the National Science Foundation, at the Toolik Field Station of the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
The workshop is intended to provide advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and early-career scientists with an overview of the controls of ecosystem variability in northern Alaska, from the Alaskan interior to the Arctic, and an illustration of the interplay between data collection and modeling. As the primary control, climate combines with hydrology, topography and disturbance to produce a wide variety of ecosystems in this area, ranging from the boreal forest to coastal tundra. The ecosystems are changing, and these changes can, in turn, affect climate through feedbacks involving changes in albedo, permafrost, hydrology, trace gas exchanges with the atmosphere, and other processes. The workshop aims to give students an understanding of the scientific underpinnings of the controls and feedbacks of climate-related changes in Arctic ecosystems, and will include first-hand exposure to ongoing research.
Additional information is found on
http://www.iarc.uaf.edu/education_outreach/summer/2006/index.php
Program Coordinator
Chris Lace
International Arctic Research Center
University of Alaska
930 Koyukuk Drive
P. O. Box 757340
Fairbanks, AK 99775-7340
Phone: 907-474-7413
Fax: 907-474-5662
E-mail: clace@iarc.uaf.edu
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