Arctic Sea Ice and the Implications for Humans
"How do changes in sea ice affect Arctic coastal communities?"
Join us for the third online workshop examining human dimensions of the
Arctic system, to be held 3-7 December 2001. The workshop moderators are
Jim Maslanik of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental
Sciences at the University of Colorado, Igor Krupnik from the Arctic
Studies Center of the Smithsonian Institution, and Alex Whiting an
Environmental Protection Specialist for the Native Village of Kotzebue,
Alaska. The workshop will look at the ways in which changes in sea ice
affect Arctic coastal communities.
Register for the workshop at the HARC web site:
http://www.arcus.org/harc and sign up for the forum discussion at:
http://arcus.zeroforum.com
Visit the HARC web site or contact Henry Huntington at hph [at] alaska.net or
phone: 907/696-3564 for more information.
The Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. (ARCUS) is hosting a Science
Management Office (SMO), directed by Henry Huntington, to support
development of the Human Dimensions of the Arctic System (HARC)
initiative. The SMO coordinates research planning and distributes
information about the HARC initiative to the arctic research community
to help stimulate the development of HARC proposals. HARC is part of the
Arctic System Science (ARCSS) Program and supports research that
examines the ways in which humans affect and are affected by the arctic
system.
The HARC SMO web site is at: http://www.arcus.org/harc/index.html
Through this web site and a series of online workshops, the SMO hopes to
familiarize the broad community of arctic researchers with the
objectives of HARC and to facilitate professional collaborations that
will lead to proposals to the HARC initiative.
The HARC web site contains information about the HARC initiative,
currently funded projects, relevant web links, and three online
workshops to discuss current research and social implications of changes
in arctic weather, northern treeline, and sea ice.
The Sea Ice Workshop "How do changes in sea ice affect Arctic coastal
communities?" takes place 3-7 December and is the third of our online
workshops. Please register for the workshop on the HARC web site and
then join the forum discussion at http://arcus.zeroforum.com. These
workshops are open to anyone who wishes to take part. We expect that the
web workshops will foster creative discussions across national,
cultural, and disciplinary boundaries, bringing expertise from many
perspectives to bear on the critical research questions HARC was
developed to address.
Please visit the HARC web site at http://www.arcus.org/harc/index.html
for more information about HARC and the online workshops or contact
Henry P. Huntington in Eagle River, Alaska (phone: 907/696-3564; fax:
907/696-3565; email: hph [at] alaska.net).