Thursday, November 15, 2012
Friday, October 19, 2012
Interdisciplinary Research Symposium
Monday, 29 October
2012, 5-7:30 PM
University of Alaska Fairbanks Wood Center
Ballroom
Please join
the University of Alaska Fairbanks Resilience and Adaptation Program for our
first Interdisciplinary Research Symposium! The event is free and open to UAF
students, faculty, the public, or anyone interested in interdisciplinary
research and Arctic issues. The event includes a student poster session,
keynote speaker with extended question and answer session, and light food and
drinks.
5:00-6:00 PM Student Poster Session
6:00-6:45 PM Keynote Presentation: Oran R. Young,
Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California,
Santa Barbara
Governance in Turbulent Times: Where is the
Arctic going, and what should we do about it?
6:45-7:30 PM Panel Discussion and Question & Answer
Session
Interdisciplinary Poster Session:
UAF
undergraduate or graduate students with interdisciplinary research projects or
work that focuses on the topics of human-environmental relationships, conservation,
sustainability, resilience, adaptation, vulnerability, and transformation are
encouraged to bring a poster to share! Work from any stage in the research
process is invited, and posters from previous conferences are welcome. Poster printing support is available to a
limited number of students, and a $500 conference travel grant will be awarded
to one participating student!
To sign up
for the poster session, please e-mail rap.students@gmail.com with your name, department,
title of your poster and 1-2 sentence description. Let us know if you would
like support for printing your poster. Someone will follow up with you with
further information, but Posters must be hung between 4:30 and 5 PM on Monday.
The travel grant will be awarded at the end of the keynote presentation (must
be present to win).
Keynote Presentation Description:
From Dr. Young: In this lecture, I argue that the
Arctic treated as a socio-ecological system will experience increased
volatility during the foreseeable future and that this development will
heighten the need for governance to maintain the resilience of the system. I then
turn to the development of a toolkit for those responsible for governance in
turbulent times. In the process, I discuss the need for enhanced monitoring and
reporting systems, the uses of simulation and scenarios to increase
understanding of emergent properties in complex systems, the prospects for
devising early warning indicators, approaches to decision making under
uncertainty, and procedures to improve adaptiveness in volatile settings. What
is needed to integrate these measures into a coherent package is a discourse
that articulates the rationale for governance in turbulent times and provides
guidance for those seeking to bring these tools to bear in addressing specific
problems.
More information:
For
questions or more information, please email rap.students@gmail.com.
This
symposium is possible due to the generous support of the UAF Resilience and
Adaptation Program, the UAF Graduate School, and the Undergraduate Research and
Scholarly Activity program.
Antarctic seas in the balance: Plans to protect swathes of ocean face tough test.
By Daniel Cressey
October 17, 2012
http://www.nature.com/news/antarctic-seas-in-the-balance-1.11600
October 17, 2012
http://www.nature.com/news/antarctic-seas-in-the-balance-1.11600
"Rich in fish, minerals and scientific potential, the seas around
Antarctica are among the planet’s most pristine waters — but fishing
vessels are already moving in. Next week, negotiators at a meeting of
the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources
(CCAMLR, pronounced ‘cam-lar’) may try to contain the accelerating rush
to access the region’s natural resources. At stake is one of the
planet’s last great wildernesses — as well as the credibility of the
international body set up to protect Antarctica’s marine life."
The Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS)
Source: http://www.scar.org/soos/
The Southern Ocean provides the principal connection between the
Earth's ocean basins and between the upper and lower layers of the
global ocean circulation. As a result, the Southern Ocean strongly
influences climate patterns and the cycling of carbon and nutrients.
Changes in the Southern Ocean would therefore have global ramifications.
However, the short and incomplete nature of existing time series makes
the causes and consequences of observed changes difficult to assess.
Sustained, multi-disciplinary observations are required to detect,
interpret and respond to change.
The Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS) plan outlines the
scientific rationale and strategy for the SOOS; identifies the variables
to be observed; presents a draft plan for an integrated
multi-disciplinary observing system for the Southern Ocean; and
identifies the next steps required for implementation.
News
- A SOOS website is currently being developed. For further details, please contact the SOOS Executive Officer, Louise Newman (email: Louise.Newman (at) utas.edu.au)
- A SOOS International Project Office (IPO) is being established in Australia, supported by the new Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies at the University of Tasmania in Hobart (www.imas.utas.edu.au). The SOOS IPO will be co-located with Australia's Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) (www.imos.org.au). Louise Newman was appointed as Executive Officer from August 2011.
- The SCAR/SCOR Expert Group on Oceanography will act as a Scientific Steering Committee for SOOS.
Friday, June 8, 2012
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