Chairs: Santonu Goswami, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States and Daniel J Hayes, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, United States
Primary Convener: Santonu Goswami, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Co-conveners: Daniel J Hayes, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, United States, Guido Grosse, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research, Permafrost Research Section, Potsdam, Germany and Benjamin M Jones, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Institute of Northern Engineering, Fairbanks, AK, United States
OSPA Liaison: Santonu Goswami, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Challenges and Achievements in Circumpolar Monitoring of Land Surface Hydrology with Satellite Data (Invited) (3552)
Annett Bartsch1,2, Anna Maria Trofaier3, Barbara Widhalm1,3, Elin Högström1,3, Marina O Leibman4 and Yury A. Dvornikov5, (1)Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria, (2)University of Salzburg, Geoinformatics and Z_GIS, Salzburg, Austria, (3)Austrian Polar Research Institute, Vienna, Austria, (4)Russian Academy of Sciences, Earth Cryosphere Institute, Tyumen Scientific Centre (Siberian Branch), Moscow, Russia, (5)Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, Agrarian-Technological Institute, Moscow, Russia
Distribution of Near-Surface Permafrost in Alaska: Estimates of Present and Future Conditions (3804)
Neal J. Pastick, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Forest Resources, Minneapolis, MN, United States; Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies Sioux Falls, Sioux Falls, SD, United States, Torre Jorgenson, Alaska Ecoscience, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Bruce K Wylie, USGS EROS, Sioux Falls, SD, United States, Shawn Nield, Natural Resource Conservation Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Palmer, AK, United States, Kristofer D Johnson, U.S. Forest Service, Newtown Square, PA, United States and Andrew O Finley, Michigan State University, Department of Forestry and Geography, East Lansing, MI, United States
Satellite Microwave Detection of Boreal-Arctic Wetland Inundation Changes and Their Impact on Regional Methane Emission Estimates (Invited) (4765)
Jennifer D Watts, University of Montana, Numerical Terradynamic Simulation Group, W.A. Franke College of Forestry & Conservation, Missoula, MT, United States, John S Kimball, University of Montana, Numerical Terradynamic Simulation Group, Missoula, United States and Annett Bartsch, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria
Identifying multiscale zonation and assessing the relative importance of polygon geomorphology and polygon types on carbon fluxes in an Arctic Tundra Ecosystem (15043)
Haruko M Wainwright1, Baptiste Dafflon2, Lydia Smith Vaughn3, Melanie S Hahn4, Craig Ulrich2, Yuxin Wu1, John Peterson2, John Bryan Curtis2, Margaret S Torn5 and Susan S. Hubbard6, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, (2)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)University of California Berkeley, Integrative Biology, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (5)Berkeley Lab/UC Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, (6)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Temporal and Spatial Trends in Soil Moisture in Arctic Alaska 1992-2010 (30313)
Liza K. Jenkins1,2, Laura L Bourgeau-Chavez3, Nancy H F French3 and Maria C. Chavez4, (1)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, School of Natural Resources and Environment, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)Michigan Technological University, Michigan Tech Research Institute, Ann Arbor, United States, (3)Michigan Technological University, Michigan Tech Research Institute, Houghton, MI, United States, (4)Michigan Technological University, Michigan Tech Research Institute, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
